[fungoking]

Truth was Ole Joe was ashamed of her and thought she could hurt his sons’ political careers so he had her lobotomized. Lobotomy doesn't help the developmentally disabled so he then had to lock her away in an institution to keep her out of public view and for the most part forgotten by the family; certainly the old man and the boys.

That part of the story doesn't seem to heroic.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I have also heard this. And I heard that old Joe was concerned that she was prone to scandalous sexual misbehavior, which would have reflected badly on the family.

It seems so ironic, considering the scandalous sexual misbehavior of male Kennedy family members, that sexual behavior was a consideration at all.

How crazy that we’re supposed to believe that she was the inspiration for the Special Olympics.