Have to agree....long time between events and one had nothing to do with the other so the mods should have pulled it...
The hypothesis suggested in the article does match the headline, i.e., that old Joe Kennedy was worried that pre-lobotomy Rosemary’s bad behavior (sneaking out of a convent to bars where she’d pick up strange men) would cause a public scandal that would sink his sons’ political careers. None of us are mind-rinders, though, and I doubt that Joe Kennedy ever told anyone that Rosie tramping around was what earned her the lobotomy, so we have no idea if that was truly his motive in approving the procedure. Nonetheless, that accusation does appear in the article, so the headline isn’t random.