Sargent Shriver shaking President John F. Kennedy's hand. Photo by White House staff.
Robert Sargent Shriver, father of former California First Lady Maria Shriver; brother-in-law of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy; founding director of the Peace Corps and several War On Poverty programs in the 1960s, died January 18, 2011 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. Shriver, born November 1915, was 95 years old. Shriver announced in 2003 he had Alzheimer's disease.