Posted on 09/30/2023 1:51:08 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Patently untrue. I met a thalidomide man. US citizen. He got it here.
She was. Too bad she was a free spirit who would/could not be controlled by Daddy Joe. I really believe that’s the reason for the procedure.
Agreed, her lobotomy had nothing to do with Joe Kennedy’s presidential aspirations for his Sons.
This headline is garbage.
What a waste. What a curse. What a crime!
“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.”
Although it was never approved by the FDA thalidomide WAS distributed in the US...by Richardson Merrell as a safer alternative to other sedatives.
“Details emerged over the coming months and in early August 1962, newspapers reported that Richardson Merrell distributed more than 2.5 million doses of thalidomide to more than 1,200 U.S. doctors. Its clinical trial evolved into an unauthorized marketing program.”
https://usthalidomide.org/our-story-thalidomide-babies-us/
Science...
What a horrible tale.
But the reason for getting her lobotomized was that Joe was already planning for three sons to go into politics and they were afraid Rosemary’s condition would create a bad reputation.
“Hi Ted. How are things?”
“Good.”
“How’s it going?”
“Swimmingly.”
We had a couple of YAF songs about Ted Kennedy.
Ted the Magic Driver
(To the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon)
Ted the magic driver
Drove through the woods
And with a half a bag on
He did all he could
To get his little chickie
Down in the grass
But the bridge was not too wide
So Magic Teddy crashed.
Ted the magic driver
Sat there like a fool
Ted could not make up his mind
While the girl’s blood filled the pool.
From a senator like Teddy,
What could you expect?
In a time of crisis,
He’d say “What the heck?”
Ted the Magic Driver
Has lots of bread
With which to buy off the cops.
So what if the girl’s dead?
The moral of the story
Is told quite sim-pi-ly:
You can do what you damn please
If you’re a Kennedy.
Who is “Fauci’s idol and mentor”?
From the pictures, I can see why men were attracted to her.
FDR said Joe Kennedy knew all the tricks, so he'd be able to spot them when other people pulled them.
The progressives of the time were all pro-fascist and pro-Nazi, or at least anti-anti-Nazi. They morphed into anti-anti-Communists (or worse.)
And didn't play one on TV.
They only told Lou Gehrig about his ALS (and that it was fatal) because he insisted. They told Eleanor Gehrig, though.
Biden was born lobotomized.
Okay, thanks for clearing that up.
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