Hey guys! Welcome back to Talk Tuesday.
So I didnt know what to talk about for Talk Tuesday today.
I woke up this morning and was like "what do I talk about"
And I asked you guys on twitter out of the couple ideas I had.
And overwhelmingly
you wanted me to talk about the Kennedy Curse.
So that is what we are talking about today.
This video is so long overdue. I told you guys I was going to do it a while back
When I did the JFK assassination conspiracy theory video.
Bernie! What are you doing?
So, that is what we are going to be talking about today.
The Kennedy family, if you don't know, is a famous American family.
That has been involved in politics for a very long time.
Their family has had some insane things happen to them. And has had pretty terrible luck.
And a lot of people people think that they are cursed.
First I am going to tell you all a little bit about what has happened to the Kennedy- really dude?
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about what has happened to the Kennedy family
over the years and then we'll talk a little bit more about the curse.
And people's theories towards the end
*Bernie barks* Stop
Sit
*laughs*
You always act like you're drunk when we're filming!
Sorry guys, somebody needs a walk after this.
I put Bernie on the deck with a bowl and hopefully he is quiet now.
So anyway, like I was saying, you probably have heard of John F Kennedy's assassination.
At least, since that was a famous world event
and especially in the United States, you should at least know about that.
You may not know about Bobby Kennedy, who was also assassinated after his brother was.
Most people seem to know about that one as well
But there's a whole lot else that's happened to this family
That a lot of people don't know about.
It all starts with Joseph F. Kennedy
So he was John F Kennedy's father.
He was a US ambassador to the UK.
And that was during the WWII era.
And we'll start with his daughter Rosemary.
Rosemary Kennedy struggled with some mental health issues
And looking back, we know that now,
but back then mental health wasn't as well researched
or talked about or wasn't as accepted
and was treated more like something is wrong with you, you know?
Like 'you are someone we don't wanna deal with.'
She was considered to be mentally impaired
*Bernie barking*
Okay, gotta go get Bernie.
Hang on.
She also had a very low IQ
And it was somewhere between 60 and 70 from my research.
And that would make her about as smart as someone between the ages of 8 and 12.
She had a lot of behavioral problems
She would fight with her parents often
And cause a scene or have emotional outbreaks
Was kind of up and down with her emotions,
which a lot of the times we know is a huge sign of a mental health disorder
A lot of researchers have also looked back and have thought
That maybe the stress of being part of this family
who was so well known and a bunch of really high achievers
And the pressures of just being an average person in that family
really took a toll on her emotionally.
Her mom, Rose Kennedy, would act like everything was fine.
She wouldn't tell her friends about the issues they were having with Rosemary.
You know, back then that's really how it was
Like "keep all of your garbage hidden"
Because no one wants to know and it could make it look like
Your life is as perfect as possible
So a lot of her friends and family didn't even know
That she had these behavioral problems and this low IQ
That her family was very very upset about.
All of the rest of the siblings were pretty goal-oriented
And had good behavior and were competitive with each other
And kind of fit the rest of the family mold
But Rosemary just would not conform to that
Joseph Kennedy was very very worried about Rosemary
He was kind of ashamed of his daughter, to be honest.
He was worried that it could possibly affect his career
Or the family if she embarrassed them or shamed them in some way.
So in November of 1941 when Rosemary was only 23,
her father decided to have a procedure done on her.
You've probably heard of a lobotomy
Which is no longer something that is used
But back then it was a surgical procedure
That they would try to use to change people's behavior and things like that.
Joseph was convinced by doctors that this new procedure called a lobotomy
Would fix his daughter.
A lobotomy is basically where they make an incision into your brain
And they sever connections to the brain's prefrontal lobe.
At this time, only 80 lobotomies had been performed in the US
And 80% of them were done on women
*sarcastically* Fix those women, you know?
Cut up their brains and fix them right up.
And they truly believed this would help Rosemary with her outbursts
And her emotional issues and maybe even make her a little smarter.
Joseph decided to have this procedure done on his daughter
And he didn't even tell his wife Rose that this was going to happen.
According to my research, she was strapped down to a surgery table
She had a mild tranquilizer but was awake during the whole time
As they cut about an inch into her brain
And kept going until she stopped functioning.
And that is when her life tragically took a terrible turn for the worst.
The operation was not successful
And she was diminished to basically the intelligence of a 2-year-old.
Had to be cared for the rest of her life,
And she actually died in 2005 of natural causes
Then later in 1944, Joseph P Kennedy, who was the oldest son of the Kennedy family,
Was killed in battle.
He was actually a pilot and he was flying a plane with a bomb in it
And the idea was that the pilots were going to
Bail off from the bomb before it exploded
And unfortunately that did not happen as the bomb exploded while they were still in the sky.
It happened right over the English channel.
In 1948, Kathleen Kennedy died in a plane crash over France
And then in 1955, John F Kennedy's wife Jacqueline suffered a miscarriage.
The following year in 1956, Jacqueline actually gave birth to a stillborn child
They had planned to name her Arabella Kennedy
And she was buried in the Arlington National cemetery
In 1961, John F Kennedy's father Joseph Kennedy,
who we originally talked about here, actually suffered a terrible stroke
Which left him pretty much unable to do anything until the point that he died.
He had very limited movement after that
And very little communication skills.
In 1963, John and Jacqueline had even more issues with their children.
Their second son Patrick died two days after he was born
Because he was 6 weeks premature.
So they had terrible luck when it came to having babies.
And shortly after that on November 22nd of 1963,
John F Kennedy was fatally shot and killed in his assassination.
"There's been a great deal of thought"
Reporter: Here is a Bulletin from CBS News
In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at president Kennedy's motorcade
in downtown Dallas.
The first reports say that president Kennedy has been seriously wounded
By this shooting.
