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The Bad Luck Kennedys Essay

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The Kennedy family, the quintessential all-American family, filled with some of the country's best and brightest. That special family contains a soldier, a few senators, and even a president, the famous John Franklin Kennedy. However, some of us have probably heard about the bad luck this family seems to run into, from a botched lobotomy to that famous JFK assassination. The whole entire family seems cursed, those ghastly curses ranging from Rosemary Kennedy's misdiagnosis and rather unfortunate botched lobotomy, to John F. Kennedy's assassination. It's sad to see a well-respected family go through such tragedies, it's almost as the world was plotting against these people. In this essay, I will be talking about the multitude of the …show more content…

Unfortunately, Lieutenant Kennedy met his demise shortly after takeoff, his co-pilot and he were killed instantly. Due to the secrecy of the mission at the time, even Joseph Jr.'s parents knew very little of the operation. Rosemary Kennedy, the oldest sister and the third oldest of the third generation Kennedys. She was slower than the other Kennedy children, she was developmentally delayed. However, according to Ronald Kessler, she was able to write endearing letters, dance, and even do arithmetic. Contrary to her then diagnosis, she was not mentally retarded; her IQ was above 75, well past the range of mental retardation. As Rosemary grew older though, her once sweet disposition turned bitter. Joe Kennedy, Rosemary's father banned her from the household, after which, he contacted two surgeons in Washington state: Dr. Freeman and Dr. Watts. Dr. Freeman supervised Dr. Watts' surgery on Rosemary. Rosemary was given a mild tranquilizer; Dr. Watts' recalling his surgery from those many years remembers making a rather small surgical incision through her skull, near the front, and on both sides. As. Dr. Watts performed the surgery, Dr. Freeman asked Rosemary questions such as reciting the Lord's Prayer, to sing "God Bless America" or count backwards. Her pulse and blood pressure rose as Dr. Watts continued to cut. As the surgery went on, she began to grow incoherent, they soon stopped. Many symptoms described by Rose and Kathleen included irritability and

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