John Fitzgerald Kennedy had two sides. Publicly, the 35th President of the United States was well-liked and respected. But, on the private side, he was an inveterate seducercontinuing his female conquests, even after his marriage to Jackie in 1953. His relationship with the former First Lady who died in 1994 is also at the heart of the work “Jackie & John, an impossible couple”, written by Bernard Pascuito and published on November 2 by Editions du Rocher. The author relates in particular that Jackie Kennedy was perfectly aware that she was married to an unfaithful man one of his favorite pastimes was “running girls”according to the expression used by the man who was assassinated 60 years ago, on November 22, 1963.
Faced with JFK’s behavior, the mother of two children “endeavoured”, to begin with, “to have fun”, wrote Bernard Pascuito. So when she saw him “deploying her charms to seduce a young woman, she said of her husband that he became ‘all on fire'”. Jackie Kennedy even had found a nickname: Jack the Magician. The former First Lady of the United States also knew how to be ignorant about her husband’s infidelities, even if “his resentment grew heavier as time went on.”
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Jackie Kennedy’s questions about her relationship with JFK
Jackie’s jokes about it ended up being replaced by a barrage of questions. She had notably confided in a friend, during discussions recounted in the book “Jackie & John, an impossible couple”. “I’m so different from the women he’s usually attracted to. Why did he get attached to me?“, or “How can you live with a husband you love who is inevitably unfaithful?”she asked herself in particular, filled with suffering “in his pride”. Jackie Kennedy ended up accepting her situation as a regularly deceived woman, bitter as she observed that ultimately, “among the Kennedys, adultery was a common practice and that his father-in-law had given his sons, in this case, very bad examples”, wrote author Bernard Pascuito. The late First Lady then managed to find comfort in literature and poetry, before finally rebuilding her love life, notably alongside Aristotle Onassis.
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