This picture has just been transmitted
by wire. It is a picture taken just a moment or two before the incident.
If you can zoom in with that camera, we can get a closer look.
From Dallas, Texas, The Flash, apparently official: president Kennedy died at 1:00 pm CST.
2 o'clock EST.
Some 38 minutes ago.
Kendall: If you want to know more about that,
I have an entire video that explains some of the conspiracies related to that
And just kind of the events and how they unfolded that day.
And I will link that in the description box and put a card up in the 'i'
Which I think is on this side, actually.
After that in 1964, Ted Kennedy was in a terrible plane accident.
One of his aids and the pilot were killed but he was actually pulled from the wreckage
So he got somewhat lucky with that
But how lucky can you be when you're having all these things happening in your family
and multiple plane crashes?
He had some pretty severe injuries but recovered in the hospital
And went back to work.
On June 5th of 1968, Robert Kennedy, who was a great person,
was fatally shot in Los Angeles, California.
People thought this was especially strange because considering everything that's happened to this family,
I mean it is crazy,
But to have two political assassinations is very odd.
"Now what has been going on within the United States
"over the period of these last three years
"The division, the violence, the disenchantment with our society,
"The divisions, whether it's between blacks and whites,
"between the poor and the more affluent,
"or between age groups or the war in Vietnam
"That we can start to work together,
"We are a great country and a selfish country
"And a compassionate country
"And I intend to make that my bases for running over the period of the next few months" *cheering*
The gun is pointed at me
I hope they can get the gun out of his hand
Be very careful
Get that gun!
Get that gun
Get the gun
Stay away from the gun!
His hand is frozen
*repeatedly says "get it off"*
Make a hole in his thumb, break it if you have to
*chaos*
*more chaos and yelling*
What happened, do you know?
"Somebody here has been shot"
I'm not- TV plugged in
"Stay back, get away"
*panic and yelling*
"Please stay back, everybody just please stay back!
"Just the doctor, come right here"
K: Then in 1969, Ted Kennedy drove a car off of a bridge by accident
And he actually killed two people.
Ted Kennedy did live through that.
Then in 1973, Edward Kennedy Jr lost his leg
due to cancer when he was only 12 years old.
Also that same year in 1973, Joseph P Kennedy Jr,
who is Robert Kennedy's son,
got in another car accident.
It happened in Cape Cod and he was the driver
And luckily he was okay
But he left someone else paralyzed.
Also that year in 1973, Jacqueline Kennedy's stepson Alexander
was killed in another plane crash
I mean, how many plane crashes is this family going to have to deal with?
Then in 1984, Robert's other son David died from an overdose of Demerol and cocaine
In his hotel room in Palm Beach, Florida.
Then in 1994, Jacqueline Kennedy sadly died after a pretty short battle with cancer.
Then, Robert Kennedy's other son Michael died in 1997
from a fatal ski crash accident in Aspen, Colorado.
And just when you think any more can't happen to this family,
Because there's a lot of other things that have happened too
That I didn't even talk about, just like unfortunate events.
In 1999, John F Kennedy Jr and his wife Carolyn,
so this is John F Kennedy's son,
died along with her sister
When they crashed their plane into the Atlantic ocean.
I don't think I've ever heard of a family with so many car accidents,
children dying at a young age,
just terrible things happening,
plane crashes, I mean it's pretty pretty crazy.
So that's why so many people believe that there is a curse on the Kennedy family.
And there's definitely a lot of different theories how this curse was put on them
But let me tell you about a couple ones I found.
Many people actually think that it was John F Kennedy's great-grandfather Fitzgerald Kennedy
that started this all back in Ireland.
Apparently, in 1842, he discovered a chest filled with gold in this Irish village.
Apparently, these were cursed and when he took them,
The village that he took them from was completely destroyed somehow.
He went to Boston after that and used all of the riches that he had found
To create what is now the Kennedy family.
And put it into businesses and politics and somehow used that wealth.
And then they became extremely extremely rich.
So a lot of people think that those coins, if they were really cursed,
cursed the entire family for their greed and for taking it from this Irish village.
But then there's a lot about Joseph Kennedy,
John F Kennedy's father.
Who like I said was a US ambassador and traveled a lot during WWII.
According to my research, people think that he was on a ship
And that he was on this ship along with some Jewish people.
And they were obviously trying to escape what was going on
He had complained and made a huge scene about these rabbis
praying with these people on the boat
That they would be okay, praying for everything that was going on
And that he asked them to be quiet and complained that they were making noise
And bothering him and stuff.
And after that, the rabbi "put a curse" on him.
There are actually other stories online saying that Joseph Kennedy refused to help this man,
this Jewish man, get his kids out of a concentration camp
And that he put the curse on him.
And then there's a pretty serious allegation that Joseph Kennedy was actually
giving weapons to the Nazis.
And that the village found out about it and it collectively put a curse on him,
or prayed to have a curse be put on him and his family
for all of time.
And there are people that think that all of this is just happened by chance
That this family is really big and they've just had bad luck
But there's nothing tying it all together.
So I wanna know what you guys think.
Definitely share any other theories that you've heard as far as the curse
or what could've caused it in the comment section
Let me know what you think of the whole curse.
Do you think it's real? Do you think it's just a family with really bad luck?
I wanna know your opinions.
And do some more research on the Kennedy family
Because they're fascinating.
And I definitely couldn't cover everything in this video
Because there's just so much about them
and their family history.
And they're just a really interesting family that I love to look into.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this video
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If you're new to my channel, I upload videos every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 pm MST.
And I also sometimes upload a surprise video on Sunday.
But that's it for me today guys. I hope you're having a great day
Stay safe!
Don't let a curse come upon you!
And I will talk to you next time, bye!
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