1961

“It was a very mean year.”

The Space Race, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, Nuclear Detonations

A Presidential Inauguration

Friday, January 20, 1961

John F. Kennedy’s inauguration gala ball is going full blast. Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford arrange and host a pre-inaugural ball at the D.C. Armory. This is the biggest party ever held in Washington, D.C., at this time. Sinatra brings together many Hollywood stars that perform and attend. Frank even goes as far as convincing Broadway theater producers to suspend their shows for the night to allow some of the actors to be in the gala. With ticket prices ranging from $100 per person to $10,000 per group, Sinatra hopes to raise $1.7 million ($13.9 million in today’s dollars) for the Democratic Party.

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JFK’s inauguration gala ticket prices range from $100 per person to $10,000 per group. Frank Sinatra produces the event and provides Hollywood stars for entertainment.

Many Hollywood stars give speeches or perform acts. Performances and speeches include Fredric March, Sidney Poitier, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Bill Dana, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante, Harry Belafonte, and Sinatra himself.

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On stage (L-R) Pat Suzuki, Joey Bishop, Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Harry Belafonte, Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis and Nat ‘King’ Cole at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration gala rehearsal, 1961.

Sammy Davis, Jr., a long-time friend of Frank Sinatra, supporter of the Democratic Party, and member of the Rat Pack, is asked by John F. Kennedy not to attend the gala per his father Joseph’s wishes. Joe is afraid that Sammy’s interracial marriage to Swedish actress May Britt is too shocking for the time and event, much to Sammy’s and Sinatra’s sadness. Davis even postpones his wedding to Britt until after the election, also at the request of the Kennedy campaign.

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Joe Kennedy requests that Sammy Davis Jr. not attend the inauguration gala because of his interracial marriage to Swedish actress May Britt.

After being rudely snubbed by JFK, Sammy Davis, Jr., switches his support to the Republican Party and Richard Nixon. Harry Belafonte expresses dismay at the storm, stating, “Sammy not being there is a loss.”

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After being shunned by the Kennedys, Sammy Davis, Jr., becomes a Republican and throws his support to Richard Nixon.

At the end of the inaugural ball, Kennedy thanks Sinatra for the festive celebration and his support of the Democratic Party throughout the 1960 campaign. Jackie Kennedy goes to bed in the White House before the ball ends at 1:30 a.m. But Jack isn’t ready for the party to end. He goes to a second pre-inaugural ball his father Joseph Kennedy is throwing and doesn’t return to the White House until around 3:30 a.m.

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JFK personally thanks Frank Sinatra for pulling out all the stops and making his Inaugural Gala a huge success.

Behind the scenes, Kennedy engages in private sexual escapades in the White House, Palm Beach, Malibu, Manhattan, and Palm Springs. Jackie knows what is going on and reluctantly accepts it. But JFK also has several secret lovers who are part of his and Jackie’s inner circle, including Helen Chavchavadze, a 27-year-old brunette divorcée with two young daughters. She is the first cousin of John Husted, the man Jackie dumped to marry Jack, as well as a classmate of Jackie’s sister, Lee Farmington. Helen “is just gorgeous,” says Ben Bradlee, “totally pretty, well educated, and interesting.”

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One of JFK sex partners is 27 year old Helen Chavchavadze who is part of Jackie Kennedy’s social circle and lives across the street of their Georgetown church.

A few weeks later

A few weeks after the inauguration, JFK walks into Helen Chavchavadze’s house, which is across the street from his church in Georgetown, with Florida senator George Smathers. “By his appearance he was saying, ‘I am a free man. The Secret Service is not going to stop me,’” Chavchavadze said. Kennedy invites her for intimate evenings when Jackie is away, and Jackie would include her on the guest lists for dinner dances and small dinner parties at the White House.  “I never knew if Jackie knew, but I felt uncomfortable about her,” said Chavchavadze. “I always felt ambivalent and wanted to end it…I was never someone who had extramarital affairs. It was not my style, but it was irresistible with Jack.”

President Kennedy, who already has a revolving harem, is such a greedy sex maniac that he takes the girlfriend of Time magazine’s most famous editor, Bill Brammer. Just a few months after Kennedy’s inauguration, Time magazine’s Washington bureau learns that the young woman Brammer is dating, Diana de Vegh, is also having an affair with the President.

Brammer asks her why she did it. “Nothing will come of it,” she replies, “but he has a hold on me.”

“What kind of hold?” Brammer asks.

“Power,” she answers.

Saturday, January 21, 1961

Jackie Kennedy hires Pamela Turnure as her press secretary and White House staffer. Turnure is supposed to be off-limits to JFK, as she is Jackie’s press secretary. However, not even the first lady’s staff is exempt from the roaming eye of the president, and Turnure, a Georgetown girl who is said to look like Jackie, reportedly sleeps with him from 1961 to 1963, beginning when she was 21. Turnure was originally JFK’s secretary when he was a senator. Turnure got the White House job thanks to JFK, who somehow managed to convince Jackie to hire her. When Jackie is gone, Turnure spends nights with the president over a 3-year period.

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Pamela Turnure, a 21 years old White House secretary, begins having regular sexual encounters with JFK in the White House pool and on foreign trips. She sees JFK when Jackie is not in town.

Sometime late in 1961, Ellen Rometsch becomes one of the working girls at  the Quorum Club, located in a three-room suite at the Carroll Arms Hotel, just across the street from the new Senate Office Building. This is a private social club run by Bobby Baker, a former aide to Lyndon Johnson now coming under suspicion for influence peddling. The senators and congressmen along with other club members know her as girl who can show you a good time. What they don’t know is that she’s an East German Communist spy.

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Ellen Rometsch is a pretty East German Communist spy and is one of JFK’s girlfriends during the height of the Cold War.

The Quorum Club’s central location in a suite at the Carroll Arms Hotel is an easy walk for the power brokers from the Capitol Building.

The affair between Rometsch and JFK starts in 1961 and continues for some time. However, FBI agents get wind of it and put Rometsch under surveillance. They discover that she attends naked pool parties at the White House and on more than one occasion goes to the White House residence solely for the purpose of having sex with the president.  J. Edgar Hoover believes that the affair is compromising national security.

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Bobby Baker is LBJ’s personal aide and runs Washington D.C’s Quorum Club where government insiders can escape the eyes of the national press corps.

Tuesday, January 24, 1961

Miss Deirdre Henderson, who is 24 years old at the time, is given an appointment with JFK. She is helping him write a journal of his pre-war years in Europe. She is also helping him fulfill his sexual needs. She and Jack take only five minutes to conclude their sexual interlude.

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JFK enjoys sex with 24-year-old Miss Deidre Henderson who helps him with writing his journal of pre-war Europe.

After lunch, the President takes a tour of the Shelter Areas of the White House led by Commander Tazwell Shepard and members of the White House staff. At the end of the tour everyone goes back to his or her normal White House activities. Jack returns to one of the Shelters where Pamela Turnure is waiting. Five minutes is all that is needed for the President’s sex fix. It is over by 3:55 p.m.

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White House secretary Pamela Turnure meets up with JFK during the day in the White House.

At 4:45 p.m., Carmin Belino, who specializes in dealing with organized crime and corrupt trade union officials, visits with Jack for only fifteen minutes, just enough time for Jack to be reminded that his father’s wish came true only with help from the Chicago Outfit, so don’t forget the favor.

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JFK frequently meets with Carmin Belino who specializes in dealing with the Chicago Outfit and Sam Giancana.

Friday, January 27, 1961

Miss Pamela Turnure again visits Jack in his office at 4:45 p.m. It will all be over in less than 15 minutes.

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Pamela Turnure is always just around the corner in the White House and ready to service JFK’s sexual needs.

