Photos: Robert Sargent Shriver | 1915-2011
Shriver, as director of the Peace Corps, is welcomed at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, on April 25, 1964. Talking with Shriver is Maj. Gen. James H. Polk, the U.S. commandant in Berlin. In the center is John A. Calhoun, the top U.S. State Department official in Berlin.
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Shriver with family members at home near Rockville, Md. From left are Timothy, 4; Maria, 8; Bobby, 10; and wife Eunice, sister of the late President Kennedy. In the bassinet is 4-month-old Mark.
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On July 27, 1965, week-old Paul Fitzgerald Kennedy Shriver made his camera debut and his first trip as he left Logan International Airport in Boston with his parents.
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At his farewell party before becoming ambassador to France, Shriver and wife Eunice watch a satirical presentation on a day in the life of Shriver. It was produced by the staff of the Office of Economic Opportunity on April 24, 1968.
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In Paris’ Latin Quarter, the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to France strolls with U.S. embassy press attache Nicolas King past two helmeted policemen on May 9, 1968. It was during a period of student demonstrations.
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Shriver leads the applause after introducing Sen. George McGovern, right, to a crowd in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 22, 1972. The Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates met in Austin for a planned visit with former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Eunice and Sargent Shriver stand by a poster of President Kennedy at a celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the Peace Corps, held March 2, 1986, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.
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Sargent and Eunice Shriver in November 1992.
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Family members visit President Kennedy’s grave in Arlington, Va., on the 33rd anniversary of his death. From left are Eunice Shriver, Ethel Kennedy, Vicky and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and Sargent Shriver.
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Sargent and Eunice Shriver celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Peace Corps with President Clinton and Mandy Jackson, a Peace Corps volunteer headed to Ghana, on June 19, 1998.
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Shriver joins a procession after a memorial Mass in New York on July 22, 1999, for John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette after the three were killed in a plane crash a few days earlier.
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Sargent, Eunice and Maria Shriver celebrate Arnold Schwarzenegger’s election as governor of California on Oct. 7, 2003.
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Shriver, center, speaks with Robert Kennedy Jr. as Arnold Schwarzenegger walks by during a wake for Eunice Kennedy Shriver in Barnstable, Mass., on Aug. 13, 2009, two days after her death at 88.
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Schwarzenegger helps Shriver out of St. Xavier Church in Hyannis, Maine, after Eunice Shriver’s funeral Aug. 14, 2009.
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Shriver attends funeral services for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on Aug. 29, 2009., in Boston.
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