Jackie Kennedy | 07/06/2009 8:45 am
Kennedy Family Shocker! Book Says Jackie, RFK Had Steamy Affair

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."
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Diane, I am an historian, I am 80 years old, and I am referring back to the fact that OVER 2,000 years ago much propaganda and untruth was told that, even today, people fervently believe to be true. I am trying to draw the picture that IF, today, in this very literate day and age, people propagate and believe so many untruths, than what can we assume about the few who wrote in a period of great illiteracy?
Yo! MaryPage Drake!
What planet are you from?
Literacy: I daresay we as a country were more intelligent in the 60’s and 70’s than the US is today.
The press was all over the Kennedys just like they are the Obamas. If Jackie Kennedy was seen straddling Bobby on a couch, it would have made press somewhere. The Kennedy clan is a political stronghold, but something would have been leaked because they also had many enemies.
It is no secret that Bobby was very protective of Jackie after the assassination, but that doesn’t mean they were romping and rolling.
Actually Maggie, the press in the 1960’s often chose to look the other way when it came to the Kennedys and their antics —
I wonder what the comment about Pierre Salinger disagreeing (present tense) is all about because he died in 2004.
Green Tears wrote: "Another tidbit we could live without!"
For sure.
Am I the only one that thinks this is ‘OLD NEWS"? This has been part of the story on the History Channel documentaries, for heavens’ sake! It is a matter of ‘known alliance’, even fact—not a matter for judgement…..so what!! if they did?