President's Sister Eunice Shriver
Photograph
President's Sister Eunice Shriver
A Day at "Camp Shriver"
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 9/16 × 9 5/8 in. (16.7 × 24.4 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0291
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (A Day at Camp Shriver) 7/62 PRESIDENT'S SISTER EUNICE SHRIVER carries \ the ball after a hilarious game of touch-football, \ the Kennedy family sport. On the left, riding one \ of the two ponies available to the retarded or "ex- \ ceptional" children, is an emotionally disturbed \ Negro child who comes from a home where fifteen \ people share two rooms. Youngest of the fifteen he \ had become withdrawn. Here he is riding and beginning \ to mix normally with other children. In fron runs a \ little girl who is mentally retarded. \ CREDIT: Burt Glinn © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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