Tuesday, January 31,1961

Alicia Darr is in Rome telling of an early sexual relationship with John F. Kennedy in a conversation with the Italian weekly Le Ore and says she could have been the first lady. The FBI attaché in Rome advises J. Edgar Hoover of the article and indicates that Alicia “is saying that the release of more information is to come soon.”

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Alicia Darr in Rome after her interview in the Italian weekly Le Ore. Darr is claiming to be JFK’s 1st wife when he was 34 years old.

On this same day, the U.S. goes ahead in the Space Race with the Soviet Union. The chimpanzee Ham, the first humanlike animal is successfully sent into outer space and returns unharmed. His flight is 16 minutes and 39 seconds long. Ham is being tested to see if tasks can be performed in space. His lever-pushing performance while aloft is only a fraction of a second slower than on Earth, demonstrating that tasks can be performed in space

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The U.S. puts the first human like animal successfully into space and goes ahead of the Soviet Union in the Space Race.

Friday, February 3, 1961

William (Bill) Thompson meets with JFK in the White House to discuss the possible meeting with Ellen Rometsch which would be handled by Bobby Baker through the Quorum Club.

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Vice President’s aide Bobby Baker (L) sets us a date with Ellen Rometsch at the Quorum Club for President John F, Kennedy.

Later in the evening, the President sneaks away from the Secret Service to see the movie “Spartacus with his old PT-109 pal Red Fay.

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JFK and Paul Fay sneak out of the White House at 8:16pm to go to a local movie theatre and see the movie “Spartacus.

Saturday, Feb 4, 1961

JFK, and Caroline welcome Jackie and 10-week-old John Jr. to the White House. It’s the first time his son has been to the White House.

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Only 10 weeks old, John Kennedy Jr. and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrive to the White House with President JFK and daughter Caroline.

Tuesday, February 7, 1961

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JFK and LBJ have an off the record meeting following the Legislative Leaders Breakfast Meeting.

Wednesday, February 8, 1961

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John and Jackie Kennedy with Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson give a reception for members of the Diplomatic Corp

Friday, February 10, 1961

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At 10:25 am JFK meets in the White House with Miss Catherine Long the Queen of Mardi Gras along with Senator Long from Louisiana.
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At 3:30pm JFK goes to the south grounds of the White House to see Jackie and Caroline off. They are taking the helicopter to their farm in Glen Ora, in Middleburg, Virginia.

Saturday, February 11, 1961

Miss Janet Derossiers has a quick massage session with JFK. She was Joe Kennedy’s mistress and became the stewardess and a secretary on Jack’s presidential campaign plane. On the plane, Desrossiers often massaged Jack’s feet and hands and that’s not all that happened behind closed doors. Many reporters think she must have been having sex with him.

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Miss Janet Derossier is an in house mistress who is also a stewardess on the Presidential plane and a secretary to JFK. She also is one of Joe Kennedy’s mistresses.

At 12:25pm JFK is in the helicopter to Glen Ora, Middleburg, Virginia and arrived at 1:07pm. He returns to the White House on Monday, February 13, 1961 via land. He leaves the farm at 10:52am and arrives at Noon to the White House.

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JFK walks to the helicopter on the south lawn for the flight to the Glen Ora farm.
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JFK on board the White House helicopter with Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and his wife Nancy. They are headed for the Kennedy farm in Glen Ora where Jackie and Carline are waiting.

Saturday, February 18, 1961

JFK meets with Paul (Red) Fay an ex PT boat commander with JFK at noon. They will depart the White House at 10:30pm to the Sheraton Carlton Hotel to supposedly buy a newspaper? Jackie is left in the White House while Jack is at the Carlton Hotel.

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PT Boat Officers (L-R) James (“Jim”) Reed, John F. (“Jack”) Kennedy, George (“Barney”) Ross (rear) and Paul (“Red”) Fay.

Sunday, February, 19,1961

JFK and family take the helicopter to Glen Ora. on Monday the following day JFK alone, flies 25 minutes back to the White House. Pamela Turnure is waiting in the White House pool.

Wednesday, February 22, 1961

JFK, Red Fay, George Smathers and Stuart Symington play golf at Chevy Chase Country Club

Thursday, February 23, 1961

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John F. Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover and Robert F. Kennedy confer in the Oval Office about illegal wiretaps

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Friday, February 24, 1961

JFK has dinner at 7:45 with Lem Billings & Rip Horton (all old JFK buddies)

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President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of the Navy John Connally and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson confer after lunch in the White House.

Saturday, February 25, 1961

JFK goes golfing with Paul (Red) Fay, George Smathers & Stuart Symington. – They play 9 holes at Burning Tree Country Club. That evening he has a dinner at the Sheraton Park Hotel, then back to White House by 11.15pm

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JFK’s Oval Office sits quiet on this evening when the President is at the Sheraton Park Hotel and he probably is not alone. Jackie is at the farm in Glen Ora with Caroline.

Saturday, February 25, 1961

JFK motors to Glen Ora to see Jackie. He drives with Dr. Janet Travell. Then takes the helicopter back to the White House without Jackie. She stays at Glen Ora alone with Caroline.

Monday, February 27, 1961

Miss Deidre Henderson research assistant meets with JFK at 6:50 PM at the White House and then a quick dip in the pool, just the two of them,

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Miss Deidre Henderson makes several visits with JFK. Not only to the Oval Office but also to the White House swimming pool.

Wednesday, March 1,1961

JFK signs Executive Order 10924 establishing the Peace Corps. The purpose of the Peace Corps is to provide technical assistance and help people outside the United States to understand American culture. Kennedy sees the Peace Corps as a means of countering the “Ugly American ” and “Yankee imperialism,” image in the emerging nations of post-colonial Africa and Asia.

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JFK signs the Executive order establishing the Peace Corp. Kennedy assigns his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, to be the first director in charge of the program.

Saturday, March 4, 1961

From 7:30 PM – 11:14 PM JFK, Lem Billings and Rip Horton motor around Washington and Virginia like a couple of old college pals.

Saturday, March 11, 1961

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JFK is having a little fun with his nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Oval Office.

Monday, March 13, 1961

JFK, Jackie and Caroline helicopter from Glen Ora to the White House. After meeting with Bobby, Kenny O’Donnell and Ted Sorenson, Kennedy takes on more meetings with different Congressmen and an afternoon meeting with Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin.

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In the East Room of the White House, JFK speaks and holds a reception for Latin American Diplomats, Officials and Members of Congress.

Friday, March 17 1961

St. Patrick’s Day is business as usual. JFK has a morning breakfast with McGeorge Bundy, Ted Sorenson and Dean Rusk. The rest of the day are scheduled meetings with various state congressmen and a taping session with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Then late in the evening a testimonial dinner for Ted Reardon

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JFK walks with his daughter Caroline along the West Wing of the White House.

LBJ presents a pony to Caroline Kennedy at the Ranch of George Brown’s Huntland Farms in Virginia.

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Caroline rides her pony on George Brown’s Huntland Farm in Virginia. LBJ gives the pony to Caroline as a birthday gift.

Wednesday, March 15, 1961

White House hosts a dinner dance. Jackie dances just once with Jack, who typically feels uncomfortable on the dance floor. Instead, he “moves from one group to another, a glass of champagne in his hand. “Champagne flows out of every available crevice,” the evening has a “slight speakeasy quality since the whole thing is suppose to be kept quiet because of Lent.” Sitting on either side of the president are the famous Pinchot sisters, Ben Bradlee’s wife, Tony, and her sister Mary Meyer, two of Washington’s most alluring women. Tony already knows that Jack Kennedy is attracted to her, because he makes several unsuccessful passes. Afterward he links arms with Mary and Tony, and when they enter the Blue Room he exclaims, “Well, girls, what did you think of that?”

Thursday, March 16, 1961

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JFK in the morning greets members of the Girl Scouts of America.
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JFK Kennedy later attends the ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy.

