Rosemary Kennedy and the 1960 campaign

[Tracy Riddle]

I was reading about that in the current issue of People while sitting in the dentist office last week. It sounds like they tried to do everything they could (and they had the means to try everything), but the parents just couldn't deal with it anymore. They were also worried about her being attractive and being taken advantage of by men. So they went the horrifying route of giving her a lobotomy. It was a common procedure back then.