Weekly pictures of John F. Kennedy & friends.
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A clarification of some tags:
Childhood - Dates from the persons' birth until around the marriage of their first spouse. It tends to end in the mid 40's to the mid 50's.
Pre-Camelot - Implies a period between any of the persons' in the pictures marriage date and officially ends on Election Day of 1960.
Quotes - Rather than a 'standard' quote from a Kennedy, it's usually a story of an incident often in their words.
Authors misc - My own personal notes that may or may not relate to the subject matter at hand.
_____ Family - It branches off to a specific thread of the Kennedy clan not immediately the children of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald.
1st Generation - Refers to the likes of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and other parents of that generation or even earlier, like Jack's grandfather, John Fitzgerald.
The elusive Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. at Harvard; older brother to Jack, Bobby and Teddy, and a great influence to all of them not just emotionally, but his death would shift the natural order of their roles in the family very drastically.
“A young John Kennedy aboard ship as he arrives in New York in September of 1938 after a summer vacation in Europe. He was in his junior year at Harvard.”
Grace Kelly and Jacqueline Kennedy. Grace Kelly once gave an adorable interview to the JFK Library in 1965 about an amusing experience she had with the then-Senator John F. Kennedy in the 50’s.
GALLICO: Was [the trip to the White House with Prince Rainer in 1962] the first time that you had met the President?
GRACE: Actually, no. The first time was before he became the President, during that year he was in the hospital in New York with his back. I had been to a dinner party where I had met Mrs. Kennedy and her sister [Lee Bouvier Radziwill] the first time. They asked me to go to the hospital with them to pay a visit and help cheer him up. They wanted me to go into his room and say I was the new night nurse.
GALLICO: That was a quaint idea. Did you?
GRACE: Well I hesitated! I was terribly embarrassed. Eventually I was sort of pushed into his room by the two girls. I introduced myself, but he had recognized me at once and couldn’t have been sweeter or more quick to put me at ease.
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Kathleen with her mother, Rose, and her older sister, Rosemary Kennedy, being received for a debutante ball in Britain (I believe) during the mid-1930’s.
Senator John Kerry with former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
By Luis Dourado.
JFK at USN base in Norfolk Virginia 06.14.1962 at the periscope of the USS Thomas A Edison, which was the 3rd Ethan Allen Class Balistic Missile Sub that served as Balistic Nissile sub through 1961-81, then served as an attack sub 81-83. Decommissioned 12.01.1983, it was the only USN sub to have a piano (a Steinway) on board (1961-83). The USN officer is JFK Naval aide Tazwell Sheppard.
I was going to make today Awkward Pictures Of The Kennedys Day, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I’ll be at Coachella this weekend, so no updates unfortunately until Tuesday.
Mrs. Kennedy in one of God’s greatest creations, the revolving door.