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	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rosemary Kennedy, the first daughter, was mentally retarded, and her conditon was the source of the many efforts of the Kennedy family on behalf of the mentally retarded.
		Rosemary was cared for at St. Coletta's institution in Wisconsin from 1949 until her death of natural causes on January 7, 2005 at the age of 86.
		Rosemary Kennedy, the third child born in the immediate Kennedy family, underwent a lobotomy in 1941 at age 23 after Joe Kennedy was informed that his daughter's mild mental complications could be cured by such an operation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rose_Kennedy (1293 words)

	Rosemary Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Due to the severity of her mental condition, Rosemary became largely detached from the Kennedy clan, but she was visited on regular occasions by her sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of the Special Olympics and an advocate for the disabled on Rosemary's behalf.
		Rosemary died from natural causes on January 7, 2005 at a hospital in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin at the age of 86, with her three surviving sisters Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Patricia Kennedy Lawford and Jean Kennedy Smith, and her only surviving brother Senator Ted Kennedy.
		Rosemary's death was the only natural death among the deceased children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy until the death of Patricia Kennedy Lawford from pneumonia on September 17, 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy (1713 words)

	InterAct Theatre Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		JIM: Rosemary was a minor player in my own personal view of the Kennedy family; she was the one who was "retarded." Then in 1995, I stumbled upon a New York Times story (with a 1939 family portrait) about the Kennedy Foundation's support of people with disabilities.
		Rosemary's story looms in the background of that effort, as does the fortune of her father.
		Consider that Rosemary was difficult to manage, was a danger to herself and others, that Joe did not want her to be put away permanently in an institution, and, given the failure of everything else available in the medicine of the day, this new lobotomy procedure did offer some potential hope.
	www.interacttheatre.org /articles/interviewspring2003.html (1649 words)

	Danz Family: Rosemary Kennedy Dies
		Rosemary Kennedy, sister of President John F. Kennedy, died yesterday at the age of 86.
		Doctors told Joseph Kennedy that a lobotomy, a medical procedure in which the frontal lobes of a patient's brain are scraped away, would help his daughter and calm her mood swings that the family found difficult to handle at home.
		In Rosemary's case it was a disaster and left her permanently disabled, paralyzed on one side, incontinent and unable to speak coherently.
	www.danzfamily.com /archives/2005/01/rosemary_kenned_1.php (391 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Rosemary Kennedy, 86; President's Disabled Sister
		Rosemary Kennedy, 86, the developmentally disabled oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy, died Jan. 7 at Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital in Wisconsin.
		Miss Kennedy was characterized as slow and shy-seeming from early childhood, possibly dyslexic and apparently retarded.
		According to published accounts, Miss Kennedy had been presented to the king and queen of England in the 1930s while her father was the U.S. ambassador.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A58134-2005Jan8?language=printer (430 words)

	Rosemary Kennedy \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Rosemary - Rose or Rosie to her family - was sister to John F Kennedy, and the third of nine children of the privileged, wealthy Boston family of Joseph and Rose Kennedy.
		Rosemary was lobotomised at the age of 23, and spent her adult life in institutional care.
		Rosemary had been slow to walk and talk, and had neither the academic nor the athletic skills of her siblings.
	www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,1387294,00.html (680 words)

	Kennedy sibling dead
		Kennedy, the third child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy, was born mentally retarded and was lobotomized when she was 23.
		Rosemary Kennedy’s condition became an inspiration to her younger sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who became an activist in the field of mental retardation.
		"Rosemary was a woman, and there was a dread fear of pregnancy, disease and disgrace," author Laurence Leamer wrote in his book "The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family." He wrote that Rosemary had taken to sneaking out of the convent where she was staying at the time.
	www.showmenews.com /2005/Jan/20050108News021.asp (684 words)

	USATODAY.com - Rosemary Kennedy dies at 86 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rosemary, top left, the oldest of the Kennedy kids, was mentally retarded; she inspired creation of the Special Olympics.
		Kennedy, the third child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy, was born mentally retarded and underwent a lobotomy when she was 23.
		Rosemary Kennedy's condition became an inspiration to her younger sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics for mentally disabled athletes, and in 1984 she took over her sister's care after their mother had a stroke.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-01-07-kennedy-death_x.htm (576 words)

	Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Rosemary Kennedy, R.I.P. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sheldon Richman remembers the late Rosemary Kennedy, a mildly retarded woman who was lobotomized for fear that she might hurt her brother's political career.
		Rosemary's father was told by doctors that the lobotomy would eliminate her erratic behavior...She spent the rest of her life in institutions.
		The CNN obituary states that Joe Kennedy had her lobotomized because he was "worried that his daughter's mild condition would lead her into situations that could damage the family's reputation." He also didn't consult with his wife before ordering the procedure on his adult daughter.
	www.reason.com /blog/show/107993.html (977 words)

