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dreamofstarlight · 2 months
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The Kennedys in England - c. 1938
L to R: Eunice, Jack, Rosemary, Jean, Joe Sr, Ted, Rose, Joe Jr, Pat, Bobby, Kick
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Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. is greeted at airport by his grandchildren, Joe II and Kathleen, December 22, 1960.
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Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
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aiiaiiiyo · 1 year
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ephemeral-winter · 9 months
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jfk new senator name drop in oppenheimer discourse is driving me crazy - people are comparing it to marvel easter eggs - because one that's a stupid thing to think and two it's such a stupid fucking line and nolan should've known better. jfk was not even remotely the first famous kennedy. absolutely nobody in the post war years was forgetting who that kid was. his father was the US AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN IN 1939
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Jack Kennedy & Alec Rayburn
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“Now the family tree goes like this,” the man on the tape extolled confidently. “John John and…Trump are cousins. And Trump’s uncle is JFK Sr., and Joe Kennedy, who is also not dead…. And Trump’s father is General George Patton, and his brother is Mussolini…”
Somehow, the Kennedys, a family dynasty that once embodied the Democratic Party, had become heroes in a movement that also worshipped Trump. A bizarre blend of American lore, dating back to JFK’s assassination, along with biblical and QAnon-adjacent prophecies, suggested the Kennedys and Trump were direct descendants of Jesus Christ and were the heroic protagonists in an age-old battle of good versus evil.
It’s the kind of conspiracy theory that one might assume manifests only in the dark corners of the internet.
But that changed on November 2, 2021, when hundreds of people from around the country gathered at the infamous grassy knoll in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza, where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The congregation wasn’t there to commemorate the death of the 35th President of the United States. They were there to see what they desperately hoped would be the return of the Kennedys.
“Word on the street is Junior — JFK Jr —will show up and introduce his parents,” one believer told the local WFAA news crew who had rushed to the plaza after hearing reports of a large crowd gathered. Asked what he expected would happen, the man earnestly replied: “He’ll (JFK Jr.) probably be the vice president with Trump.”
The late JFK and his son failed to materialize. Most of the gathered crowd went home and moved on with their lives, some of them disappointed the impossible hadn’t occurred. But others stayed, waiting for months in Dallas for the Kennedys to return.
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The Secret Lobotomy of Rosemary Kennedy
On September 13, 1918, Rose Kennedy, wife of prominent businessman Joseph Kennedy Sr., went into labor with her third child. Rose's obstetrician was called to the Kennedys' home, but with a pneumonia epidemic raging through Boston, he failed to arrive before the baby entered the birth canal. A nurse, desperate to stop the delivery until the doctor arrived, held Rose's legs closed. When that failed, she reached into Rose's birth canal and held the baby's head in place for an unbelievable two hours.
In the quickly expanding household of boisterous, competitive Kennedys, Rosemary was often left behind. She was held back in school, until finally Rose hired private tutors for Rosemary and kept her at home. Watching her brothers and sisters go out without her left Rosemary angry and confused. She had "fits," which could have been seizures or episodes of mental illness. Afraid of Rosemary's vulnerability, Rose never let her leave the house alone. Rosemary also often ran away.
In the 1920s, the stigma associated with mental disability could ruin a family. Many Americans, including prominent members of society like Teddy Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller, believed in eugenics, a pseudoscience that advocated for forced sterilization of the "defective," a group that included the mental and physically disabled. And then, of course, the Kennedys were devout Catholics, whose church deemed disability the result of sin—a punishment from God.
Rosemary's disability was a challenge her mother couldn't face alone. At age 11, Rosemary was sent to boarding school. Over the next nine years, she attended five different schools. Her letters home show a young girl struggling to get it right. She wrote in a childish script that slants down dramatically off the page. She misspelled words and wrote incomplete sentences. Each letter is filled with a daughter's a desperate desire for approval and affection.
While in Britain, Rosemary found brief respite. She was enrolled in Belmont House, a boarding school run by Catholic nuns who embraced the Montessori Method of education, which focused on learning through practical skills and hands-on activities. Rosemary flourished under the guidance of the nuns, who trained her to be a teacher's aide. But after the Germans marched on Paris in the summer of 1940, her family brought her back to the States. Rosemary's reprieve was over.
Back at home, Rosemary watched her siblings begin their lives and careers, while she wasn't even allowed outside alone. Rose tried to find another school for her daughter, but few places were equipped to take a disabled adult in her 20s. Rosemary was eventually sent to a convent, where she began sneaking out at night and going to bars. 
