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Mrs Rose Kennedy, the mother of the president, gestures expressively during a chat with the news correspondent Charles Collingwood, in her Manhattan apartment recently, in a pre-recorded television interview. Speaking on the subject of child retardation, Mrs Kennedy said parents who have a retarded child should not be afraid to have other children. Mrs Kennedy gave birth to 6 children following the birth of a retarded daughter, Rosemary..30 October 1963 (KEYSTONE/United Archives / TopFoto/Personalities)