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More than a bromance - the intimate relationship between John F. Kennedy and his gay friend [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 9, 2017 | Jerry Oppenheimer

Posted on 06/09/2017 1:01:59 PM PDT by C19fan

ohn F. Kennedy, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated this year with a Kennedy Centennial postage stamp, TV memorials, a slew of books, and much media coverage, was revered as the 35th president of the United States. But the man married to Jackie Kennedy was quietly chided for his compulsive philandering. The one iconic photo of President John F. Kennedy up close and personal with a woman other than Jackie shows him and his attorney general brother, Robert, coming on to curvaceous Marilyn Monroe at a party. While the photo of Kennedy cozying up to Monroe is the best known of him with one of his purported lovers, other far less public snapshots show the flip side of Kennedy's intimate relationships.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: jfk; jfkbio; jfkfriend; kennedy; lgbt
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To: Vic S

The rumors about JFK being bisexual have been around for quite a while...


41 posted on 06/09/2017 5:04:57 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: jobim
According to SS guys I ran into in the early 70s, Bobby was the real swordsman of the two.
42 posted on 06/09/2017 5:07:39 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Roccus

Him too. These wretched Kennedys.


43 posted on 06/09/2017 5:35:28 PM PDT by jobim
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To: C19fan; null and void; KC_Lion; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; TWhiteBear; WildHighlander57; ...

More than a bromance - the intimate relationship between John F. Kennedy and his gay friend [tr]

Like the rest of the free world, Billings was devastated when President Kennedy was assassinated. The biographer Sally Bedell Smith, referred to Billings in one of her books as 'probably the saddest of the Kennedy widows.'

>>>>And Eleanor Roosevelt had a "special friend". When FDR died he was with his mistress. Eleanor found out he was dead from HER mistress.<<<<

44 posted on 06/09/2017 5:48:54 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: jobim
the sign of a deep moral depravity.

Kennedy. Clinton. These are truly miserable people. Led about like brute beasts by their base passion.

45 posted on 06/09/2017 6:09:51 PM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: C19fan

Back then, the Democrats were the party that was extremely anti-homosexual... And the farther left, the more homophobic.
Homosexuals were J Edgar Hoover and Nazis... and much of the Republican party staff.

It wasn’t until the 70s that Conservatives and Progressives flipped.


46 posted on 06/09/2017 6:22:30 PM PDT by spintreebob
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Back then, the Democrats were the party that was extremely anti-homosexual... And the farther left, the more homophobic.
Homosexuals were J Edgar Hoover and Nazis... and much of the Republican party staff.

It wasn’t until the 70s that Conservatives and Progressives flipped.


47 posted on 06/09/2017 6:23:09 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: LucyT

If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.


48 posted on 06/09/2017 7:13:55 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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