The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women

by Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth
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ISBN: 9781610881753
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Overview

Rosemary Kennedy, younger sister of President John F. Kennedy, was lobotomized in 1941 at age 23. In 1959, she was put out of public view at a remote facility in rural Wisconsin, where, for more than twenty years, she remained unvisited by family and non-family alike, until 1962.

Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff (Liz) and her parents were likely the first non-Kennedy family members to visit Rosemary following her lobotomy. Liz was niece to Rosemary's caretaker, Sister Paulus, a Catholic nun at St. Colleta, and she visited Rosemary on a regular basis for the next thirty-four years. Through their friendship, Liz discovered the person many had forgotten or never known.

In 2015, ten years after Rosemary's death, Liz came forward with a fascinating book about the hidden daughter of America's royal Kennedy family. "The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women" is truly unique. It is an eyewitness account of Rosemary's post-lobotomy years, the first published by a non-family member, and it's augmented by nearly 100 never-before-seen pictures of Rosemary after she was lobotomized.

Liz can shed considerable light on so many questions, the four biggest being:

  • Why did no one visit Rosemary for more than two decades?
  • What quality of life did Rosemary lead after her lobotomy?
  • What should have been the correct diagnosis of Rosemary's pre-lobotomy condition?
  • And in what ways did immense good come from Rosemary's tragic life?

    • This touching story of the intersection of two families will leave you with a unique portrait of the missing, but not forgotten, Kennedy.

    • Format: TradePaperback
    • Author: Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth
    • ISBN: 9781610881753
    • Condition: Used
    • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.70
    • Number Of Pages: 200
    • Publication Year: 2016

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