Thursday, March 23, 1961

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JFK holds a press conference where he explains the communist build up in Southeast Asia

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Saturday, March 25, 1961

At 5:18 PM, JFK without Jackie flies to Palm Beach Florida for the weekend. On the flight are Lem Billings, Miss Helen Lempart and Sue Mortensen. They are met by Joe Kennedy and taken to his home in Palm Beach.

Sunday, March 26, 1961

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JFK meets the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in Key West to discuss both the Berlin situation and Fidel Castro. The President returns to the White House later that night.

Thursday, March 30, 1961

JFK flies from Washington DC to Palm Beach Florida and arrives at 11:30am. Miss Jill Cowen (Faddle) is on board. Miss Cowen is along for the ride to service the Presidents sexual needs.

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Miss Jill Cowen is a White House secretary and aide. Her nickname is Faddle and she’s part of the duo called “Fiddle and Faddle” by the President. One or both of the girls swim with President when he goes to the White House pool.

Upon arriving in Palm Beach, FK meets up with his father and Peter Lawford. They then meet up with Bing Crosby to play 9 holes of golf at the Palm Beach Country Club. They view the movie “One Eyed Jacks at the Residence that evening.

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JFK Kennedy and Bing Crosby are good friends. Bing plays at the Palm Beach Country Club in Florida and Jack plays on Bing’s course in Palm Springs.

Friday. March 31, 1961

JFK, Jackie, Peter Lawford and Mrs. Sargent Schriver go to the Palm Beach Country Club for lunch and meet up with Bing Crosby to play 11 holes of golf

Tuesday, April 4, 1961

JFK is in Palm Beach visiting his father Joseph. By 11am he is playing golf with his two brothers in laws, Peter Lawford and Steven Smith. By 4:30pm JFK has landed at the White House and is back in the Oval Office.

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Returning from Palm Beach. Kennedy has the helicopter land on the White House lawn, JFK then walks to the Oval Office for afternoon meetings.

Wednesday, April 12, 1961

The Soviet’s take over first place in the Space Race with the United States. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once in his space capsule Vostok 1. Gagarin becomes an instant international celebrity finding himself on the cover of Time Magazine. Gagarin is awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation’s highest honor.

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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space allowing the Russians to take the lead in the Race to the Moon.

Saturday, April 15, 1961

A group of Cuban exiles take off from Nicaragua in a squadron of American B-26 bombers, painted to look like stolen Cuban planes, and manage a strike against Cuban airfields. But, it turns out that Castro knows about the raid and moves his planes out of harms way. Kennedy starts to suspect that the CIA plan is not what it’s supposed to be. He begins to think it’s not clandestine and in fact it might be “too small to be successful.”

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American B-26 bombers are painted to look like Cuban Air Force planes by the CIA stationed in Nicaragua.

Monday, April 17, 1961

After two years of the CIA trying to rid itself of Fidel Castro, they launch what its leaders believe will be the definitive blow. An invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who left their homes when Castro came to power is leading the charge. However, the invasion does not go well. Jack Ruby tips off Castro to the on coming invaders and Castro is waiting on the beach with his army.

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The Anti Castro forces are badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and surrender after less than 24 hours of fighting.

The first phase of the plan is to destroy Castro’s tiny air force, making it impossible for Castro’s army to fight the invaders.

But it is too late to stop anything now. On April 17, the Cuban exile army begins its invasion at an isolated spot known as the Bay of Pigs. Almost immediately, the invasion is a disaster. The CIA wants to keep it a secret for as long as possible, but a Cuban military radio station on the beach broadcasts every detail of the operation to listeners across Cuba.

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Unexpected coral reefs and Cuban artillery sink some of the invader’s ships as they try to come to shore

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Backup paratroopers land in the wrong places. Before long, Castro’s troops have the exiles pinned on the beach, and they surrender after less than a day of fighting.

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Of the invading force of 1400, 114 are killed and over 1,100 are taken prisoner.The majority of prisoners are later tried in a military court and executed

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Two days later, JFK tell the people of the United States that he is to be blamed for the failure of the Bay of Pigs. The Cuban community in the U.S. will never forget this.

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Life Magazine tells the failed story of the attempted Bay of Pigs Invasion. The U.S. must face the embarrassing failure to overthrow Castro.

Wednesday/Thursday. April 18-19,1961

From Midnight until 2:46am JFK is in a meeting about the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Situation. At 5:00pm there is a meeting with the Former Prime Minister of Cuba now head of Anti Castro Revolution Council of Cubans- Jose Miro Cardona. Also at the meeting is Antonio Verona, Justo Carrillo, and Antonio Maceo, Manuel Rey, Carlos Heira
They meet again from 10:57pm-12: 31pm.

Friday, April 21,1961

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JFK is in an early morning meeting with General Maxwell Taylor in the Oval Office.

At 5:44pm, journalist Lester Markel is having a private meeting concerning Marilyn Monroe. Lester is a good friend of Marilyn’s.

Saturday, April 22,1961

JFK takes the helicopter from the White House to Camp David, a 30 minutes flight. Kennedy at 1pm meets with Dwight D Eisenhower until 2:30pm concerning the Cuban fiasco.

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This is a rare photo of JFK wearing a hat prior to the meeting with Dwight D Eisenhower at Camp David.

After the meeting with Eisenhower, JFK is motored over to the Aspen Cottage and inspects the underground fallout shelter. By 5:00pm JFK is taking the helicopter to the Glen Ora Farm and stays there until Monday April 24 when he flies back to the White House.

After the disastrous CIA’s Bay of Pigs invasion, JFK desperately needs to get rid of Castro. The problem is he has to do it a way not to cause World War III with the Russians. By now he’s lost all faith in his military advisors but still needs a quick solution. So, Kennedy calls Judith Campbell in California. He asks Campbell to fly to Las Vegas and arrange a meeting with himself and Sam Giancana. He thinks the mafia might want to help kill Castro and get the casinos back in Havana. The meeting is to take place in her suite at the Ambassador East the following week in Chicago.

Thursday, April 27, 1961

JFK is in New York for a meeting and staying at the Hotel Carlyle

Friday, April 28, 1961

JFK meets with J Edgar Hoover in suite 31A at the Waldorf Astoria then afterwards with General Douglas MacArthur. Later that day he meets with Dag Hammerskjold and Adlai Stevenson. At 3:20pm JFK flies to Chicago to speak at a Cook County Democratic Fund raising Dinner at McCormick Place. On the flight is Helen Lempart one of his young female aides.

Judith Campbell is in her hotel suite at the Ambassador prior to the JFK dinner when Giancana arrives. Upon arriving, JFK walks over to Sam Giancana and shake hands Shortly thereafter, Campbell then goes into the bathroom, sits on the edge of the tub and waits until they finish. After the meeting, JFK puts his arms around Campbell and tells her he cannot stay with her this evening, it’s a short trip. She learns later that JFK is giving Giancana the “Green Light” to assassinate Fidel Castro.

By Saturday at 1am in the morning JFK is back to Washington.

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JFK flies to Chicago to speak at a Cook County Democratic Fund raising dinner but his real interest is to meet with Sam Giancana. He wants the mafia’s help in killing Fidel Castro.

Saturday, April 29, 1961

JFK and family fly from the White House to the Glen Ora, farm.

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JFK and Jackie’s Glen Ora farm in Middleburg, Virginia

The following day, Kennedy asks, Campbell to fly to Miami.

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Judith Campbell meets with Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, who are staying at the Fontainebleau hotel. They discuss the Fidel Castro problem.

Sunday, April 30, 1961

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Judith Campbell flies back to Washington from Miami and stays with JFK at the Mayflower Hotel.

Wednsday, May 3, 1961

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JFK greets President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisa. Kennedy and Bouguiba then travel by motorcade down 14th street in Washington, D.C. to the White House.

Thursday, May 4, 1961

JFK and Tunisian President Habib-Bourguiba spend most of the morning discussing the foreign relations between the two countries.

