Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years. Jean Kennedy Smith — the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Sen.

Kennedy Jr., a newly commissioned Navy destroyer named for her brother. Jean Kennedy Smith's first experience in national politics came in 1960, as she traveled around the country for her brother, Sen ...

More recently, Patricia works for literacy programs. Jean Ann Kennedy Smith founded Very Special Arts, an international cultural program for the mentally and physically disabled. President Bill ...

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His mom, Joan Kiernan Mulgrew, was best friends with Jean Kennedy Smith, one of JFK’s sisters. As girls, they were roommates at a Philadelphia boarding school. Joan’s mom was deceased ...