An explosive new book from DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan reveals the secrets of the tumultuous marriage of President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie.
In a major series starting today in the Mail, ‘Don’t Ask: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed’ opens the lid on the scandalous past of the famous American family.
The first exclusive excerpt begins with a visceral account of the moment JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963, before detailing his many extramarital affairs, the pain of Jackie’s miscarriages and lost babies, and the truth about their sex life.
Here – from underage mistresses to sexually transmitted diseases and orgies in the White House and the Mediterranean – we describe the ten most shocking revelations:
An explosive new book from DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan reveals the secrets of the tumultuous marriage of President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie. (Image: John F. Kennedy and Jackie arriving in Dallas on November 22, 1963 – the day JFK was assassinated).
1.
After the assassination, Jackie spent her last moments alone with JFK’s corpse at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, intimately kissing his father. whole naked body: ‘his mouth, his chest, his leg, his penis.’
2.
When JFK learned that Jackie had suffered a third-trimester stillbirth on August 23, 1956 – a daughter she named Arabella – he refused to return home from a holiday with “starlets and bikini babes” in the south of France.
‘It’s no use crying over spilled milk. The baby is lost,” he callously told his brother Bobby on the phone.
3.
Jackie and JFK had sex the night before his death. They hoped to conceive again after their son Patrick died just 39 hours after birth in August. But on the morning of his murder, she got her period.
‘Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed’ explains the scandalous past of the famous American family.
4.
JFK “almost certainly” infected Jackie with multiple sexually transmitted diseases, including the asymptomatic chlamydia that likely caused her fertility problems and made her unable to sustain so many pregnancies.
5.
Jackie toyed with the idea of divorce and made a stunning deal with JFK’s father Joe.
He agreed to pay her $1 million if she stayed in the marriage – “and millions more if Jack ever gave her a sexually transmitted disease again.”
6.
JFK sent a depressed Jackie to an elite psychiatric hospital, Valleyhead, Massachusetts, in 1953. There she received three rounds of electroshock therapy in just one week.
The treatment “made her shake so violently that her bones sounded like they were breaking,” Callahan reveals.
7.
Jackie knew about JFK’s infamous “pool parties,” which were held almost daily at the White House.
The parties were often attended by his brothers Ted and Bobby, as well as a large number of young female staffers.
Jackie and JFK had sex the night before his death. They were hoping to become pregnant again after Jackie recently suffered another miscarriage. But on the morning of his murder, her period started.
When JFK learned that Jackie had suffered a third-trimester stillbirth of a daughter she named Arabella on August 23, 1956, he refused to return home from a vacation with “starlets and bikini babes” in the south of France.
8.
19-year-old White House intern secretary Mimi Beardsley lost her virginity to JFK four days after starting her job.
JFK “got her drunk,” Callahan reveals, and then had sex with her in the bed he shared with his wife. Beardsley and JFK had an eighteen-month affair between 1962 and 1963.
9.
JFK got a 15-year-old babysitter pregnant when he was a senator, which Jackie knew about. In fact, his infidelity was so great that Jackie suspected that JFK had slept with her own sister, Lee Radziwill.
10.
Despite this ‘high libido’, JFK was terrible in bed. Jackie herself said: ‘He just goes too fast and falls asleep.’
Many of his lovers were also dissatisfied. “No kissing, no build-up… no fun. He never lasted more than three minutes and didn’t seem to enjoy sex,” Callahan wrote.