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'Childlike innocence' of JFK's eldest sister Rosemary is revealed in unseen letters she wrote aged 20, three years before being forced to undergo a lobotomy

    Rosemary Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's oldest sister, would have celebrated her 100th birthday today
    New unseen letters reveal how she was a vivacious young woman prior to being left with a severe mental disability after having a lobotomy aged 23
    The letters were written to Dorothy Smyth who looked after Rosemary while in Ireland and England in 1938
    Smyth died in the 1960s, but her family kept the letters  according to her nephew, Michael Fisher who described them as holding a 'childlike innocence'

By Regina F. Graham For Dailymail.com

Published: 17:37 EDT, 13 September 2018 | Updated: 08:24 EDT, 14 September 2018


President John F. Kennedy's oldest sister, Rosemary Kennedy, would have celebrated her 100th birthday on Thursday.

Now, new unseen letters reveal more about how she was a vivacious and kind young woman prior to being left with a severe mental disability after she was forced to undergo a lobotomy aged 23 by her father Joseph P. Kennedy.

Three years prior the surgery, Rosemary was sent by the Kennedy family to Ireland and England for three weeks in 1938 where she was placed in the care of a young Irish woman named Dorothy Smyth.

When Rosemary left, she decided to keep in contact with Smyth and wrote letters about her time in Europe.

The tone in her letters to Smyth often were childlike and 'innocent', according to Kate Larson, who is the biographer and author of The Hidden Kennedy – a book which discusses in depth about Rosemary's life along with other Kennedy family members.

'The letters are important because they reflect Rosemary as much younger, intellectually, than her 20 years and that she had a full life and her family included her,' Larson told People. 'They were written before Rosemary's lobotomy and they reveal the loss more acutely.'

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The members at the JFKassassinationforum.com will find this article noteworthy. She was also covered in the Kennedy TV series which I thought was good. There is a guy over there from Boston, he's not a Kennedy afficionado but I don't think he would actually hates them. He just has a lot of knowledge about them.

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That's quite a sad chapter, one of those shows, there was anger that they did that to her....