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JFK discusses foreign relations with the President of Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba.

Also, today, Judith Campbell picks up another envelope from Giancana in Chicago and returns to Washington the following evening. She calls the White House and asks for Evelyn Lincoln, who connects here immediately to the President.

Friday, May 5, 1961

Campbell that afternoon travels to the White House just like she is instructed. “We were scheduled to have lunch at the White House on Saturday, May 6, but he said the envelope couldn’t wait, so I took it to him Friday May 5th in the afternoon. I took a taxi to the West Entrance, checked in with the guards, and was escorted to the Cabinet Room by a Kenny O’Donnell.

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Judith Campbell is escorted into the White House by JFK’s personal advisor Kenney O’Donnell by way the West Wing entrance (L) and then to the Cabinet Room (R)

I gave Jack the envelope and he teasingly asked me if I had had a nice time in Florida. ‘Did you have to spend that much time down there?’ he said. Judith replies, “I was there for you, Jack.’ JFK replies, “How’s Sam? Now I don’t want you to get too friendly with him. Don’t let him turn your head.” After a few pleasantries, the usual quickie begins with JFK finishing first.

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Judith Campbell plays the part of courier between JFK and Chicago Boss Sam Giancana.

Saturday, May 6, 1961

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At 5:45pm Jacqueline Kennedy aide Miss Pamela Turner has a sex quickie meeting with JFK in the oval office.

Sunday, May 7, 1961

“ The Nooky Room ”

On Sunday, Campbell goes to the White House for lunch. She is taken to the family quarters, where she and Dave Powers chitchat while Kennedy takes a swim with one of the new girls just beginning her job in the White House. The Commander in Chief breaks in all the new hired help when possible. He to see just how far they will go with him.

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(L) 1961 White House pool (R) aka…”The Nooky Room” 1963 White House pool- JFK swims almost every day at 2pm while he is President and generally with young female White House aides and staff. The murals are added and paid for by JFK’s father Joe Kennedy in 1962.

Over hamburgers in the family dining room, Kennedy asks Campbell about Sinatra. ” ‘How’s Frank?’ he asks. ‘What’s he doing? Who’s he seeing?’ He loves Hollywood gossip, and is avidly curious about everything, but especially about Frank and his love life,” Campbell remembers. Frank respects Jack’s background and his power as President, and Jack is fascinated by Sinatra’s swinging lifestyle.

After lunch, Kennedy takes Campbell into the master bedroom. There were twin beds, she reports. Jack then leads her through an alcove to Jackie’s bedroom with a large double bed and they make love.

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JFK has intercourse in Jackie’s bed with Judith Campbell

As he is escorting her out, Kennedy gives Campbell an envelope he wants delivered to Giancana.

These are the travel times written in Campbell’s May 6, 1961 agenda. (Times EST)
6:00pm a White House car to airport (Washington D.C.)
7:40 pm Dinner in Chicago with Sam Giancana
8; 40pm Leave Chicago for Las Vegas
9:40pm Arrive in Las Vegas

For days and sometimes weeks at a time that spring and summer, Campbell crisscrosses the country by train and plane carrying plain 9″ x 12″ manila envelopes from Kennedy to Giancana and Roselli and back again. “They are closed but not taped,” says Campbell.

Campbell later explains, “There was no writing on them, no labels, no stamped address, nothing. They weighed about as much as a weekly magazine and felt as if they contained papers, but I don’t know for sure because I never looked inside. It never occurred to me to do something like that. I always carried them in my purse so they didn’t have to be checked or handled by anyone else. I never put them in a hotel safe or anything like that because I didn’t want to let them out of my possession. I didn’t know what they contained, but I knew that the contents were very important to Jack.”

The intelligence data, which she carries in envelopes to Giancana, concerns the plot to assassinate Castro. In fact, the CIA-Mafia plan to kill the Cuban leader has Kennedy`s direct involvement from the beginning Campbell says. “Fairly early on, Jack told me outright. He said the envelopes has intelligence material` and that it involves the removal of Fidel Castro. I was right in the middle of my relationship with him, and I loved him. He was also the president, and I don`t think I felt qualified to question him. I was a young woman in my 20s, and I was not that deeply into politics. But I knew what was going on, and Jack knew. Jack fully participated in the CIA involvement with the underworld. “It finally dawned on me that I was probably helping Jack orchestrate the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro with the help of the Mafia,”

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Judith Campbell holding her travel agenda reveals dates and timeline of events during her relationship with JFK and Sam Giancana.

The White House telephone logs show at least one phone call from Sam’s home outside Chicago to the White House. Campbell believes that Kennedy and Giancana met at the White House more than once. She later recalls, “If they did, Sam probably signed in under one of his aliases, like Dr. Goldberg, Dr. Gold or Sam Flood,”
There is an unofficial back door to the Oval Office that is supervised by Kenny O’Donnell, and there are no logs kept on this location. Campbell says she agreed to pick up one more envelopes from Giancana and Roselli and bring it back to the White House. Jack tells her he will get back to her on when she has to go.

Monday, May 8, 1961

The President and Mrs. Kennedy fly from Glen Ora to the White House. In the morning JFK presents Alan B. Shepherd receive the Distinguished Service Medal of NASA

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President John F. Kennedy congratulates astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American in space, on his historic May 5th, 1961 ride in the Freedom 7 spacecraft and presents him with the NASA Distinguished Service Award.

Tuesday, May 9, 1961

JFK meets with William Pawley in the White House. Pawley deals with world leaders on sensitive national security matters, such as backdoor diplomacy and black operations in the Dominican Republic under Rafael Trujillo, in Cuba at the time of Fidel Castro’s takeover, and in a plot to overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954. Pawley finances Operation Red Cross, a secret effort to help Russian missile officers defect from Cuba to the United States. This episode, involving a cast of characters from Mafia members to soldiers of fortune that ultimately fails to bring any missile officers from Cuba.

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William Pawley is one of JFK’s contacts into the black ops world involving the CIA and the Mafia.

Thursday, May11, 1961

JFK and Jackie fly to W. Palm Beach where they play golf and end up at the residence of Earl T. Smith (Flo ‘s Pritchett Smith’s home) on Friday afternoon spending the weekend playing and fun together. Flo Pritchett is one of Jacks long time mistresses. She was seeing Kennedy in 1956 and 1957 in Havana when her husband was Ambassador to Cuba.

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Air Force One is ready at the hangar in Andrews Air Force Base to fly JFK and Jackie to West Palm Beach.

JFK & Jackie fly back to D.C. on Monday arriving at the White House by 4:30pm Monday May 15.

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JFK and Jackie arrive at
Andrews Air Force Base from their weekend trip to Palm Beach.
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JFK and Jackie aboard the White House helicopter flying from Andrews AFB to the White House after the weekend in West Palm Beach.

Tuesday-Thursday, May16-18, 1961

JFK and Jackie Kennedy fly to Ottawa. Canada to strengthen relations with Americas northern neighbor.

Saturday, May20, 1961

JFK still working in the White House one evening meets up with Marguerite Higgins, an American reporter with the N.Y Herald Tribune. She covered the War in Korea and is familiar with Vietnam. She is also very attractive and we know what that means with Jack Kennedy. By 1:00pm JFK helicopters to Glen Ora for the weekend. Monday, May 21, JFK returns to the White House alone.

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Attractive Margeuite Higgins has a tryst with JFK just before he leaves for the farm at Glen Ora, Virginia to meet up with Jackie.

Wednesday, May 24, 1961

The King of Monaco and Princes Grace visit JFK and Jackie at the White House.

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JFK and Jackie wait for the arrival of the King of Monaco and Princess Grace, the former famous movie actress Grace Kelly.
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The King of Monaco & Princess Grace visits President Kennedy and Jackie at the White House.
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Princess Grace is smitten with JFK during her visit to Washington.

