For many years, biographers, theorists and Kennedy household fanatics have alleged that Jackie Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy had an affair after the 1963 assassination of then-president John F. Kennedy. The friendship that shaped between JFK’s youthful brother and his heartbroken widow has usually been misconstrued as one thing extra and although we might by no means know the reality, a brand new e book is not less than sharing how the rumors performed out behind closed doorways within the Kennedy household’s many mansions.
Jackie: Public, Personal, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli particulars a trip Bobby and Jackie took alongside her sister, Lee, and Lee’s husband Stas Radzwill to a good friend’s dwelling in Antigua. One among JFK’s faculty buddies, Charles Spaulding, was additionally current. He tells Taraborrelli that the journey was removed from a cheerful, beachside getaway. He says: “All of us felt like survivors of a catastrophe — specifically Jack’s homicide.”
“Nobody was in his proper thoughts. Jackie and Bobby had been remarkably shut, studying Greek literature and taking lengthy walks, holding fingers, on the seashore,” Spaulding says. In keeping with the e book, Bobby’s political ambitions had been ramping up and he mentioned plans to run for senate in New York. Jackie reportedly authorised however begged him to by no means run for president.
Whereas Bobby and Jackie had been in Antigua, his spouse Ethel Kennedy was in Vermont with their eight kids whereas anticipating their ninth. In keeping with Taraborrelli, Bobby simply wished to be with Jackie as he discovered no consolation in his spouse within the aftermath of his brother’s dying. Thus, the affair rumors started.
Ethel allegedly discovered the rumors worrying. Taraborrelli writes that the 2 girls had usually struggled to get alongside and Ethel knew that if it wasn’t for the truth that their husbands had been brothers, they could by no means have had something to do with each other. Taraborrelli lists plenty of incidents between the 2 girls, together with one during which Ethel referred to as her sister-in-law “the identical previous egocentric Jackie Kennedy.” Nevertheless, the writer does say even Ethel knew an affair between Bobby and Jackie was implausible.
Taraborrelli talked to Jackie’s youthful brother, Jamie Auchincloss, who claimed Ethel was direct with Jackie concerning the rumors. “She stated, ‘Look persons are whispering about you and Bobby,’” Auchincloss, now 76, is quoted as saying. “Jackie was mortified and stated she would by no means do one thing like that, and that was the top of it. Ethel believed her.”
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