JFK-1963

It’s the beginning of a new year, and JFK is looking forward to a much better year than 1962. He barely survived both the Berlin and Cuban Crises. He was outfoxed by Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro. He’s still married to Jackie, but just barely. But it’s not all bad. He still maintains a healthy stock of young and willing women to have sex with, which appears to be the most important thing in the world to JFK.

The Kennedy family spends the holidays in sunny Florida.

On New Year’s day, JFK is still on his Christmas vacation in Florida, and there’s no better way to bring in the New Year than go to a college football bowl game. He goes to the Orange Bowl.

JFK and family spend their vacation time playing golf and cruising on the presidential yacht Honey Fitz, but troubling news will arrive before they return to Washington on January 8.

Before the Christmas vacation ends, JFK will receive news of a major setback in Vietnam.

The Battle of Ap Bac takes place while JFK is in Florida on Vacation. This is the first defeat for the U.S. backed South Vietnam forces. The battle results in heavy casualties for the South Vietnamese troops who have American assistance and planning. This battle reveals the poor performance in both fighting ability and spirit of the South Vietnamese compared to their rival, the Viet Cong.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The famous painting’s visit to the U.S. is the result of Jackie Kennedy’s performance in Paris during JFK’s visit with Prime Minister Charles De Gaulle the previous year.

JFK hosts the Presidential Prayer Breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel along with the Reverend Billy Graham. Mary Meyer, one of JFK’s former girlfriends, is his unofficial invited guest awaiting him in his suite for some sexual pleasure.

Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration. All financial transactions between the U.S. and Cuba cease at this time. The CIA’s domestic operations division is created, and now the government can spy on U.S. citizens as part of their overreach.

It’s about this same time that JFK becomes involved with Ellen Rometsch, a 27 year old East German beauty who turns out to be a communist spy.

Bill Thompson, is a railroad lobbyist and an intimate friend of President Kennedy, Thompson is a wealthy bachelor and is privy to many of the secrets of Kennedy’s love life. Thompson discovers Rometsch at the Quorum Club and asks Baker about her. Baker tells him, “She’s a very lovely party girl who always wears beautiful clothes. She has good manners, and she is very accommodating. She is a real joy to be with,” says Baker.

According to Baker, he often arranges for women to meet politicians, including Kennedy. Baker says Kennedy likes sharing the details of his conquests and comes off as something of a boyish showoff.

That is not the only time they are together. She sees him on other occasions that go on for a while in the White House. Baker then tells Lyndon B. Johnson about Kennedy’s relationship with Rometsch. Details of the affair reach J. Edgar Hoover who waits, watches and takes notes.

Working in a call-girl ring out of the Quorum Club, Ellen attends naked pool parties at the White House in the spring of 1963. To the dismay of the Secret Service, Ellen goes to the White House on more than one occasion, even though she has not been cleared by the Secret Service. She is not even searched before she enters. It is a terrible breach of security, but JFK is so hot for Ellen that he throws caution to the wind.

At this point, Hoover has the goods on not only JFK but also a number of other important congressmen and politicians in the inner circle of Washington movers and shakers. The Kennedy presidency at this time is on the verge of collapsing from his reckless sex dalliances.

The Kennedys have their sixth and what would be their final dinner dance at the White House on Friday, March 8, 1963. Although Kennedy appears to be in a “lighthearted mood” at the dance, something goes awry with Mary Meyer that night.

Mary’s date is Blair Clark, JFK’s old friend from Harvard. At some point in the evening, Mary simply disappears for a half an hour in one of the upstairs bedrooms with JFK, and then she goes walking out in the snow. Whether Kennedy tries to break it off with Meyer that night is unknown.

At dinner, Jackie startles Adlai Stevenson, her dinner partner, by confiding that she and her sister, Lee, “always talk about divorce as something to look forward to.” Jackie also tells Stevenson “I first loved you,” when she and Stevenson met back in Illinois just after she married Jack.

In the case of Gideon V. Wainwright, The Supreme Court of the United States rules that state courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who cannot afford to pay their own attorneys.

FBI director J.Edgar Hoover does not contact the Secret Service nor the President about the Marcello conversation. However, Hoover does confer with his good friend and next door neighbor, Vice President Lyndon Johnson. They both conclude that it’s just mobster B.S., because the conversation is about a “cunt” as the hit man.