Thursday, May 25, 1961

President Kennedy announces the Apollo program, a response to the Russian claim to be winning the Space Race, having the first man orbit the earth in outer space, with the successful flight of Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gargarin. Only three week after the Soviet feat, on May 5, Alan Shepard is the first American into outer space. JFK in a very direct way challenges the Russians to a Race to the Moon. The American public up to this point feels the U.S. is loosing in the space program.

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“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.” JFK May 25, 1961

Saturday, May 27th, 1961

JFK has a birthday party at 8:30pm with entertainment by Jerry Lewis at the National Guard Armory. President Harry Truman is also there. After the celebration JFK boards a helicopter to Hyannis Port and stays at his father’s residence until Monday. Then on Monday May 29 he flies to Boston for a birthday dinner at the Statler Hilton Hotel.

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Jerry Lewis entertains to a packed JFK birthday bash at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C.

Sunday, May 28, 1961

Douglas Edwards with the News. Douglas Edwards is making his announcement on TV that President Kennedy will be leaving on a historic summit in Vienna with Primer Nikita Khrushchev. First stop will be a 3-day visit in Paris with Charles de Gaulle.

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CBS News commentator Douglas Edwards announces on national T.V. that Kennedy will be leaving to meet with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna.

Tuesday, May 30, 1961

JFK flies from Boston to NYC for the World Health Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. After the dinner JFK & Jackie board Air Force one for Paris.

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Widely grinning JFK looks up toward comedian Bob Hope in New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The President is the principal speaker at Fifth Annual World Peace Through World Health.

Wednesday, May 31,1961

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President Kennedy and
Jacqueline via AIR FORCE ONE are on their way for the Vienna Summit with Khrushchev, but first a 3-day stop in Paris.

Air Force One lands at Orly Airport in Paris. The president is just completing five months into his term of office. This is his first European stop. French President Charles De Gaulle and Madame De Gaulle greet them. As soon as the crowds along the streets of Paris spot Jackie, they brake into the chant: ‘Vive Jacqui! Vive Jacqui!

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The crowd greets First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy during her visit to Paris, June 1961.

Later, during the official luncheon at the Palais de L’Elysée, Jackie speaks in French about Louis XVI, the Bourbons, and French geography. De Gaulle replies to JFK: “Your wife knows more French history than any Frenchwoman! ”

Day two, the French Cultural Minister Malraux arranges a tour for the first lady while the president is to visit French historical sites.

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Jacqueline Kennedy with Minister of Culture Andre Malraux (right) as a willing guide, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy enters the Jeu de Paume Museum. Meanwhile, JFK and Dr. Max “ Feelgood” Jacobson is off on a quest to get Jack laid with one of the most sought after French prostitutes from the famous Madame Claude.

But at the last minute, Kennedy begs off, claiming a flare-up of his infamously bad back and saying that he needs to visit a French pain specialist. While they are dressing for the afternoon’s affair the President continues rubbing his back which is the usual way of letting Jackie know that his back is hurting him. Jackie comes into the room from the bathroom. She is totally made up and ready to go. JFK is still in his underwear with the back brace. He’s not going with her. She tells him not to worry; she’ll cover for him like she always does.

Jackie leaves the room and JFK quickly gets out of his back brace. Drops his drawers and quickly goes to the shower. Still wearing a towel, JFK picks up the house phone.
Jack doesn’t feel great. His back pain is excruciating. That’s why, on this trip to Europe, Jack had brings New York physician Max Jacobson along. His moniker is “ Dr. Feelgood. Presidential photographer and friend Mark Shaw mentions Dr. Jacobson to JFK. Jacobson’s “miracle injections” immediately stop JFK’s pain. Jack comments, “I don’t care if it’s horse piss,” when told the drug concoctions were harmful. “It’s the only thing that works.”

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Dr. Feelgood who is staying in the room next door and come over and gives Jack a pick me up amphetamine shot. They both leave the room together

Jacobson and JFK with a black suite leave the back entrance and grab a cab. They skip out on the Secret Service agents. JFK gives the cab driver a piece of paper as they drive away. For this little dalliance, there is a one hour window…. but that’s enough time for JFK. He is having a date with a ‘Claude Girl’, which is the finest of any Paris sex experience. . If JFK has a type, it is the wholesome, snooty, proper, preppy girl who flaunts she is untouchable he can violate. He learns about Madame Claude from Sinatra

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Madame Claude: The owner of the brothel for the rich and famous lives in Paris.

The cab stops at the designated address and both JFK and Jacobson get out of the cab. They are in a middle neighborhood with both homes and apartments. After walking up six flights, the president spends five minutes pounding on the door he thinks will lead to his exciting mystery sex date, only to get no answer. He then knocks on several neighboring doors and gives a few old ladies the surprise of their lives before he dejectedly trudges back downstairs to find Jacobson waiting on a park bench. They both walk into a local café finding the pay phone is located upstairs.

He needs to call Salinger and find out what went wrong. Once in the phone booth he sees that their pay phone requires tokens. JFK then has to slither down the narrow, curving stairwell and request a token from the French bartender, who gives him a curious and dubious look. Neither he nor Jacobson have any francs. JFK has no money at all. Jacobson fishes out a twenty-dollar bill and gives it to the barman who is completely mystified. The doctor motions for him to keep the change.

When Kennedy finally reaches Salinger, it turns out the legendary speechwriter is less proficient with addresses — he had written boulevard de Courcelles instead of rue de Courcelles. Now equipped with the correct address, they both arrive with the designated young lady. While Jacobson takes a walk in the neighborhood, JFK get’s not only his standard 2-minute quickie but also a college girl strip tease show. The President and Jacobson arrive back at the hotel in just under one hour. This European sexcapade took more personal planning and involvement for JFK than setting up the Khrushchev summit.

June 1, 1961

The next night is the big occasion of the three-day visit: a candlelit supper in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palais de Versailles.

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The night of the Versailles dinner, Max visits Jack Kennedy at the Palais des Affaires Estrangères. Jack occupies a suite of rooms called “the King’s Chamber” in the elegant 19th Century palace on the Quai d’Orsay.

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JFK’s main living area during his stay in Paris.
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The president soaks his back in “a gold-plated bathtub the size of a ping pong table. Jokingly he’s told “ Be nice to De Gaulle. He might let you take it home as a souvenir.

Max gives Jack his injection of speed before the formal dinner. He then strolls down the long hallway to the Queen’s Chamber and enters Jackie’s bedroom.

In another part of the room, Jackie’s maid is laying out two different gowns for the evening – one an American design by Oleg Cassini, and the other a French creation by Hubért de Givenchy.

Alexandre leaves the room so she can slip into her gown. But first Jackie motions to Max. She is ready for her shot. The short, dark-haired man with the red cheeks and German accent reaches into his black doctor’s bag and takes out the syringe.

He injects his magic elixir into her buttock. She is ready for Versailles. She takes one last look at the two ball gowns hanging side-by-side…and choses the one she knows will attract the more favorable reaction from the French press and play up her French bloodline. She slips into the Givenchy.

Alexandre returns to finish Jackie’s hair. Not wanting to sit on her Givenchy dress before the dinner begins, she stands as the French stylist stands on a chair to finish her hair.

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Jackie sits in front of a mirror, being pampered over by Alexandre, the famous Parisian hairdresser, and a covey of his assistants getting ready for the formal event.

Jackie says she feels like she can conquer the world and it is no wonder. Dr. Jacobson’s shots are a mixture of amphetamines, vitamins, painkillers, and human placenta. The mysterious physician refers to his particular brand of therapy as “miracle tissue regeneration.”

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First Lady Jackie Kennedy wearing her Givenchy gown dazzles everyone including De Gaulle, at the Palace of Versailles.

Saturday, June 3, 1961

JFK and Jackie arrive in Vienna at 11am. At 12:45 the meeting at the America Embassy residence with Khrushchev begins.

