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  1. After the leboton, she was institutionalized for the rest of her life. Her siblings didn't find out until over 20 years later. Their father secretly arranged the operation in 1941 and kept its catastrophic outcome hidden from the family. Violence against women.

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  2. Lobotomy requires the subject to have a functional brain and not a worm infested rot of drug damaged neurons. Someone needs to say what we're all thinking. Who would have guessed that they shot RFK too late to save the country.

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  3. Evidence suggests that between the brain worm, the heroin, and the mercury poisoning, he self-administered a different kind of lobotomy.

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  4. My 80 yro mom said the scuttlebutt growing up was Ole Rosemary was just mouthy AF and no one could get her to conform. So her father had her lobotomized. Somehow I believe the folks that lived through it more than the ones that paid for it.

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  5. I hold strong regard for Jack and (the real) Bobby as brilliant public servants. Eunice was an amazing, independent woman, and everyone loved Pat who was just a genuinely nice person. All ambitious & competitive, but they evolved intellectually & left a mark despite the old man, not because of him.

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