Joe Sr. was busy plotting the political career of his two oldest sons. Wanting to avoid scandal and looking to find a cure for his daughter's erratic behavior, he began speaking to Dr. Walter Freeman and his associate Dr. James Watts, the leading practitioners of lobotomies in America. At the time, the procedure was heralded as a cure for the physically disabled and mentally ill..
Joe Sr. discussed the procedure with Rose, who asked their daughter Kathleen to look into it. Kathleen spoke with a reporter, John White, investigating mental illness and treatments. White told Kathleen that the effects of lobotomies were "no good." Clifford Larson writes that Kathleen immediately reported back to her mother: "Oh, Mother, no, it's nothing we want done for Rosie." But whether out of desperation or determination, Joe Sr. went ahead with the surgery.
At the age of 23, Rosemary was admitted to George Washington University Hospital, where she was strapped to a table and given an anaesthetic to numb the areas of her brain where Freeman and Watts would drill two small holes. They then inserted a small metal spatula and sliced the connections between her pre-frontal cortex and the rest of her brain. (Freeman often used ice picks for the procedure, hammering the pick in through the eye socket.) Rosemary was wide awake the whole time. The doctors had her recite poems as they cut—when she was silent, they knew the procedure was complete.
The hope was that the procedure would subdue Rosemary and end her rebellious jaunts about town. But the result was far more extreme: After the lobotomy, Rosemary was no longer able to walk or talk. It took months of therapy before she regained the ability to move on her own, recouping only the partial use of one arm. One of her legs was permanently turned inward. Months after the surgery, when she regained her ability to speak, it was a mix of garbled sounds and words. The result must have been shocking to Joe Sr., who had clung to the procedure as his last hope for Rosemary. But it couldn't have shocked Dr. Freeman, who had no surgical training and no proof of the astounding results he had claimed.
Immediately after the surgery, Joe Sr. moved Rosemary to Craig House, a psychiatric care facility where Zelda Fitzgerald once stayed. At the end of the 1940s, Joe Sr. had her moved to Saint Coletta's, a residential care facility in Jefferson, Wisconsin, where Rosemary lived until her death in 2005.
For 20 years, Rosemary was hidden from her family. 
In 1961, Joe Sr. suffered a stroke, and in early 1962, Rose finally saw her daughter again. Koehler-Pentacoff, whose aunt was one of Rosemary's primary caretakers at Saint Coletta's, recalls being told that during their first meeting, Rosemary attacked her mother. Angry, wounded, and abandoned, Rosemary was fighting for herself.
Twenty years after the barbaric procedure that derailed Rosemary's life, the Kennedys began to fight for her too. Rosemary's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968 and became a leading advocate for disability rights. Rosemary's nephew Anthony Shriver became an activist for people with developmental disabilities and founded the non-profit Best Buddies International. Rosemary's older brother John F. Kennedy, who became the 35th president of the United States, signed the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendment to the Social Security Act, the first major legislation to combat mental illness and retardation, in 1963. It was a precusor to the American's with Disabilities Act, which Rosemary's little brother Ted—who served as a Democratic Senator for Massachusetts from 1962 until his death in 2009—championed. (It was eventually made law in 1990.) Ted Kennedy also sat on the board of the American Association of People with Disabilities.
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After visiting Joe Kennedy Sr. in the hospital - 1961
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The Secret Lobotomy of Rosemary Kennedy
On September 13, 1918, Rose Kennedy, wife of prominent businessman Joseph Kennedy Sr., went into labor with her third child. Rose's obstetrician was called to the Kennedys' home, but with a pneumonia epidemic raging through Boston, he failed to arrive before the baby entered the birth canal. A nurse, desperate to stop the delivery until the doctor arrived, held Rose's legs closed. When that failed, she reached into Rose's birth canal and held the baby's head in place for an unbelievable two hours.
In the quickly expanding household of boisterous, competitive Kennedys, Rosemary was often left behind. She was held back in school, until finally Rose hired private tutors for Rosemary and kept her at home. Watching her brothers and sisters go out without her left Rosemary angry and confused. She had "fits," which could have been seizures or episodes of mental illness. Afraid of Rosemary's vulnerability, Rose never let her leave the house alone. Rosemary also often ran away.
