Kitty Dukakis dead: Wife of ex-Presidential nominee who became shock therapy activist after addiction battle dies at 88
03/22/2025 10:43 AM
KITTY Dukakis, the wife of 1988 presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, has died aged 88.
The activist and humanitarian died on Friday night at her home in Brookline, Massachusetts, following complications with dementia, her family said.
Dukakis, notably, was a proponent of electroconvulsive therapy, having used it to overcome alcoholism and depression.
She was the first lady of Massachusetts while her husband had served as the governor of the state.
Her husband was the nominee for the Democratic Party against George HW Bush in 1988, but lost in a landslide.
In 1978, Dukakis was appointed by Jimmy Carter to the first President's Commission on the Holocaust which sought to build a national memorial.
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