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Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:01 PM Jun 2020

Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, dies at 92

Source: Los Angeles Times

Jean Kennedy Smith, a former ambassador to Ireland and champion of artists with disabilities who was the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy, has died, her daughter confirmed to The New York Times. She was 92.

Smith died Wednesday at her Manhattan home, her daughter Kym told the newspaper.

As the eighth of nine children of the prominent and famously Democratic Irish-American clan, she became the first Kennedy woman of her generation to hold a serious political job when she was named U.S. ambassador to Ireland in 1993.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jean-kennedy-smith-last-surviving-sibling-of-jfk-dies-at-92/ar-BB15F6He





Jean Kennedy Smith, 1928-2020, with Vice President Joe Biden and Patrick J. Kennedy at the dedication of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston in 2015.
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Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, dies at 92 (Original Post) sandensea Jun 2020 OP
Godspeed Jean. Tommymac Jun 2020 #1
R.I.P., Jean. wendyb-NC Jun 2020 #2
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