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New York: Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of President John F Kennedy and a former ambassador to Ireland, died on 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.

Her siblings included older brother Joseph Kennedy Jr., killed in action during World War II; Kathleen Kick’ Kennedy, who died in a 1948 plane crash; the president, assassinated in 1963 and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, slain in 1968. Sen. Edward Kennedy, the youngest of the Kennedy siblings, died of brain cancer in August 2009, the same month their sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver died. (AP)

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