When she was just 23, Rosemary Kennedy underwent a relatively new procedure – a prefrontal lobotomy – that was ... "If a patient was agitated and violent before the operation, afterward ...

The book also delves into what Rosemary's life was like there before Joe Kennedy sent her away for the lobotomy — as well as what it was like when she returned to Hyannis Port following his death. " ...

For example, after Freeman gave President John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary a lobotomy, she was left permanently incapacitated. Another case involved a young boy named Henry Molaison. Freeman also ...

Less than a month before his assassination in 1963 ... the president’s sister Rosemary had received a lobotomy that left her profoundly disabled. Kennedy sought to end the “reliance on the cold mercy ...