JFK goes to Costa Rica without Jackie for a meeting of Central American Presidents. He takes Fiddle and Faddle along to have extra sex while he’s away from the White House. Of course, the American taxpayers pick up the tab for this and other JFK dalliances. But he’s used to having whatever he wants, regardless of the cost. After all, it’s not coming out of his pocket.

JFK is in Chicago for the dedication at O’hare Airport. He makes a speech at the Conrad Hilton Hotel and is back in Camp David by 7 p.m. that same evening. He spends Sunday the 24th at Camp David.

JFK and Jackie host a dinner for King Hassan II in the White House.

JFK takes time out to be with his children on the back lawn of the the White House.

The 35th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles.

Thousands of black people, many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Public Safety Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor later unleashes fire hoses and police dogs on the demonstrators.

Fidel Castro visits the Soviet Union asking for financial assistance for his impoverished Cuba.

Jackie arranges a dinner cruise on the Potomac with two dozen guests aboard the Sequoia. Friends and family included Bobby and Ethel Kennedy, Sarge and Eunice Shriver, the Bartletts, the Bradlees, and Mary Meyer, as well as British actor David Niven and his wife, Hjordis.

A three-piece band plays mostly twist music that Jackie keeps requesting for the dancers. “It was a wild party,” Tony Bradlee recalls “People shouting and laughing.” David Niven is “whispering in my ear all night, three sheets to the wind,” says Martha Bartlett. “I loved it!” Everyone is “more or less drenched,” Ben Bradlee recalls. Teddy Kennedy is “the wettest,” and during some “fairly strenuous Kennedy games,” he loses the entire left leg of his trousers—“ripped off at the crotch,” Niven recalls, “with white underpants on the port side flashing.”

But it’s Jack himself who misbehaves in an especially reckless fashion. With Jackie nearby, not to mention Mary Meyer, he zeroes in on Tony Bradlee. “Oh, Jack, you know you always say that Tony is your ideal,” Jackie jokingly says “Yes, that’s true,” J.F.K. replies, pausing before adding, “You’re my ideal, Jacqueline.” Twice since then Kennedy urges Tony to join him on state visits to Europe at the end of June. Both times she refuses. Several hours into the birthday cruise, as Tony makes her way to the bathroom, she realizes Jack is following her. “He chases her all around the boat,” she recalls. “All laughing. I am running and laughing as he chases me. He caught up with me in the ladies’ room and made a pass. It was a pretty strenuous attack, not as if he pushes me down, but his hands wander. I said, “That’s it, so long.” Tony said Kennedy was not that drunk.

“The atmosphere probably influenced Jack’s chase,” she later recalls. “I guess I was pretty surprised, but I was kind of flattered, and appalled too.” Tony would eventually tell Ben, but not until much later. She never told Mary Meyer.

JFK is in Palm Beach for Easter vacation. Jack visits his father Joe and cruises on the Honey Fitz. He returns to Washington on the 17th at 5:30pm. Jackie is not with him at this time. She stays at the farm in Glen Ora.

JFK meets actor Cliff Robertson in the Oval Office.

JFK and Jackie at Camp David.

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JFK meets with Danny Thomas in the White House.

JFK and Jackie host a state dinner for the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

The Coca-Cola Company introduces its first diet drink, Tab cola.

JFK goes to Camp David without Jackie. He brings along Pamela Turnure in case extra secretarial work is needed while he’s alone in bed.

JFK meets with J. Edgar Hoover at the White House at 10:30 am.

Jackie meets up with JFK at Camp David.

JFK returns to the White House alone and makes a radio address concerning the race riots in Birmingham, Alabama.

JFK goes to Nashville for the opening of the Cordell Hull Dam project on the Cumberland River.

He travels on to Alabama to visit the Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville and then back to Camp David by 8:00 pm with Jackie along for the ride.

JFK arrives at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC for a Democratic Fund Raising Dinner. He stays at the Carlyle Hotel that evening. Mimi Beardsley is waiting for his nooky call two floors down from his suite. She doesn’t have to wait long.

JFK flies from the White House to Rattlesnake Mountain to meet up with Jackie then on to Camp David. The First Family then goes back to White House on Monday, May 27.

