Posted on 01/07/2005 7:46:11 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
WASHINGTON -- Rosemary Kennedy, a sister of John F. Kennedy who was born mentally retarded and lived most of her life in an institution after undergoing a lobotomy, died Friday, her family said. She was 86.
Kennedy, the inspiration for the Special Olympics spearheaded by the Kennedy family, had been a patient since 1949 at St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children in Jefferson, Wis. She was the third child and first daughter of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, born a year after her brother became president.
In 1941, Joseph Kennedy, worried his daughter's mild mental retardation would lead her into situations that could damage the family's reputation, arranged for Rosemary to have a lobotomy. She was 23.
"Rosemary was a woman, and there was a dread fear of pregnancy, disease and disgrace," author Laurence Leamer wrote in his book "The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family." He wrote that Rosemary, whose retardation possibly stemmed from brain damage at birth, had taken to sneaking out of the convent where she was staying at the time.
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BS!!!!!
Rose was scum, and was well aware of every move Joe made. She was her father's daughter, and at times, was the ward healer for Joe's crew.
I mean, really, Joe married down when he married trash like Rose, knowing what I am aware of.
Some of her basic human instincts were not lost in the lobotomy. Can you blame her for wanting to get out of that environment?
Yep. At 7, he hadn't figured out how to jimmy the lock on the liquor cabinet yet, so driving held no allure for him.
Rosemary was a Rose Fitzgerald job. Joe was the Jew-hating anti-Semite, Rose handled family matters.
It is to laugh. Reputation?
The only Kennedy I have respect for is the potato-digging great-grandfather. He was the last of the family to hold an honest job.
His son was a Nazi and a bootlegger. The bootlegger's sons were crooked pols, one of them a drunk and a murderer, and another a compulsive womanizer and drug addict. The next generation include another murderer, as well as a rapist, a child molester, and too many drunks and drug addicts to keep track of.
The whole family are lice. If the poor lobotomized daughter had fled the convent and become a five-dollar whore, she would have been the best of the bunch.
Too bad that fat, drunken, thieving, leering, murdering Ted didn't get a lobotomy in his youth too.
-ccm
I amazed too- I thought fer sure no-one was allowed to say "retarded" anymore. Nowadays everyone's just "challenged".
The book, The Kennedys in Hollywood - by Lawrence J. Quirk, a Kennedy family confidant, clearly states that Joe did this to this daughter against Rose's wishes, and that there was a rift in the marriage for months afterwards.
Joe Kennedy had a very 'European' attitude toward women, and passed it down to his sons. Woman were there for their pleasure, and you didn't have to limit yourself to just one, even if you ended up getting married.
He had very 'European' attitudes about other things as well. When he was Ambassador to the Court of St. James (England), he was good friends with Edward, the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor, and they were all very 'tolerant' of the Nazis.
BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!! The family was so proud the day he learned to dive. He was cool though. He just walked away like it was nothing.
according to the schwartz book that i mentioned earlier in the thread, joe kennedy invested heavily in manipulating the u.s. press.
interesting in the schwartz book was joe's investment in a hollywood movie company. the owner didn't want to sell, so joe set him up with a prostitute who claimed the owner took advantage sexually of her. charges were filed. the owner sold his movie company to joe. and later inexplicably, the woman committed suicide. or, "kennedycide".
god only knows, but the kennedys suck.
Yeah, I remember that too, and I also remember reading that for all the hideous cr-- Joe dished out, that was the ONE thing Rose never forgave him for. A lot of that stuff was written around when Rose died.
How could she be born after her brother became president and be 86?
i agree.
but we're looking at it in hindsight.
joe invested heavily in manipulating the media, so the truth may never be known.
do me a favor, go to the library and check out this book and read it, and let me know what you think:
Joseph P. Kennedy : The Mogul, the Mob, the Statesman, and the Making of an American Myth
by Ted Schwarz (Hardcover - September 5, 2003)
"Rosemary Kennedy, a sister of John F. Kennedy who was born mentally retarded" for a second I thought...
Power mad dems are about on the level as ROP terrorists.
And to think we were talking about this just 15 minutes ago....
May she Rest in Peace.
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