Rosemary Kennedy, the oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy who spent much of her life shielded from the public eye and struggling with mental retardation, died Friday. She was 86. Kennedy, the ...

Rosemary Kennedy, 86, the developmentally disabled oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy, died Jan. 7 at Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital in Wisconsin. Miss Kennedy was the oldest of the surviving ...

Rosemary K. Kennedy, age 84, of Canton passed away December 11, 2022. She was born May 10, 1938 and was preceded in death by her parents, the late Rudolph and Emma Kreuz (Heck); her husband of 51 ...

In her new memoir, The Nine of Us, Jean Kennedy Smith, 86, writes about her eldest sister Rosemary, who underwent a disastrous lobotomy in 1941 when she was 23 years old. Kennedy Smith, the last ...

The announcement earlier this month of a new film starring Elisabeth Moss as the intellectually disabled Rosemary Kennedy has some people remembering Madison attorney and prankster Edward Ben Elson, ...

Rosemary Kennedy inspired sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver to create the Special Olympics Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years. Rosemary Kennedy was the eldest ...

Rosemary Kennedy, the oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy and the inspiration for the Special Olympics, died Friday. She was 86. Kennedy, the third child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy, was born ...