Memorial Day festivities are arranged for JFK.

The First Family then flies on to Camp David. Later that evening, JFK is back in the White House alone.

President John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order 11110, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue silver certificates.

JFK flies from DC to Colorado Springs to the Air Force Academy for graduation exercises, then tours NORAD. Afterwards he then flies to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. He ends the day in El Paso and stays at the Cortez Hotel.

JFK flies from El Paso to San Diego where he inspects the USS Oriskany and the USS Kitty Hawk. He spends the night on the USS Kitty Hawk.

JFK finishes the inspection of military installations and ends up at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles for a fund raising dinner with Jack Benny

JFK spends the Day at Peter Lawford’s beach house then leaves in the evening on a flight to Honolulu, arriving there the following morning.

JFK visits the USS Arizona and leaves in the evening for Washington D.C.

President John F. Kennedy delivers his American University speech, “A Strategy of Peace,” in Washington, D.C. President John F. Kennedy also signs the Equal Pay Act into law.

In Saigon,a Buddhist monk commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Ngo Dinh Diem administration.

Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in the door of the University of Alabama to protest against integration, before stepping aside and allowing black students James Hood and Vivian Malone to enroll.

Medgar Evers is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi. Time? JFK meet with Eisenhower and LFB then the next day with Truman.

JFK travels to West Virginia for a quick campaign trip..

Establishment of the Direct Communications Link, or DCL, unofficially the “red telephone” and in fact a teleprinter link is authorized by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States on this day.

JFK flies to Camp David with Jackie and family then at 9:45pm he departs for Bonn Germany.

It is probably no surprise that the dates chosen by the Kennedy administration for this trip to Germany are directly connected with the events, 15 years prior…The Berlin Airlift.

Gen. Lucius D. Clay, in his role as U.S. military governor of occupied Germany, orders the airlift to begin.

In the following 324 days, the U.S. military transports some 1,783,573 tons of supplies at a cost to the American taxpayer of some $137,177,427. The U.S. Air Force manages some 277,570 flights. The British transports another 542,236 tons at a cost of £5,850,000.

For the first time in history, military air transport is successfully used as a diplomatic weapon. More importantly, the airlift costs the lives of 31 American and 39 British Soldiers and Airmen, along with nine German workers, connected with this operation, underscoring Western resolve to remain in Berlin.

No visit to Germany by any political representative would be so emotionally remembered as that of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in June 1963. During the short trip, he speaks directly to the German population, offering the courage and support of the American people. The German population admires this young American president.

Kennedy is greeted like a rock star, and his popularity remains unmatched. Millions of Germans line the streets in each of the cities in an attempt to gain a glimpse of this American president.
The visit of JFK marks a highlight in German/American relations.

First stop on JFK’s trip to Germany is in Bonn. His flight lands a 9:50am and he is greeted by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer

JFK returns to the Palais Schaumburg for more meetings with Chancellor Adenauer and the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Heinrich Luebke. He attends a Peace Corp ceremony at Villa Hammerschmidt. Later that evening JFK hosts a dinner for Chancellor Adenauer at the American Embassy.

JFK if flown via helicopter from Bonn to Hannau, Germany to the Fliegerhorst Kaserne base. Here he reviews the 3rd Armored Division V Corp and has lunch with the American troops.

After lunch JFK motors to Frankfurt where he signs the Golden Book and addresses the crowd assembled in Roemerberg Square. Then on to Frankfurt Stadium to take the helicopter to Wiesbaden, Germany.
JFK lands on the east lawn of the hotel General Von Steuben. Where a state dinner is planned the afterward JFK returns to his hotel at the General Von Steuben.

The following day he departs from Wiesbaden Air Base for Berlin.

JFK leaves Wiesbaden and flies to Berlin arriving at Tegel Airport. German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1867-1967) invites Kennedy to visit Berlin when he hears of the president’s planned trip to Italy. Adenauer is 87 years old, while Kennedy is the youngest president elected in the history of the United States and is only 46 years old at the time. After the normal greeting ceremony at the airport, JFK motors to the Congress Hall.

Afterward the President tours the Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie.

