She was stunning. What happened to her is criminally insane.

What happened to Rosemary Kennedy is just so heartbreaking.

Joseph Kennedy did that to her. He was worried about the families image. He made Rosemary far worse than she was initially. What a terrible, monster of a man!

Poor Rosemary. May she Rest In Peace.

Her father killed her once he allowed the procedure to be done on her brain...because she had strong personality and wouldn't listen to anyone and was on her father's way to political gain....and an embarrassment for her famous family. Also, after all that, abandoned her for many years ignoring her well being and not even visiting her for many years....sad Rosemary,sad life.😔

Just curious....was that nurse present at Rosemary's birth ever identified? IMHO she should have been sought out and tried in court for what she did to what was most likely a perfect child. She ruined Rosemary. Joe Kennedy just finished her off.

WOW.....i'm glad that the siblings tried to correct a wrong for others, when they became aware of what really happen to Rosemary

Tragic story...I can't imagine. This reporter does a commendable job in addressing the uncomfortable. Apologizing for having to use certain language to frame this reality - but is so cognizant of it's "cringe" factor - The truth is not always pretty and /or PC.... Poor Rosemary. Rest in Peace.

Afraid she would be around men. What I have heard her dad Joe wasn't exactly a roll model for a faithful husband. So sad for her.

Well, doesn't this just piss you off. By today's standards, everything...the nurse during labor, the abandonment, and the fucking lobotomy ("She stopped talking. We went too far. Oops."), all of it would be criminal! Another shameful aspect of America's past.

What the parents did here is unbelievable! Even in those days it’s unreal!

Maybe thats why they're cursed.

My only adult daughter is severely autistic. I am so saddened by the lobotomy that was performed on Rosemary Kennedy. She could have lived a good life with the patience and love of her family. These "special" individuals are given to us by God and we need to remember that. All HUMAN LIFE is sacred.

They destroyed her brain just to keep a reputation tsk tsk

The same thing happened to my father. The nurse didn't want to deliver the baby so she "held" my grandmother closed cutting off air to my father, and he wound up with a small case of cerebral palsy. If things like that happened nowadays, these nurses would be sued and probably also fired from ever being a nurse again.

After reading the book I really disliked Rose and Joe I have no respect for them at all!

I read she was acting out sexually so Joe was appalled and had her shut down for life. Being familiar with special needs people, this is an issue, but there are absolutely thoughtful and humane ways to help not only special needs, but people without actual diagnosed issues with their sexual problems - even then - but Joe was Joe and he felt she wouldn’t be able to live a normal life anyway, so he just controlled it like he controlled everything else. Horrible man. Side note: JFK Jr., was appalled by his dad’s and grandfather’s and uncles’ abhorrent behavior toward women. He was different. So different...

Karma will forever bite Joe Sr. I will never understand how Joe Sr could be so heartless, soulless and evil to do that to his own child. RIP Rosemary you are not forgotten.

What a beautiful young women...to think of what she could have been, and the life she could have had...

Oh this is absolutely horrible ! I had no idea ! May she rest in peace in heaven !

She was the most beautiful of all the Kennedys.

She is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. Her picture in England for the family visit is unbelievable. A Botticelli.

I feel so bad for her, God bless her soul!🙏🌍🌛🌞

She was the most beautiful one too.

She was very pretty, young and cheerful, instead of a lobotomy her parents should have married her off to a kind man who would love to spoil her and cherish her. Even if money had to exchange hands, she would have been better off with a man to care for her then to be institutionalized.

By today’s standards she would be completely normal working as a manager at Walden Books

God Bless Her! RIP Rosemary...

She was beautiful.

Wicked parents. They were wealthy, why didn't they hire a nanny for her? They stole her life. Destroyed her chances to have relationships. Hypocrites. Even after she was damaged and docile, they STILL got rid of her. Her parents would have died in prison now days for what they did to her. This is no small matter.

