104 Comments

• Maureen15 | Aug 28, 2012, 12:30 PM EDT

  If this book destroy your dreams of Came-a-lot...you must have been living under a rock for the last 30 years. Welcome to reality!

• BARNEYKX | May 17, 2012, 05:58 AM EDT

  These people in power think they are entitled to do those things

• Madeliene | Mar 31, 2012, 12:06 PM EDT

  Camelot was because of Jackie she was ALWAY'S a LADY no matter what! ( a republican)

• Chuck E. Arla | Mar 03, 2012, 12:50 PM EST

  Kennedys? To hell with the whole phony lot of them

• skerryc | Feb 19, 2012, 11:34 AM EST

  Never creases to amaze me how those who knew him love to put a stain on his name. This woman is making money off a dead President. I remember right after Jackie died, some woman from Sweden wrote a book claiming she was secretly married to President Kennedy. That book was a flop. I've also heard that Kennedy had other children, too. Now, I'm waiting to hear other nasty stories about him. I just hope no one buys this book. Also, within the past two years, someone wrote a book claiming that A. Lincoln was a homosexual. A slanderous tale. People need to get a life.

• bfg9000 | Feb 18, 2012, 02:45 AM EST

  @jetsnoone: Yeah, like the Church's view on abortion wasn't completely out of sync with the real world! The fact is that abortion is sometimes necessary, and being so single-minded about it is just unrealistic.

• jetsnoone | Feb 17, 2012, 01:52 PM EST

  Buffalobrave, unfortuneately the Kennedys don't need any help to besmirch their reputations.... while I would like to admire them I can't ---- because as an Irish-Catholic myself, I see them as a bunch of abortion supporters--- The current generation of Kennedys has no respect for Catholic positions on the major issues of our day.

• rainbowbrew | Feb 16, 2012, 03:30 PM EST

  Read somewhere that Jackie was really mad and she decided to have a few flings herself while inthe White House (probably in John's bedroom)

• Buffalobrave | Feb 16, 2012, 07:22 AM EST

  The haters of anything Catholic or anything Kennedy are at it again. They assassinated him physically, now they want to assassinate his character. JFK is not alive to defend himself, so now they are picking at his dead bones to smear him even more. Why did this woman wait until now to write her book?

• abhainn | Feb 15, 2012, 01:18 AM EST

  Niall O'Dowd, why did you find it necessary in the past to subscribe to a media-created "Camelot" fantasty? You're a journalist: you are professionally obliged to be more hard-nosed and realistic than this. By the way, sex is not sordid.

• gobdawpaddy | Feb 13, 2012, 08:38 PM EST

  skydiver claims JFK and his family were a bunch of drunks. While Teddy's drinking is well documented, JFK and Bobby have never been tarred with that brush. I am fairly well read on the Kennedy presidency and my understanding is that he enjoyed an occasional bottle of Heinecken with Dave Powers and Kenny O'Donnell. Perhaps someone here can shed light on this??

• warrenpoint00 | Feb 13, 2012, 08:18 PM EST

  Amasing Niall, and your other great friend Bill Clinton is also a leech, right under the nose of his wife Hilary. Difference is you invested in the Clintons, you might make a buck eventually on the Clintons I doubt infidelity will destroy your fantasy with them.

• merefalow | Feb 13, 2012, 05:48 PM EST

  bogsidebunny,bad case of miximitoses you have there.

• pattbaa | Feb 13, 2012, 04:10 PM EST

  It is ironic that people who now reject John Kennedy because of deplorable personal acts are Right for the Wrong reason-- the criterion for judging Kennedy should be his performance as President . It is also ironic that Kennedy be likened to "Camelot" for the wrong reason; Kennedy is an " historical legend", one similiar to "Camelot" , beacuse of his brilliant Presidency. Instead , "Camelot" is very fitting indeed because the Kennedy people revere NEVER EXISTED!! ; A Kennedy of matchless brilliance who conducted the Affairs of State with un-erring judgement and infallible wisdom. A hoax, not a "myth" , is a Kennedy who prevented a nuclear war by acting with alacrity and decisiveness during the Cuban missle crisis. The truth is that Kennedy was being severly critized for his failure to respond to the Cuban threat long before he decided to act .It has been necessary for Kennedy sycophants to ignore the true heros of the crisis, Senator Keating and CIA Director John McCone. From "Legacy os Ashes"-- "Year after the world believed that only Kennedy saved the Nation; McCone's role was obscured--.The Kennedy's turned on McCone when he let it be known in Washington that he had been the sole sentinel on the Cuban missles." " 'Wisdom contends that the crisis transformed Kennedy , making a brilliant leader out of a callow President . It is a myth , based on an inaccurate and falsified historical record---" Greenwich Connecticut , USA

