Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, dies at 92
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.
Invariably described as the "shy" or "nice" Kennedy, Smith lived much of her life out of the limelight and was considered an improbable choice for ambassador.
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