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29 March 2024

Before Bill Clinton... there was this JFK

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Mimi Alford, a former President John Kennedy intern, has published a book, "Once upon a Secret," about her 18-month affair with the president that started in 1962. Alford, now 69, was 19 years old at the time. The number of Kennedy's extramarital affairs is the stuff of legends, including movie starlets such as Marilyn Monroe and mob mistress Judith Campbell.

 

Marilyn Monroe with President John F. Kennedy, center, and Robert Kennedy, left, at a Democratic fundraiser on May 19, 1962 at a home in New York City. Monroe had come straight from Madison Square Garden where she had sung "Happy Birthday" to the president. (AP)

This April 1962 actress Marilyn Monroe on the set of "Something's Got To Give," in Los Angeles. (AP)

1963 Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter, six-year-old Caroline, arrive at their new home in the Georgetown section of Washington two weeks after her husband was slain in Dallas, Texas. (AP)

President John F. Kennedy works in the Oval Office at the White House in this 1963 file photo by White House photographer Robert Knudsen provided by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. The final 45 hours of White House recordings secretly taped during Kennedy's time in office were released by the library on January 24, 2012 offering researchers unique perspective into the last three months of his administration. (REUTERS)

First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy attends dinner with the Prime Minister of Japan at the Japanese Embassy June 21, 1961 in Washington, DC. (GETTY/GALLO)

President John F. Kennedy speaks at a press conference January 24, 1963. (GETTY/GALLO)

Oct. 5, 1960 Jacqueline Kennedy poses at her typewriter where she writes her weekly "Candidate's Wife" column in her Georgetown home in Washington. President John F. Kennedy openly scorned the notion of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson succeeding him in office, according to a book of newly released interviews with his widow, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. (AP)

President John F. Kennedy (REUTERS)

Jacqueline Kennedy and her husband John F. Kennedy attend the Orange Bowl in Miami, FL January 29, 1962 where JFK addressed the 2506th Brigade after the Bay of Pigs. (GETTY/GALLO)