• MotherIrish | Feb 13, 2012, 10:20 AM EST

  All of Joe's boys were morally corrupt as was Joe. Rose tolerated the philandering for the sake of position as did the wifes of the sons. There never was a Camelot - it was the figment of a most imaginative press - which extends to the current democratic president

• gobdawpaddy | Feb 13, 2012, 09:34 AM EST

  'Yea well he got his brother off a murder charge as well if you for4got about Chapaquid...' The intelligence of certain posters here never ceases to amaze me. the Chapaquidick incident occurred on July 19th, 1969, six years after JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963.

• IrelandNorth | Feb 13, 2012, 07:54 AM EST

  It's understandable that JFK attained a high degree of adultation from Roman Catholic Irish-America, and Ireland even also. But how fair is it to beatify or canonise fallible human beings to the status of sainthood, any more than to pedestalise women as paragons of sexual virtue. This is not to justify any indiscretions, merely to understand them. For to understand all IS to forgive all!

• MORIORDAN | Feb 13, 2012, 12:31 AM EST

  I am always amazed at how easily some Irish people sign on to all the slander about the Kennedys. We must not forget - first of all - President Kennedy is dead and cannot say a word in his own defense - besides he was the first Irish American Catholic president of the United States and the people who feel entitled to that honor and privilege have never forgiven him for invading their space. It wasn't enough that they killed him, they have to kill what he stood for and accomplished. Can we start to ignore the rubbish and remember him as we knew him and all he did for human rights and for peace and for people who were born disabled as well as putting poserty and hunger in American on the map. He drafted the most comprehensive legislation for civil rights for African Americans and he established the Presidents Commission on Mental Retardation and he put money into education, and started the Peace Corp and many other programs that have helped people who are disadvantaged in our society. I hope this lady's book doesn't sell a copy because I do believe she really wants to make a bundle with her crappy book - I would like to ask her how come she didn't get pregnant if she lost her virginity with him and continued to see him - she must have planned on having sex with him. In Clint Hills book about his time as the secret service person assigned to Kennedy he said the only two times Kennedy was ever in the company of Marilyn Monroe was that time in New York where she sang happy birthday to him and one other time in the home of the Lawfords and she left both times way before he left and other members of the family and friends were there also. So let's stop bashing the Kennedys and put things in perspective and see this lady as an opportunist who wants to sell her book. Mary

• Madeliene | Feb 12, 2012, 06:09 PM EST

  whand no-one ever knew what she was really thinking. RIP Mrs kennedy what made it Camelot was Jackie. Jackie was at ALL times- a lady-Her dignity was impressive, her style was impressive, and no one ever knew what she was really thinking.. RIP Mrs Kennedy a Republican

• melindamc56 | Feb 12, 2012, 06:07 PM EST

  There was already a book out called The Dark Side of Camelot that told a different story that what that family wanted you to hear. It's a good read. Been out for a while. I'm no big fan of the Kennedys and I am tored of them being referred to as the american royalty. what a load of garbage.

• bfg9000 | Feb 12, 2012, 02:16 PM EST

  Disgusting? Sordid? You don't say anything about rape, so as far as we know they only had some consensual fun. What's wrong with that? Stop being so judgemental: everyone has at least a few skeletons in their closet, especially politicians. JFK being possibly less corrupt than the others doesn't make him an absolutely virtuous saint, seeing him this way is what's wrong in the first place and you have only yourself to blame for it.

• Porickseantuny | Feb 12, 2012, 01:56 PM EST

  The real embarrassment is that people think that JFK would act on their behalf. Would someone who betrays wedding vows by taking advantage of a love struck teenager have any compunction about violating his vow to uphold the constitution if the issue involved his political benefit versus your rights?

