Thanks Vets.
Like Ted Kennedy's service to Mary Jo Kopechne!?
What a bunch of hooey.
JFK, heroically got his pt boat run down by a destroyer.
And got praise for it.
This is similar to getting your Porsche run down by a Pontiac Parisienne.
They butchered a poor girl who had a few emotional issues. That clan are a bunch of disgusting self-centered narcissists. They need to go find an island where they can all stand around feeling important get drunk and idolize each other.
That part of the story doesn't seem to heroic.
Apparently, this fiasco was “the true inspiration for his famous family’s love of self-service.”
There. Fixed it.
Rosemary Kennedy’s lobotomy is testimony to how truly vile and evil Joseph Kennedy really was.
Rosemary was born mildly retarded. Her mother, Rose, worked hard to give her a normal upbringing and keep her with her family.
But Joe secretly arranged for the lobotomy-—then a very dangerous and experimental procedure without even bothering to consult with Rose. A procedure which made Rosemary much worse and was confined to a convent for the rest of her life.
There were many despicable thing Joe Kennedy did, including his cowardice and Nazi sympathizing as ambassador to Great Britain during WWII, running away from the London Blitz and hiding in the countryside. Not to mention stealing the 1960 presidential election among other things.
Joseph Kennedy was a despicable human being. Read The Dark Side Of Camelot and The Sins Of The Father. One doctor who advised against performing the surgery was interviewed before he died. The surgery should never had occurred. Rosemary was not mentally disabled. She did not attend Harvard; she was attending community college - not good enough for daddy.
Teddy got a bottleinfrontofme.
On through the whole democratic party.
"Suddenly, Last Summer..."
What’s with the constant rehabilitation of the images of the Kennedy family? Someone must want to run for office in 2016.
I just wish that they would stop with the ‘mental retardation’ fiction. Rosemary might have had some mild learning disabilities, but the biggie was that she was most likely beginning to signs of schizophrenia, and was beginning to act out sexually-running around, sneaking out to be with men.
There are stories of men who danced with Rosemary at parties while they were in England, and they all said while she was quieter & more withdrawn than her siblings, she was perfectly able to fully function (converse, dance) in the strict society of 1930’s England.
Joe Kennedy Sr. was such an evil scumbag he decided in incapacitate his daughter rather than have her risk embarrassing the family & destroying their (already) questionable reputation.
People think that lobotomy is some sort of precision brain surgery. It isn't. Or, at least, it wasn't in Rosemary's time. The procedure, called ice-pick lobotomy, was to take a metal rod like a knitting needle, push the eyeball out of the way, and shove the rod through the back of the eye socket and into the frontal lobe of the brain. Then, wrench the rod around so as to stir the lobal material into mush.
My own theory on this sad saga is Joe Kennedy raped his daughter and had her lobotomized to shut her up.
And why is that my theory? Nothing more than Joe was a nasty, remorseless criminal whose evil passed quite smoothly to at least three of his sons.
If you were to look at the Kennddy Boys and their labido’s ole Joe may have felt it necessary to shut Rosemary up.
The truth is Rosemary was born normally. She had some learning difficulties, but could do math - long division and algebra.
Her main problem was that she was not athletically coordinated and became frustrated when she could not keep up with all the other athletic Kennedy's.
Her father saw her inadequacies as imperfections that he could not bear.
So, he got a doctor to "fix" the problem, which left her worse off and unable to care for herself.
If you want to know the truth about Rosemary then read "Sins of the Father" by Ronald Kessler.
This barbaric procedure was performed on my maternal grandmother in the 1940’s. It left her child like for the rest of her long life. I’m not sure why it was done but she was “delicate” according to relatives. I have always thought my grandfather had it done for some (probably selfish) reason. He was a real bastard.