Explosive Jackie O tapes 'reveal how she believed Lyndon B Johnson killed JFK and had affair with movie star'
- She will allegedly reveal affair with actor William Holden
- Believed Vice-President Johnson was behind husband's assassination
By LIZ THOMAS
Jackie Onassis believed that Lyndon B Johnson and a cabal of Texas tycoons were involved in the assassination of her husband John F Kennedy, ‘explosive’ recordings are set to reveal.
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| Former first lady Jackie Kennedy is said to have made the tapes within months of JFK's assassination |
The secret tapes will show that the former first lady felt that her husband’s successor was at the heart of the plot to murder him.
She became convinced that the then vice president, along with businessmen in the South, had orchestrated the Dallas shooting, with gunman Lee Harvey Oswald – long claimed to have been a lone assassin – merely part of a much larger conspiracy.
Texas-born Mr Johnson, who served as the state’s governor and senator, completed Mr Kennedy’s term and went on to be elected president in his own right.
The tapes were recorded with leading historian Arthur Schlesinger Jnr within months of the assassination on November 22, 1963, and had been sealed in a vault at the Kennedy Library in Boston.
The then Mrs Kennedy, who went on to marry Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, had ordered that they should not be released until 50 years after her death, with some reports suggesting she feared that her revelations might make her family targets for revenge.
She died 17 years ago from cancer aged 64 and now her daughter, Caroline Kennedy, has agreed to release the recordings early.
John and Jackie Kennedy with daughter Caroline, who allowed the tapes to be released to ABC in return for their cancelling of the mini series about the family
Jackie is said to reveal her affair with actor William Holden, right, which she did in retaliation for her husband's many flings
In the tapes, Jackie allegedly blames President Lyndon Johnson for the death of JFK, who took over the post from her husband after his assassination
Daughter Caroline Kennedy released the 'explosive' tapes
A programme featuring the tapes will be aired by U.S. network ABC, and it is understood British broadcasters are in talks to show it here too.
ABC executives claimed the tapes’ revelations were ‘explosive’.
They are believed to include the suggestion that Mr Kennedy was having an affair with a 19-year-old White House intern, with his wife even claiming that she found knickers in their bedroom.
And they go on to reveal that she too had affairs – one with Hollywood star William Holden and another with Fiat founder Gianni Agnelli – as a result of the president’s indiscretions. It has also been claimed that, in the weeks before Mr Kennedy’s assassination, the couple had turned a corner in their relationship and were planning to have more children.
Historian Edward Klein, who has written several books on the Kennedy clan, said: ‘Jackie regarded the pretty young things in the White House as superficial flings for Jack. She did retaliate by having her own affairs.
‘There was a period during which she was delighted to be able to annoy her husband with her own illicit romances.’
It is believed that Caroline, 53, agreed to the early release of the tapes in exchange for ABC dropping its £10million drama series about the family.
The Kennedys, starring Tom Cruise’s wife Katie Holmes as Jackie, critically charted the family’s political and personal trials and tribulations since the 1930s. The series was eventually broadcast on an independent cable channel, and on BBC2 in the UK, against Caroline’s wishes.
A spokesman for ABC said the claims about the content of the tapes were 'erroneous'.
He said: ‘The actual content of the tapes provide unique and important insight into our recent past from one of the most fascinating and influential First Ladies in American history.’
The broadcaster did not reply to repeated requests for comment and would not clarify what was on the tapes, saying the programme was not scheduled for broadcast until mid-September.
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Jackie Kennedy believed LBJ had her husband killed new tape shows
Interview also reveals her affair with actor William Holden
Published Monday, August 8, 2011, 6:48 AM
Updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 2:00 PM
Pres. & Mrs. John Kennedy
Photo by Time Life
Sensational tapes recorded by the First Lady months after the President’s death are to be released ahead of schedule by her daughter Caroline.Jackie Kennedy believed Lyndon B Johnson was behind the 1963 assassination of her husband John F Kennedy.