• Bernadett | Feb 12, 2012, 12:51 PM EST

  It seems they were not up to much as for the catholic thing well that speaks for itself.

• Murph46 | Feb 12, 2012, 09:30 AM EST

  They did enough electroshck on his sister to power a city b4 they lobotomized her!

• allan07 | Feb 12, 2012, 08:56 AM EST

  The man tried to protray himself as a devout Roman Catholic whilst getting up to all that stuff. Hypocrite on a grand scale. Another example of a so called Irish-Amercian. A joker to be honest. Camelot was made up as a cover-up to hide the light being shone upon his evil empire. That so called other Irish-Amercian Bill Clinton also had many skeletons in the cupboard. Must be in their genes. Shouldn't they just keep it in their jeans?

• mfinucane | Feb 12, 2012, 08:07 AM EST

  why would anyone be surprised? i'm not.the man was worse then a rutting pig from a family of rutting pigs.

• skydiver15000 | Feb 12, 2012, 06:24 AM EST

  Oh and we forgot about the murder of Monroe as well!!! There was enough evidence to prosecute them but because he was President a lot of it disapeared.... It is about time the truth comes out. Now we need to bring out the truth about the Clintons and Whitewater.... There were deaths involved there, missing documents, lies and criminal activity there as well...

• skydiver15000 | Feb 12, 2012, 06:18 AM EST

  Yea well he got his brother off a murder charge as well if you for4got about Chapaquid... They were a bunch of womenizing murdering drunks.... It wasn't "Camelot" it was Camel-toe" that is what they were all about.... They need to take his worthless butt off our money as well...

• stanJames | Feb 12, 2012, 04:17 AM EST

  Our president was murdered, I was at Andrews Airforce base in MD when it happened and where they brought his body back. And some piece of garbage writes a book, true false, whatever. Knowing he cant refute his claim. this is alla bout sensationalism and money. Capitalism at is lowest. On this one I wish the writer of the book that she should take her bible and go try and sell it in the main square of Rihyad, Saudia land. Sometime sharia does have some good ideas. Especailly for xtian women. Come on IC, this never should have been published by you. shame shame shame. Of with the writers head.

• warlocks | Feb 12, 2012, 01:58 AM EST

  Hey i saw the story on TV last week about JACK KENNEDY and MiMi Aliford but why did it take this long to Blow the Sox off the Saint Jack Kennedy Perfect Family Man .was it for the Money ? Most of us already knew Jack & his Brothers were balling Marilyn Monroe. This Story is just another notch in The Kennedy Male conquests, The apple didn't fall far from their Father Joseph Kennedy . ===Like Father Like Sons!! you cant make a silk perse from a sow's Ear .

• cillowen | Feb 12, 2012, 12:07 AM EST

  women get giddy where power is involved. they'll do anything for the honor of being chosen. Fear is another gotcha situation be it on safari or with seamen on ships. Didn't the UK girlies go big for the candy bar and nylons tendered by the amerikansis during the war(s). Nice guys even brought them home.

• Carolynirish | Feb 11, 2012, 11:41 PM EST

  Is Mimi proud of what she did-he didn't rape her she didn't say no- to anything.Her morals are questionable too! What does she really want? Why did she wait till now? JFK is dead, struck down by a bullet. He can't respond to this.

• LacarourSeanB | Feb 11, 2012, 09:28 PM EST

  It is curious that it's only now that this book comes out. It comes out not merely well after the fact but furthermore well after so many other facts in a similar vein have been out for a generation. So why now? On the face of it, that alone raises legitimate questions as to Mimi Alford's motive and consequently raises questions as to the veracity of her allegations. Sounds prima facie as if someone is looking for a quick and easy payday. That is not necessarily saying that it may not be true but again, suspicions as to legitimacy seem legitimate. I'd need to know more before I could even so much as speculate about this and without that more I won't weigh in one way or the other...and I won't read it either. There's too much seriousness that needs to be attended to and focusing on yellow journalism and salacious gossip about a man who we know moved in such directions anyway and has been gone for almost 50 years serves no other purpose than to waste time in idle gossip. Time and resources spent here that should be dedicated elsewhere. I see no value in this endeavor.

