Six months after JFK’s death, during a May 1964 dinner cruise on the presidential yacht the USS Sequoia, Bobby and Jackie “exchanged poignant glances” before disappearing below deck, leaving Ethel upstairs. Back row, from left: Ethel Kennedy, Stephen Smith, Jean Smith, John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, Pat Lawford, Sargent Shriver, Joan Kennedy, and Peter Lawford Front row from left: Eunice Shriver, Rose Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy. The Kennedy family at their home in Hyannisport, Massachusetts on the night after John F Kennedy won the 1960 presidential election. Tapes of his interviews are available at the SUNY Stony Brook library. Heymann told the paper he spent nearly two decades researching the book and had access to FBI and Secret Service files.

The Post says it “includes recollections of the steamy affair” from Kennedy family intimates, including Pierre Salinger, Arthur Schlesinger, Jack Newfield, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote and Morton Downey Jr. The book, Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, arrives in stores this month. When Bobby was shot after winning the California presidential primary, Jackie - not Bobby’s wife Ethel Kennedy or his brother Ted Kennedy - ordered that he be removed from a respirator, the book says. David Heymann says Bobby was Jackie’s “true love” and that the affair was well known among family members. The New York Post, quoting a new book, reports that Jackie Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy had a four-year love affair that began shortly after President Kennedy was killed.Īuthor C. Jackie Kennedy during the White House yearsįrom USA Today Online, July 6, 2009: Book: Jackie, RFK had four-year affair

Bobby and Jackie by C. David Heymann