Sunday, June 4, 1961

The Vienna summit with John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev meet for two days. They discuss nuclear tests, disarmament and Berlin.

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JFK and Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna to discuss a nuclear test ban treaty, disarmament of missiles and the Berlin situation.

The Kennedys are staying in the upstairs bedroom of the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Vienna. JFK tells Max Jacobson (Dr. Feelgood) that the meeting could go on for hours with Khrushchev and he cannot afford any complications with his back. “You won’t have that excuse,” Jacobson answers. Max takes out one the syringes and injects Jack with the “magic potion”.

During the summit, Khrushchev tells Kennedy that the Soviet Union will, in December, sign an independent peace treaty with East Germany whereby “all commitments stemming from Germany’s surrender will become invalid”, including the stationing of occupation forces in the city.

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Khrushchev tell Kennedy that Berlin is entirely within East Germany, all American, British and French access to the city, including the corridors across East Germany between West Germany and Berlin will be closed to Allied countries.

Khrushchev adds that “it is up to the U.S. to decide whether there will be war or peace”, that the Soviet decision to sign the treaty is “firm and irrevocable”, and that the treaty will be signed. JFK notes that it will be a cold winter.

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JKF’s Vienna Summit with Nikita Khrushchev doesn’t go well. The bad influence of Dr. “Feelgood” Max Jacobson’s speed injections have Kennedy hyped up and not thinking clearly.

When JFK and Khrushchev emerge several hours later from the embassy’s music room, “Are you OK Mr. President? “ Max asks JFK. “I’m fine Jack snaps back. The presidents advisors too look shaken up and angry coming out of the meeting with the Russian leader.

Jack goes upstairs and is asked by James Reston of the New York Times,“ How did it go?” JFK says.” It was awful.” Jack confesses that it went terribly bad with Khrushchev.

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FK says of the Vienna Summit, “Worst thing in my life. He rolled right over me. He think’s I’m a fool. He thinks I’m weak”

Jack then explains that he thinks Khrushchev believes that because of Jack’s not willing to send in back up troops and planes for the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Russian thinks he’s a pussy. Jack says. “He thinks I have no guts.” JFK thinks a moment and says, “So we’ve got a problem.” Then he adds. “ We have to show Moscow that we will defend our national interests. We have to confront them somewhere and show them we’re tough.

“ We’re going to confront them in Vietnam…

“ We’ll stop them in Vietnam.” JFK

Later that afternoon there is a luncheon at the Russian Embassy hosted by Nikita Khrushchev for the Kennedy’s once the summit is over.

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Despite the fact that Nikita Khrushchev intimidates John Kennedy, it’s Jacqueline who softens the presence of the Russian leader.

By 8:300pm JFK and Jackie arrive in London from Vienna.

Monday, June 5, 1961

JFK & Jackie visit London

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On the second day of the private visit to London, President John F. Kennedy and the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend the christening ceremony of their niece Anna Christina Radziwill, held at Westminster Abbey. An escort of motorcyclists flanks the President’s car as he leaves the christening.

Later that evening the Kennedy’s are dinner guests at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip.

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U.S. President John Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline (left rear) share a smile with Queen Elizabeth after eating dinner at Buckingham Palace on June 5th. The Kennedys were guests of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. This occasion marks the first time an American President has dined at Buckingham Palace since Woodrow Wilson in 1918.

Tuesday, June 6, 1961

JFK returns from London to Andrews AFB alone. Jackie goes on to Greece.

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JFK lands at

Andrews Air Force Base after his trip to Europe and his summit with Nikita Khrushchev.
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At 7 PM he will make a televised speech to the American people about European Trip as well as the summit meeting with the Russian leader.

Thursday-Sunday, June 8,9,10,11, 1961

JFK is in Palm Beach while Jackie is in Greece. He has a brief tryst with long time sex partner Flo Pritchett Smith while in town. Kennedy returns to the White House on June 12.

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JFK has a sexual relationship with Flo Pritchett that dates back to the 1950’s when she was then married to the U.S. Ambassador to Cuba Earl Smith. Kennedy will have an ongoing relationship with Flo until his death.

After the Vienna summit, Jackie visits Greece alone. She tours some historic sites and spends the rest of the holiday at a private villas in the seaside town of Kavouri where she sails on the yacht of the property’s owner, Markos Nomikos. Before leaving for Greece however, Jack warns Jackie’s Secret Service agent Clint Hill, he does not want Jackie to cross paths with Aristotle Onassis.
Hill did as he was told and keeps her away from Mr. Onassis.
Hill writes: ‘I never did figure out a good explanation for President Kennedy’s request to keep Mrs. Kennedy away from Aristotle Onassis other than the fact Mr. Onassis had been in legal trouble with the United States, and perhaps the President was concerned about repercussions should the press have gotten photos of Onassis and Mrs. Kennedy together.
‘On that trip in 1961, Mrs. Kennedy did not cross paths with Aristotle Onassis.’

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Jackie Kennedy takes some quality time away from JFK’s women interludes by going to Greece. She is here to consider her options when it comes to being married to a womanizing sex addict.

When Jackie is away in Greece, White House secretary Pamela Turnure visits JFK at night at the residence. Two others, Priscilla Wear and Jill Cowen, are also secretaries who are known as Fiddle and Faddle. Wear already is the nicknamed Fiddle when she joins the White House staff, so Kennedy aides apply the name Faddle to Cowen. “Fiddle and Faddle are well-endowed and like to swim with JFK in the pool. They wear only white T-shirts that came to their waists showing their nipples. They would have threesomes with JFK.

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(L-R) Jill Cowen “Faddle”, Pamela Turnure, Priscilla Wear “ Fiddle” The three Kennedy White House secretaries that have regular sexual encounters with JFK when Jackie is not in the White House. This will be an ongoing sexual tryst that will last

Wednesday, June 14, 1961

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A custom-built 1961 Lincoln Continental convertible is delivered to the White House for use of President Kennedy. JFK will be assassinated in the car on November 22, 1963.

Also on June 14, JFK from 8pm-10pm cruises the Potomac River on the cabin cruiser Patrick J. He has a little quick sex with Pamela Turnure then a quiet dinner alone while she sits with the ships crew.

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(L) Pamela Turnure, (R) The Patrick J. JFK would invite many of his women mistress for a romantic cruise on the Potomac when Jackie is out of town.

Tuesday, June 27,1961

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(L) Sir Frank Roberts the British Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. meets with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Thursday, July 6, 1961

Communist countries begin an alliance. Moscow, North Korea and the Soviet Union sign a “Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance”, providing that if one of the nations falls into a state of war, the other one will extend military assistance. Five days later, North Korea signs a similar treaty with the People’s Republic of China.

Friday, July 7, 1961

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JFK returns to Hyannis Port and takes a cruise on the Honey Fitz with Jackie and the family. They return to the White House on July 10th at 10am…almost every day at noon while Jackie is away from the White House, JFK takes a swim at pool with White House secretaries Priscilla Wear or Jill Cowen….”Fiddle and Faddle.”

Saturday, July 8, 1961

As the Cold War heats up between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, American defector Lee Harvey Oswald is dissatisfied with life in the Soviet Union. He flies from Minsk to Moscow, then went to the American Embassy and asks for the return of his U.S. Passport, #1733242. His passport is returned, and he, his wife, and his daughter depart for the United States the following year.

Monday, July, 10,1961

Tension continues between the U.S. and Russia. In a secret meeting with Soviet nuclear scientists, Khrushchev announces his decision to resume nuclear testing and to end the freeze that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. has observed since 1958. Khrushchev gives the go-ahead for physicists to test a 100-megaton hydrogen bomb, the largest up to this time.