	Inclusion Daily Express -- Rosemary Kennedy Dies At Age 86
		As Rosemary became a young adult, her family disapproved of what some considered her "aggressive" and "inappropriate sexual" behavior: She reportedly started sneaking out of the convent that was her home to spend time with men, drink, smoke, and dance.
		In 1941, when Rosemary was 23, her father secretly arranged for a neurosurgeon to perform a prefrontal lobotomy -- perhaps the first done in the United States on a person with mental retardation -- to calm her and change her behavior.
		Rosemary's life is being described today by major news sources as the inspiration of the Special Olympics, which Eunice formed in 1968.
	www.inclusiondaily.com /archives/05/01/07/010705wikennedy.htm (651 words)

	Rosemary Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Kennedys had a lobotomy and a madasn taken for Rosemary, but neither method succeeded in their tasks.
		The fact that she is seriously handicapped and in one of the most powerful and influential families in America influenced the way she lived her life, thus she could not really live comfortably and naturally until she moved to the institution.
		Rosemary Kennedy never got married and never had any children.
	www.angelfire.com /realm3/kingzack/kennedys/rose.html (104 words)

	JS Online:
		Rosemary Kennedy, a sister of John F. Kennedy who was born mentally retarded and lived most of her life in a Wisconsin institution after undergoing a lobotomy, died Friday, her family said.
		Rosemary Kennedy's condition inspired her younger sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who later founded the Special Olympics for mentally disabled athletes, and in 1984 she took over her sister's care after their mother had a stroke.
		"Rosemary was a woman, and there was a dread fear of pregnancy, disease and disgrace," Leamer wrote, adding that Rosemary, whose retardation possibly stemmed from brain damage at birth, had taken to sneaking out of the convent where she was staying at the time.
	www.jsonline.com /news/state/jan05/291212.asp (814 words)

	Rosemary Kennedy
		Her name was Rose Marie Kennedy, but she became known as “Rosemary.” Later the Kennedys speculated that she was retarded because the nurse had prevented her birth until the arrival of the obstetrician, so that he could collect his full feee.
		Rosemary was slow, but she was not stupid and sometimes she would erupt in an inexplicable fury, the rage pouring out of her like a tempest from a cloudless sky.”
		He sold Joe Kennedy a bill of goods – the biggest drawback for a female patient, Freeman wrote, was the fact that her head would have to be partially shaved, preventing her from going out socially for several weeks.
	fatboy.cc /Rosemary.htm (1275 words)

	Kennedy Tragedies Timeline
		She is the eldest Kennedy daughter of Joseph and Rose.
		Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, the second son of President Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, dies on August 7, two days after he was born almost six weeks premature.
		Joseph P. Kennedy 2d, the son of Robert and Ethel, is the driver in a car accident on Cape Cod that leaves one passenger permanently paralyzed.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/kennedytimeline.html (448 words)

	The Szasz Blog: For the Record
		This daughter of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy, sister of the late President John F. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, was lobotomized without her consent in 1941—at the age of 23—by authorization of her father and without the knowledge of her mother.
		Afrocentricnews.com: "1941, Rosemary Kennedy, the oldest daughter of financial baron Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, is institutionalized for mental retardation and the effects of a failed lobotomy."
		Kennedy's message was the first of a whose series of presidential interventions into the health area, and eventually cancer, stroke, heart disease, renal disease, and sickle cell anemia programs would all be promoted as evidence of concern of the New Frontier and the Great Society...
	theszaszblog.blogspot.com /2005/01/for-record.html (1180 words)

	Obituaries: Rosemary Kennedy, inspired activism
		WASHINGTON Rosemary Kennedy, the oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy and the inspiration for the Special Olympics, died on Friday.
		Kennedy, the third child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy, was born mentally retarded and lived most of her life in the St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children, an institution in Wisconsin.
		While Rosemary remained largely out of the public eye for more than 40 years, her retardation became public in 1960, just after her brother was elected president.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/01/09/news/obits.php (562 words)

	Danz Family: Rosemary Kennedy Dies
		But, the Kennedys were so worried about being embarrassed by one of their own who was mildly retarded (if that characterization even applies) that they were more than willing to risk a very dangerous procedure.
		Among Rosemary's bizarre, unpredictable, and sometimes aggressive behavior was a tendency to, as her sister described it "do the thing the priest says not to do." In other words, Rosemary's budding sexuality was getting harder and harder for her to understand and thereby control.
		And the Kennedy family can't blame it all on Joseph because he died in 1969 and they could have easily brought Rosemary home to be near her family for the last 35+ years of her life...but, then who wants a retard living nearby.
	www.danzfamily.com /archives/2005/01/rosemary_kenned.php (3987 words)

