Kennedy who underwent a disastrous lobotomy at the age of 23. Rosemary, the third child of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald’s nine children, was born mentally impaired and struggled with ...
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 ...