Heart breaking story . Myself I take care of a special needs child. and How anyone could be a shamed of her I just don't understand. My child is a joy in our lifes.

Rosemary looks bettet than most of her siblings😳

I read about Rosemary’s lobotomy in Laurence Leamer’s book “The Kennedy Women.” When Joe decided to put his daughter through the procedure, I wanted to beg him not to for Rosemary was so beautiful and so harmless. It is probably for that reason that I felt glad when Rose left him in the care of a woman he didn’t like after his stroke all the while she went about maintaining all the routines in her household.

heartbreaking...RIP Rosemarry

What so amazing...she was the prettiest one of all the Kennedy daughters.

they were wrong for what they did to her that's your kid what kind of a dad would do such a bad thing it wasn't her fault my heart goes out to her rip rosemary

GLAD I'M NOT IN KENNEDY FAMILY WOW SICK FATHER

Ted had far less to do with the ADA than Bob Dole. It was signed into law by Bush.

Poor thing… Different times.

I guess some good did come out of this ... Eunice and her sister started the special Olympics and Ted was part in starting the ADA

I've read some differing accounts about Rosemary. While she may have been a bit developmently delayed as a child she is reported to have been beautiful, charming, and lively. As she grew into a young woman she became violent on occasion. Just being an armchair phycologist, I think she would be diagnosed with Bipolar depression. She could have had as close to a normal life as anyone. Her father made the decision and approved the lobotomy without consulting his wife. Rosemary was a bit of a "free spirit" and her father was afraid she would discrace the family. Lobotomies were new and the side effects weren't well known. The hype was that lobotomies would make patients docile and easy to handle.

What a sad.. sad story 😢

Very heartbreaking

I have just finished reading "My Lobotomy" A Memoir by Howard Dull, the child that had the lobotomy done I use the term lighty " DOCTOR" Walter Freeman his prefrontal Lobotomy was done through the eye socket with what looked like an ice pick. He would sometimes use TWO ICE PICKS AT THE TIME!

Very sad but true!!

My doctor was ALSO late to my birth. I went into labor during early morning shift change. Between night staff and day staff my water broke. My first birth how was i supposed to alert the "professionals". They ACTUALLY had asked me where is your water bag? My daughter is 7 yrs old and has severe non verbal autism. I really blame the doctors. I'm angry at times yes. BUT never have i been ashamed of my daughter. I have an IQ of 113....normal i guess. But i would never JUDGE or try to hide my daughter. There are

"The hand of god?" No, the hand that deprived a newborn oxygen for 2 hours.

I guess Rosemary's father thought he was doing the right thing for his daughter. It backfired & I bet his wife would have been so unforgiving toward her husband. Then again forgiving but didn't forget what her husband had done to their daughter.

It wasn’t sad it was despicable. It was done to her by her mother, for delaying the birth, and by her father, by the cutting her brain.

Rosemary Kennedy was never intellectually disabled. Joe did what he did purposefully - and with the intent to 'hush' her, if you will.

Rosemary appears lovely. Why didn’t they just let her live her life?

for what it's worth, there are brain surgeries today that are done with patients in "twilight" so they can talk and answer questions, but the technique has obviously improved drastically; people don't end up with brain damage from it generally.

They should have kept her with the nuns, no matter what age, the nuns that were helping would have continued to help.

Didn’t we just see a picture of Rosemary on a bike? Joe Kennedy was concerned about how they appeared to others. Yet she went to a formal event where she was introduced to the queen. Why was that no problem? We see pictures of her and she looks normal and appears to be comfortable while in social situations. Also, Joe did not talk to Rose about the lobotomy. He decided on his own and took her by himself. Think of this girl, trusting her Dad, taken in to have her life destroyed. Rose never forgave Joe. What an evil man for than plus all the other despicable things he did.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was the most active in advocate for the mentally ill. She and Rosemary were the only decent members of the family, as far as morals, just my opinion

