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Marion "Mimi" Alford (born June 4, 1944 is an American woman who wrote a book first published in 2011 about her affair 50 years earlier with the United States President John F. Kennedy when she was a 19 year-old intern working in the White House. Her book is titled Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath.
In her book, Alford (then Beardsley) writes about how she lost her virginity in 1962 to the president, and that the ensuing affair lasted 18 months. She says they did not have sexual relations after August 1963, though they saw each other until six days before he was assassinated. At the time Alford, a recent graduate of Jacqueline Kennedy's alma mater, Miss Porter's School, was a student at Wheaton College, an all-girls private school in Massachusetts. She is currently a grandmother and a retired New York City church administrator.
The relationship was first published in the 2003 Kennedy biography An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 by Robert Dallek. It was previously confirmed in general terms by Kennedy press aide Barbara Gamarekian, identifying "Mimi" by name in her oral memoir transcribed by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in 1964, and unsealed in 2003.
In an interview with Ann Curry on February 9, 2012, Alford stated that at the time she did not feel guilty about the fact that the president was married, although in hindsight, "I feel guilty about not having felt guilty about Mrs. Kennedy."
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FISH-O
I stumbled across this interview a few months ago. The woman seemed sincere enough. Who knows what people have the audacity to say.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
The question I raise is that the latest political "scandals" at much lower level and in one case at the same level are nothing compare to this case. This kind of behaviour is one of the pieces of baggage that causes Newt Ginrich to fail in his attempt to run an win the current presidential election...
doolittle
And so??????
| 12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
ROMOS
WHO ????
| 12 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
Born Marion T. Beardsley
June 4, 1944 (1944-06-04) (age 67)
Other names Marion Beardsley Alford
Marion Fahnestock
Spouse Tony Fahnestock (div)
Richard Alford
Marion "Mimi" Alford (born June 4, 1944 is an American woman who wrote a book first published in 2011 about her affair 50 years earlier with the United States President John F. Kennedy when she was a 19 year-old intern working in the White House. Her book is titled Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath.
In her book, Alford (then Beardsley) writes about how she lost her virginity in 1962 to the president, and that the ensuing affair lasted 18 months. She says they did not have sexual relations after August 1963, though they saw each other until six days before he was assassinated. At the time Alford, a recent graduate of Jacqueline Kennedy's alma mater, Miss Porter's School, was a student at Wheaton College, an all-girls private school in Massachusetts. She is currently a grandmother and a retired New York City church administrator.
The relationship was first published in the 2003 Kennedy biography An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 by Robert Dallek. It was previously confirmed in general terms by Kennedy press aide Barbara Gamarekian, identifying "Mimi" by name in her oral memoir transcribed by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in 1964, and unsealed in 2003.
In an interview with Ann Curry on February 9, 2012, Alford stated that at the time she did not feel guilty about the fact that the president was married, although in hindsight, "I feel guilty about not having felt guilty about Mrs. Kennedy."
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