He is impressed seeing the Berlin Wall firsthand; a wall which will divide families for more than 30 years — some 136 individuals lose their lives while attempting to escape.
His visit to Berlin, emphasizes America’s support for a city, which only recently is walled in by the East Germans. The West Berlin population is concerned whether the Americans will remain in their city and if Americans will defend their interests and stand up to the Russians?

Kennedy realizes the importance of the situation in Berlin, and decides to improvise from his original speech. His speech on the steps of the Schöneberger City Hall, which ends with the words “Ich bin ein Berliner,” will make him immortal.
Kennedy underscores the importance of his visit and support to a city recently divided by a wall. Kennedy manages, with these words, to impart a feeling of personal responsibility for a people’s fate. It is also a statement that the Soviets understand all too well.
After lunch JFK visits the Free University and addresses the audience.

Afterwards he reviews the US troops at the Headquarters on Clayallee. He addresses the troops. At 5pm JFK departs West Berlin for Dublin, Ireland.

John F. Kennedy, an Irish-American and the first Catholic to become president of the United States, arrives in Ireland for a visit.

JFK travels from Ireland to England at 3:25pm

JFK travels from England to Italy arriving at 5:45pm

At 10am JFK meets with Pope Paul VI….he’s back at the White House on July 3rd.

Attorney General Robert Kennedy is informed by J. Edgar Hoover of the planned investigation into the Ellen Rometsch affair with the president. The FBI agents question Rometsch about her past. They come to the conclusion that she is probably a Soviet spy.

Ellen ends up to be real trouble for JFK.

JFK goes to Hyannis Port to spend time with Jackie & family cruising on the Honey Fitz. & visiting Squaw Island. back in the WH by July 8th.

JFK takes an evening cruise with Paul Fay on the Sequoia at 7;30pm until Midnight. Paul has brought two young females to join them on the late night cruise.

JFK goes to Hyannis Port with Paul Fay to play golf then an afternoon cruising on the Namad. This time Paul has brought along two different young females.

JFK flies to Hyannis Port to be with Jackie and family for the christening of Bobby’s son Christopher. The men play golf and motor to Squaw Island. Kennedy visits with his father and takes in a weekend cruise on the Honey Fitz with Jackie & Peter Lawford.

A high school student and delegate to the American Legion Boys Nation, travels from Hot Springs, Arkansas to meet President John F. Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden. Knowing that his music talent would never be as great as John Coltrane nor have the ability to be a physician like Michael DeBakey, he decides to go into public service. His name is Bill Clinton.

JFK addresses the nation on TV about a nuclear test ban treaty with Russia. The treaty will ban against nuclear testing in the atmosphere and. They motor to Squaw Island residence.

On Wednesday morning, Jackie goes into labor five and a half weeks early while visiting Cape Cod. In minutes she is in a helicopter flying to the hospital at Otis Air Force Base in Hyannis Port where she delivers a 4 pound, 10½ ounce boy, Patrick, whose tiny body quivers as he tries to breathe.

Seventeen minutes after he is alerted about Jackie’s condition, Kennedy is en route to the Cape with Nancy Tuckerman, Pierre Salinger, and Pamela Turnure, Jackie’s press secretary. But after 39 hours, little Patrick loses his battle for life. “The death of the infant is one of the hardest moments in the lives of both President and Mrs. Kennedy. JFK’s press secretary Pierre Salinger recalls. “The White House brought about a closeness in their relationship, a wider understanding of one another. The death of their baby brought them even closer.” JFK stays with Jackie until August 12.

JFK and Dave Powers fly back to Hyannis Port to see Jackie & his father. Then back to White House the following day. Aug 15th.

After arriving back at the White House, from seeing Jackie and Joe Kennedy, JFK and Dave Powers are joined by Fiddle, Faddle and Mimi Beardsley in the “Nooky Room” After swimming a bit, Kennedy tells Mimi that Dave Powers looks a little stressed. Mimi later says she thinks it was a dare and she knew exactly what it meant.

Mimi Beardsley and JFK have their last sexual encounter though she still keeps working at the White House and continues seeing the president in private. She marries in January the following year.

