When Jackie married Ari Onassis, by all accounts a seriously vulgar, gross man, I thought, “well, she’s married for money/power again.” She knew JFK was an out-of-control lecher when she married him. She never showed me too much.

Except for one big thing: she did save Grand Central Terminal! Thanks for that, Jackie O!

now remember we had just moved from an inner city area, we did not expect to see elvis in nj our first week.

we later found out that the neighbor was a divorced woman with one son, and a fetish for dating elvis impersonators.

I worked the evening shift, and I had a semi-regular customer who came in late in the evening, maybe every week or two. He paid with a credit card that had the name John Kennedy. He definitely was not JFK, Jr. I’m pretty certain of that. But he sure as hell did look like a member of the extended family. I think he resembled RFK more than anyone.

As I recall, he had blond hair (or maybe brown; my memory is sketchy in the best of circumstances) and was slightly younger than me (I was in my mid-20s). I was always curious but never said anything. I treated him like any other customer, saying, “Thank you. Have a good evening.” He was quiet and polite. Maybe I’m imagining things, but I sort of got the impression that he was grateful that I didn’t ask.

At an earlier time, Mrs. Kennedy recalled how the Cold War crisis set the Kennedy presidency off-course. When President Kennedy learned of the failed invasion at Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, less than three months into his presidency in 1961, he returned to the White House living quarters to weep, she said.

“He came back over to the White House to his bedroom and he started to cry, just with me. You know, just for one — just put his head in his hands and sort of wept,” she said. “It was so sad, because all his first 100 days and all his dreams, and then this awful thing to happen. And he cared so much.”

By her own telling, Mrs. Kennedy was more involved in her husband’s politics and his presidency than many historians have realized.

“I think women should never be in politics. We’re just not suited to it,” she told Schlesinger at one point.

Mrs. Kennedy twice brought the assassination up on her own in reference to a recent Supreme Court ruling protecting free speech. The case, she said, reminded her of ads in Dallas newspapers around the time of Kennedy’s assassination. One had a picture of the president and the text, “Wanted for Treason.”

“When you think, ads like that in the paper was partly what killed Jack,” Mrs. Kennedy said.

She recalls her husband’s disappointment when he finally met his hero, Winston Churchill, as a senator in the late 1950s.

“Jack had always wanted to meet Churchill. Well, the poor man was really quite ga-ga then,” she said. “I felt so sorry for Jack that evening because he was meeting his hero, only he met him too late.”

Jacqueline Kennedy spoke skeptically of King.

She called him “tricky” and a “phony” after hearing about FBI tapes of him and a woman in his hotel room, while noting that JFK had urged her not to be judgmental. (JFK’s own adulterous affairs weren’t yet widely known.)

She said King had mocked her husband’s funeral and Cardinal Richard Cushing, who celebrated Mass at the funeral.

“He made fun of Cardinal Cushing and said that he was drunk at it,” she said. “And things about they almost dropped the coffin. I just can’t see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man’s terrible.”