The Forgotten Story Of Rosemary Kennedy, Who Was Lobotomized So That JFK Could Succeed

ati ^ | 3/2/22 | Katie Serena

[DallasBiff]

After being lobotomized in 1941 at 23 years old, Rosemary Kennedy would spend the rest of her life institutionalized and isolated from her family.

[nickcarraway]

The doctors told him to do it. Do you understand that?

[ronniesgal]

i do, but he did not have to follow their instruction. Choice he made.

[DiogenesLamp]

Only in Europe and maybe elsewhere. Frances Kelsey, a Canadian woman who worked at the FDA, denied it's approval, so it was never used by the public in the U.S., but it was in Canada.

Is that true? I always thought it was used in the US. I've seen a lot of people with short and deformed arms that is one of the characteristics of it.

So Canadian medicine was screwing things up even back then.

[nickcarraway]

No, but people still do what doctors say today. They told him it would help her. He was not a doctor.

[HYPOCRACY]

Doctors haven’t changed.

[DiogenesLamp]

Call me crazy but in a 100 years, everybody will be a transgenered robot.

"In the year, 2125,
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube"

Whoa o Whoa.

[nickcarraway]

Is that true? I always thought it was used in the US.

There were 17 in the U.S,. - nine from samples, 8 who got it other countries. (Probably Canada.)

The reason it was never approved in the U.S. is because, Frances Kelsey bravely refused to approve it.

I think the most victims were in Germany. (East Germany never approved it.)

[DiogenesLamp]

Article is a side-slapper. I grew up near Boston. My family knew a lot more than we wanted to about the Boston Irish, and Joe Kennedy in particular. Joe’s father was a saloon-keeper with fingers deep in the liquor import trade, and a political lowlife. Joe himself didn’t actually drive the boats during Prohibition, but he received their cargoes with alacrity, and had close ties with the likes of Al Capone. But he made his real fortune by insider trading in the stock market, profiting hugely from the 1929 crash. In 1934 FDR inexplicably appointed him as the first Chairman of the new Securities and Exchange Commission, which was putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. Then he was posted as ambassador to the Court of St. James, during which time he vociferously advocated that the USA abandon Great Britain to Hitler. (Thankfully his hatred for Protestants was eventually ignored, and FDR was belatedly induced to sign the Lend-Lease act.)

“Boston businessman” indeed. Makes him sound like a grocer or a haberdasher.

Thanks for the info. It confirms other stories i've heard about the Kennedys and their crime empire. It also implies that widespread government corruption has long been practiced in the United States. I think this was why the "Deep State" is so filled with Ivy league people. It's effectively a Mafia.

[sport]

If a doctor told you to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, you would do it?

[Chad C. Mulligan]

It was a grim family joke in our household that the Irish were getting us back for Cromwell.

[nickcarraway]

If a doctor told you to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, you would do it?

I wouldn't. I go to great lengths to double check or have skepticism about what doctors say. But a lot of people would. I run across many people who trust their doctors implicitly, no matter what. Are you going to prosecute all of them? Ideally, you are supposed to trust your doctor.

Look at the Dept. of Agriculture Food Pyramid. People went by that for years, and it still isn't where it should be.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The doctors told him to do it.

Did the doctors also tell Joe to do it in secret; telling no one including his wife, Rosemary's mother?

[nickcarraway]

I don’t know. That was also how things were often done back then. Remember, back then, they might not tell someone they were terminal, and going to die. Sometime, they’d just tell a relative. There is more transparency now. Mostly.

[Paleo Conservative]

JFK was the second eldest of the brothers. It was Joe Jr. who was being groomed in 1941.

[CJ Wolf]

Cancer was the C word.

[TornadoAlley3]

Biden had a couple of those for aneurysms.

[Newtoidaho]

She was lobotomized, which made her smarter than all the other demonrats.

[Romans Nine]

I’m fairly certain that add is fake.

PTSD and ADD were not labeled conditions at the time.

[Oystir]

It’s a “time-machine” headline, dontcha know? Also fake, but accuracy is a lost cause.

[Theophilus]

She was lovely.