Another Icepick To The Brain

True Weird Stuff

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Today's True Weird Stuff - Another Icepick To The Brain

Rosemary Kennedy was part of the powerful and highly esteemed Kennedy Family. Rosemary was born with intellectual disabilities at a time when children with special needs were highly stigmatized. When she was 23 years old, Rosemary's father ordered her to have a lobotomy. The procedure left her permanently incapacitated, and her family would keep her mostly hidden from the public for the rest of her life. (NOTE: This was originally released as episode #29. We're re-releasing it with a newly added Post Mortem discussion).

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0:00.0	Hey, true weirdos. We just wanted to take a minute and thank you so much for your support.
0:04.8	True Weird Stuff has won the best history podcast in the Women in Podcasting Awards.
0:10.0	And we've also won a Signal Award in the paranormal category.
0:14.4	And that's only happened because of you, our fellow strange people. Thanks.
0:19.3	Stick around if you want after the episode for a little bonus content and conversation.
0:25.1	It was a family road trip, kind of a working vacation for father. That's why mother stayed behind.
0:34.2	But father thought the experience would be good for the children. They'd see some of America,
0:40.0	this beautiful country. Father was a very important man, a doctor. As the family wagon
0:47.7	bounced along the byways of late 1940s and 50s America, the children sang songs and played games like, I spy.
0:57.6	Father whistled to himself as he navigated from a paper map spread out across the front seat.
1:04.0	Tucked on the floorboard beside him was a small leather case.
1:08.3	In it were the tools of his trade.
1:11.0	A pair of ice picks.
1:15.0	And they got a small beam of light against the air.
1:17.4	Oh, wow.
1:21.6	Wow.
1:21.7	You know, no, no.
1:24.5	No.
1:27.4	What are you're coming. Oh, okay. Oh, ha. True.
1:30.3	True. Weird stuff.
1:38.5	On the evening of April 4, 1950, some of the top surgeons in the United States gathered in Tuskegee,
1:46.0	Alabama for the 28th annual meeting of the John A. Andrew Clinical Society. There was a
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