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The Tzar Bomb explosion by Russia is the most powerful atomic bomb every detonated. Khrushchev will call it the bomb that will “hang over capitalists like the sword of Damocles”

Tuesday, July, 11,1961

The Communist world is making plans for a hostile situation with the Western powers. Five days after signing a friendship and military assistance treaty with the Soviet Union, North Korea signs a similar agreement with the People’s Republic of China. Together, the two treaties establish a balance of power at the 38th parallel, between the northern allies (North Korea, the USSR and China) and the southern allies (South Korea. U.S. and Russian political tension in the world is definitely rising to a boiling point.

But today in Washington, the U.S. is hosting a visit from the President of Pakistan.

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JFK welcomes the President of Pakistan Mohammad Ayub Khan and drives in a motorcade from Andrews Air Force Base to the White House.

Thursday, July 20, 1961

After a morning of meetings with the National Security Council, JFK visits with General Douglas MacArthur about the Berlin Crisis following their luncheon in the White House.

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JFK meets with General Douglas MacArthur in the White House.

Friday, July 21, 1961

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JFK helicopters to Hyannis Port to spend the weekend with the family. He returns to White House on Monday July 24 alone. Kennedy meets Pamela Turnure that evening in the White House swimming pool.

Tuesday, July 25,1961

The Berlin Crisis begins. President Kennedy delivers a nationwide address on American television and radio at 10pm making clear that if the Soviet Union attempts to take control of West Berlin, then the United States will be prepared to go to war, even at the risk of nuclear annihilation.

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In a nationwide TV address, JFK announces that the U.S. will be prepared to go to war with the Soviet Union over the right to help govern Berlin.

“We must have sea and air lift capable of moving our forces quickly and in large numbers to any part of the world.” ….JFK.

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Kennedy announces that he is “ordering that our draft calls be doubled and tripled” to increase the U.S. Army from 875,000 to one million men.

Kennedy then announces, “We have another sober responsibility. To recognize the possibilities of nuclear war in the missile age, without our citizens knowing what they should do and where they should go if bombs begin to fall, would be a failure of responsibility. “In the event of an attack, the lives of those families which are not hit in a nuclear blast and fire can still be saved–if they can be warned to take shelter and if that shelter is available.” It is almost a presidential declaration of a national emergency and nuclear war might be in the not to distant future.

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JFK asks Congress for funding to identify and stock “fallout shelters in case of attack” and upgrade an emergency warning system.

Friday, August 4 1961

JFK takes the Helicopter to Hyannis Port. He meets up with Jackie and Carline and does more weekend boating activities. He returns to the White House on Monday August 7 alone by helicopter. Waiting in the pool is Jill Cowen and Pricilla Wear ( Fiddle and Faddle).

Saturday, August 5, 1961 “ The Berlin Crisis”

At the end of a meeting in Moscow, the Warsaw Pact countries announce they agree unanimously to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany with the motive of ending the occupation of American, British and French troops in Berlin. At the same meeting, Soviet Premier Khrushchev gives East German leader Walter Ulbricht the approval for closing the boundaries of East Berlin with a barbed-wire fence.

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The number of East Germans fleeing into West Berlin reaches 1,500 per day.
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On August 12, 1961 more than 3000 East Germans escape from East Berlin in one day.

Tuesday-Thursday, August 8,9,10, 1961

Judith Campbell is admitted to the White House West gate. She is there to talk about Giancana and Castro. Supposedly Giancana is also in Baltimore at this time to secretly meet with JFK.

August 13,1961

Construction of the Berlin Wall begins at 2:00am in Berlin, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.

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East Berlin bricklayers begin the Berlin Wall construction under the watchful eyes of East German soldiers.

Barbed-wire fences are raised, trenches along streets at the border are made, and the closing of railroad lines are made to seal off East Berlin from West.

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U.S. Army tanks face off against Soviet tanks in a divided Berlin, Germany.

The corridors from West Berlin to West Germany are not disturbed, and the other three Allied powers do not move troops or protest the action. (The wall will eventually be demolished on 9 November 1989.)

Thursday, August 17, 1961

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy agree and sign an authorization for “microphone surveillance,” making it appear the U.S. Department of Justice approves illegal eavesdropping.

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J. Edgar Hoover and Bobby Kennedy hate each other but one of the only things they do agree is on secret and illegal microphone surveillance of the American people.

Friday, August 18, 1961

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East German leader Walter Ulbricht gives the order for border troops to brick up the entrances and windows of the windows and the ground floor of the houses.
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Buildings on the southern side of Bernauer Strasse in Berlin are bricked off, closing any escape from houses or apartment buildings.

Civilian workers brick by brick, build the Berlin Wall under the watchful eye of the border guards, who have orders to shoot anyone who attempts to jump over to West Berlin.

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East German guards carry the body of a man who was shot when he tried to cross the Berlin Wall.

Sunday, August 20, 1961

To show U.S. support for West Berlin and reinforce the 11,000 allied soldiers already stationed there, a convoy of 1,500 U.S. Army troops is sent by Kennedy on a 110-mile (180 km) trip through East Germany, along the autobahn from Helmstedt to Berlin.

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More than 100 trucks with men, weapons and supplies are in formation and move down the Helmstedt-Berlin corridor guarded with jeeps and M-41 tanks.

The Soviet Army honors previous agreements to permit American, British and French armies to use the Helmstedt-Berlin highway as a corridor,

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The 1st Battle Group, 18th Infantry Regiment of the 18th U.S. Infantry is met in West Berlin by U.S. Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. Pressure is building in the White House over the Berlin Crisis.

Thursday, August 24, 1961

Judith Campbell is on her way to the White House. There is an unofficial back door to the Oval Office that is supervised by Kenny O’Donnell. He makes sure Campbell is safely installed in the family quarters. There on the big bed Kennedy presents her with a diamond-and-ruby brooch. “I’m glad you’re feeling guilty,” Campbell tells Kennedy for not seeing her for some time. The President reassures her: “Let this remind you that if my intentions go astray from time to time, my heart is in the right place.”

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The FBI agents following Sam Giancana naturally see Judith Campbell in his company. They began watching her apartment, and follow her when she goes shopping. They hound her about Sam, and she is terrified.

Judith Campbell later recalls: “I called Jack immediately to tell him that the FBI had been to see me, asking all sorts of questions about Sam. I told him I had said I knew nothing about Sam’s business affairs. Jack reassured me. He said, don’t worry. They won’t do anything to you. And don’t worry about Sam. You know he works for us.’ He told me that over and over: ‘don’t worry. Sam works for us.”

Mary Meyer, a long time Kennedy mistress signs in to see the president around 7.30 p.m.

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Between 1960 and 1963 Mary Meyers will visit the White House two to three times a week when Jackie is out of town.

Friday, August 25, 1961

JFK takes the Helicopter to Hyannis Port. He meets up with Jackie and Carline and does weekend family activities. He returns to the White House on alone

Tuesday, August 29, 1961

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JFK between 8am and 11am cruises the Potomac aboard the Honey Fitz with George Smathers, Helen Chavchavadzi and Magda Moyano, two very attractive women.

Thursday, August 31, 1961

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After a busy morning in meetings with various congressmen and senators, JFK and LBJ take a private walk on the front lawn of the White House.

Friday-Tuesday, Sept 1-5, 1961

JFK is in Hyannis Port visiting his father with Jackie and Caroline. Jackie and Caroline did not fly with him either to or from Hyannis Port but met him there. JFK returns to the White House via helicopter with Bobby on Tuesday September 5.

Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1961

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JFK entertains on the Honey Fitz not only with family but also with mistresses. Today he is cruising the Potomac on the Honey Fitz with Magda Moyana at 7:30pm.

Wednesday Sept 13, 1961

JFK along with Bobby Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover meet in the Oval Office. Judith Campbell is the topic.

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Hoover mentions off the record Hoover the Judith Campbell situation to JFK and Bobby Kennedy.

