Smith, Jean Kennedy

LC control no.	n 92114018
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Smith, Jean Kennedy *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Kennedy, Jean Ann, 1928-2020
Located	New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1928-02-20
Death date	2020-06-17
Place of birth	Boston (Mass.)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity	Diplomatic and consular service, American People with disabilities--Services for
Affiliation	United States. Embassy (Ireland) John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.). Very Special Arts
Profession or occupation	Ambassadors
Found in	Her Very special artists, 1993: CIP t.p. (Jean Kennedy Smith) The Nine of Us, Growing Up Kennedy, 2016 : title page (Jean Kennedy Smith) about the author (Jean Ann Kennedy Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland; founder of VSA, an international organization that provides arts and education opportunities for people with disabilities; eighth of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; mother of four; widow of the late Stephen Smith; lives in New York. Washington post WWW site, viewed June 18, 2020 (in obituary dated June 18, 2020: Jean Kennedy Smith, a former U.S. ambassador to Ireland and the last of a generation of overachieving, tragedy-stalked siblings whose influence on American political life and culture has surpassed that of most any other single family, died June 17 at her home in Manhattan. She was 92. Jean Kennedy Smith achieved political renown in her own right as one of the architects of peace in Northern Ireland and as a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient for her work with children with intellectual and physical disabilities; ambassador from 1993-1998.Sister Rosemary's intellectual disabilities led directly to Mrs. Smith's establishment of Very Special Arts. Very Special Arts now provides artistic outlets for disabled children and adults in 55 countries. Jean Ann Kennedy was born in Boston on Feb. 20, 1928)
Associated language	eng