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Episode: Rob McConnell Interviews - ELIZABETH KOEHLER-PENTACOFF - The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy's Tragic Story
Description: Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff is a historian and author best known for The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy’s Tragic Story, a deeply researched examination of one of the most hidden chapters in the Kennedy family history. Koehler-Pentacoff explores Rosemary Kennedy’s life, her intellectual challenges, the controversial lobotomy she underwent, and the decades of silence that followed. Through historical records, family accounts, and social context, her work sheds light on disability, institutionalization, and stigma in mid-20th-century America, offering a compassionate reassessment of Rosemary’s life and the broader implications of secrecy, power, and public image.Become a supporter of this p...