Kitty Dukakis

Kitty Dukakis
Kitty Dukakis
	Dukakis in 2015
First Lady of Massachusetts
	In role; January 6, 1983 – January 3, 1991
Preceded by	Josephine King
Succeeded by	Susan Weld
	In role; January 2, 1975 – January 4, 1979
Preceded by	Jessie Sargent
Succeeded by	Josephine King
Personal details
Born	Katharine Dickson; December 26, 1936 (age 87); Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouses	; John Chaffetz (m. 1956; div. 1960) ; Michael Dukakis (m. 1963)
Children	4, including John

Katharine "Kitty" Dukakis (

née Dickson; born December 26, 1936) is an American author. She is married to former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis

.

Life and career

Dukakis was born Katharine Virginia Dickson in

Boston Pops Orchestra.^[6]

She graduated from

Lesley College in 1963, the same year she married Michael Dukakis.^[9] She received a M.A. degree from Boston University College of Communication

in 1982.

During the 1988 presidential election, several false rumors were reported in the media about the Dukakises, including the claim by Idaho Republican Senator Steve Symms that Kitty had burned an American flag to protest the Vietnam War.^[10] Republican strategist Lee Atwater was accused of having initiated these rumors.^[11]

In 1989, Dukakis was briefly hospitalized after drinking

major depression. Dukakis is a leading proponent of using ECT to treat depression.^[13]

In 2007, the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in

Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, opened a center for addiction treatment named after Dukakis.^[14]

Dukakis appears in the 2008 documentary on Lee Atwater, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story.

Published works

Now You Know. Simon & Schuster. 1991.
ISBN 0-671-74179-9
.

Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy. Avery. 2006.
ISBN 1-58333-265-0. Cowritten with Larry Tye
.

Public service

Dukakis has served on the President's Commission on the Holocaust, on the

United States Holocaust Memorial

Council, on the board of the Refugee Policy Center, and on the Task Force on Cambodian Children.

References

^
ISBN 978-0-395-47089-3
.

^ Ann Egerton (October 21, 1990). "Kitty Dukakis' memoir has a sad and ragged quality".
Baltimore Sun. Archived
from the original on September 25, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2016.

^ "Michael, Kitty Dukakis help new citizens celebrate in Woburn". Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2017.
^ Drogin, Bob (May 25, 1987). "Dukakis Draws Heavy Crowds, Money, Press". Los Angeles Times.
^ "Archives - Philly.com". Retrieved January 13, 2017.
^ Midgette, Anne (April 2, 2003). "Harry Ellis Dickson, 94, Violinist and Conductor in Boston". Retrieved January 13, 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
Newspapers.com
.

^ Warner, Margaret Garrard (May 16, 1988). "Take-Charge Kitty". Newsweek. Vol. 111, no. 20. pp. 30–31.

Milwaukee Sentinel. AP. May 27, 1988. Retrieved August 29, 2012.^{[permanent dead link}
]

^ "Story on Mrs. Dukakis Is Denied by Campaign". New York Times
. August 26, 1988. Retrieved May 27, 2016. Michael Dukakis's Presidential campaign, responding to comments by Senator Steve Symms, an Idaho Republican, issued a statement Wednesday saying any suggestion that Kitty Dukakis had ever burned an American flag was totally false and beneath contempt.

^ Susan Estrich (September 4, 2004). "Lies move Democrats to dig up dirt". Myrtle Beach Sun. Archived from the original on September 17, 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2016. Or how about the one about Kitty Dukakis burning a flag at an anti-war demonstration, another out-and-out lie, which the Bush campaign denied having anything to do with, except that it turned out to have come from a United States senator via the Republican National Committee? Atwater later apologized to me for that, too, on his deathbed.

^ "Kitty Dukakis Recovering". The New York Times. Associated Press. November 11, 1989. Retrieved October 11, 2007.

^ Seelye, Katharine Q. (December 31, 2016). "Kitty Dukakis, a Beneficiary of Electroshock Therapy, Emerges as Its Evangelist". The New York Times. Retrieved December 31, 2016.

^ "Kitty Dukakis Treatment Center to Open". Boston University School of Public Health. September 21, 2007. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved October 11, 2007.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kitty Dukakis.

"Appointment of Katharine D. Dukakis as a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council 1989-12-19", George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, College Station, Texas. A short profile of her education and career

Dukakis, Kitty; Tye, Larry, 'I Feel Good, I Feel Alive', Newsweek, September 18, 2006. An article in which she discusses her treatment with electroconvulsive therapy for depression

Honorary titles

Preceded by
Jessie Sargent
First Lady of Massachusetts
1975–1979 Succeeded by
Josephine King

Preceded by
Josephine King
First Lady of Massachusetts
1983–1991 Succeeded by
Susan Roosevelt Weld

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Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kitty_Dukakis&oldid=1216247772"

[Kenney&Turner-1] 
ISBN 978-0-395-47089-3
.

[BaltimoreSun1990-10-21-2] Ann Egerton (October 21, 1990). "Kitty Dukakis' memoir has a sad and ragged quality".
Baltimore Sun. Archived
from the original on September 25, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2016.

[3] "Michael, Kitty Dukakis help new citizens celebrate in Woburn". Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2017.

[4] Drogin, Bob (May 25, 1987). "Dukakis Draws Heavy Crowds, Money, Press". Los Angeles Times.

[5] "Archives - Philly.com". Retrieved January 13, 2017.

[6] Midgette, Anne (April 2, 2003). "Harry Ellis Dickson, 94, Violinist and Conductor in Boston". Retrieved January 13, 2017 – via NYTimes.com.

[7] Newspapers.com
.

[8] Warner, Margaret Garrard (May 16, 1988). "Take-Charge Kitty". Newsweek. Vol. 111, no. 20. pp. 30–31.

[9] Milwaukee Sentinel. AP. May 27, 1988. Retrieved August 29, 2012.^{[permanent dead link}
]

[Nytimes1988-08-26-10] "Story on Mrs. Dukakis Is Denied by Campaign". New York Times
. August 26, 1988. Retrieved May 27, 2016. Michael Dukakis's Presidential campaign, responding to comments by Senator Steve Symms, an Idaho Republican, issued a statement Wednesday saying any suggestion that Kitty Dukakis had ever burned an American flag was totally false and beneath contempt.

[MyrtleBeach2004-09-04-11] Susan Estrich (September 4, 2004). "Lies move Democrats to dig up dirt". Myrtle Beach Sun. Archived from the original on September 17, 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2016. Or how about the one about Kitty Dukakis burning a flag at an anti-war demonstration, another out-and-out lie, which the Bush campaign denied having anything to do with, except that it turned out to have come from a United States senator via the Republican National Committee? Atwater later apologized to me for that, too, on his deathbed.

[12] "Kitty Dukakis Recovering". The New York Times. Associated Press. November 11, 1989. Retrieved October 11, 2007.

[13] Seelye, Katharine Q. (December 31, 2016). "Kitty Dukakis, a Beneficiary of Electroshock Therapy, Emerges as Its Evangelist". The New York Times. Retrieved December 31, 2016.

[14] "Kitty Dukakis Treatment Center to Open". Boston University School of Public Health. September 21, 2007. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved October 11, 2007.

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