Ellen Rometsch is expelled from the U.S because of her behavior in Washington, behavior which threatens to have scandalous damage.. Rometsch works and visits the Quorum Club located in the Carroll Arms Hotel adjacent a Senate office building. It is a private club requiring annual membership dues and is used by lawmakers and other influential men to meet for food, drink, and ladies away from the press that were constantly downstairs at the bar in the hotel lobby. Rometsch unfortunately, discloses details of her illicit relations with highly placed government officials that she meets at the club, to a former FBI informant. Because she was been born in East Germany, it is rumored that she once worked for Walter Ulbricht so the FBI decides to investigate her.

Bobby Kennedy reportedly arranges for her to be deported, fearing what might leak to the press in advance of JFK’s upcoming campaign for re-election could cost the president the election.
Her prior East German background is enough to convince director J. Edgar Hoover that she is a spy for East Germany. Bobby not taking any chances has her deported. Hoover will eventually leak her affair to the media but when the time is right.

JFK is in Hyannis Port with bad weather until August 26th .Meetings all week long will be about Viet Nam.

Jackie receives a cable from her sister Lee, who is cruising the Aegean with Aristotle Onassis and his longtime lover, the opera diva Maria Callas. Lee’s affair with Onassis began several months earlier, and Jackie goes aboard the Christina, the 325-foot Onassis yacht, immediately upon her return to Washington.

Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is, at that point, the single largest protest in American history.

JFK spends at Hyannis Port with family.Labor Day

JFK back at the White House with meetings all week on Vietnam and the Test Ban Treaty.

JFK meets in the White House with Hubert Humphrey.

Cruising on the Honey Fitz the next day, Kennedy muses about life after the presidency, although he bristles when Jackie jokes, “I don’t want to be the wife of a headmaster of a girls’ school.” They go to Joseph P Kennedy’s 75th birthday.

JFK gives a gold medal to Bob Hope at the White House along with Milton Berle.

Later that afternoon, Marlene Dietrich, the German actress, a longtime friend and lover of JFK’s father, Joe, accepts an invitation from the president to have drinks at the White House. Dietrich, 60 years old, is in town and putting on a one-woman show in the capital. JFK, 20 years her junior, makes what she refers to as “a clumsy pass” at her in a bedroom near the West Sitting Room.

JFK
I hope you’re not in a hurry

DIETRICH
In fact I am in a hurry. 2000 Jews are waiting to give me plaque at 7pm and it’s now 6:30 pm.
JFK
That doesn’t give us much time does it?

DIETRICH
No Jack it doesn’t

It is all over very soon and Jack is fast asleep at 6:50 pm.

DIETRICH

With that the president, clad only in a towel, leads the glamorous actress to an elevator, telling the elevator operator to get her a car to the hotel for her scheduled appearance.

JFK meets with the ex-president of Mexico, Miguel Aleman, then flies to NYC and at 7:30 pm goes to the Carlyle Hotel to be with Mimi Beardsley.

The United States Senate ratifies the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

JFK visits Grand Fork N. Dakota, Cheyenne Wyoming-Laramie Wyoming-Billings Montana. In Jackson Hole Wyoming he spends the night at the Jackson Lake Lodge in the Grand Teton national park.

JFK visits the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City and spends the night there.

JFK travels from Salt Lake City to Tacoma Washington= Tongue Point , Astoria Washington-Seattle- Redding California. He spends the night at Lassen Volcanic National Park.

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JFK flies to Las Vegas then at 2:45pm on to Palm Springs to the Bing Crosby residence. That night along with Peter Lawford and Dave Powers, Mimi is swimming in the pool when JFK and his brother Teddy arrive. While frolicking poolside with Mimi Beardsley, JFK tears a groin muscle. His brother Ted is in the pool and moves closer to Mimi.

But this time she refuses the dare. Mimi conscience is beginning to work on her. She is now beginning to realize that Kennedy is just another user of women.

Kennedy’s personal popularity as President remains high during this time, but administration blunders such as the Bay of Pigs invasion has diminished the country’s belief in his political effectiveness. Division within the Democratic party is also growing. Jackie’s reputation, however, is higher than ever in 1963. She stands tall and beautiful on a sacred pedestal, and no one publicly criticizes her.

J. Edgar Hoover’s private files indicate that Hoover told Robert F. Kennedy in 1963 he had information that Kennedy paid $500,000 apparently to quash a lawsuit by a woman who claimed she was jilted by John F. Kennedy 10 years before he became President in 1961.

