For example, after Freeman gave President John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary a lobotomy, she was left permanently incapacitated. Another case involved a young boy named Henry Molaison. Freeman also ...

The Untold Story of JFK's Sister, Rosemary Kennedy, and Her Disastrous Lobotomy But it was Bridget's son — also "overlooked in some ways," Thompson says — who led the clan into politics.

Joseph Kennedy, of the need for a newfangled medical procedure: a lobotomy. The procedure involved cutting out part of Rosemary's brain. Rosemary's surgery went terribly wrong (even for a lobotomy ...