In the tapes, to be broadcast by ABC, Kennedy reveals her belief that Johnson and a cabal of Texas tycoons orchestrated the murder of her husband by gunman Lee Harvey Oswald.
Kennedy, who later became Jackie Onassis, claims on the tapes that the Dallas murder was part of a larger conspiracy to allow Johnson to become American President in his own right.
Johnson, who served as a member of Congress, completed Kennedy’s term after the assassination and went on to be elected president.
Leading historian Arthur Schlesinger Jnr recorded the tapes with Jackie Kennedy within months of her husband’s death.
They have been stored in a sealed vault at the Kennedy Library in Boston after orders from Mrs Kennedy that they would remain secret for 50 years after her death.
Now, 17 years after her mother died from cancer, daughter Caroline has opted to release the tapes early.
She has entered an agreement with the ABC network in the States who will air the tapes after agreeing to cancel their Kennedys drama series which upset Caroline and the Kennedy family.
The $10million series starred Tom Cruise’s wife Kate Holmes as Jackie Kennedy and critically charted the family’s political and personal trials and tribulations since the 1930s. It has now been dropped in a deal with Caroline concerning these tapes.
ABC executives have confirmed that the revelations in the tapes are ‘explosive’ with Jackie Kennedy allegedly blaming President Lyndon Johnson for the death of JFK, according to the Daily Mail reports.
It is believed the tapes also include the suggestion that President Kennedy was having an affair with a 19-year-old White House intern with his wife even claiming that she found underwear in their bedroom.
Jackie Kennedy also admits to several affairs of her own in the tapes - one with Hollywood star William Holden and another with Fiat founder Gianni Agnelli - in retaliation for the President’s indiscretions.
There are also claims that the couple had discussed having more children in the weeks before his death.
Noted Kennedy family historian and author Edward Klein said: “Jackie regarded the pretty young things in the White House as superficial flings for Jack. She did retaliate by having her own affairs.
“There was a period during which she was delighted to be able to annoy her husband with her own illicit romances.”
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President Lyndon Johnson nearly shot dead by Secret Service agent... hours after JFK assassination
President Lyndon Johnson was milliseconds away from being shot dead by a Secret Service agent - only 14 hours after John F. Kennedy's assassination, a new book has revealed.
The Kennedy Detail, written by Gerald Blaine - an agent detailed with looking after the president - with the help of Lisa McCubbin, has lifted the lid on the murder, and rubbished various conspiracy theories.
And, following JFK's death on November 22, 1963, he had been ordered to look after the new president's two-storey house in Washington.
President Lyndon Johnson was very nearly shot by his own agent 14 hours after John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963
Lyndon Johnson (left) was vice president under John F. Kennedy and commissioned the Warren Report after JFK's murder - the conclusions of which many dispute
On the evening of the assassination Mr Blaine hear someone walking towards the house and so he loudly cocked his submachine gun, in the hope that it would act as a deterrent.
The book explains: 'He firmly pushed the stock into his shoulder, ready to fire. He'd expected the footsteps to retreat with the loud sound of the gun activating, but they kept coming closer. Blaine's heart pounded, his finger firmly on the trigger. Let me see your face, you bastard.
'The next instant, there was a face to go with the footsteps.
'The new President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, had just rounded the corner, and Blaine had the gun pointed directly at the man's chest. In the blackness of the night, Johnson's face went completely white.
'A split second later, Blaine would have pulled the trigger...
'Blaine struggled to regain his composure as the reality of what had just happened washed over him. Fourteen hours after losing a president, the nation had come chillingly close to losing another one.'
Gerald Blaine's new book, The Kennedy Detail, is the first account of the assassination by a member of President Kennedy's close security staff
Mr Blaine was handpicked to serve on the elite White House Secret Service Detail, the thirty-four man team responsible for protecting the president.
And the new book, which is the first account of the assassination by a member of President Kennedy's security detail, blows certain theories out of the water.
It includes an account by Clint Hill - the agent who jumped on to JFK's car to push the First Lady, Jackie Kennedy, down after her husband had been shot.
