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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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Diane Moore
I am not for sure what your age is, but this was not that long ago.  To say very few human beings were even literate is about the most incorrect statement I have ever heard.  Maybe you are referring to 3rd world countries…please consider studying an issue before you make bogus statements.
By Diane Moore on 07/06/2009 11:30 am
MaryPage Drake

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?

By MaryPage Drake on 07/06/2009 12:39 pm
Washington  Cube
Perfectly voiced and even returns to the subject of Herstory.  If men were recording events of the time from a "out in the world" man’s perspective, then what would the unspoken woman’s be?  I think anyone who reads history, as I do, knows you have to put the information into the perspective of it’s time.  And, as you say, Mary, a huge portion of history was a history of illiteracy.  The church did the reporting. Even poor Shakespeare was bowderlized for a time.
By Washington Cube on 07/06/2009 7:12 pm
phyllis Doyle Pepe
Diane: I think you are misreading Mary’s post. She started out with the Kennedys’ but then veered off to a much more philosophical  discussion. Mary doesn’t comment on this board very often, but when she does she makes an impact. Please re-read and I think "bogus" will be tossed in with much else that is in the dust bin of history––or perhaps should be, but isn’t.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 07/06/2009 12:40 pm
Andrea Brandon

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.

By Andrea Brandon on 07/07/2009 1:50 am
Mignon Grey
Many people find comfort with close friends and family members as they go through the grieving process.  Affairs are common, and I know several people who married their late spouse’s sibling.
By Mignon Grey on 07/06/2009 10:21 am
Maggie W

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. 

By Maggie W on 07/06/2009 10:29 am
Lucinda Herbert

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.

By Lucinda Herbert on 07/08/2009 1:53 pm
Tee Zee
No I don’t think its true or very credible.  Greedy and hurtful for sure, but not credible, and not worth my time.
By Tee Zee on 07/06/2009 10:33 am
Green Tears
Another tidbit we could live without!
By Green Tears on 07/06/2009 11:59 am
Andrea Brandon

Green Tears wrote:  "Another tidbit we could live without!"

For sure.

By Andrea Brandon on 07/07/2009 1:52 am
Patty E

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? 

 

By Patty E on 07/06/2009 10:59 am
Diane Moore
This has been common knowledge for a long time, so I don’t get the ‘Shocker’ synopsis.  Everyone knows that the marriage between JFK and Jackie was a shame…you would have thought she would have had better since than to consort with someone of like nature, morals, and attitudes towards what women are meant for.  But then, Jackie was never a moralist either, but manipulative and out for what was going to get Jackie the most.
By Diane Moore on 07/06/2009 11:23 am
Barbara B
When will we ever stop talking about the Kennedy’s.  The tragic ending to many of the family members and all their money still could not find them peace.  Leave the family alone and more importatnly America does not care.
By Barbara B on 07/06/2009 12:14 pm
michelle larson mundell
A.  They are both dead and can’t speak for themselves.  B.  If this is true, it was more than 40 years ago, and again they are both dead, so what?  C.  Do not buy this book, it is the second book about jackie this rag mag type has written, he doesn’t need to make any more money on someone who is dead.
By michelle larson mundell on 07/06/2009 12:18 pm