Book claims Joseph Kennedy had his mentally disabled daughter Rosemary lobotomized | Daily Mail Online:
The Kennedy dynasty's darkest secret revealed: Book claims Joseph Kennedy had his mentally disabled daughter Rosemary lobotomized to prevent her 'sexual exploits' from damaging his sons' political careers
- Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff's The Missing Kennedy and Kate Clifford Larson's Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter shine a light on Rosemary Kennedy's life in the shadows
- Kennedy underwent a lobotomy in 1941 when she was 23 years old
- Botched procedure left her unable to speak or walk normally
- She spent more than 50 years living in a Wisconsin hospital away from public view
- Her mother, Rose, claimed husband Joseph kept her in the dark about lobotomy for 20 years; Rosemary's siblings also knew nothing of her fate
- The biographies suggest Joseph Kennedy subjected his daughter to the surgery because he was afraid she might get pregnant
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