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Jackie Kennedy | 07/06/2009 8:45 am

Kennedy Family Shocker! Book Says Jackie, RFK Had Steamy Affair

New book that uses Kennedy confidants, FBI and Secret Service evidence, says soon after JFK’s death, his wife took up with his brother.
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
RFK/Jackie Kennedy Images: Wikipedia/Wikipedia

It seems we never get tired of hearing news about America’s closest thing to royalty — the Kennedys. But today there’s scandalous news that could fuel your appetite even more for tidbits of the country’s most iconic family.

The New York Post has an exclusive story today on how a new book claims that Jackie Kennedy had a four-year affair with Bobby Kennedy — John F. Kennedy’s brother — soon after her husband’s assassination, and that "everybody knew about the affair." RFK, who was married and father of 11 kids, was Jackie O.’s "true love," according to the book Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, written by author C. David Heymann, who spent almost 20 years scouring old FBI and Secret Service files, among other items, for evidence to include in his book. He also quotes people like the late Franklin Roosevelt Jr., who served in JFK’s Cabinet; Arthur Schlesinger; Gore Vidal; Truman Capote; and Morton Downey Jr.

Some of the other scandalous charges: It was Jackie, not RFK’s wife, Ethel, who told doctors to take RFK off life support after he was shot; the pair were seen kissing and touching in Palm Beach during Christmas 1964; a Commerce Department official saw Bobby and Jackie on the couch together, with her straddling him, in July 1966.

Meanwhile, historians and experts are weary of Heymann’s tome, saying that portions of the book are attributed to only a single source and claims are unreliable. One of the book’s disbelievers include Pierre Salinger — Kennedy’s White House Press Secretary — who says the tales are total "bull."

Click here to read more about this explosive story. Do you think it’s true?!

 

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C Hardy
If its true, does it really matter? 
By C Hardy on 07/06/2009 8:58 am
Laura Ward
Right!
By Laura Ward on 07/06/2009 1:10 pm
Patti Riotto

I am always amazed at these tell-all books that are written after the book’s subjects are dead.

One could write anything and there are few or no one to dispute it.

By Patti Riotto on 07/07/2009 5:46 pm
Kelly In Texas
Who cares? All of these powerful men just can’t seem to keep their pants up….what’s new?
By Kelly In Texas on 07/09/2009 10:17 pm
Deirdre Cerasa
I am probably going to sound as though I am either 5 years old or 105 years old; but why?  I don’t think there is anyone who does not know that the Kennedy men and women had affairs.  In my opinion it serves no earthly purpose to write yet another book about these affairs.  I am not expressing approval; I just think it is unnecessary.  I feel this way about most of these so called tell-all books and the news reports about various politicians and celebreties.  I know the horse left the barn on all this a very long time ago but enough.  I also know that I do not have to purchase or read any of these books.  I am not sticking my head in the sand either, just wonder why?  By the way, I am neither 5 nor 105.
By Deirdre Cerasa on 07/06/2009 9:08 am
newzie snoozie

DEIRDRE,   BLESS YOU  YOU FEEL THE WAY I ODWHEN JOHN KENDWAS SHOT I HAD JUST HAD MY 5TH CHILD A BOYHE  IS TURNIGN  46 YEARS OLD AND THTA IS ALMOST 1/2 A CENTURY OLD.!!!!!!!! 

DID THE MAN THTA WENT  UP IN THE ROCKET HAVE SEX WITH ANYONE THAT  WEEK BEFOR HE WENT OFF? BETTER STILL DID HE GO OFF WHEN HE SAW  OUTERSPACE?

WORDS  THAT IS ALL IT ISBUT  IT HAPPENED 1/2 A CENTURY AGO. WHAT MATTERS PEOPEL.?

