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Jackie and Bobby Kennedy in passionate, doomed four-year affair

Bobby's wife knew Irish Catholic Kennedys would not let Bobby leave her


Jackie Kennedy with Bobby Kennedy and JFK Jnr
Jackie Kennedy with Bobby Kennedy and JFK Jnr
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He backs up his claims with several interviews and pinpoints the following events where the couple were caught by others.

* In May 1964, the couple disappeared below decks during a dinner cruise on the presidential yacht the USS Sequoia. JFK's famed speechwriter Arthur Schlesinger said:  "When they returned, they looked as chummy and relaxed as a pair of Cheshire cats."

* At Christmas 1964, Jackie was seen sunbathing topless with Bobby at her side at the Kennedys' Palm Beach estate.

* In July 1966, U.S. official Kenneth McKnight found found Bobby sitting on a sofa -- with Jackie "straddling his lap, her arms around his neck."

U.S. author Gore Vidals says that the one person Jackie ever loved was Robert Kennedy, while Truman Capote says the affair was "passionate," but ultimately doomed.

By 1967, as it became clear that Bobby would never leave Ethel, Jackie began dating the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.

She was thinking of marrying him but Robert asked her to wait until after the presidential primaries.

RFK told JFK's former press secretary, Pierre Salinger, "She'll marry that man over my dead body."

Tragically, he was proved right.

Mrs. Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis four months after Bobby's death.


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