Tornado Alley (PROG)

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"Rose Marie Kennedy .......in her own diaries... chronicled a life of tea dances, dress fittings, trips to Europe and a visit to the Roosevelt White House....


But as she got older, her father worried that his daughter’s mild condition would lead her into situations that could damage the family’s reputation....... Rosemary had taken to sneaking out of the convent where she was staying at the time.

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...... Rosemary was “probably the first person with mental retardation in America to receive a prefrontal lobotomy.”

Rosemary lived in several private institutions before her father placed her in St. Coletta, an hour west of Milwaukee."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6801152/

Think about that. Labotomized as a 23 year old to avoid embarassment... SS