Rosemary Kennedy in 1931, right on the front row
Rose Marie (Rosemary) Kennedy (Brookline, Massachusetts), September 13, 1918 - Fort Atkinson (Wisconsin), January 7, 2005) was the third child of the nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, she was the first daughter.
Rosemary had a slight mental retardation. She often had mood swings and in 1941, when she was 23, she was subjected to a lobotomy. This failed, however, worsened her condition and she remained incontinent for the rest of her life and could not speak more properly. She ended up in a psychiatric institution. In 1949 she moved to a clinic in Jefferson, Wisconsin. Her father did not visit Rosemary in the institution, her mother and sister Eunice visited her regularly. The state of her sister inspired Eunice to set up the Special Olympics, a sports tournament for the disabled. Later it was assumed that Rosemary was not backward but had a lower IQ of about 90, which is not so low but a difference with the rest of the family, which meant she described her as slower and posterior, which led to depression.
On July 7, 2005, she died a natural death at the age of 86. She was the fifth of the nine children who died but the first to die a natural death.
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