This is the cross necklace that belonged to Kick. JFK adored his sister vey much, and I believe he loved Jackie very much as well because he gave it to her. She had it until she passed away.
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Joe was a problematic man in many ways but he was a tremendously intelligent and political savvy figure. Certainly there was a love of power behind his actions but I also believe his love for his family and his desire for them to have a successful life definitely played into what he did.
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“Jack and Jackie Kennedy were more than American Royalty. Together, they took a whole nation in the blink of an eye, dared anyone to stop them, and fell more in love with each other as they did it. The love they had was rare, but it completely blinded them from loving anyone else but each other. They knew each other better than their own families did, and so, when Jack was assassinated, Jackie became that, ” doomed child, with that God-awful skirt, not saying anything, looking burned alive.“ (BEN Bradlee)
“Jack was the love of my life. No one will ever know a big part of me died with him.” –Jacqueline Kennedy
“He came back from Boston to me in the hospital and he walked in the morning about 8 in my room, and just sobbed and put his arms around me…..”
[JBK on JFK, speaking about baby Patrick’s death]
Baby Patrick succumbed 49 years ago today. :’(
John F. Kennedy was a voracious reader. He wanted to read faster as a young man, feeling restricted by his reading rate of less than 300 words per minute (WPM). After studying speed reading techniques, his reading rate increased to about 1,200 WPM. He attributed some of his speed to an ability to read and absorb large groups of words at a glance (“thought units”). He also encouraged and inspired many of his staff personnel to learn and apply speed reading in their own lives.
“There was something about Jack that made him so different to all other presidents. He was calm, he was compassionate, he was peaceful, he was good.”
“John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.” Caroline Kennedy
It’s November 22, 2013 and 50 years ago, the world witnessed one of the darkest days in history.
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I don't understand why people can't accept Jack and Jackie Kennedy's relationship.
Regardless of how many direct quotes or pictures clearly showing them like two love birds that I publish. The looks between them, the hand holding, my exuberant reaction to PDA is not enough apparently. What will it take to get people to understand they didn’t hate each other because of his affairs? What makes it worse is people are basing this opinion on the ignorant knowledge of his affairs when there was SO much more going on in their lives.
We are not ones to judge. We were not apart of their relationship nor were we even there at the time to judge it. I have never seen any hard core evidence about the affairs (they may have happened they may have not, but I am not going to take the word of people who are now making money of these accusations… funny they came out after he passed and couldn’t defend himself.) but I have seen plenty of evidence of their love.
Jack’s instinct, when challenged, was to attack. Just as he would rout anti-Catholic bigots in 1960, he struck back at his accusers in Boston. His eyes blazing, he turned on one tormentor: “I don’t have to apologize for myself or any of the Kennedys. Let’s stick to this campaign, and this campaign only. If you want to talk about my family, I’ll meet you outside.”
“Where do you live?” One man asked. “New York? Palm Beach? Not Boston. You’re a goddamned carpetbagger, Jack Kennedy.” In a voice like a file, Jack replied: “Listen, you bastard [bahstard]. Nobody wanted to know where my brother was from when he volunteered for the mission that cost him his life. Nobody asked my address when I was on PT-109.”
When people attacked him during his early political career, that’s when he felt the loss of his older brother’s sacrifice so strongly. And when their only reason to not give him the vote was because he was Catholic, he didn’t know how to bite his tongue. “Did any of you care that I was Catholic when I served in the United States Navy?” The crowd gasped, because politicians didn’t say things like that. “Did forty million Americans lose their right to run for the presidency on the day they were baptized as Catholics?… I refuse to believe I was denied that right.”
You tell ‘em, Jack.
“”Ever since I was a little girl, people have told me that my father changed their lives, or that President Kennedy’s inaugural challenge, `Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country,’ inspired a generation in the 1960s that transformed our nation with courage. To me that is one of his greatest legacies. Now, it is up to us to redefine that commitment for our time””
— Caroline Kennedy
(via kennedylegacy)
John F. Kennedy was a voracious reader. He wanted to read faster as a young man, feeling restricted by his reading rate of less than 300 words per minute (WPM). After studying speed reading techniques, his reading rate increased to about 1,200 WPM. He attributed some of his speed to an ability to read and absorb large groups of words at a glance (“thought units”). He also encouraged and inspired many of his staff personnel to learn and apply speed reading in their own lives.
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John F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., c. October 1963.
Beautiful father and son each taken far too early it hurts to see photos of what was and what might have been.