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Dr. Frank Hayden, Pioneer of the Special Olympics, Dies at 96

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Dr. Frank Hayden, the man whose research changed the way we see people with disabilities and gave birth to the Special Olympics, has died at 96. Dr. Hayden’s work landed in front of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of President John F. Kennedy, who saw Hayden as an ally in the fight for compassionate treatment for people with disabilities, like her sister Rosemary. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life well lived.

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