• SingleDonald | Feb 11, 2012, 08:35 PM EST

  I will again say that 1) Yes, JFK was indecent, but 2) This was not an impeachable offense. In that era, virginity meant more than it does today, so what he did was more morally repulsive than it would be today. I admire Jacquie. She raised her son, John, to respect the female gender! She wasn't naive to believe he would have his 1st experience, on his wedding night. Yet, by distancing John from his cousins, she did succeed in him having much more respect for women than his cousins/uncles/father/grandfather ever had!

• noracoyne | Feb 11, 2012, 07:21 PM EST

  hi, its hard to think much about this woman.not much there.its easy for latter generations to forget the other side of JFK.he was 4f because of his health.he used his fathers influnce to get him into the navy.his pt109 was sunk by the japanese .he risked his life many times in the oil burning water to save many of his men while enduring great pain because of his back who will "cast the first stone"

• merefalow | Feb 11, 2012, 07:21 PM EST

  get off his case,one of the best,they hate the Kennedy,s and are always trying to denigrate,at least he was a real man,not like brit mp,s who not only screw the general population but GENERALLY can be found happily screwing each other,its taught in public schools apparently.

• noracoyne | Feb 11, 2012, 07:13 PM EST

  hi

• oaklongan | Feb 11, 2012, 07:00 PM EST

  Oh, the IRONY...THAT THIS EXPOSE BOOK SHOULD COME OUT JUST BEFORE VALENTINE'S DAY!!

• Murph46 | Feb 11, 2012, 06:57 PM EST

  Curitiba you should either be a politician or a master marketer-you swayed me! Roll on!jurists below just doesn't get it!

• oaklongan | Feb 11, 2012, 06:55 PM EST

  Joe Kennedy, Sr.'s sons but followed their father's advice AND example, so it's said. If a married man has an affair with a woman alone, discreetly...(Eisenhower, FDR), not to condone it. But passing a woman around like so much baggage is just dismaying, which is putting it decently, IF it can be. Wonder what Irish-American NBC politico thinks of this kind of detail; he's been around promoting his book on JFK years, he said. Agree with Niall O'Dowd that it puts President John F Kennedy's legacy under a dark cloud...though JFK had sterling qualities and instincts. Wonder if Mimi Alford has any children? What must they think?

• jurists | Feb 11, 2012, 06:39 PM EST

  English Mimi Alford is another Jewish Monica Lewinski of Bill Clinton's day. Mimi is 69 yrs old and probably broke. She and her hubbie said; hey, there's no more witnesses. Let's write a book and we'll make lots of money. We'll get NBC's Brian Williams and Meredeth Wilson(?)to interview me on TV. They're low-life too. Happy Days are here again! Mr.O'Dowd, you're not too bright or maybe you get a "kick-back" in which case you're a bum. - Jack McCarthy (Sure and God love ya).

• Woodman | Feb 11, 2012, 06:28 PM EST

  Mimi was a "head administrator."

• Woodman | Feb 11, 2012, 06:28 PM EST

  Mimi will have a new book out soon - "Get ahead by giving head."

• Curitiba | Feb 11, 2012, 06:25 PM EST

  I think all us Irish males could learn a lot from the great man, Murph46!

• Woodman | Feb 11, 2012, 06:24 PM EST

  liammurf So Joe the II got a public Beanie and no one had a camera? I guess the witness is waiting 50 years or until everyone is dead to tell the tale. Seems fair to me.

• liammurf | Feb 11, 2012, 06:11 PM EST

  The Kennedy are all the same. When Jos the II was running for Congress the night of the election. he was observed in a back room getting a "Beanie" from he future Mrs Jos, whele the mother of his twin boys was outside, the then current Mrs Jos was out celebrating with his friends. How do you do, Nice

• Woodman | Feb 11, 2012, 05:53 PM EST

  Dave Powers doesn't seem like the lecherous kind, who has open blow jobs by the pool. According to old Mimi JFK said nothing, but signaled with his eyes to blow the tense aid. It's hard to believe.Maybe Mimi needed a few old dollars in her retirement and embellished or fabricated the story to make it more marketable? Anyone who's not already dead around to remember or corroborate anything Mimi said. Would she take a polygraph?

