JFK, Jackie joined mile-high club day before his death
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Source: New York Post
Jackie Kennedy had sex with JFK on Air Force One the day before he was assassinated — a “last hour of serenity,” according to historian William Manchester.
But Manchester camouflaged the encounter in his 1967 book, “The Death of a President,” out of discretion, he admitted to me in the mid-1970s.
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“Their life together now had nearly a full day to run. Yet this was to be their last hour of serenity. The tyranny of events and exhaustion would begin to close in when they finished the two-hundred-mile lap to Houston. Actually, they hadn’t even an hour. In this plane the hop took only forty-five minutes. Privacy was that limited, confined to a tiny blue cabin racing 30,000 feet above the tessellated green and brown plains of central Texas . . . Their time was up. The President emerged in a fresh shirt.”
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According to the legal settlement, which gave her and Bobby Kennedy final text approval, extra copies of the original manuscript were destroyed and Manchester agreed to lock up all research materials bearing on Jackie’s objections and return 10 hours of taped interviews to be sealed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
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Read more: http://nypost.com/2013/11/17/jfk-jackie-had-sex-on-air-force-one-day-before-his-death/
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Sweet Jesus, what waste of time and space.
The underlying thesis of the excellent book "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters" is that Kennedy was undergoing a kind of redemption during his last few months on Earth. The catastrophic implications of the Cuban Missile Crisis along with the tragic death of his son Patrick just a few days after his birth seemed to cause a seismic shift in his priorities. It inspired him to be a better President as well as a better husband and father.
The back-channel negotiations that helped to avert nuclear war as well as his extraordinary speech at American University seemed to indicate that JFK was a changed man. Unfortunately, he was also a marked man.
I would think that most presidential couples must have done the same, including the present occupiers of the WH. I see it as normal and nothing that the public needs to know.
