Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Nov 9, 2026
William ShatnerGUEST
Cape Cod.
William ShatnerGUEST
and did summer theater for 13 weeks turned around headed back home to go back to my family made a point of calling my agent every day from a gas station put the quarters in and he said oh rose kennedy wants you to come to a party.
William ShatnerGUEST
I said, well, I'm on the road.
William ShatnerGUEST
I can't come to a party.
William ShatnerGUEST
All right, well, call me tomorrow.
William ShatnerGUEST
I call him tomorrow.
William ShatnerGUEST
He says, I'm telling you, Rose Kennedy wants you to come to the Kennedy party and the thing.
William ShatnerGUEST
I can't come.
Michael BeschlossMODERATOR
In fact, if I can chime in, why did the Kennedys live in Hyannis and not in Cohasset?
Kerry KennedyGUEST
Okay, they lived in Hyannis because my grandparents, Joe and Rose Kennedy, wanted a place to live where they could play golf and be at the beach.
Kerry KennedyGUEST
And the closest place was Cohasset, 45 minutes south of Hyannisport.
Kerry KennedyGUEST
But they weren't allowed into the country club there.
John FerrentinoHOST
song i remember the charles manson thing which was before that um Remember Otto's line? He goes, oh, shut up.
John FerrentinoHOST
Does Rose Kennedy own a black dress?
Mike GriefHOST
Oh, my God.
Mike GriefHOST
But, wow, I can't believe we hit the time.
Amanda Jane SternHOST
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917.
Amanda Jane SternHOST
The second of nine children born to Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
Amanda Jane SternHOST
The Kennedys were a Catholic family, descending directly from Irish Catholic immigrants.
Amanda Jane SternHOST
JFK was not a healthy baby.
AshleyHOST
Joe Kennedy Sr. was a savvy businessman who amassed a fortune through banking, real estate, the stock market, and the liquor business, most notably during the decade of alcohol prohibition that gave rise to gangsters and bootleggers alike.
AshleyHOST
But despite dipping his toes into the criminal underworld, Joe Sr. later married Rose Fitzgerald, daughter of Boston Mayor John Fitzgerald, which solidified the family's political ambitions.
AshleyHOST
Joe Sr. served as the U.S.
AshleyHOST
Ambassador to the United Kingdom during the late 1930s, but soon turned his ambitions towards his children and began preparing them for leadership and public service.
AshleyHOST
And this is the tale of Rosemary Kennedy.
AshleyHOST
Rose Marie Kennedy, or Rose Mary as she came to be known, was born at her parents' Brookline, Massachusetts home on September 13th of 1918.
AshleyHOST
Named for her mother, Rose Fitzgerald, her birth was a difficult one, exacerbated by the shortage of doctors due to the outbreak of the Spanish flu.
AshleyHOST
In order to prevent the birth from commencing in earnest before the arrival of a doctor, The Kennedy's nurse ordered Rosemary's mother to keep her legs closed, yet this did nothing but to ensure that young Rosemary's head stayed in the birth canal for two hours longer than it should have, starving her of oxygen in the process.
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We'll start with an anonymous woman identified only as Case 42 in Freeman and Watts' Psychosurgery book.
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She was 28 years old, married, mother of three children.
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She'd also developed a vicious, obsessive illness centered upon suicide.
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Not merely an urge to kill herself, but the terrifying belief that if she did, she would have to kill her children too.
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It left them in a better state than in which they had started.
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Then, however, we get to the less clear-cut cases.
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The ones who outwardly did appear to be helped by their lobotomy, at least in so much as their targeted symptoms were lessened, but for whom the costs started to really stack up to an eyebrow-raisingly large degree take anna ruth channels as an example she was a young wife and mother still only in the mid-20s who was referred to freeman around 1950 after suffering from truly terrible headaches for many years we haven't missed any details there either the publicly available records make no mention of any psychosis violent behavior or suicidal depression any mental ailments at all basically just headaches that seemingly would not go away All the same, though, Freeman's solution was a transorbital lobotomy.
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When you're a hammer, all you got is nails.
Anita AnandHOST
I mean, you started with this colossal figure of Joe Kennedy, and we are going to get to him because he's just... immense and in some respect, quite monstrous.
Anita AnandHOST
But can we start with where you start, which is a man I think very few people would have heard of, Honey Fitz, the Boston Irish ward boss.