• like2tweet | Feb 11, 2012, 05:51 PM EST

  sorry that last comments was meant for old mariner

• like2tweet | Feb 11, 2012, 05:49 PM EST

  Searlit, Warren Harding had numerous affairs Dwight Eisenhower had major affair with his driver Kate Summerby -- that is just two

• Murph46 | Feb 11, 2012, 05:29 PM EST

  Nice rationalization Curitiba,never thought of it that way!Might work!

• Curitiba | Feb 11, 2012, 05:21 PM EST

  Everyone knows that JFK was a champion shagger.Perhaps if more Irishmen modelled themselves on him, the ladies of the world would be flocking to Ireland for holiday romances, not Spain or Italy, take note chaps!

• sidhemajik | Feb 11, 2012, 05:14 PM EST

  Never understood the JFK mystique or people's reverence for the Kennedys. Just a group of rich folk behaving badly in my book. Not impressed with the lot of them.

• edmundburke | Feb 11, 2012, 05:04 PM EST

  Jaysus, we've all been over this ground before ever since Judith Exner's confession of sex w/ JFK in the '70s. As a 1st and 2nd generation Irish American Catholic Republican, whose family counterintuitively always disliked the Kennedys, I suppose I am the best person to classify O'Dowd's and others comments here. First, you have the nostalgic Irish Americans who lived through the Kennedy years and will always remember him as the first Irish Catholic US President, an inspirer of youthful liberal dreams, and a martyr to them through his assassination. This group has struggled through the decades to keep JFK's saintly image alive despite unending historical disclosures of JFK's cowardice, incompetence, and satyriasis. Second, you have the typical Irish blowhard who can't make an observation without some level of crudeness and who must always pay homage to nationalism by taking the position that JFK was one of the greatest men who ever lived and those who disagree begrudgers. Third, you have the minority who never idolized JFK and have no problem dealing with the evidence come what may. Would our community only have more like them.

• Liamkeyes | Feb 11, 2012, 02:59 PM EST

  What;s the point? Fifty years on...I'm looking for news...not History. ,I've worked in Southie and Charlestown for years and I can assure you that Dave Powers was not into this "carry-on" and frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn Scarlett!!!!

• 1314balesdr | Feb 11, 2012, 02:55 PM EST

  What? JFK a womanizer? Next you'll be telling me that Teddy drowned his girlfriend!

• kaydog1 | Feb 11, 2012, 02:35 PM EST

  Typical of Niall O'Dowd to try to dig up ANY unsupported accusation to tear down those who are truly respected - reminds me of Chris Matthew's style of "journalism". I suspect he hopes that if he tears down the "GREATS", his pal Obama will look better by comparison - won't work, Niall.

• 1314balesdr | Feb 11, 2012, 02:30 PM EST

  This will bring the Kennedy apologists out of the woodwork.

• oct2447 | Feb 11, 2012, 02:25 PM EST

  BTW, I just heard Santa flew away with the tooth fairy

• oct2447 | Feb 11, 2012, 02:22 PM EST

  Once again it's TMI and I don't need or want to know intimacies in people's lives. And if it destroyed the writer's fantasy, too bad, that's what happens to fantasies. When you put people up on a high pedastal, they usually fall pretty hard.

• 1IrishMedic | Feb 11, 2012, 02:07 PM EST

  Why this woman feels it is necessary to relive and reveal her intimacies with the late President at this time in history is beyond my world of common sense. She obiviously believes this book will bring her a great deal of money. Why else would she be so brazen and why should she reveal such a story that could make JFK look bad (although we all know he was a philanderer), but I would think she would be totally embarassed to reveal such details. She obiously has the WTF attitude.

• JBRAFTREE | Feb 11, 2012, 01:58 PM EST

  Niall, for the most part, my generation, late 60's, still reveres Jack Kennedy and his image.

• McNamara31 | Feb 11, 2012, 01:56 PM EST

  We live in a day where our children will have no one to look up to, because all are dragged through the dirt during their life, and long, long after their death. All people, countries and religious institutions have the capacity for greatness and for evil and that has been true since the beginning of time. I guess the question is, do we focus on the greatness or the evil?

• fscarlson | Feb 11, 2012, 01:51 PM EST

  A woman can run faster with her skirt up than a man with his pants down.

• Searlit | Feb 11, 2012, 01:32 PM EST

  If you're Irish, he's a VIP, no matter which side you're on. We're still talking about him 50 years later. What does that tell you? I agree with Rebelforce.