In the 1920s, the stigma associated with mental disability could ruin a family. Many Americans, including prominent members of society like Teddy Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller, believed in eugenics, a pseudoscience that advocated for forced sterilization of the "defective," a group that included the mental and physically disabled. And then, of course, the Kennedys were devout Catholics, whose church deemed disability the result of sin—a punishment from God.
Rosemary's disability was a challenge her mother couldn't face alone. At age 11, Rosemary was sent to boarding school. Over the next nine years, she attended five different schools. Her letters home show a young girl struggling to get it right. She wrote in a childish script that slants down dramatically off the page. She misspelled words and wrote incomplete sentences. Each letter is filled with a daughter's a desperate desire for approval and affection.
While in Britain, Rosemary found brief respite. She was enrolled in Belmont House, a boarding school run by Catholic nuns who embraced the Montessori Method of education, which focused on learning through practical skills and hands-on activities. Rosemary flourished under the guidance of the nuns, who trained her to be a teacher's aide. But after the Germans marched on Paris in the summer of 1940, her family brought her back to the States. Rosemary's reprieve was over.
Back at home, Rosemary watched her siblings begin their lives and careers, while she wasn't even allowed outside alone. Rose tried to find another school for her daughter, but few places were equipped to take a disabled adult in her 20s. Rosemary was eventually sent to a convent, where she began sneaking out at night and going to bars. 
Joe Sr. was busy plotting the political career of his two oldest sons. Wanting to avoid scandal and looking to find a cure for his daughter's erratic behavior, he began speaking to Dr. Walter Freeman and his associate Dr. James Watts, the leading practitioners of lobotomies in America. At the time, the procedure was heralded as a cure for the physically disabled and mentally ill..
Joe Sr. discussed the procedure with Rose, who asked their daughter Kathleen to look into it. Kathleen spoke with a reporter, John White, investigating mental illness and treatments. White told Kathleen that the effects of lobotomies were "no good." Clifford Larson writes that Kathleen immediately reported back to her mother: "Oh, Mother, no, it's nothing we want done for Rosie." But whether out of desperation or determination, Joe Sr. went ahead with the surgery.
At the age of 23, Rosemary was admitted to George Washington University Hospital, where she was strapped to a table and given an anaesthetic to numb the areas of her brain where Freeman and Watts would drill two small holes. They then inserted a small metal spatula and sliced the connections between her pre-frontal cortex and the rest of her brain. (Freeman often used ice picks for the procedure, hammering the pick in through the eye socket.) Rosemary was wide awake the whole time. The doctors had her recite poems as they cut—when she was silent, they knew the procedure was complete.
The hope was that the procedure would subdue Rosemary and end her rebellious jaunts about town. But the result was far more extreme: After the lobotomy, Rosemary was no longer able to walk or talk. It took months of therapy before she regained the ability to move on her own, recouping only the partial use of one arm. One of her legs was permanently turned inward. Months after the surgery, when she regained her ability to speak, it was a mix of garbled sounds and words. The result must have been shocking to Joe Sr., who had clung to the procedure as his last hope for Rosemary. But it couldn't have shocked Dr. Freeman, who had no surgical training and no proof of the astounding results he had claimed.
Immediately after the surgery, Joe Sr. moved Rosemary to Craig House, a psychiatric care facility where Zelda Fitzgerald once stayed. At the end of the 1940s, Joe Sr. had her moved to Saint Coletta's, a residential care facility in Jefferson, Wisconsin, where Rosemary lived until her death in 2005.
For 20 years, Rosemary was hidden from her family. 
In 1961, Joe Sr. suffered a stroke, and in early 1962, Rose finally saw her daughter again. Koehler-Pentacoff, whose aunt was one of Rosemary's primary caretakers at Saint Coletta's, recalls being told that during their first meeting, Rosemary attacked her mother. Angry, wounded, and abandoned, Rosemary was fighting for herself.
Twenty years after the barbaric procedure that derailed Rosemary's life, the Kennedys began to fight for her too. Rosemary's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968 and became a leading advocate for disability rights. Rosemary's nephew Anthony Shriver became an activist for people with developmental disabilities and founded the non-profit Best Buddies International. Rosemary's older brother John F. Kennedy, who became the 35th president of the United States, signed the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendment to the Social Security Act, the first major legislation to combat mental illness and retardation, in 1963. It was a precusor to the American's with Disabilities Act, which Rosemary's little brother Ted—who served as a Democratic Senator for Massachusetts from 1962 until his death in 2009—championed. (It was eventually made law in 1990.) Ted Kennedy also sat on the board of the American Association of People with Disabilities.
