Rosemary Kennedy
October 5, 2016
Hosted by Kathryn Zox
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Kathryn interviews NYTimes bestselling author Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff, author of 'The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women'. Rosemary Kennedy, younger sister of President John F. Kennedy, was lobotomized at age 23 in 1941 and was put out of public view in 1959 at a remote facility in rural Wisconsin. For more than 20 years, she remained unvisited by family and non-family alike. In 1962 Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff and her parents were likely the first non-Kennedy family members to visit Rosemary following her lobotomy. Elizabeth, niece to Rosemary's caretaker, visited her on a regular basis for the next 34 years. Through their friendship, Elizabeth discovered the person many had forgotten or had never known. Based on independent research and interviews with the Shriver family, she tries to come to grips with Joseph Kennedy's well-intended decision to submit his eldest daughter to a still experimental medical procedure, and his later decision to keep
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Kathryn Zox
Kathryn Zox is your social worker with a microphone™. She has been producing and hosting The Kathryn Zox Show Lunchtime Talk in Albany, NY for over five years and is excited about bringing her show from the capital of NY State to the Nation's Capital. She has also recently been a co-host and featured life expert on Doug Stephan's syndicated Good Day Show. Kathryn's interviewed thousands of guests including lifestyle experts, celebrities, authors, lawyers, psychiatrists, physicians and dieticians. At Albany Medical College she has trained doctors and medical students to communicate effectively with their patients. She's an actor who can be seen on the Sopranos and Law and Order and even admits to modeling for AARP! She has Masters' Degrees in Social Work and Counseling Psychology and is a graduate of the New School of Radio and Television. Much background for her show comes from traveling the world and raising three boys now in their twenties - a rock star, an actor and a film maker. There's also one ex-husband, one boyfriend, two brothers and an aging mom!
