[calcowgirl]

DID HE HONEYMOON IN PARIS OR JAMAICA??

FYI, here is the text of Kerry's wedding announcement in the NY Times (text reproduced from copy made of microfilm at public library)

The New York Times, Sunday, May 24, 1970, p. 78

John Kerry Weds Miss Julia Thorne
Special to the New York Times

BAY SHORE, L. I., May 23 -- Miss Julia Stimson Thorne, whose ancestors helped to shape the American Republic in its early days, and John Forbes Kerry, who wants to help steer it back from what he considers a wayward course, were married here this afternoon at the 200 acre Thorne family estate.

Some 250 guests attended the ceremony amid the flowering dogwood, tulips, lilacs, azaleas and rhododendron of the Umberto Innocenti-designed gardens overlooking the Great South Bay. Msgr. Eugene V. Clark of St. Patrick's Cathedral performed the ceremony, assisted by the bride's stepgrandfather, the Rev. Charles Leslie Glenn, assistant dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of S. S. Peter and Paul (National Cathedral).

The bride wore a cream-colored wedding gown, first worn two centuries ago in the wedding of her ancestors, Catherine Peartree-Smith and Elias Boudinot 4th, who served as president of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation. Alexander Hamilton was best man at that wedding and among those present was George Washington.

Whether today's wedding becomes a similar footnote to history may depend on the bridegroom, a graduate of Yale and a veteran of the Vietnam war, who is considering running for Congress from his native Massachusetts.

Mr. Kerry, who criticized the fundamentals of American foreign 'policy as class orator at the 1966 Yale graduation exercises, said he joined the Navy and went to Vietnam because he wanted to study that policy first hand.

There, he earned the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the Combat Action Ribbon and three Purple Hearts as the commander of a patrol boat on the rivers of the Mekong Delta.

He recently discussed his conclusions over network television when he offered views opposing Herbert Klein, the Nixon Administration's director of communications, on the Dick Cavett Show.

Following the customs of Italy, where the bride has made her home, the couple had witnesses instead of honor attendants and a best man. The bride's witnesses were her brother, Landon. Ketchum Thorne 3d, and Count Guiseppe Cigala-Fulgosi; and the bridegroom's were his brother, Cameron Forbes Kerry, and the bride's brother, David Hoadley Thorne, a Yale classmate, who introduced the couple during a Long Island visit several years ago.

Mrs. Kerry is the daughter of Mrs. Alice Barry Thorne of Rome, and Mr. Thorne Jr., a former minister of economics to Italy and; the Benelux countries, who published The Rome Daily American. A former banker in New York, he now manages the family's investments from a Wall Street office.

The bride is a granddaughter of Mrs. Thorne, who owns the estate, and the late Mr. Thorne, a utilities underwriter and banker, who was a managing partner and helmsman of the Whirlwind and unsuccessful America's Cup contender in 1930.

The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kerry of Groton, Mass., where his father, a retired Foreign Service officer, is a lawyer. He is the grandson of Mrs. James Grant Forbes of St. Briac, France, and the late Mr. Forbes, an international lawyer and banker in Boston, London and Paris.

Mrs. Kerry, who, was a member of the Junior Assemblies in 1962, was graduated from Foxcroft and attended the New York School of Interior Design. Her husband was graduated from St. Paul's. After a wedding trip to Jamaica, the couple will live in Massachusetts.

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Photo Caption: Mr.and Mrs. John Forbes Kerry, who were married on Long Island yesterday. She was Julia Stimson Thorne.

[politicket]

John Kerry's anti-American foreign policy views apparently began long before he served in Vietnam.

Kerry's biographer, Douglas Brinkley, told Franklin Foer in The New Republic, "So much of his foreign policy worldview comes straight from Richard Kerry," John Kerry's father.

Foer notes how John Kerry's father sent him to a Swiss boarding school (that explains a lot) and never visited him. Discussions about foreign policy were apparently the only subject about which the two could converse. "It allowed them to break through an emotional wall," Brinkley says. "They talked about foreign policy the way most fathers and sons talk about football."

Former Kerry aid Jonathan Winer notes, "I saw two people talking about policy very seriously with unexpressed affection."

Richard Kerry, a veteran of the Foreign Service, published his views on foreign policy - criticizing America and its national character - in a book titled "The Star-Spangled Mirror" in 1990, at the age of 75.

The elder Kerry wrote that America's "fatal error" was "propagating democracy" and succumbing to "the siren's song of promoting human rights."

Richard Kerry lambastes the U.S. in his book for "lecturing" America's allies in Europe "about the horrors of communism."

"When Kerry refused to speak out against the government [while in uniform], suddenly his father felt like he was being a wimp," says Brinkley. "[So he] encouraged his son to take off the uniform and to become a critic."

Foer observes that Kerry's greater concerns for Europe over the U.S. "aren't just deeply felt; they're in his blood."

[The Shrew]

You have to look at this one for the timeline!

Regards,

TS

[cgk]

Nice find...

Mr. Kerry, who criticized the fundamentals of American foreign 'policy as class orator at the 1966 Yale graduation exercises, said he joined the Navy and went to Vietnam because he wanted to study that policy first hand.

Oh is that why he went? Nothing to do with his 5th deferment to study in Paris being turned down? What a joke.

[Congressman Billybob]

It's been documented elsewhere on FR in the last two days that Kerry made TWO trips to Paris ti meet with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. One was in 1970, before he got married. The second was after his first marriage, but per your post it was not "on his honeymoon" because that wasn't in Paris.

So it was established that Kerry lied twice on this subject. The small lie was what brought him to Paris in 1971. The larger lie was in concealing his prior, 1970 trip to Paris to meet with the communists.

Congressman Billybob

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