I still don’t understand what was so erratic about her behavior

Omg the father was evil!!! That was a drastic , extreme and dangerous measure to take.He could easily take her to counseling,hired a guardian especially for her ,let her stay in a farm( it's proven that the farmlife in the country can help calm people with mental illness)or even a dog..It was a new procedure and she was used as a guinea pig..it's not 10 years or 20 years of lobotomy..it is horrific...that's the word horrific

I knew the Kennedys had to have had a hand in getting the ADA (Americans with Disabilities ) law past. Thank you for that, as well as the Special Olympics (even though I was not involve with that organization , I do support that whole heatedly. I am mildly physically Chalenged ( I prefer the terms Physically and Mentally challenged to physically and mentally disabled)

Wow.Just wow. I lost my beautiful firstborn Son a little over 3 years ago to horrific injuries caused by seizures. He was Autistic and unable to tell us when he had a seizure coming on. He was pure joy to us every day of his, and our lives. I canNOT imagine thinking of him as 'less than'... He was the most beautiful person I will ever know and the mere hint of a thought of 'putting him away'or anything of the kind will keep me awake the rest of this night. Poor Rosemary....☮⚜

I wonder if she (the author) visited St. Colletta hospital and clinic and searched the records or spoke with the staff to ascertain more of the story? Or is this just from the Kennedy transcripts?

The nurse at a hospital in Sterling Kansa did the same thing to my mother she wanted the Dr to deliver the baby. It was my Moms 7th child. She told the nurse she would kill her when she kept my brother from being born. Mom was strapped down so she could not stop them. My brother thankfully was OK.

WOWWWW

Joe Kennedy was daddy monster to me and the nurse did this to her during the birth situation to me !!!!!!! What nurse does this to keep her from being born my goodness gracious craziness to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very sad😢story! I don't know how a parent comes back from that?????? I pray for them all. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

How can a parent do that to their child it beggars belief, she was a special gift & they had the means to take care of her my god preforming a lobotomy on her in her full senses is absolutely horrendous no wonder The Kennedys had no luck Joe Kennedy had great plans for his sons & nothing would get in his way of that, Rest easy Rosemary ❤

'Then it's what you've done.' 500 years of Enlightenment, and they haven't completely crime prevented an eon of Unjustice. Skew conflicts.

What the actual.... i had no idea about this.... beyond sad, but could explain the curse 😥😥😥

They also set up handicap parking for disabled people and ramps to buildings for handicap people and bathrooms .....

But that happened because the negligence on the nurses part during her birth

That nurse that probably caused the oxygen deprivation during Rosemary’s birth should be held accountable - now. Her name should not be withheld from the public, who deserve to know this nurse’s thoughts during the birth. Her family would know.

I think joe Kennedy had time to think about what he did to Rosemary,when he had his stroke,he couldn’t even talk and rose kennedy let him do it to her she was no better

It makes me terribly sad. But to be honest Joe was more interested in furthering his sons careers, which in that era is what most fathers were prone to do. Unfortunatley they did not see her potential and Rose being a dutiful wife really had no say. And even if she did, she was very overwhelmed with raising the other children. It is still a very sad and and poinant situation.

I found this article which gives a detailed explanation of how the lobotomy was performed The sad and dreadful life of Rosemary Kennedy - IrishCentral.com www.irishcentral.com/opinion/niallodowd/sad-dreadful-life-Rosemary-Kennedy-revealed.html [From ZTE mobile browser]

At that time the lobotomy was an option. Sadly, it went wrong. Perhaps she was taken away because they felt guilty. Poor girl, she and a very bad luck.

Joe Kennedy did this to his daughter. What a jerk he was.

