Rosemary Kennedy, the younger sister of President John F. Kennedy, was intellectually disabled and fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous family. Despite her family's efforts to hide her condition, Rosemary's story was eventually told by author Kate Clifford Larson, who revealed the family's struggles to accept and care for her. The story highlights the Catholic Church's outdated views on people with disabilities and the devastating effects of the frontal lobotomy, a procedure that was widely used at the time but has since been largely discredited.
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