The Secret Kennedy Sister Her Father Tried To Erase: Rosemary Kennedy

Описание: We reveal the shocking how Joseph Kennedy secretly lobotomized his 23-year-old daughter Rosemary Kennedy in 1941 while she was awake singing "God Bless America," then hid her in institutions for twenty years without family visits. Covers her 1918 birth injury, London flourishing, the awake prefrontal lobotomy that reduced her to a two-year-old's mental capacity, two decades of family erasure, and how her suffering inspired the Special Olympics and Americans with Disabilities Act.

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
2:03 Chapter One: The Birth That Changed Everything
5:42 Chapter Two: The London Flourishing
9:29 Chapter Three: The Solution
14:20 Chapter Four: The Twenty-Year Erasure
19:13 Chapter Five: The Legacy of Silence Broken

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Rosemary Kennedy was born September 13, 1918 in Brookline, Massachusetts when a nurse following medical protocol ordered Rose Kennedy to hold the baby in the birth canal for approximately two hours until a doctor arrived, causing oxygen deprivation and permanent brain damage.

Joseph Kennedy enrolled her in boarding schools including Sacred Heart in Providence, searching for institutions that would fix what was never broken as younger siblings Jack, Kathleen, and Eunice overtook her developmentally.

In 1938 Joseph was appointed United States Ambassador to Great Britain, and Rosemary enrolled at Belmont House convent school's Montessori program where she flourished as teaching assistant to Mother Isabel.

She was presented at British Royal Court in 1938 alongside sister Kathleen, executing a perfect curtsey before the King and Queen after hours of practice, captured beaming in photographs wearing white gown and feathers.

When German forces advanced across Europe in 1939, Joseph sent the family back to America despite Rosemary's desperate pleas not to leave Belmont House—the one place where she had found stability and happiness.

After her return, Rose Kennedy documented "disquieting symptoms" including rage episodes, screaming, throwing objects, striking people, convulsive episodes, and reportedly sneaking out at night.

On November 20, 1941 Joseph authorized a prefrontal lobotomy performed at George Washington University Hospital without telling his wife Rose or consulting other children.

Rosemary was awake throughout the operation while surgeons drilled holes in her skull, inserted a leucotome, and severed prefrontal cortex connections as they asked her to sing "God Bless America," recite the Lord's Prayer, and count backward from 100.

When she became confused and her words turned to nonsense they kept cutting, stopping only when she fell silent and could no longer speak at all.

She emerged unable to walk, speak coherently, or control bodily functions with mental capacity reduced to approximately that of a two-year-old child.

Joseph transferred her to Craig House psychiatric hospital in Beacon, New York in 1941, then St. Coletta School in Jefferson, Wisconsin in 1949 where she lived in an isolated cottage.

For twenty years from 1941 to 1961, not one of Rosemary's eight siblings visited her, with Joseph forbidding family contact while telling different lies that she was "reclusive," "teaching in the Midwest," or "preferred privacy."

On December 19, 1961—exactly twenty years after the lobotomy—Joseph Kennedy suffered a massive stroke leaving him paralyzed and unable to speak.

In early 1962 Rose Kennedy finally traveled to Wisconsin, and when Rosemary spotted her mother at Milwaukee airport she ran toward her then began beating Rose's chest while producing primal sounds of rage and abandonment.

President John F. Kennedy's February 1963 message to Congress on mental health informed the Community Mental Health Act signed October 31, 1963—twenty-two days before his Dallas assassination.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver established Camp Shriver in 1962 evolving into the Special Olympics officially founded in 1968, now serving over 4.7 million athletes with intellectual disabilities in 170 countries.

Rosemary Kennedy died January 7, 2005 at age eighty-six, outliving the father who lobotomized her by more than three decades.