Posted on 09/15/2018 11:23:57 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
This Thursday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy and his wife, Rose.
For many years, the story of JFK’s sister, who had an undiagnosed mental disability and was lobotomized at age 23, was shrouded in mystery.
A vivacious young woman with a sweet disposition, Rosemary’s life was dramatically altered when her father decided to have her undergo a pre-frontal lobotomy in November 1941, a procedure that left her with the mental capacities of a toddler and requiring round-the-clock care
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I believe her father had her lobotomized because she found out about the affair and couldn’t keep quiet about it.
See # 19 were on the same wave length.
What they did was one rung above murder.
If they could have done that with out reprisal they would have
A lobotomy, or leucotomy, is a form of psychosurgery, a neurosurgical treatment of a mental disorder that involves severing connections in the brain’s prefrontal cortex.[2] Most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain are severed. It was used for psychiatric and occasionally other conditions as a mainstream procedure in some Western countries for more than two decades. This was despite general recognition of frequent and serious side effects. While some people experienced symptomatic improvement with the operation, the improvements were achieved at the cost of creating other impairments. The procedure was controversial from its initial use in part due to the balance between benefits and risks.
The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the “discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses”, although the awarding of the prize has been subject to controversy.
The use of the procedure increased dramatically from the early 1940s and into the 1950s; by 1951, almost 20,000 lobotomies had been performed in the United States alone and proportionally more in the United Kingdom. The majority of lobotomies were performed on women; A 1951 study of American hospitals found nearly 60% of lobotomy patients were women; data shows 74% of lobotomies in Ontario from 1948–1952 were performed on women. From the 1950s onward lobotomy began to be abandoned, first in the Soviet Union and Europe.[citation needed] The term is derived from Greek: lobos “lobe” and toun, tome “cut, slice”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
Yep. Wisconsinites are VERY familiar with Rosemary’s story; the one the Kennedy’s chose to portray and the one that was the truth.
She lived out her life in an asylum here in Wisconsin.
That probably would have been a kinder solution than the one they chose.
my dtr struggles with some things...she is not easy socially, does not have friends....simple math confounds her....
but she is very smart....she can come up with the most obscure Jeopardy answers...
and these people have feelings too.....just because they aren't good at social interaction does not mean they don't want it....
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Obviously daddy didn’t want her telling her story.
Can we guess why?
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I think he was afraid she would tell what daddy did to her when mommy wasn’t home.
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And then the Kennedys had the audacity, to claim that Rosemary’s condition, was the inspiration for starting the special olympics.
Rosemary’s condition, which was due to a voluntary barbaric procedure, inspired the Kennedys to start the special Olympics.
Some people are shameless aren’t they?
I never understood exactly how or why or who decided, that the Kennedy family was America’s “royal family”.
I was repeating what I read in the articles after her death.
Were not in Camelot anymore Rosemary.
Some may be under the impression that a lobotomy was a precise surgical procedure. It was certainly not then. It was done thus: a thin steel rod like an icepick was inserted behind the eyeball and pushed throught the back of the orbit into the frontal lobes of the brain. The rod was then manipulated in a stirring motion in order to scramble the brain tissue. Walter Freeman performed thousands of such gruesome “surgeries.”
Cover-up sexual abuse?
The story Rosemary needs to be shouted from the rooftops, today as it should have been throughout modern American history.
A democrat will tear anyone down who threatens “their power”, which is only supposed to be our power.
That is really the only thing that was available for violent, bizarre or dangerous cases of Mental illness.
Frances Farmer never got a lobotomy, ever, and her family and friends, still, don’t know why that scene of her getting one was included in the film, “Frances”.
.. and FDR’s pick for the UK job, by the way.
Birds of a feather, ehh ?
LOL! "McMuslims" is a good name for Irish of today.
Not to mention the Kennedy family is ugly as sin. Their smiles look like snarls, their jaws look like lanterns, and their eyes are dead and ... kind of look like they’re upside down or something. Foreheads and hairlines like thugs. Truly an ugly family.
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