Posted on 02/15/2008 10:05:57 AM PST by MississippiMan
A Houston businessman now living in Canada claims he's President John F. Kennedy's love child — and he wants the Kennedy clan to help him prove it.
Jack Worthington, 46, who bears a striking resemblance to the assassinated leader, has appealed to the Kennedys to provide DNA from the former president or from males directly related to JFK's father, Joe Kennedy.
A spokeswoman for the Kennedys didn't return calls for comment.
Worthington didn't say why he came forward now but insists he isn't out for financial gain. He told a Canadian television station, "I would sign an agreement with the Kennedys immediately in which I agree not to pursue any financial remuneration from the JFK estate whatsoever."
He added he intends to reveal information that could have a "potentially profound impact" — but gave no details.
Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963 — Worthington's second birthday. That means Worthington would have been conceived a few weeks after JFK was inaugurated in 1961.
He said Kennedy was introduced to his mother by Lyndon B. Johnson, Kennedy's vice president, but would give no details about his mom.
A dark-haired woman in her late 60s who answered the door at his mother's two-story brick home in Houston refused to talk to reporters and shouted, "Go away, I don't want you here. I'm calling the police."
Bad news for Obama, the latest inductee to Camelot.
TTIWWP!
Love child,always second best
Love child,different from the rest
This could be the Jefferson-Hemings controversy redux. If the guy’s Y chromosome matches that of a straight-line male descendant of Joe Kennedy it would prove that his father was a Kennedy, but it wouldn’t necessarily be JFK-—it could be Bobby or fat Teddy or whomever; similarly, the descendants of Sally Hemings have the Jefferson Y chromosome, but the person who had children with Hemings was more likely to be Thomas Jefferson’s brother Randolph than the President himself. Of course, if the guy’s mother really did have a relationship with JFK but never met the other Kennedys, then a positive Y-chromosome match could indeed be dispositive.
Not quite answering the article, but just had to say...JFK was ONE good looking dude.
If this guy looks like JFK, I look like Clint Eastwood!!!
This story has been posted everyday this week, but your side by side photos are the best yet. Thanks.
I see a little bit of JFK- but in looking at photos of Joe Sr- there really is a strong resemblance.
This guy looks like JFK. Hiya Clint!
You can bet your bippy fat teddy will do everything in his power to NOT prove this guy is JFK’s child.....teddy will payoff whomever he needs to in order to prove it isn’t so....wait and see if the dna tests prove he’s not a kennedy.......kennedy’s are very slick........
How come these folks lways say they’re somebodies “love child”?
I never once heard somebody claim to be somebodies “horndog child”!
How about “Lust Child?”
About the same time (late 60's) my next-door neighbor had a friend who was having an affair with Dan Rather.
BTW, I lived at Chateau DiJon; later "W" and Laura lived there at the same time but didn't know each other.
And horndog is usually the more apt description!Love ain’t got nothing to do with it.
Just his socks?
MM (in TX)
Hey, I was a frequent visitor at Chateau Dijon at that time, too, but didn’t live there. My boyfriend did, as did his two best friends and one of my female friends. *waving to you now, in case I didn’t then*
At least JFK had the grace not to do it in the Oval Office.
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