rosemary kennedy
"Early in life Rosemary was different," she wrote in a 1962 article for the Saturday Evening Post. "She was slower to crawl, slower to walk and speak. Rosemary was mentally retarded." Rosemary Kennedy underwent a lobotomy when she Rosemary was mentally retarded.” Rosemary Kennedy underwent a lobotomy when she was 23, though that wasn't mentioned in the article. She lived most of her life in an institution in Wisconsin and died in 2005 at age 86. JOHN F. KENNEDY, 1917-1963. A U.S. senator from Massachusetts before he was elected the 35th president of the United States in 1960. Assassinated in Dallas, 1963. Married Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953. ROSEMARY KENNEDY, 1918-2005