OMG:  The Pod People will probably be all over this - like flies on horse sh..t.  JFK died in 1963, do we really need to know this or care?  Unless there is something very graphic, I agree it’ll probably be in the $1. bin within weeks.   

I was part of that era…not 105, but…and I must say that I am amazed at the revelations about Jackie. I certainly have not been following the family as I lost interest in it a long time ago, but I did actually think she was classier than that. I read recently that Marlon Brando confessed to a brief affair with her. He certainly had no reason or motivation to lie about such a thing.

That time was much more moralistic  and much more conventionally Judeo Christian than these times. Most people kept their love affairs, if they had them, private. The Kennedys were really larger than life and very emblematic for Americans. Joe Kennedy was maybe the first to politic successfully to break the "ethnic" and religious barrier by having his son elected as the first Irish Catholic US President. It really was a big, groundbreaking event at that time. Their large family, great wealth, daredevil spirit, and succession of incredible tragedies…sudden death, plane crashes, retardation, lobotomies, stillbirths, paralysis, assassinations, murder, drug addiction, brain cancer, and the list goes on…were something approaching Shakespearean, if not as well-written. Their story still is. The Kennedys were our Plantagenets or Tudors. Jackie was an American princess. She was like an American combination of Queen Elizabeth II and Carla Bruni. Who could have possibly guessed that she was more like Carla Bruni than we thought at the time? 

It seemed like anything could have happened in the late 60s. When she was afraid to be in the US, so was I. It was that kind of a time, when things were turning upside down. My life brushed against hers tangentially. I didn’t think a great deal of her personally but I did think she was a good public figure. As for her alleged affair with Bobby, it certainly seems possible. She was a dynastic heiress, sold off to Jack Kennedy because of her background. "Gone With The Wind" also comes to mind. Remember that she had a notoriously philandering father; her last romantic attachment, Maurice Tempelsman, supposedly provided her with a kind of emotional security that she had not had before. It’s true that she was an adulteress; supposedly he could not get a divorce from his wife, but those were the times. Surely if hubris is punished, Jackie got hers swiftly, with fatal brain cancer at a relatively early age, and then her surviving son and his wife dying tragically before any children were born. 

Truman Capote lost his credibilty when he wrote about his "friends" in a horribly derogatory manner. For instance, that Richard Burton didn’t love Elizabeth Taylor and only used her for stardom (Burton’s diary after death refutes that). That Gloria Vanderbilt was a terrible mother to her two younger sons and that Wyatt Cooper was worried about this (I’m sure Anderson Cooper would refute this, they’re very close and always have been).

The other "sources," Gore Vidal (his mother had previously been married to Jacki’s step-father) and Morton Downey, Jr. seem suspect too.

But again, like some of the comments say, who cares?

Yawn !

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