*Actual Headline* Retarded Kennedy Sister Dies at 86

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My memory of the incident is a little vague. Believe the news of her being institutionalized and the subsequent lobotomy first surfaced in the late sixties or early seventies. By then the therapeutic value of lobotomies had been discredited, so the issue took on a sinister tone.

Having said that, the fact that lobotomies sever the connection between the two hemispheres of the brain causing the patient to have reduced emotional response and sometimes no emotions at all, would not be lost on Joe Kennedy. He was known to be an intolerant and domineering individual.