Jackie Kennedy like most of the people around the world has the exact same psychology, as anyone will certainly be uneasy about the person who is romantically linked with his or her partner. And she did think of several thinks concerning the affair between her husband, former President John F. Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe and it is evident from the recently released biography – JFK: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli, offers revealing insights.
As per Taraborrelli, Jackie once directly told JFK, “This one’s different Jack. This one worries me.” “That’s from somebody who was right there in the White House who overheard that conversation,” Taraborrelli told PEOPLE. “It was reported to me 25 years ago, when I was writing an earlier book, Jackie, Ethel and Joan.”
Taraborrelli further explained Jackie was not complete aware of the nature of the relationship that her husband had with Monroe but as mentioned she did think a lot of the relationship, and eventually grew her suspicion.
“She [Jackie] didn’t know the nature of the relationship but knew him well enough to suspect something was going on. What’s really important is her use of the language: ‘This one’s different,’ suggesting very strongly she was okay with the other [women] but this one was different.”
He further stated that, this particular conversation between them took place before the famous birthday celebration JFK’s on May 19, 1962, at Madison Square Garden, and the reason behind its popular was because of the grandeur and also because Monroe famously sang “Happy Birthday.” Jackie refused to attend. “She didn’t want anything to do with it. She had a barbecue with the Auchinclosses [her mother Janet Auchincloss and stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss] rather than go because she did not want to endorse it.”
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Taraborrelli also casts doubt on the – ‘still persistent’ rumor that JFK and Monroe spent a weekend together in early 1962 at Bing Crosby’s home. To reinforce that, he said he talked with Monroe’s publicist and close friend Pat Newcomb, now 96.
“Pat said ‘I’ve been reading about this for 60 years and I can tell you that this did not happen,’“ Taraborrelli said. “If that didn’t happen then, I don’t know when they were together because then it was a clear shot to Madison Square Garden, where she sang Happy Birthday Mr. President and then she was gone.” Sadly – Monroe died less than three months later, on Aug. 4, 1962.
“I, along with other authors, have said the only thing we can really count on was that they were together at Bing Crosby’s house that weekend,” he says. “Now I’m saying we can’t count on that.”
“People could sneak off,” he adds, “but as I wrote in the book, we don’t have enough evidence to support that they had an affair.”
Taraborrelli has also reflected on the confusion comes from Monroe herself.
Marilyn Monroe sings happy birthday to JFK at a fundraising gala in Madison Square Garden in 1962 pic.twitter.com/EsWHL64aKn
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“The confusion is that Marilyn had a lot of emotional problems. I wrote about them in The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, and the problem that historians have faced over generations is that Marilyn told her friends that she and JFK, and she and Bobby, were having affairs. She told people who were close to her this, who then told authors like me. And then you come to realize, Marilyn was not the best narrator of her life.”
And for Jackie, Taraborrelli concludes, ”What’s interesting is she didn’t know if JFK was involved with her or not. She just assumed it. What I do know is after Marilyn died, Jackie was bereft.”