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President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy are pictured riding in the motorcade in Dallas, Texas, moments before his assassination
Members of the public duck for cover after JFK is shot dead by a sniper in Dallas, Texus
Former first lady Jackie Kennedy was pushed down in to the car by agent Clint Hill after her husband had been shot
President Kennedy was shot once in the upper back, killed with a final shot to the head and was pronounced dead at 1p.m.
Only 46, he died younger than any U.S. president to date.
Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository from which the shots were suspected to have been fired, was arrested on charges of the murder of a local police officer and was subsequently charged with the assassination of President Kennedy.
But he denied shooting anyone, before being killed by Jack Ruby on November 24, before he could be indicted or tried.
President Johnson created the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination, which concluded that Mr Oswald was the lone assassin.
However these results were disputed and there has been a suspicion held by many of a government cover-up of information about the assassination and conspiracy theories abound on who killed JFK, and why.
There are grey areas about when President Kennedy was shot from - ahead or behind him - how many shooters there were, what the murder weapon was exactly, why key witnesses and documents went missing.
Some even linked President Kennedy with organised crime rings.
Bobby Kennedy (left), joins Marilyn Monroe (centre) and JFK (right). The new book dismisses the notion that President Kennedy had an affair with the Hollywood star
Also the book says that President Kennedy did not have an affair with Marylin Monroe - Mr Blaine was on duty the night of May 19, 1962, the famous birthday fundraiser at which the Hollywood star sang for the president.
The agent says that Monroe was present later in Mr Kennedy's suite at the Carlyle Hotel, but that she 'left before the other guests'.
And he says that the only other time Monroe was in the president's company was in Santa Monica in 1961, at the home of Peter and Pat Lawford, where Kennedy took a brief swim before departing.
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Who killed JFK? List of suspects made by secretary of assassinated President goes up for auction
Who did it?: A note by President Kennedy's secretary Evelyn Lincoln detailing those she thought may be responsible is to be be auctioned
The former secretary of President John F. Kennedy made a list of suspects she believed were behind his assassination immediately after he was gunned down in Texas.
As she flew home on Air Force One Evelyn Lincoln jotted down the names of those she suspected were behind the killing.
They included Richard Nixon and the country's vice president Lyndon Johnson.
She also named the Klu Klux Klan, the CIA and Communists as she mulled over who could have ordered the assassination.
Her thoughts were scribbled down on a single sheet of paper.
The never-before-seen note is now up for sale and is expected to go for more than £20,000 at an auction next week.
JFK's assassination in 1963 has long been the subject of conspiracy theories, ranging from those behind the murder to doubts about the lone assassin theory.
But even before those conspiracies were aired Lincoln had her own suspicions.
She was riding in the motorcade with Kennedy when he was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
Lincoln jotted down names of people she suspected could have been behind the killing, starting with Lyndon Johnson.
He took over from JFK after the murder that shocked the world.
Suspects: Richard Nixon and Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa were both among the list of names written by Evelyn Lincoln
Her note also listed 'the KKK, Dixiecrats, [Teamsters boss Jimmy] Hoffa, [the] John Birch Society, Nixon, [South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh] Diem, Rightist, CIA in Cuban fiasco, Dictators [and] Communists.'
On the back of the list is another note, written more than 20 years later when she passed on her letters to Kennedy collector Robert White.
'There is no end to the list of suspected conspirators to President Kennedy murder. Many factions had their reasons for wanting the young president dead. That fact alone illustrates how the world suffers from a congenital proclivity to violence,' it reads.
A moment that shocked the world: President John F. Kennedy travels through the streets of Dallas moments before he was killed
The 10-month Warren Commission set up to investigate the assassination concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating the president.
The note, consigned by the Gettysburg Museum of History, will be auctioned by Alexander Autographs in Stamford, Connecticut on Thursday.
Lincoln was Kennedy's personal secretary from 1953 until his death on November 22, 1963. She died in 1995 at age 85.
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