Rosemary Kennedy

Rosemary Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy was the younger sister of famous U.S. president John F. Kennedy. She was born in September 13, 1918, a year after her brother John. Rosemary Kennedy was the third child and first daughter of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Elizabeth Kennedy.

She was commonly known as Rosemary and to her family and friends she was Rosie. Reportedly she was a shy child and her I.Q. referred a sign of moderate mental retardation. But when she gradually matured she became increasingly assertive, she was reportedly subject to violent mood swings and used to sneak out at night. To help calm her down of her violent mood swings which was found to be difficult to handle at home, her father gave permission for lobotomy, which was a cutting age procedure to calm down patient like Rosemary.

Rosemary died from natural causes on January 7, 2005, at the Fort Memorial Hospital in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, at the age of 86, with two of her surviving sisters Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Jean Kennedy Smith, and her only surviving brother Senator Ted Kennedy by her side.

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Rosemary Kennedy