Book details JFK affair with White House teen intern

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John F. Kennedy carried on an 18-month-long affair with a teenaged White House intern.

06 February,2012 11:14 pm

The allegation has been made in a new book published this week by a 69-year-old grandmother who claims to be the late US presidents lover.Excerpts of the shocking memoir, Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath, were released Monday by the New York Post, which said it had purchased a copy of the book at a local bookstore.In it, author Mimi Alford wrote a tell-all account detailing how at the time their relationship started in the summer of 1962, she was less than half the age of the dashing president, assassinated the following year at age 46.In an excerpt published by The Post, Alford wrote that she met Kennedy just four days into her internship, and that he invited her the following day on a personal tour of the White House residence that included first lady Jackie Kennedys bedroom.…………I was in shock, Alford wrote.The young woman, described by one Kennedy biographer as a tall, slender, beautiful college sophomore, continued the relationship for a year and a half -- even traveling with the president on occasion -- until their affair ended with Kennedys assassination.Kennedy is said to have carried on numerous White House affairs during his presidency, including with an alleged dalliance with Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe.The Post wrote that Random House, which published the book, says that Alford after the presidents death grieved in private, locked her secret away and tried to start her life anew, only to find that her past would cast a long shadow -- and ultimately destroy her relationship with the man she married. –AFP