• OldMariner | Feb 11, 2012, 01:09 PM EST

  Help me out here, Niall me boyo, what Republican president(s) are you referring to who had any, no less "extensive", sexual liaisons? This is typical liberal bullshite.

• Nicomax | Feb 11, 2012, 01:04 PM EST

  It appears all was OK since she, as he, went to a prestigious New England prep school. At the time, we knew only tidbits about such dalliances, and thus had no major impact on how we voted. We now know a lot, as with Newt and Cain, and it still is not the main reason as to why they don't get elected.

• Luciena Denson | Feb 11, 2012, 01:01 PM EST

  Grow up and join the real world, Mr. O'Dowd. The woman who wrote this book is no shrinking violet, or apparently prim and proper. I won't read the book for the same reason I don't read the supermaket tabliods. She was 19 in the early 60s? That makes her about 70. It's interesting that she chose to write this expose at a time when the much older than herself principals aren't around to defend themselves. Helps keep one out of court.

• jamthecat | Feb 11, 2012, 01:00 PM EST

  Excuse me, Naill, but when did you ever think once about Kennedy? Seriously, it's news the man chased women? Seriously? And you use this to bash him as if you're "shocked, SHOCKED" to find this out? What utter rubbish.

• RockNReel | Feb 11, 2012, 12:50 PM EST

  Can we drag up any more crap that no one wants to read anyway ?? She was 19 years old for gods sake -not a babe in arms if she managed to get to the white house!! Wonder what the writer of this story is going to drag up next. If I read something like this drivel in the THE SUN Newspaper in London I would probably allow for the fact thats its a Rag that thrives on sensationalism but I thought you might do better Niall ? This comment will probably be deleted anyway ??

• durtymurphy | Feb 11, 2012, 12:45 PM EST

  The author needs a kick up the hole.

• motamanx | Feb 11, 2012, 12:42 PM EST

  By the way, Irishpjk, it was Kennedy who forestalled the military who wanted a war with Russia. He did't "almost get into a war" with them--he prohibited it. The Bay of Pig debacle was set up in the Eisenhower Administration with the serially flawed Dulles brothers at the helm of State and CIA. It was a lousy plan but the young president thought his predecessors knew what they were doing. They didn't, and he learned the hard way.

• motamanx | Feb 11, 2012, 12:37 PM EST

  Nixon never got a hummer in the Oval Office, but he was a real crook. Psychotic even. Bush/Cheney were squeaky clean sexually, I guess, but they lied, started wars on lies, and allowed 9/11 to unfold. Then hushed it up. Then they sucked all the money out of the system with their de-regulation scams. Seems to me that writing about and speculating about sexual proclivities is counter productive to understanding good or bad governance. Journalistically, it's just a potboiler. I worked in the JFK administration, and everywhere we went we were greeted with love and affection. Since Viet Nam and the other wars, we have finally squandered all that good will. Talking about who screwed who is not going to help.

• Parents | Feb 11, 2012, 12:27 PM EST

  Why couldn't this 19 year old say "no thanks". It sounds like she had no choice, was dragged at gun point. Since it went on and on I imagine she had no problem with it. I don't condone the behaviour, sickening really. It does absolutely no good to bring it up now.

• irishpjk | Feb 11, 2012, 12:25 PM EST

  I think all this talk about his sex life is a smoke screen to keep historians from talking about the fact that he almost got us into a nuclear war with Russia twice, once with the Cuban Crisis and again with the Berlin crisis. He took credit for standing up to Russia but it was his weakness with the Bay of Pigs that brought all this on and it was military people who sent the Russians home from Cuba. Also had the military been allowed to do its job I don’t think the Berlin wall would have been built. Only president I can think of that was worse is Jimmy (Peanuts) Carter

• Peggy P | Feb 11, 2012, 12:01 PM EST

  Forgot to add. What health problem or medication was his father or Teddy on????

• Rebelforce | Feb 11, 2012, 12:01 PM EST

  I know it's definitely not "Politically Correct" to bring this up, but I wonder if the fact that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was reportedly a "lecherous lover" and serial adulterer will "destroy" Niall's MLK fantasy? Somehow I doubt it will. Martin was black, not Irish afterall.

