The stance puts Kennedy — who’s mounting long shot bid to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic standard bearer in 2024 — out of step with most of his party.
The stance puts Kennedy — who’s mounting long shot bid to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic standard bearer in 2024 — out of step with most of his party.
Rosemary Kennedy had her lobotomy in 1941. In 1949 the doctor who popularized the practice of lobotomization won the Nobel Prize for his work. One very much could argue that J. Kennedy was simply following the established medical advice of the day. He “trusted the science” if you will.
Lobotomies rapidly fell out of favor in the 1950s when advancements in psychiatric medications were made.