Caroline Reilly is a writer from New England. Thomas Lanier Williams III was away at college when he received a letter from his parents informing him that his sister, Rose, had undergone a lobotomy — ...
Rosemary Kennedy inspired sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver to create the Special Olympics Rosemary Kennedy was the eldest daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy and his wife, Rose. For many years, the story of ...
Throughout the history of medicine, there have been few surgical practices more barbaric and cruel yet sometimes surprisingly helpful than the lobotomy. Famous lobotomy patients range from children of ...
More than eighty years ago, the Kennedy family's secret came to light as details surrounding John F Kennedy's hidden sister emerged. Rosemary Kennedy, the once-vibrant sister of JFK, had her life ...
After the first-ever Special Olympics, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley said to Eunice Shriver, "Eunice, the world will never be the same after this." That was what she had hoped for. Shriver (née ...
(CNN) -- Howard Dully was 12 years old when he was told he was going to the hospital for some tests. "I remember having big black swollen eyes one day and staying in the hospital for a few days ...
If you thought that scene in Sucker Punch where the doctor gave lobotomies with an ice pick was artistic exaggeration -- well, it wasn't. That's exactly how Walter Freeman, a popularizer of lobotomies ...