The late FBI director’s files are heavily censored. According to Hoover’s memorandum to the former Attorney General the entire record of the suit was sealed by a judge in New York.
According to a Hoover memorandum addressed to “The Attorney General” and sent to Kennedy , Hoover noted that an Italian weekly magazine, Le Ore, publishes an article in 1961 claiming that a woman identified by the magazine as Alicia Purdom at the time the wife of actor Edmund Purdom, said she had been engaged to marry John F. Kennedy. The magazine said the engagement is broken off in 1951 after objection from Kennedy’s father, Joseph P. Kennedy, concerning the woman’s Polish and Jewish ancestry.

This suit is filed in New York just prior to the President’s assuming office. All papers relating to this matter, including the complaint, are immediately sealed by the court.

Attempts to reach the woman named in Hoover’s memorandum – whose name now is Alicia Darr Corning Clark – were unsuccessful.

Kenny O’Donnell tells Leo Damore, a journalist with the New York Post that in October 1963 Kennedy tells him that JFK plans to divorce Jackie for Mary Meyer.

Jackie Kennedy leaves on a 2 week vacation on Aristotle Onassis yacht Christina as it sails in the Mediterranean. There are conflicting reports about Jackie and Onassis’ conduct during the two-week cruise; Franklin Roosevelt Jr. and his wife are sent along as chaperons and swear that nothing romantic happenes during the cruise. JFK’s personal secretary Evelyn Lincoln, however, disagrees. Asked if she thought Jackie and Onassis had had an affair before the assassination, Lincoln answers, “I think so, yes. Jackie loves money. Onassis has money.” In either case, Jackie later remembers the cruise as a tension-free oasis between tragedy and tragedy, between the premature birth and death of her son Patrick, and the gruesome assassination of her husband. The cruise also marks the end of Lee Radziwill’s affair with Onassis. Aristotle Onassis falls in love with Jackie during this cruise along the Greek shoreline.
As the cruise through the Greek isles come to an end, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover demands an updated file on Onassis, who has been investigated as a spy and a criminal, and who is now dangerously close to the First Lady. Hoover always dislikes Onassis, and the cruise only serves to deepen Hoover’s distrust. And Hoover wasn’t the only powerful Washingtonian who held firm that the First Lady of the United States should not accept the hospitality of a foreigner who has been indicted in the United States.
Many speculated that Onassis’s interest in Lee was her connection to the White House. Jack and Robert Kennedy actively dislike and mistrust Onassis, and Jack, according to this secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, considers him “a pirate.” (Onassis is sued by the U.S. government in 1955 for removing from the U.S. a fleet of ships he bought and promises to keep in the U.S.. He ends up paying a $7 million fine.) By the summer of 1963, Onassis’s friendship with Jackie and Lee is noticed “Does the ambitious Greek tycoon hope to become the brother-in-law of the American President?”

Bobby Kennedy regarded Lee’s relationship as “a betrayal of the whole family. It is Bobby who hits upon the idea of luring Lee away from Onassis by asking her to accompany Jack on a European tour to Great Britain, Italy, Germany, and Ireland.

Jackie is seven months pregnant and, having already endured one miscarriage, does not want to risk the travel. The trip is another triumph as the president is met by three-fifths of West Berlin’s population when he makes his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech in the Rudolf Wilde Platz, with Lee, not Jackie, by his side. “It was the most thrilling experience of my life,” Lee later recalled.

Jackie couldn’t face returning to Washington so soon after the loss of her baby. Concerned about appearances, Jack actually went down on one knee to beg Jackie not to make the trip. But she was determined to go. In his journals, Camelot historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. recalled hearing nasty gossip at a dinner at columnist Stewart Alsop’s about “how terrible it was for Jackie Kennedy to go off on the Onassis yacht.”

Four weeks later, Jackie left the cruise, rested and restored to better spirits. As parting gifts, Jackie is given a diamond-and-ruby necklace, and Lee three diamond-studded bracelets. Lee writes to her brother-in-law that she felt Jackie’s rubies outshone her “dinky little bracelets that Caroline wouldn’t wear to her own birthday party.”

Laura Bergquist, the Senior Editor of Look Magazine and White House correspondent writes an article for Look Magazine “The President and His Son” and takes the famous picture of John Jr. under JFK’s desk.