Anita AnandHOST
Now, how does he fit into the JFK story?
Frederik LogevallGUEST
He's a very interesting figure, as you say, and the name sort of gives that away a little bit, but he's the maternal grandfather of John F. Kennedy.
Frederik LogevallGUEST
So Jack's mother is Rose Kennedy.
Frederik LogevallGUEST
Her father is the legendary Honey Fitz, a giant on the Boston political scene, in the mayor's office, in various important positions, and also in Congress.
Frederik LogevallGUEST
But he's really key as an Irish Catholic politician, political chieftain, if you will, in Boston, and I think has a very important influence on his grandson, which is something I develop both in the first volume, but I also refer to in the second volume, which is now in production, the degree to which he really takes after his grandfather in many ways, even though they're very different kinds of politicians.
Frederik LogevallGUEST
Honey Fitz is the sort of traditional back slapping, you know, kissing babies kind of politician.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Joe Kennedy Sr. was a savvy businessman who amassed a fortune through banking, real estate, the stock market, and the liquor business, most notably during the decade of alcohol prohibition that gave rise to gangsters and bootleggers alike.
speaker_2NARRATOR
But despite dipping his toes into the criminal underworld, Joe Sr. later married Rose Fitzgerald, daughter of Boston Mayor John Fitzgerald, which solidified the family's political ambitions.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Joe Sr. served as the U.S.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Ambassador to the United Kingdom during the late 1930s, but soon turned his ambitions towards his children and began preparing them for leadership and public service.
speaker_2NARRATOR
John's younger brother, Robert, would serve as U.S. Attorney General and later represented the state of New York as a United States Senator.
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He too was a prominent advocate for civil rights and anti-poverty programs, but his assassination in 1968 during his campaign for the presidency was a devastating blow to the family.
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the youngest kennedy brother ted also served as a u.s senator while his older sister jean served as the 17th u.s ambassador to the nation of ireland yet there is another kennedy sister and for the longest time her story remained a closely guarded family secret and this is the tale of rosemary kennedy rosemary kennedy or rosemary as she came to be known was born at her parents brookline massachusetts home on september 13th of 1918. named for her mother rose fitzgerald her birth was a difficult one exacerbated by the shortage of doctors due to the outbreak of the spanish flu in order to prevent the birth from commencing in earnest before the arrival of a doctor The Kennedy's nurse ordered Rosemary's mother to keep her legs closed, yet this did nothing but to ensure that young Rosemary's head stayed in the birth canal for two hours longer than it should have, starving her of oxygen in the process.
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As Rosemary began to grow, her parents noticed that she was missing major developmental milestones.
Dean RyanHOST
The history of these events spans several decades.
Dean RyanHOST
Joe Kennedy Jr., the eldest son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, died in 1944 during a military aviation mission in World War II.
Dean RyanHOST
His sister Kathleen Kennedy died in a plane crash four years later.
Dean RyanHOST
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.
AshleyHOST
Joe Kennedy Sr. was a savvy businessman who amassed a fortune through banking, real estate, the stock market, and the liquor business, most notably during the decade of alcohol prohibition that gave rise to gangsters and bootleggers alike.
AshleyHOST
But despite dipping his toes into the criminal underworld, Joe Sr. later married Rose Fitzgerald, daughter of Boston Mayor John Fitzgerald, which solidified the family's political ambitions.
AshleyHOST
Joe Sr. served as the U.S.
AshleyHOST
Ambassador to the United Kingdom during the late 1930s, but soon turned his ambitions towards his children and began preparing them for leadership and public service.
AshleyHOST
And this is the tale of Rosemary Kennedy.
AshleyHOST
Rose Marie Kennedy, or Rose Mary as she came to be known, was born at her parents' Brookline, Massachusetts home on September 13th of 1918.
AshleyHOST
Named for her mother, Rose Fitzgerald, her birth was a difficult one, exacerbated by the shortage of doctors due to the outbreak of the Spanish flu.
AshleyHOST
In order to prevent the birth from commencing in earnest before the arrival of a doctor, The Kennedy's nurse ordered Rosemary's mother to keep her legs closed, yet this did nothing but to ensure that young Rosemary's head stayed in the birth canal for two hours longer than it should have, starving her of oxygen in the process.
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