• Peggy P | Feb 11, 2012, 11:59 AM EST

  To all of you who were surprised by this revelation, were you living under a rock? He was no better then his father who also had no respect for women.

• kilgara | Feb 11, 2012, 11:58 AM EST

  You simply you cannot be serious with this drivel, O'Dowd. What a man does in his bedroom is none of your business.He's not around to give hids side {not the he should have to} so why do we have to believe somebody undoubtedly out to make few shekels.In the 60's the Kennedys could do no wrong nowadays they did nothing right.The truth, somewhere in the middle, and of no interest to the media, will never be known.

• Rebelforce | Feb 11, 2012, 11:54 AM EST

  Very convenient to wait 50 years to come up with a sex story about people who have been dead for years isn't it? It's not like she's going to get BIG MONEY off of this book that will leave her and her family rich is it? Ofcourse not.

• SyndiLiaHolmes | Feb 11, 2012, 11:50 AM EST

  She has succeeded in making a place for herself in history as just another women in a long line of women who serviced the sexual needs of politians , the rich and the famous-and now she is getting paid for the services she says she rendered.

• OBPiper | Feb 11, 2012, 11:49 AM EST

  Tyring for the 3rd time to post this info: JFK may have been a sex addict, hardly the worst flaw of a president, but we should be mindful that JFK suffered from Addison's disease and combat-caused severe back pain for which he was regularly and necessarily under the influence of a variety of prescribed medications, e.g., cortisone, testosterone, amphetamines, that presumably contributed to his sexual promiscuity. Google "JFK medication" to find my support, as this blog doesn't seem to like links.

• Fran Connor | Feb 11, 2012, 11:41 AM EST

  What's it going to take to destroy your Obama fantasy, Niall?

• Sheilah | Feb 11, 2012, 11:29 AM EST

  like NYCSheridan, I too take issue with slandering further a man who is not here to defend himself. ME ME comes forward 48 years later! And we're supposed to believe this. She throws Dave Powers under the bus for good measure. What a crock story.

• OBPiper | Feb 11, 2012, 11:23 AM EST

  Personally, I admire the womand for holding off so long. I was told in school that government files would be held secret for 50 years (11/22/2013) relating to JFK's assassination, and the woman has held off nearly so long.

• Murph46 | Feb 11, 2012, 11:23 AM EST

  Hey Key West get it straight,Clinton wasn't treated for a minor affair-he lied to Congress under oath-for that he lost his law license.You revisionists make me laugh!

• KathleenBerrio | Feb 11, 2012, 11:11 AM EST

  Oh, so she never put herself forward, had to be tracked down, and she writes a BOOK ?

• wyalusingjohn | Feb 11, 2012, 10:56 AM EST

  At least he didn't leave her dead in a car at the bottom of a creek for ten hours like the "Lion of the Senate".

• KeyWestConch | Feb 11, 2012, 10:46 AM EST

  Kennedy was a satyr who apparently thought he was god's gift to women. What's amazing is there isn't more people coming forward claiming to be his kids. Compare what he did and got away with compared to the way Clinton was treated for a comparatively minor affair. The press never said anything about Kennedy's multiple affairs and no one dared even bring it up.

• cillowen | Feb 11, 2012, 10:43 AM EST

  Nigh, all men are dogs - this should not be too hard to grasp as mothers and dads and popes well know. Animals driven to relieve stress for a variety of reasons - is what I imagine.

• donal1951 | Feb 11, 2012, 10:34 AM EST

  The latest revelation made no difference to me as I already knew JFK was a cocksman of the first order. Regardless of what one thinks about his abbreviated presidency, there is no question he was not a man to admire personally. And his presidency was too short to really be judged. Was the passage of the Civil Rights Act something Kennedy could pull off or did it need the cruder but more savvy Lyndon Johnson to cut the deals to get it through? Would Kennedy have got us involved in a land war in Vietnam as Johnson did? Again, we can only speculate. What was important to my father, who generally voted Republican for president, and me, who was way too young to vote, but not too little to follow the campaign, was that JFK broke a long-standing barrier that prevented Catholics from becoming president. My father got off the boat at Ellis Island just in time to campaign for Al Smith and would tell me stories of the hate campaign waged against Smith. While my da could campaign for Smith, he could not vote for him as he was not a US citizen. He made that up by pulling the straight Democratic lever when Kennedy was nominated by that party.

