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

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NEW YORK (AP) — Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and a former ambassador to Ireland, died Wednesday, her daughter confirmed to The New York Times. She was 92.

Smith died at her home in Manhattan, her daughter Kym told the Times.

Smith was the eighth of nine children born to Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy, and tragically several of them preceded her in death by decades...

 

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

As ambassador, Jean Kennedy Smith played a role in the Northern Ireland peace process. She helped persuade President Bill Clinton to grant a controversial visa to Gerry Adams.

Jean Kennedy Smith, a former U.S. ambassador to Ireland and the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy, died Wednesday night in Manhattan, her daughter said. She was 92.

"She lived an amazing life," her daughter Kym Smith told NBC News in a statement Thursday.

Kennedy was born on Feb. 20, 1928, in Boston, Massachusetts to Rose and Joseph Kennedy...