After the operation she was unable to walk or talk. She was incontinent. Some of her siblings stopped visiting her. Even with years of rehabilitative efforts, she was only ever able to speak a few words. The nurse who assisted at the operation quit the profession altogether.8 However, at the time the public never learned about what happened to Rosemary or cases like hers. It was in neither the Kennedy family’s nor Freeman and Watts’s interest to let people know about the horrifying effects of her operation.