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dreamofstarlight · 8 months
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England, 1939
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On October 7, 1914, Rose Fitzgerald married Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. in a modest ceremony at the small chapel of the residence of Archbishop William Henry O'Connell in Boston.
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Biden, Panicking Over RFK, Wheels Out Kennedy Family Endorsements.
The Biden campaign is set to wheel out 15 endorsements from family members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, as polling increasingly reveals RFK takes more votes from Joe Biden than Donald Trump. Siblings of RFK Jr. are set to endorse Joe Biden’s reelection bid on Thursday, including Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s younger sister.
“Daddy stood for equal justice, human rights, and freedom from want and fear. Just as President Biden does today,” she said of her father, Robert F. Kennedy Sr.
The Biden campaign has hired a team focused on seeing off the threat from RFK Jr., with the Democrats concerned he could act as a spoiler. Past polls have RFK Jr., performing better than any third-party candidate since Ross Perot in the 1990s, with his support pulled roughly equally from Biden and Trump supporters.
RFK recently announced left-wing multi-millionaire Nicole Shanahan as his Vice Presidential pick. Shanahan has donated millions to his campaign, which has been run by a former CIA operative.
RFK’s potential involvement in Presidential debates remains a concern for both major parties. He requires 15 percent of the vote in national polls, as well as securing his position on the ballot in enough states to prove electoral viability. He is currently short of these marks.
***With a family like this,, supporting a goofy old fool.
Who needs... Enemies...
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GREMLINS (1984) – Episode 250 – Decades Of Horror 1980s
“Ai-yah. You teach him to watch TV?” Do you mean there was a fourth rule? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Crystal Cleveland, and Jeff Mohr, along with guest host Ralph Miller – as they take an effects-focused dive into Joe Dante’s Gremlins (1984).
Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 250 – Gremlins (1984)
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A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
  Director: Joe Dante
Writer: Chris Columbus
Produced by:
Michael Finnell (producer) (produced by)
Kathleen Kennedy (executive producer)
Frank Marshall (executive producer)
Steven Spielberg (executive producer)
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography by: John Hora (director of photography)
Editing by: Tina Hirsch
Casting By: Susan Arnold
Production Design by: James H. Spencer
Special Effects:
Chris Walas (creator: Gremlins) 
Bob MacDonald Jr. (special effects foreman)
R.A. MacDonald (special effects supervisor) (as Bob MacDonald Sr.)
Selected Cast:
Hoyt Axton as Randall Peltzer
John Louie as Chinese Boy
Keye Luke as Grandfather
Don Steele as Rockin’ Ricky Rialto (voice)
Susan Burgess as Little Girl
Scott Brady as Sheriff Frank
Arnie Moore as Pete’s Father
Corey Feldman as Pete
Harry Carey Jr. as Mr. Anderson
Zach Galligan as Billy
Dick Miller as Mr. Futterman
Phoebe Cates as Kate
Polly Holliday as Mrs. Deagle
Belinda Balaski as Mrs. Harris
Edward Andrews as Mr. Corben
Judge Reinhold as Gerald Hopkins
Chuck Jones as Mr. Jones
Glynn Turman as Roy Hanson
Tracy Wells as Schoolchild
Jonathan Banks as Deputy Brent
Frank Welker as Stripe / Mogwai / Gremlins (voice)
Howie Mandel as Gizmo (voice)
Fred Newman as Mogwai / Gremlins (voice)
Mark Dodson as Mogwai / Gremlins (voice)
Michael Winslow as Mogwai / Gremlins (voice)
Peter Cullen as Mogwai / Gremlins (voice)
Bob Bergen as Mogwai / Gremlins (voice) (as Bob Berger)
Michael Sheehan as Mogwai / Gremlins (voice) (as Mike Sheehan)
Bob Holt as Mogwai / Gremlins (voice)
Richard Carlson as Dr. Research (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jerry Goldsmith as Man in Telephone Booth Glancing at Camera (uncredited)
William Schallert as Father Bartlett (uncredited)
Steven Spielberg as Man in Electric Wheelchair (uncredited)
Kenneth Tobey as Mobil Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Effects artist Ralph Miller joins the Grue-Crew to add his experience working on Gremlin’s creature crew, led by Chris Walas, the designer of Mogwai and the gremlins. Though the crew focuses on the film’s effects, they also delve into the cast, cameos, crew, and behind-the-scenes stories. 