• DrMakni | Feb 11, 2012, 10:32 AM EST

  All human beings are fallible. The tragedy is we start judging others when our head is cool, like angels. Do give him a margin when you seriously reflect the immensity of this desire that might have afflicted us in scores. Pipe down...

• SeamusMor | Feb 11, 2012, 10:31 AM EST

  In literature, as well as in real life, Camelot was a myth. I was shocked as a seven yearold to find my parents, and not the Easter Bunny, boiling eggs on Easter Eve. I'm over it now.

• NYCsheridan | Feb 11, 2012, 10:25 AM EST

  O'Dowd for God's sake give it up already, we know you hate Democrats we can tell by the stupid tea bags on your tricorn hat. How much money is this woman going to make on her book attacking a man who's been dead for almost 50 years?

• NYCsheridan | Feb 11, 2012, 10:24 AM EST

  ..........and the dead president is not here to defend himself, so the woman can say whatever she pleases.....I have a problem with that

• SeamusMartin | Feb 11, 2012, 10:19 AM EST

  The President of the USA is not God or Jesus or any holy entity. He or she (someday) is just a person with tremendous weight on their shoulders, surrounded by minions who will do anything for he or she. AND where there is money and power of the highest sort, sh!t happens.

• PhlutiePhan | Feb 11, 2012, 10:17 AM EST

  The man is dead and he was wild! He was quite a lothario. However, taking the word of a 19 yr old bleary eyed babe is a bit much. If they say it, then he must have done it is not professional journalism at all.

• Mercenary | Feb 11, 2012, 10:14 AM EST

  I pretty much agree with the gist of the article, and also with what Murph46 said. This guy was no angel. For me, the highlight of the JFK administration (in all seriousness) was the speech he made to the Dáil (the only good one ever made there). He summarised the history of the Irish in a way that is both true and inspiring (Department of Education, take note). As a president, however, Kennedy wasn't anything to write home about. What did he achieve? Was he the only man who could have stood his ground during the Cuban Missile Crisis? Somehow, I doubt it. A book was published about his civil rights record. It was called 'Bystander'. How many illusions does this guy have to shatter?

• CitizenWhy | Feb 11, 2012, 10:08 AM EST

  Even though a progressive Democrat, I never bought the JFK myth. Knew too much about his disturbed family from relatives who knew Jackie very well. JFK's father was a nasty piece of work. The kids grew up in a very dysfunctional family., Gothic Catholicism disguising weirdness.

• OleSarge | Feb 11, 2012, 10:07 AM EST

  His record shows him as a failed president. Others died the work, he took the credit. Yet the press loved him and covered his butt. Sounds a lot like Obama. Why the left falls for these losers is beyond me. But your smarter than most, it only took you 52 years to catch on. There are still liberals out there that cannot see the damage that FDR caused and it's been 76 years.

• dan Breen | Feb 11, 2012, 10:06 AM EST

  Lord O'Dowd wake up to the real world !

• Murph46 | Feb 11, 2012, 09:55 AM EST

  Camelot was a nice dream ,the reality was vastly different.The article writes of a sheen on JFK,for years people have known of his dalliances,Secret Service escorting women in and out.The people who try to make him a saint make me want to puke.Was Clinton the way he was because JFK was his hero?

• turzovka | Feb 11, 2012, 09:54 AM EST

  Read C.S. Lewis "The Screwtape Letters." The wise devil says man tends to judge others based on their most darkest qualities only, as it seems to have the effect of elevating their own selves by comparison. God takes the good and bad into account and thankfully His Mercy is vast. God also says he sometimes takes people from earth prematurely to save them from themselves. In other words, a interminable purgatory is incalculably more desirable than hell. I am not judging Kennedy, I thought he was so important for our nation and I have not witnessed a president or leader since. I am just speculating here wildly.

• faberm1 | Feb 11, 2012, 09:50 AM EST

  Níall: I am so with you. The whole thing is disgusting? He was a morally bankrupt person who desired to put forth a wholesome family-man image. That is called a "liar" and a "fraud".

• christilcaugh | Feb 11, 2012, 09:49 AM EST

  Sadly what often comes with high office and power comes this kind of behavior - or with money!