EXCLUSIVE PICTURES: How Rosemary Kennedy went from a vibrant young beauty smiling with brother John F Kennedy to a feeble spinster - after being forced to undergo a lobotomy
Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest daughter of Joseph and Rose, had her life destroyed because of the fear and ignorance of her father
Joe wanted her out of sight as his pushed his son toward the presidency, hiding her away in convents and sanitariums
The radical experimental surgery on his 23-year-old daughter was based on a misdiagnosis of her mental faculties
She was not mentally retarded as he was told by a ruthless and irresponsible doctor but learning disabled
Rosemary spent more than 50 years living in a Wisconsin hospital cared for by a nun when she could have been treated with therap
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