Keeping It All Quiet
Mental illness was highly stigmatized in the 1920s, which is why the Kennedys fought hard to keep Rosemary’s mental deficiency under the wraps. She was pulled out of school and home-schooled.
The Kennedy Family at Hyannis Port. Photo by CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
Instead of institutionalizing her later, she was sent to boarding school. Things finally settled down when her family moved to England, where she was sent to catholic school, but unfortunately, she and her family had to move back to the states when Germany invaded Paris.