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
Last updated at 6:20 PM on 8th August 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023418/Jackie-O-tapes-reveal-JFKs-affairs-believed-death.html
Former first lady Jackie Kennedy is said to have made the tapes within months of JFK's assassination
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.
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.
Comments
Mrs. Kennedy was entitled to her own opinion but not her own facts. Nothing has ever come to light that would disprove the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Oswald acted alone in murdering the president.
..and I got a bridge I wanna sell you....
Are we going down this road again?
I'll tell you who shot JFK if you will tell me your guy who shot JFK, okay?
I say, "L.H. Oswald."
What is the name of your shooter?
1. Malcolm (Mac) Wallace
2. I dont know. I would guess Charles Harrellson
3. I don't know. I would guess Roscoe White
As they say, to date, 13 of the 3 shooters have been positively identified. It couldnt have been just 1.
I think the Watergate burglar, Howard Hunt, had a deathbed confession that he was one of the bums on the grassy knoll. He named a French sharpshooter as the assassin. It was part of the CIA's retaliation for JFK's refusal to send in troops to shore up the CIA Bay of Pigs fiasco and JFK's firing of Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA. LBJ was aware of it. Hunt maintained that the CIA would brief LBJ but not JFK on issues and wanted him to be President. According to him, his wife was going to tell the full story after he refused to enter a guilty plea after the Watergate break-in. She and the reporter were killed in a plane crash. He told his son that he then plead guilty because he was afraid that the CIA would kill his children next. The CIA seems to use plane crashes regularly. How about the plane of Iraqi nuclear engineers that crashed in Russia? FYI, he had no apologies for the assassination of JFK. He thought he was a traitor.
What's important is who hired the shooter and who owned the Texas School Book Depository- Allyn & Bacon, purchased several months before the motorcade event.
Is it logically possible to have 13 of 3 shooters? Doesn't seem so to me.
new math.