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  1. Mar 2, 2022 · In 1941, when she was 23 years old, Rosemary Kennedy received a lobotomy. During the procedure, two holes were drilled in her skull, through which small metal spatulas were inserted. The spatulas were used to sever the link between the pre-frontal cortex and the rest of the brain.

  2. Rosemary's condition was revealed publicly by her sister Eunice in a 1962 interview to The Saturday Evening Post, but her lobotomy did not become public knowledge until 1987, when historian Doris Kearns Goodwin revealed it in her book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.

  3. Nov 6, 2014 · The Truth About Rosemary Kennedy's Lobotomy. A never-before-seen photo surfaces of the forgotten Kennedy, who, after a disastrous lobotomy, was rarely heard from again. There was one Kennedy...

  4. Oct 3, 2015 · Rosemary was the lost Kennedy daughter; disabled from birth, she was left profoundly damaged after a lobotomy at the age of 23. But she had a lasting influence on her family's charitable projects.

  5. Jul 7, 2023 · A new book is shining a light on one of the more hidden members of America’s most iconic political dynasty: Rosemary Kennedy, the younger sister of John F. Kennedy who underwent a disastrous...

  6. Apr 16, 2017 · 187. Practiced from the 1930s to the 1950s, a radical surgery — the lobotomy — forever changed our understanding and treatment of the mentally ill. Getty Images. By Clyde Haberman. April 16,...

  7. Jun 19, 2020 · Learn about Rosemary Kennedy, the sister of American president John F Kennedy, and the lobotomy procedure at age 23 that left her unable to walk or talk

  8. Jan 30, 2021 · Freeman's patients included Rosemary Kennedy, sister of the future US president John F Kennedy. She was left incontinent and unable to speak clearly after a lobotomy at the age of 23.

  9. Oct 3, 2015 · Rosemary was the lost Kennedy daughter; disabled from birth, she was left profoundly damaged after a lobotomy at the age of 23. But she had a lasting influence on her family's charitable projects.

  10. Oct 4, 2015 · Rosemary was the lost Kennedy daughter; disabled from birth, she was left profoundly damaged after a lobotomy at the age of 23. But she had a lasting influence on her family's charitable projects.

  11. Jul 20, 2018 · After a mishandling during birth and a brutally botched medical procedure, Rosemary Kennedy was compromised for life—but that would inspire her sister to make a difference.

  12. Oct 14, 2015 · While Rosemary's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, made the decision to have her lobotomized, Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff, author of the new book The Missing Kennedy, tells PEOPLE he did what he...

  13. Jan 19, 2005 · When Rosemary Kennedy died on January 7, we lost a promising life and one of our last survivors from the era of lobotomy. Between 1936 and the 1970s, 40,000 to 50,000 Americans received psychosurgeries in government hospitals, private institutions, and doctors' offices.

  14. Aug 6, 1995 · BOSTON — As a teen-ager who would be lobotomized just a few years later, Rosemary Kennedy chronicled a life of tea dances, dress fittings and trips to Europe in diaries that her mother...

  15. The following year, after being persuaded that a lobotomy would help to calm his daughter and prevent her sometimes violent mood swings, Joseph Kennedy authorized the operation. The relatively new procedure, which at the time seemed to hold great promise, left Rosemary permanently incapacitated and unable to care for herself.

  16. In their search for cures for Rosemary, the Kennedys learned about a new experimental procedure, a lobotomy. This brain surgery would supposedly reduce depression and aggressiveness in patients but was not yet accepted by the American Medical Association.

  17. Aug 15, 2016 · He was assassinated the night he won the California Democratic presidential primary. Their sister, Kathleen, died in a plane crash while en route to the south of France with her new fiancé. Robert Kennedy’s mother and father-in-law perished in a plane crash.

  18. Sep 27, 2019 · It’s time for a spotlight to be shone on the tale of the secret Kennedy sister, Rosemary, and how lobotomy, a surgery designed to reduce prefrontal cortex functioning, ruined her life.

  19. Nov 21, 2022 · Over eight decades ago, JFK's troubled sister Rosemary was left disabled by a disastrous lobotomy ordered by her father. Two books examine the heartbreaking details of a dynasty's darkest secret

  20. Aug 30, 2021 · Rose Kennedy never forgot the preventable tragedy that her husband Joe brought on their eldest daughter. When she published her memoir in 1974, she dedicated it to her daughter, Rosemary.

  21. Aug 23, 2023 · The TikTok video fails to address why Rosemary actually underwent the lobotomy and what her personality was like before and after the procedure, as well as the decades in which she was hidden away.

  22. Jan 16, 2023 · The lobotomy was an unmitigated disaster; it left Rosemary with the capabilities of a two-year-old, she was permanently incapacitated and unable to care for herself.

  23. Nov 21, 2022 · While they had spent time with Rosemary in the later years of her life, the two-decade period after her 1941 lobotomy — when her siblings didn't see her or know where she was — has long...

  24. 6 days ago · For decades, whispers about what the Kennedy family does behind closed doors have snaked throughout the country -- from JFK's sister Rosemary receiving a life-altering lobotomy at age 23 to Mary ...

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