JFK travels from the White House to Little Rock. His Arkansas visit is one of the his last public appearances before his death. The occasion is the dedication of the Greers Ferry Dam at Heber Springs, Arkansas, a new dam and power generation project built by the US Army Corp of Engineers.

(R)Texas Governor John Connolly meets with (L) JFK at 12:30 in the White House and invites him to Texas.[/fusion_tagline_box]

Also on October 4, 1963 Hurricane Flora, one of the worst Atlantic storms in history, hits Hispaniola and Cuba, killing nearly 7,000 people.

Kennedy signs a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with Russia. This is the first agreement of the nuclear age on the banning of Nuclear testing.

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Jack Kennedy in clinical terms is a sex addict. The risks Kennedy takes defy the imagination and if it were not for the discretion of the press, the Secret Service, White House staff, speech writers, aides, butlers maids, chauffeurs, Kennedy’s legacy in office would have been exposed many times over, far earlier , indeed as early as Inauguration Day. Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post, Joseph Alsop, Robert Pierpoint of CBS and others in the media are already well aware of presidential infidelities. While Bradlee is a leading figure exposing Nixon in Watergate, he acts in expressly the opposite fashion with Kennedy and remains inordinately discreet in protecting the Kennedy image.

the third standard deviation, not only for presidents but for the male population at large, and squarely in the territory of sexual addiction.

and the number of single American males who have had over 30 partners in three years is miniscule. Had he lived, many of his indiscretions would have become public knowledge.

As it is, he didn’t succeed in carrying out his political agenda. We were prisoners of a myth we helped to create. Professional image makers built an image, journalists bought into the propaganda and were forced to go along with.

JFK is in Boston for the Harvard-Columbia football game. Afterwards he has ice cream at Schrafft’s Restaurant and spends night at the Sheraton Plaza Boston with Mimi Beardsley.

On 26th October, 1963, an article leaked by J. Edgar Hoover in the Des Moines Register claims that the FBI “establishes that the beautiful brunette Rometsch who had attended parties with congressional leaders and some prominent New Frontiersmen from the executive branch of Government is really a Russian spy.

The possibility that her activity is connected with espionage is of some concern, because of the high rank of her male companions”. The article also claimes that Rometsch’s activity should be passed on to the Senate Rules Committee, the body investigating Baker.

The following day Robert Kennedy sends La Verne Duffy to Europe to meet Ellen Rometsch His mission is to silence Rometsch before the press gets to her. It is reported a few days later “men flashing U.S. security badges meet with Mrs Rometsch and gets her to sign a statement formally denying intimacies with important people.” In a letter to Duffy she thanks him for providing her with money and assures him, “Of course I will keep quiet.”

Kennedy now contacts Hoover and asks him to persuade the Senate leadership that the Senate Rules Committee investigation of this story is “contrary to the national interest”.

JFK spends the weekend in Atoka Virginia with Jackie & family (Rattlesnake Farm)

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Bobby Kennedy warns Hoover on the 28th of October that other leading members of Congress will be drawn into this scandal and so it is “contrary to the interests of Congress, too”.

Hoover has a meeting with Mike Mansfield, the Democratic leader of the Senate and Everett Dirksen. the Republican counterpart. What is said at this meeting is never released. However, as a result of that meeting, the Senate Rules Committee decides not to look into the Rometsch scandal.

It is known that Baker has tapes and photographs of JFK’s sexual activities involving Rometsch. Baker also knows about JFK’s earlier relationships with Maria Novotny and Suzy Chang. both of whom are from Communist countries.

J.Edgar Hoover has lunch with JFK and his brother Bobby. Besides the usual topics of domestic crime and the war on drugs and communism in Cuba, Hoover tells the president his dalliances will cost him the election.

South Vietnamese coup: Arrest and assassinate Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese President. Due to the crisis in Vietnam, JFK cancels plans to fly to Chicago for the Army Air Force Football game. He holds a Vietnam meeting in the White House then flies to Atoka, Virginia where he stays with the family thru Sunday Nov.3

South Vietnamese coup: Coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes over as leader of South Vietnam. Dương Văn Minh, popularly known as Big Minh, is a South Vietnamese politician and a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and a politician during the presidency of Ngô Đình Diệm.