In July 2014, Doc Rotten and Thomas Mariani covered Gremlins before the Monster Movie Podcast became Decades of Horror 1980s. Check it what they had to say at this link: 
Monster Movie Podcast Episode 68 – Gremlins 1984
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Self-Indulgent Series December: Granite Hills
It's December, and that means I get to be self-indulgent and give myself gifts, mainly the gift of looking at actors I like.
I give you my series of self-indulgence, Granite Hills (1990):
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Set in 1980 in the fictional town of Mudslide, Wisconsin, mainly at the Granite Hills university. This cast will be a mix of actors who would and wouldn't be available at the time.
The Show's Cast Includes:
Alfred Molina as Angel Ramon Vega [Age: 24]
Anjelica Huston as Sandy Cherry Lawson [Age: 26]
Billy Connolly as Professor Darwin Derryl Rigby [Age: 40]
Billy Crystal as Jethro Mephisto Butcher [Age: 25]
Brendan Fraser as Dallas Nathaniel Gray [Age: 23]
Carrie Fisher as Veronica Beverly Chambers [Age: 21]
Cary Elwes as Easton Markos White [Age: 27]
Chris Barrie as Douglass Wilfred Bernard [Age: 20]
Christina Applegate as Storm Hekla Jóhannsson [Age: 18]
Christopher Walken as Professor Karl Cai Lowell [Age: 40]
Craig Charles as Chuck Vance Sheppard [Age: 21]
Dan Aykroyd as Cesar Clay Leon [Age: 23]
Danny John-Jules as Quentin Kingston Hollister [Age: 21]
Daryl Hannah as Bernadette Daphne Jordan [Age: 24]
Diane Lane as Saffron Elouise Mason [Age: 19]
Fran Drescher as Monique Joanne Curtis [Age: 22]
Geena Davis as Erin Kermit Cantrell [Age: 28]
Gunnar Hansen as Thor Hjörtur Jóhannsson [Age: 48]
Harold Ramis as Edmund Morgan Blackburn [Age: 29]
Jack Black as Odin Hrafn Jóhannsson [Age: 21]
Jeff Bridges as Professor Kennedy Troy Gill [Age: 40]
Joe Pesci as Professor Jeremiah Emmit Jekyll [Age: 40]
John Belushi as Julian Noel Hood [Age: 25]
John Candy as Dale Randall Newman [Age: 26]
John Cusack as Andrew Simon Garfield [Age: 23]
John Goodman as Cyrus Lars Nielsen [Age: 27]
John Leguizamo as Alijah Mrlon Cross [Age: 29}
Judd Nelson as Colton Kenelm Coy [Age: 19]
Katey Sagal as Ramona Adrienne Dunn [Age: 25]
Kevin Bacon as Brad Nathan Hardy [Age: 25]
Kiefer Sutherland as Trenton Homer Abbey [Age: 21]
Luis Guzmán as Jaxxon Garrett Flores [Age: 29]
Mandy Patinkin as Elishua Saul Zebedaios [Age: 28]
Matt Dillon as Dennis Waylon Marley [Age: 20]
Matthew Lillard as Alexander Buddy Jones [Age: 19]
Oliver Platt as Ruben Manuel Valdez [Age: 22]
O'Shea Jackson (Sr.) as Tyrese Jordan Maxwell [Age: 18]
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Parris Hayes Grant [Age: 19]
Raul Julia as Professor Marcel Gomez Agua [Age: 40]
Ray Winstone as Holden Montgomery Lynn [Age: 27]
River Phoenix as Kent Horace Woodward [Age: 18]
Robin Williams as Jaycee Aramis Ellis [Age: 26]
Sean Young as Maxine Jade Upton [Age: 26]
Stanley Tucci as Luke Robin Flynn [Age: 22]
Steve Buscemi as Hugh Chester Sweeney [Age: 25]
Tom Hanks as Mark Everett Shaw [Age: 20]
Tony Shalhoub as Orlando Jaime Guerrero [Age: 25]
Val Kilmer as Earl Blue Dior [Age: 29]
Wayne Knight as Osborne Finnegan Jarvis [Age: 28]
William Baldwin as Theodore Joshua Ball [Age: 20]
Willem Dafoe as Terry Roosevelt Jepson [Age: 27]
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Oh this article is gold. Someone must be ripping their plastic hair out.
It should be ME!!!!!!!
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