JFK intern reveals 18-month affair with Kennedy

PanARMENIAN.Net - A former White House intern claims in a new book that she carried on an 18-month affair with U.S. President John F Kennedy, ended only by his assassination in 1963 in Dallas, M&C reported, citing DPA.

Mimi Alford, now a 69-year-old grandmother and retired New York church administrator, made the claims in a new book called Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F Kennedy and its aftermath.

The book is to be released Wednesday, February 8. Excerpts from an advanced copy were published by the New York Post.

According to Alford, the affair began when she was a 19-year-old debutante whose high society connections scored her a summer internship in the White House press office. Four days into the stint, she was offered the chance to join the legendarily rakish U.S. president for his daily swim, and was then invited to attend an after-work party with him in his quarters later that night.

Aides to the president loaded her up on daiquiris before the dashing, 45-year-old JFK took her on a personal tour, which quickly became sexual once they reached the bedroom of his absent wife Jackie Kennedy.

Alford, who was a virgin at the time, recounts the initial seduction in details that would not be out of place in a steamy romance novel.

The excerpts gave little insight into JFK's political thinking, beyond one startling revelation about the Cuban missile crisis, which is thought to be the closest the U.S. and the Soviet Union ever came to nuclear war.