Jackie Kennedy, on the flight back from Dallas, referring to the murder
of her husband JFK: “Lyndon
Johnson did it.”
Pamela Turnure was the press secretary for Jackie Kennedy, as well as a mistress of JFK. Later Pamela became a girlfriend of famous singer Eddie Fisher.
Eddie Fisher:
QUOTE
Pam was with the President and Jackie on that fatal trip to Dallas. He was assassinated on a Friday, November 22, 1963. Jack Kennedy and Pam had arranged an appointment for me with Vice-President Lyndon Johnson for the following Monday to discuss an effort I was leading to change our national anthem from “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which is very difficult to sing, to “America the Beautiful.” Obviously that meeting never took place.
On the flight back to Washington
after the murder, Pam told me, Jackie Kennedy told her, “Lyndon Johnson did it.”
Words I’ll never forget.”
UNQUOTE
[Eddie Fisher, Been There, Done That: An Autobiography, pp. 257-258]
Jackie Kennedy to Pamela Turnure, her press secretary (and lover to JFK) on who murdered JFK: “Lyndon Johnson did it.”
Pamela Turnure dated both JFK (while he was married to Jackie) and Eddi Fisher: https://www.whosdatedwho.com/dating/pamela-turnure
Pamela Turnure Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Turnure
Pictures of Pamela Turnure - https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/pamela-turnure.html
Info on Pamela Turnure - https://peoplepill.com/people/pamela-turnure
Smoking Gun on Pamela Turnure and Florence Mary Kater: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/president-branded-debaucher
CNN 1998: https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/05/14/kennedy/
Description
Extortion and infidelity—“Senator Kennedy’s picture at the scene
of his tomcatting”
Material
from Evelyn Lincoln’s ‘Secret JFK File’ concerning a extortion case concerning
Kennedy’s alleged infidelity, including a letter of May 27, 1959, to Stuart
Symington—JFK’s rival contending for the Democratic presidential
nomination—with a candid snapshot of Kennedy in the street affixed to the upper
left, with a typed caption beside it: “Here is Senator John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts, hand hiding his face, recently snapped when leaving his
girlfriend’s place at 1 o’clock in the morning. She is a ‘glamour type’
employee of his. That’s a handkerchief in the senator’s right hand. In fact,
everything’s there to see but a touch of greatness.” The
letter forwards a copy of one sent out to reporters in an effort to smear
Kennedy’s name. The body, in part: “We are sending this to you without the
knowledge of the people involved because we feel that their lofty
approach—sticking only to the job-threat angle—did not show the crumminess of
Senator John F. Kennedy, the man who hopes to become the next President of the
United States. In her
letter to about thirty-five reporters (copy of which is attached) she didn’t
tell the real reason for Senator Kennedy’s vengeful threat to take her
husband’s job….The fact is, of course, that snapping Senator Kennedy’s picture
at the scene of his tomcatting was the reason he threatened to take her
husband’s job; and, failing that, it was the reason for sending the many-hatted
Mr. McInerney around. The woman who took the picture is an
Irish-Catholic who had been a warm supporter of Senator Kennedy. When she observed
his spicy capers very first-hand she foolishly believed that, being a
middle-aged Irish lad, he was dangerously out of his depth and needed some sort
of shock treatment to admit it. But Senator Kennedy thought his behavior none
of her business. We think he’s wrong there; it’s part of the package when
you’re a public figure running for the Presidency. We have taken a poll of a
hundred people. Ninety percent of them would not vote for a philanderer to head
up the First Family.”
The letter forwarded, in part: “It may or may not be newsworthy that Senator
Kennedy thinks it is all right to threaten to use his political power to take
away a man’s job if that man has ‘annoyed’ him personally.” She goes on to
describe a personal encounter with him in the street during what sounds like a
stakeout: “Senator Kennedy
spoke up and said: ‘I want you to stop bothering me. If you do it again, or if
either of you spread any lies about me, you will find yourself without a job…If
I find you here or any other place annoying me, you won’t have a job.’ All the
while the Senator used his index finger for emphasis….My husband has
been a salesman for the same company for the past twelve years. He calls on the
Air Force, the Marine Corps and the Office of the Secretary of Defense…He just
couldn’t be more vulnerable to political pressure.” Additionally included is a slightly different
second candid photo of JFK taken only moments after the first, as well as a
note from Clark Clifford, reading: “Dear Jack—As per our conversation. Regards,
Cliff.” Includes an envelope addressed to Senator Kennedy marked “Personal and
Confidential—Eyes Only.” In very good to fine condition. Provenance:
Estate of Robert White.
While these letters are anonymous, the case in question revolves around a threat by Florence M. Kater
and her husband Leonard to expose an alleged affair between Kennedy and his
secretary Pamela Turnure. Florence Kater, Turnure’s landlady, had spotted
Kennedy leaving her residence late at night and assumed he was up to no good.
