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Miniseries T author By Marion Collins RESIDENT KENNEDY and reveals: his wife Jackie spent his last night in the White House before he was assassinated fighting over one of his mistresses_ This was just one of the scenes that was too hot for the NEC miniseries, A Woman Named Jackie, which riveted millions with its startling revelations. C. David Heymann. author of the book on which the minim 14E5 is based, also reveals these stun- ning incidents from the days of JFK's presidency. • Despite JFK's legendary prowess in bed, te- Jackie received little sexual satisfaction. abb • Jackie felt abandoned by friends and family JFK lover Mary Meyer after his death, sometimes breaking into tears. left Jackie humiliated • No matter how many stories surface about at White House party. JFAC's womanizing, Jackie insists to Caroline and John Jr. that the stories are lies, and she tells them their lather was a great family man. Jackie and JFK battled right up to the very end over the other women in his life. The night before they left for the fateful trip to Dallas, a bitter squabble ruined what was to have been a glittering White House gala. "As they appeared to the top of the stairs, they smiled at the people below and scanned the ap- plauding crowd for familiar faces to give a wave or a sp ecial nod," says an insider. "Suddenly, Jackie's face froze and she muttered angrily to her hus- band. -Still smiling, he tried to placate her. furious, she rounded on him. As their white-tied guests urging of his political adviser., was touted as a ness that she went into Central Park and wept her stood transfixed in horror, the usually serene First symbol of their new closeness. heart out" Lady lunged at the President and pulled his hair. "It was hastily arranged, and they were uncom- Heymann also claims Jackie wanted tenderness_ White MOLLGE, aides quickly shepherded the guests fortable ff... the .erneet =key steered off Air "Jack Kennedy Wn.i ye-Jr...nit...dr. Inver but not a into the dining mom so Kennedy and Jackie could Force One dressed in warm wool suits on a swel- very caring one," he says_ "Jackie hungered for finish their fight in private. tering, OS-degree day," says the insider. tenderness. When she married Onassis, he was "What had angered Jackie was the sight of Mary On the first anniversary of her husband's death. much more proficient in bed than Jack, and she en- Pinchot Meyer, sister-in-law of Washington Post Jackie sobbed to Rosemary Sorrentino, her hair joyed a sexual awakening. editor Ben Bradlee and well-known mistress of colorist, that the world had forgotten about her. "Onassis tried very hard to be a good husband JPIC And although Jackie knew Mary was sleeping "The truth was, people were frightened to men- and stepfather, at least at first. John Jr. craved the with Jack, to have to meet her socially was a pub- tion it for fear of upsetting her," says Heymann. masculine attention that Ari gave him. He was very lic humiliation." "One of the few letters she did receive came from a fond of the little boy, "says the author_ According to Heymann, JFK and Jackie had former staffer, Agriculture Secretary Orville Free- But Jackie's marriage to Onassis thrashed out some of their marital difficulties af- man. who wrote a touching note. She was so was doomed from ter she warned her husband that she would no grateful and moved by his thoughtful- longer tolerate his unfaithfulness. The trip to Dal- las, which the President reluctantly made at the WOMAN who was John E Kenne- dy's lover when he was in the LOVER REVEALS PRESIDENT'S A White House has told a. shocking story of witnessing secret meetings between JFK and a top mob boss. Judith Campbell Eimer says she sat HOTEL RENDEZVOUS on the edge of a bathtub in Chicago's Ambassador East Hotel on April 23, 1961, while Kennedy and Chicago mobster Sam Giancara talked for 15 minutes in the adjoining bedroom, WITH MOB BOSS discussing plans to assassinate Fidel bad her deliver suitcases filled with sort of briefcase, made of very soft Castro. Esner wbo says she was the cash to Gianeana 'Jack asked we leather," she says "It felt very firm, lover of both Kennedy and Giannana, once if I would mind taking something very packed, and it was on the heavy claims she carried secret papers be- to Sam the him," she says. "I said, side." She took a train to Chicago and tween them about the plans "Jack told 'What is it?' And he said, 'It'll be cosh, handed it to Giancana in Union Sta- me outright, He said the envelopes money. A lot of money' tion without saying a word That was contained 'intelligence material,' and "I agreed to what Jack asked," says one of "at least 20 occasions' when that it involved the elimination of fi- Judith Campbell Eimer Courier Hamer, who now has terminal cancer she acted as courier between the two. de/ Castro," says &men and courtesan to JFK and mobster. "I didn't know where the money was After Jack was elected, Sam used a She also says she was present in An. Ritz-Carlton, where she and JFK had going to go when it left Sam, but I to tease me all the time," says Elmer gest, Lefitl, when the two men met in their trysts. And during the 1960 pres- knew it bad to do with the campaign_" "He'd say, 'Your boyfriend wouldn't be New York'S Navarro Hotel, now the idential campaign, she claims, JFK On April 8, 1960, JFK gave her "a President if it wasn't for me.'" 6 -- _ • - • 1 _ -• Far left: John E Kennedy and Jackie in Washington after he was sworn in as President. Near left: Stephen Collins and Roma Downey play JFK and Jackie in Dallas in the NRC-TV miniseries. A Woman Named Jackie. the start_ She never really understood him othis and he began to view her as the reason for his had Early his affair with Marilyn Monroe, began to ap- culture:- says Heymann.s. ,,...40:Hinxkatie.......m.yrnann atht s. pear, Jackie was determined to rescue Kennedy's - Atter Ire married Jackie., things begautogobarri- She ittip—pedlligreii im.a.S/M4:Miiarfilberenstrtorbeiisse it was all lies," lily wrong. widow sweedsattrafenime*Ditters.X1 Sliefoterthernethat she and Jack "He suffered business reversaLsitharthmatened rived on Skorpios, she was edwearm a = fradOEllssfallyteappyoraribigeand that they were his financial empire, and he contracted-the incura- leather Coat and smiling broadlyfiardrecarneras- the product of a stable, normal marriage." ble disease, myastheniagravis-flutmerst cif all, his Christina Onassis was outraged.peituibr„ beloved son and heir. Alexander, mats killed in a Later, when stories about JPIC"fiarr=" plane crash_ delity, and paltico- "He felt their marriage had somehow angered the gods, , yr New York's Ritz- Carlton Hotel, then called the -- Navarro, was the scene of a meeting between Kennedy and Sam Giancana, says Judith EMI., who claims she carried money r from JFK to the mobster for use in the election r campaign_ n Ewer made her startling claims, three visits to the White House, Elmer Bauer says she which go far beyond anything she has says IFIC's first request that she ar- _ent at previously said, in interviews with An- range a meeting with Giancana was on .-nrcege's thony Summers, author °nooks about April 6,1980, when he invited to her bassador East JFK's assassination and his affair his Washington townhouse. "He said Hotel (above) with Marilyn Monroe. Kennedy White think he MD help me with the cam- when Sam Giancana House aides Dave Powers, Kenneth Paige I knew Prank (Sinatra) was O'Donnell and Evelyn Lincoln have helping him with the campaign. Sam (right) and JFK discussed denied her previous claims of a rela- was a friend of Frank's_ Itjust all made tionship with the President But Sum- sense to me." Today, speculation per- plant t° kin Cuban mers uncovered White House logs that sists that the mob was involved dictator Fidel support Ewer's account of at least ars pet:ascii:titian. Castro. .

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