	JFK's Sister Rosemary Dies, Rosemary Kennedy, Retarded Sister Of John F. Kennedy, Dead At 86 - CBS News
		Kennedy, the inspiration for the Special Olympics spearheaded by the Kennedy family, had been a patient since 1949 at St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children in Jefferson, Wis. She was the third child and first daughter of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, born a year after her brother John.
		In 1941, Joseph Kennedy, worried his daughter's mild mental retardation would lead her into situations that could damage the family's reputation, arranged for Rosemary to have a lobotomy.
		Doctors told Joseph Kennedy that a lobotomy, a medical procedure in which the frontal lobes of a patient's brain are scraped away, would help his daughter, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Rosemary's younger sister, recalled later.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/01/07/national/printable665617.shtml (468 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| President Kennedy's sister dies
		Rosemary Kennedy, the older sister of the late US president John F Kennedy and the inspiration for the Special Olympics, has died aged 86.
		The third child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy, she was mentally retarded and was lobotomised when she was 23.
		Rosemary's condition inspired her younger sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver to become an advocate for recognition for the mentally retarded.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4157431.stm (304 words)

	lobotomy
		Rosemary was beginning to understand that she would never measure up to her closest siblings, and the resulting frustration led to physical fights and, worse, long absences at night when she would be wandering the streets.
		Without telling anyone, not ever her mother, he arranged for his oldest daughter to have a prefrontal lobotomy at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. The experimental operation was believed to work wonders with people who had emotional problems.
		Today the official family version is that she was born retarded, and that only her mother's herculean efforts had made it possible for her to appear normal.
	www.ytedk.com /lobotomy.htm (317 words)

	Rosemary Kennedy dies at 86 - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		Rosemary, top, Jean, bottom, and Robert Kennedy, right, are seen in this family photo made in 1938 at Bronxville, NY.
		Rosemary lived most of her life in an institution after undergoing a lobotomy.
		“Rosemary was a woman, and there was a dread fear of pregnancy, disease and disgrace,” author Laurence Leamer wrote in an unauthorized Kennedy biography called “The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family.” He wrote that Rosemary had taken to sneaking out of the convent where she was staying at the time.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6801152 (855 words)

	Rosemary Kennedy dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rosemary Kennedy, the first lady of the Special Olympics, died yesterday in a Wisconsin hospital with her brother, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy [related, bio], at her side.
		While Rosemary Kennedy was kept out of the public eye for more than 40 years, her retardation became public in 1960 just after her big brother was elected president.
		Whatever their personal lives are like, all the Kennedy women suffer for the curse of having to live and be related to the pigs that compose the male half of the clan.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1316833/posts (2583 words)

	Kennedy's disabled sister dies at age 86
		Rosemary Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's eldest sister, died Friday at the age of 86.
		Her brother, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy and her sisters were by her side, the family said in a statement.
		Kennedy was the inspiration for the Special Olympics spearheaded by her family.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2005/01/07/rosemary-kennedy050107.html (1233 words)

	Psychosurgery.org: Rosemary Kennedy and Lobotomy
		When the subject of lobotomy is raised one of the first people mentioned is Rosemary Kennedy.
		She has stood as proof that one did not need to be poor to be a victim of psychosurgery - any mentally disabled person was vulnerable.
		One man in our group was lobotomized for juvenile delinquency when he was only 13-years-old; another woman's mother was lobotomized to "cure" her of headaches.
	www.psychosurgery.org /2005/01/rosemary-kennedy-and-lobotomy.html (288 words)

	Rosemary Kennedy -- Rest in Peace
		Rosemary Kennedy, the oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy and the inspiration for the Special Olympics, died Friday.
		She died at Fort Atkinson Memorial Health Hospital in Wisconsin with her brother Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and her sisters by her side, the family said in a statement.
		While she spent much of her life shielded from the public eye, her struggles with mental retardation inspired her sister to encourage millions of mentally disabled athletes to publicly celebrate their differences.
	www.voy.com /87202/1054.html (439 words)

	Rosemary Kennedy Dies at 86 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rosemary Kennedy, the oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy and the inspiration for the Special Olympics, died Friday.
		The Kennedy family history is a classic case of family dynamics, and how a traggic parental situation can infect a nation with negative consequences.
		Old Joe Kennedy could not tolerate losers and it was a huge problem to be the odd girl out when assembled with all the athletic Kennedy's.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1316772/posts (1096 words)

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