..New skankfactor JFK book...(someone needs $$)

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 2:40am

http://gothamist.com/2012/02/06/5_reasons_jfk_was_a_creepy_lecherou.php


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/jfk-intern-mimi-alford-shares-story-of-her-affair-with-kennedy-in-new-book-relevant-historian-robert-dallek-says-yes/2012/02/06/gIQAFgF1uQ_blog.html?tid=pm_lifestyle_pop

[Yawper]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 8:08am

She has every right to tell her own story. It's not as if she's a third party speculator.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 8:13am

I agree. She was actually remarkably discreet for decades.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 8:59am

We've been dealing with the exposing of JFK's ****fests for decades. Why carp about it now? And why shouldn't she tell her story?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 9:58am

Her story has been mentioned and alluded to in many genuinely skanky books and articles and documentaries.

If a president had asked ME to give tension-relieving blowjobs to his associates in a swimming pool, I sure as hell would want the right to write about it in my memoirs.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 11:07am

At least she waited until pretty much everyone who could be hurt by this story was gone.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 11:19am

That's exactly right, SNAFU. She'd kept this secret from all but 4 or 5 people for decades. The story broke a year or so before she wrote her book.

I think she was perfectly entitled to tell her own story. And it's a fairly sad one.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 12:34pm

Actually, the story come out in 2003, in Robert Dallek's biography of JFK, "An Unfinished Life"--but in an offhand reference.

Dallek persuaded a former Kennedy White House press aide, Barbara Gamarekian, who had donated an oral history to the JFK Library to allow him to include portions of her oral history that she had kept sealed. The oral history was one of scores of interviews the JFK Library commissioned from former JFK aides.

In her oral-history interview, Gamarekian referred only to "Mimi," who, she said, had a "sort of a special relationship with the president...the sort of thing that legitimate newspaper people don't write about or don't even make any implications about." She said it was a big joke, around the White House, and that everyone knew about it. After the interview, Gamarekian reconsidered and had that section sealed.

But Mimi never told anyone, not her parents, not either her first or second husband, not her children.

The NY Daily News tracked down "Mimi" and revealed her to be Marion Fahnestock Beardsley Alford, a thrice-married retired woman who had worked for the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. The tabloids then took over her life. She refused all interviews, releasing only a statement confirming that she had been involved in a sexual relationship with Kennedy from June 1962 to November 1963.

She decided to write her own book to counteract the tabloids and signed a book deal in 2009 and to talk about the "consequences of hiding such an explosive past for so long."

Updated On: 2/7/12 at 12:34 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 12:59pm

"But Mimi never told anyone, not her parents, not either her first or second husband, not her children."

Yes, she did. She told her first husband just before their wedding. And though they stayed together for years, her first marriage was ruined from the day she told him.

She also--much after the fact--told a couple of friends.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 1:30pm

Interesting. The NY Times reported in 2009, when the book deal was announced, that before her 2003 statement, "she had not even told her parents or her children."

But I guess "not even her parents or her children" doesn't include her husband.

I can't wait to read this!
Paramour of Kennedy Is Writing a Book

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 2:22pm

At least it will be a juicy read. I'm in.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 2:27pm

I found it mostly sad. But it's certainly interesting.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 2/7/12 at 2:34pm

Well I don't mind sad, Reg. I just like honesty.