Tuesday Sept. 19,1961

JFK starts the morning off with a Legislature Breakfast with LBJ, Senator Mike Mansfield, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Senator George Smathers plus others. Afterwards there is an Armed Services Committee meeting then lunch. In the afternoon, JFK helicopters to MATS terminal to greet the arriving President of Peru Dr. Don Manuel Prado.

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The President of Peru and JFK chat in the backseat of JFK’s Lincoln Limonene in Washington D.C.
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The Kennedy’s host a formal dinner for the President of Peru and his wife in the White House.

Monday Sept 25, 1961

JFK spends Sunday evening in at the Carlyle Hotel in New York. Then on Monday morning he drives to the United Nations building where he addresses the General Assembly.

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JFK addresses The General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City.

Wednesday Sept 27, 1961

JFK announces the replacement of Allen Dulles with John McCone as CIA Director.

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JFK replaces Allen Dulles (M) with John McCone (R) as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Kennedys spend the weekend at the Hammersmith Farm where they cruise on the Honey Fitz. JFK returns to the White House on Monday Oct. 2nd at 5:00pm.

Wednesday Oct 4, 1961

JFK arrives to the White House office at 9am and after meetings with Kenny O’Donnel and General Maxwell Taylor he then helicopters over to Andrews Air Force Base to greet the President and Prime Minister of Sudan Mr. Abboud.

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JFK and the Prime Minister of Sudan Mr. Abboud motorcade from Andrew Air Force Base to the White House.

After a motorcade to the Capital, JFK and Jackie host Mr. Abboud to a formal dinner at the White House. President Abboud gives to JFK a pair of rhinoceros tusk bookends and Kennedy presents a Winchester rifle to Mr. Abboud.

Saturday Oct 7, 1961

JFK takes the Helicopter to the Hammersmith Farm where the family spends time cruising on the Honey Fitz. JFK leaves for Dallas, arriving at Love Field at 3:45 on Monday Oct.9 to visit Sam Rayburn in the Hospital. He then flies back to the White House and is in the pool with Pamela Turnure by 10:30pm.

Friday October 27,1961

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JFK and Jackie attend the International Horse Show at the National Guard Armory in Washington D.C. Jackie presents the Presidents Cup to Carlos Damm Jr. of Argentina.

Tuesday Nov. 2, 1961

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JFK delivers that state of the Union message to the American people via television.

Saturday, November 11, 1961

There is a White House dinner dance in honor of Jackie’s sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, who marries Polish nobleman, Prince Stanislas (“Stash”) Radziwill. Fiat auto executive, Gianni Agnelli and his wife, Marella, are also honorees at this affair. It is a dinner dance for about 80, with Lester Lanin’s band providing the music.

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Oleg Cassini introduces Jackie to the Twist, the hip-gyrating dance sensation that is sweeping the country.

But Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, still protecting the White House from disapproving social critics, denies the Twist is part of the evening’s festivities.

The champagne flows until 4 a.m. and many partygoers got hopelessly drunk. Lyndon Johnson falls on Helen Chavchavadze as they are dancing. “He slides to the floor and lays like a fox,” recalls a guest from Manhattan.

Monday Nov 13, 1961

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World renown Cellist Pablo Cassals plays for a White House dinner for the Governor of Puerto Rico.

Thursday, November 16, 1961

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President travels to Seattle Washington to give an address at the University of Washington

In the evening the President speaks at a dinner given in honor of Senator Warren Magnuson. Larry Newman is the Secret Service agent, guarding the president at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle when a local sheriff comes out of the elevator with two “”high-class call girls” and proclaims that he is taking them to the presidential suite. Newman tries to stop them, but presidential aide Dave Powers intervenes to usher the hookers right in. A hotel policeman asks does this go on all the time? Powers replies that the group travels during the day and this is what happens during the night.

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JFK and Dave Powers. Dave Powers who is JFK’s Special Assistant is the person most responsible for hiding Kennedy’s extra marital sex partners from Jackie and the press.

Friday, Nov 17, 1961

JFK leaves Washington State for Phoenix Arizona. He is there to attend a dinner in honor of Senator Carl Hayden.

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(L-R) Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Carl Hayden, and President John F. Kennedy are at the dinner in honor of the Arizona Senator

Saturday, Nov 18, 1961

JFK flies to Bonham, Texas for the funeral of Senator Sam Rayburn.

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(L-R) President JFK, Vice President LBJ, former Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, and former President Harry S. Truman are seated together at the funeral of Senator Sam Rayburn of Texas.

JFK leaves Texas at 3:30pm for Los Angeles. He’s arrives to his suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

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At 7:50pm JFK attends a Democratic Fund Raising Dinner at the Palladium with singer Frank Sinatra, Nelson Riddle and Nat King Cole providing the entertainment.

On that same day, 18,000 U.S. military advisors arrive in South Vietnam.

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U.S. military advisors arrive in South Vietnam as part of the escalation in the Southeast Asian conflict.

Sunday, Nov 19, 1961

JFK spends the day at the beach home of Peter Lawford in Malibu.

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When JFK travels to California he generally stays with Peter Lawford. Here he has privacy to meet and have sex with Hollywood actresses and starlets.

JFK’s lunch guest is Miss Angie Dickinson. Later in the day they have a sexual encounter.

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Actress Angie Dickenson meets up with JFK at Peter Lawford’s residence in Malibu.

Tuesday, November 21, 1961

JFK, Robert Kennedy, CIA Director John McCone, Richard Goodwin, and Brigadier General Lansdale meet to discuss the progress of Operation Mongoose, a CIA plan to overthrow Fidel Castro.

Tuesday, November 28, 1961

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JFK with Allen Dulles visit the headquarters of the CIA in Langley, Virginia. Kennedy wants to remove Dulles when possible.

Saturday, December 2,1961

The Cold War gets even colder. In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announces he is a Marxist–Leninist, and that Cuba will adopt socialism.

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In1959, Fidel Castro at the beginning of the Cuban Revolution declares that he is not a communist but by 1961 he declares that he is a Marxist.

Tuesday, Dec. 5, 1961

JFK attends a dinner for the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame. Speaker at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NYC is Bob Hope. JFK spends the night at the Carlyle Hotel.

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Jackie Kennedy receives an honorary trophy from Bob Hope during the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame dinner in New York City.

Wednesday Dec. 6, 1961

JFK flies from NYC to Palm Beach for the weekend. He returns on Dec 9 and is back at the White House by 4:30pm in time to take a swim with Pamela Turnure.

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When Jackie’s away from the White House, her secretary Pamela Turnure swims and has sex with Jack Kennedy in the White House swimming pool.

Friday Dec. 15, 1961
JFK and Jackie fly to Puerto Rico. Pamela Turnure is on board.
When JFK and Jackie arrive in Puerto Rico the crowd goes wild for the First Lady.

Jack and Jackie fly from Puerto Rico to Venezuela

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President Romulo Betancourt greets President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline as they arrive in Venezuela.

Sunday, Dec.17, 1961

Jack and Jackie fly from Venezuela to Colombia

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On the last leg of their Latin American tour, JFK and Jackie are greeted in by Colombian President Lleras. JFK promises more U.S. economic commitment to Latin American countries during his trip to South America.

Monday Dec18, 1961

JFK arrives in Palm Beach from a trip to Venezuela and Columbia.
He travels to Washington DC for a Security Council meeting then back to Palm Beach to see his ailing father before leaving to the Bahamas

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JFK mentions to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan during his visit to Bermuda, “ If I don’t have sex by the third day, I get terrible headaches.”

Friday Dec 22, 1961

JFK leaves Bermuda and flies to West Palm Beach to meet up with Jackie. Pamela Turnure is with him on the plane.

Wednesday Dec 28, 1961

JFK visits the home of Ambassador E. T. Smith and Flo Pritchett Smith in Palm Beach.

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JFK spends the rest of the year with Jackie and Caroline in Palm Beach visiting his father in St. Mary’s Hospital. The family takes occasional cruises on the Honey Fitz.