THEN WE HAVE "POOR BILL CLINTONTHAT POSITIVELY  HAD THE  UNITED STATES  BACK IN THE RED MONEY WISE AND  HE GOT IMPEACHED ABOUT  OUT OF  OFFICEHE NEVER INSERTED ANYTHING OF HIS  DID HE?    WHO CARES  HE IS  JUST NEEDED BACK TO HELP O’BAMA  GET THE MONEY FIXED  UP AGAINOR COULD HE ??? IT IS  IN SUCH A PITYFUL MESSIS BILL THE LAST OF THE GOOD ALMOST SEXIEST MEN IN AMERICAWHAT HAD HILLARY DOEN RECENTLY ? IS SOMEONE GONNA WRITE A BOOK AND TELL US SHE DID  HAVE SEX AND ETC??????????B.S. PEOPLE  !  GO SPEND THE LOOSE DOLLARS FOR SOEMOEN TO WRITE A NASTY BOOK FOR  YOU SO YOU CAN FEEL IMPORTANT TOO!!1  WHERE  DID IT PUT THEM.   D  E  A  D !!!  REMEMBER !!!! DUMB  ONES IN THIS WORLD

By newzie snoozie on 07/06/2009 8:59 pm
Chrome Toe
I absolutely love biographical books but am super choosy about the ones i read. I prefer autobiographies and really hate when biographies are written without the participation of the person they are about.
By Chrome Toe on 07/06/2009 9:15 am
Deena B.
Actually I remember hearing this claim awhile back.  I can’t pinpoint where, probably another Kennedy biography.  Do I think it’s true?  I don’t know.  I don’t think any of the Kennedy marriages were made in heaven, so anything is possible.  But I don’t take it as gospel either.
By Deena B. on 07/06/2009 9:21 am
MK P

I had the same reaction, Deena — this is old news — it was "exposed" in some other biography or maybe in Vanity Fair.  =)   So, I doubt it is a Kennedy "shocker".

By MK P on 07/06/2009 10:29 am
S G

Greed for profit is alive and well.Who knows they are both dead and gone. The only persons I see this affecting would be Ethel and the children and granchildren of Jackie and Robert. Personally I could care less.

By S G on 07/06/2009 9:27 am
phyllis Doyle Pepe
Love among the ruins once again. Heymann hopes he has a literary chestnut, but it looks more like another salted peanut to me.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 07/06/2009 9:55 am
Mary Quite-Contrary
American royalty!?! Iconic!?! Yet another “tell all” about long deceased; public figures. I think the blush is waaaay off the Kennedy rose…and America’s “obcession” has moved on. How long til any of us see this tome at the Doillar Store?
By Mary Quite-Contrary on 07/06/2009 9:59 am
phyllis Doyle Pepe
Well, Mary, this book might be among the many at the dollar store, but the Kennedys’ will be forever part of the American story. They were and are an integral part of this country, just as many of our "long deceased public figures" have been. I think perhaps the only blush that has vanished is the one on the real Rose.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 07/06/2009 12:49 pm
Deirdre Cerasa
SG  I wholeheartedly agree about Ethel, the children and grandchildren.  The endless speculation is exhausting.  Hope Heymann’s greed equals nothing! Let these people and many others who had the spotlight at one time rest in peace, please!
By Deirdre Cerasa on 07/06/2009 10:06 am
MaryPage Drake

I do not believe one word of it.  I believe Robert Kennedy, in typical Kennedy fashion, gave Jackie and her children his full emotional and tactical support because of his love, first, for his fallen brother and second for his family as a whole.  Period.

But the lies, myths, controversies and conspiracies prevalent in all of our communication highways of today should make inner eyes open for everyone and people question places where our own national histories differ remarkably from those of other nations (and research with an eye to reconciling those differences) and make them question the dependence of religious faiths upon writings often penned many decades, if not hundreds of years, after the described events supposedly took place or the quoted words supposedly were spoken.

Considering the many errors, mistakes, and inventions throughout our newsways during these days of instant communication, one can but wonder at the reality of facts written down long after their alleged occurrence in an age of no technology when very, very few human beings were even literate!  Thank about it!

 

 

By MaryPage Drake on 07/06/2009 10:20 am