No way! At 2.10 in and I'm already appalled at the untruths spoken by this "author." Rosemary Kennedy was not intellectually disabled. Period. She had issues later in her teen years, but as a child, she absolutely was not disabled in any way. She was quiet and also bubbly at most times, but the growing pains that all experience, were more severe for Rosemary and I'd absolutely bet my lifetime experience on the fact that Rosemary's Doctors misdiagnosed her. She may have been bipolar or even manic depressive, or as most think, extreme mood swings on her normal child to teen to young woman developmental changes. It's an absolute shame and tragic with the outcome of what happened to Rosemary. She was very intelligent and may have even been borderline autistic, but disabled and a lobotomy was a cruel, dangerous and extreme act of madness of the person who recommended it and the parents for allowing it. Allegedly Joe gave permission to the Doctors to go ahead without his wife's knowledge and had told her over the phone. And to say it was "somewhat" successful is ridiculous too. As she was left almost in an "almost" vegetative state, yet also understood and communicated rather well. It's absolutely absurd and abhorrent what was done to poor Rosemary, just to shhh her up and to keep the Kennedys name in good standing.

Sick father and he got his fortune from bootlegging.

So sad! At least they started special olympics!

They should all be ashamed of themselves trying to hide her because they did not accept her as she was and were ashamed of what she was only to enhance their reputation and political wellness. Shame on all of them!!

😔

Y ...¿ si lo doblaran al español ?

if the world only knew

Rosemary wasn’t the only child that ended up instutionalized; not an excuse but definitely an explanation. They just didn’t know back then, what they know now, about people with intellectual disabilities etc. I knew an older lady that had her legs held together “until the doctor arrived” and she too had a very disabled son because of it. In the natural order of things , they SHOULD have just known not to do that, but they didn’t. And men being so dominant at the time, women were afraid of doing anything against a Doctors orders … And it’s tragic that some men, even today, have decided they still know what’s best for a woman and her pregnancy..

Don't be too harsh on the Kennedy siblings for covering it up. Their dad had such power over them, if they were to really rebel he might ruin them. I think that while they loved and respected Joe, they also feared him quite a bit.

so they exiled her from her own family

One flew over the cockoo's nest.

So very sad and cruel

Maybe this is why they are cursed.

Thats why the kennedys were cursed...they treated rose so fucked up...

Rosemary was the prettiest of the girls

The obstetric nurse could've delivered Rose Mary. That was horrible and Rose should've prevented this.Joseph was horrible in allowing his daughter to have a lobotomy. She was never allowed to live from the beginning. Her life was ruined across the board. Horrible parents. That's my opinion.

Cruel parents towards their children.

Weren’t midwives used in those days to deliver babies? Why would the nurse push her back into the birth canal to wait for the doctor to arrive? She should’ve just let her come out naturally and cut the umbilical cord herself! Why would she have to wait for the doctor to get there? The nurse is guilty of cutting off Rosemary’s air supply and causing damage to her brain! Not to mention that it was Rose’s first born child, which probably affected her emotionally and physically too. Irish Catholics had very large families back then because of the Bible saying “go forth and prosper and populate the earth” but they never took into account how it affected the mother or the many siblings that had to go without being taken care of as well as they could have if their parents had less children. Religion ruins everything. Add politics to it and it makes it that much worse. I’m glad I live in a day and age of modern science and technology and didn’t have to grow up in the dark ages of history in this country. America has a very dark secret past that we’re just finding out about in the last few decades.

Kennedy. What kind of man is thst? They talk what a great man.NOT!!!!!!! HER mother. Shame in you

That family curse will go from generation to generation. It's a sad and evil act done to their beautiful daughter. But God has the last word to say.

Wow that’s not nice at all shame on them poor rosemary

Great commentary , I love the truth ,,

Only non evil Kennedy

Joe was a hypocrite

Could Rosemary have had CP?

It was NOT God that did this to Rosemary but mans folly and doings.. Always blaming God for their own choices.. SMH -- and how many people still BLAME God for all the negataives on the human race... MAN IS TO BLAME. He chooses SELF WILL INSTEAD OF doing God s Will.