The public will be allowed to say goodbye to Sargent Shriver Friday afternoon at a public wake in Washington, D.C. The funeral mass for the first director of the Peace Corps will be private.

The outpouring of condolences after the death of R. Sargent Shriver has prompted his family to open his funeral to the public. They hope Shriver’s work will inspire others to continue his legacy of ...

A life of public service: Though he never held elected office, Mr. Shriver was the architect of a series of social programs that inspired generations and changed the lives of millions. Mr. Shriver ...

R. Sargent Shriver, the Kennedy family brother-in-law who shaped the Peace Corps as its founding director, died Tuesday at age 95, according to The New York Times and The Washington Post. Mr. Shriver ...

Sargent Shriver, famed Kennedy in-law and founding director of the Peace Corps died on Tuesday at the age of 95. A vocal champion of humanitarian causes, Shriver was also the 1972 Democratic nominee ...

BETHESDA, Md. -- R. Sargent Shriver, the exuberant public servant and Kennedy in-law whose career included directing the Peace Corps, fighting the War on Poverty, ambassador to France and, less ...

One of the most consequential Kennedys came to the family not by blood but by marriage. Eunice Kennedy — sister of John, Robert and Edward — wed R. Sargent Shriver, and the couple served humanity.