So this kid was born in 1963, about four months before the president was assassinated. At that time, it was referred to as Hyaline Membrane Disease, and this is what the New York Times wrote, and they are usually pretty good with their science, so I think it is eerie how accurate this statement is. They said that "all that can be done for a victim of Hyaline Membrane Disease is to monitor the infant's blood chemistry, and try to keep it near normal levels. Thus, the battle for the Kennedy baby was lost, only because medical science has not yet advanced far enough to accomplish as quickly as necessary what the body can do for itself in its own time." And that's really the key to RDS, is that we just support the baby, and the baby's body finally comes into play and makes the surfactant, and the baby, hopefully, will survive. But that is exactly what needs to happen. But, at the time that this infant was born and died, pediatricians didn't even understand the relationship between surfactant, prematurity and death from respiratory problems.