On July 11, 1958, at one o’clock in the morning, Leonard snapped these
photographs of Kennedy leaving yet again. The Katers supposedly then attempted
to blackmail Kennedy by demanding a Modigliani painting in exchange for
suppressing the story. Kennedy refused to buy their silence, and Florence Kater
responded by launching a one-woman campaign to bring attention to Kennedy’s
infidelity, beginning by sending a letter and the photos to fifty or so
reporters. Despite the potential for juicy headlines, none of the
newspapers ran with the story except for an innocuous mention in the Washington
Star; between the uncertain circumstances of the photographs—they do not
provide indisputable evidence of an affair—and the fact that many editors liked
JFK, Kater’s efforts were ignored. Overall, this grouping represents the
ultimate in JFK intrigue—the intersection of dirty campaign politics, Kennedy’s
famed intimate personal life, and the way he was treated by the media.
James M. McInerney (1905 – 1963) was the man who JFK sent to try and get Florence Kater to SHUT UP about his affair with Pamela Turnure -
https://www.justice.gov/criminal/history/assistant-attorneys-general/james-m-mcinerney
Early
History: James McInerney was born in New York City in 1905. After
receiving his bachelor’s and law degrees from Fordham University, he practiced
law in New York City until joining the FBI in 1935 as a federal agent. He
worked on several major kidnapping cases. In 1939, he transferred to the
Justice Department’s Criminal Division. In 1944, he was promoted to first
assistant in the Division. From 1947 to 1950, he served as assistant to
the head of the Tax Division, prosecuting wartime tax frauds and black market
operations.
Tenure: In 1950,
Mr. McInerney was appointed head of the Criminal Division by President Harry S.
Truman. During his tenure, Mr. McInerney was influential in requiring the FBI
to conduct a full investigation into Ku Klux Klan activities in Myrtle Beach
and the beating of the owner of a popular club there. In 1952, it was alleged
that Mr. McInerney and New York City Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan
made an agreement barring federal inquiries into New York City police
brutality. After this accusation, Mr. McInerney was transferred from the
Criminal Division to the Lands Division (later renamed the Environmental and
Natural Resources Division), where he served as Assistant Attorney General and
oversaw a number of cases concerning titling for public works projects.
Later Career: With the change of
administration in 1953, Mr. McInerney retired from the Department of Justice and
returned to private practice. In the mid-1950s, he was chairman of the
Special Committee for Legal Aid in Employee Security Matters, established by
the District Bar Association to provide legal counsel to Government employees
involved in security risk cases. Mr. McInerney died in a car accident in
1963.
LBJ to John Connally on why he would not have RFK as his Vice President
on the 1964 Democratic ticket: "I'm not going to let them put
somebody in bed with me that'll murder me."
[Lawrence Leamer, Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American
Dynasty, p. 465]
Jackie Kennedy on her Dislike & Mistrust of Lyndon Johnson: “I
did not like or trust Lyndon Johnson. Never mention his name again!” – spoken while
the HSCA was in full bloom
One of JFK, Jr.'s best friends
(actually a girlfriend) at the Phillips Academy was Meg Azzoni. In spring, 1977,
she and John went to visit Jackie while Caroline was still at Harvard. Meg
says: "Jackie
told John and I at the 'break-the-fast' breakfast, 'I did not like or trust Lyndon
Johnson.' No one said another word the whole meal in memorial contemplative silence."
[Meg Azzoni,
"John F. Kennedy, Jr. to Meg Azzoni Eleven Letters: Memories of
Kennedys & Reflections on His Quest, p. 52]
Barr McClellan
(who I have spoken with many times and again on 2-24-2020) ghostwrote her book
for/with Meg Azzoni and the actual quote was:
"Jackie told John and I at the 'break-the-fast' breakfast, 'I did
not like or trust Lyndon Johnson. Never mention his name again!’”
Jackie on how JFK and RFK were appalled at the idea of Lyndon Johnson ever
being president and there was a plan to prevent that.
Also notice what USA Today did print on Jackie’s oral history and what the
NYT carefully chose NOT to print.
USA Today https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/LIFE/usaedition/2011-09-13-Jackie-kennedy-book-news_ST_U.htm
“Jackie
Kennedy interviews yield surprising revelations,” Bob Minzesheimer, USA
Today, 9-12-2011.
QUOTE
•On Johnson, Kennedy's
vice president who assumed the presidency after the assassination. He was
elected president in 1964, but dropped out of the presidential race in 1968:
"Bobby (Kennedy) told me this later, and I know Jack
said it to me sometimes. He said, 'Oh, God can you ever imagine what would
happen if Lyndon was president?'
"He didn't like that idea that Lyndon would go on and
be president because he was worried for the country. Bobby told me that he'd
had some discussions with him. I forget exactly how they were planning or who
they had in mind. It wasn't Bobby (who would, in fact, mount a presidential
campaign until his assassination in 1968) but somebody. Do something to name
someone else in '68."
•On King, who
was secretly taped by the FBI during the civil rights movement:
"I just
can't see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that
man's terrible."
She said the president
"told me of a tape that the FBI had of Martin Luther King when he was here
for the Freedom March. And he said this with no bitterness or anything, how he
was calling up all these girls and arranging for a party of men and women, I mean,
sort of an orgy in the hotel, and everything."
UNQUOTE
NYT story on the Jackie Kennedy oral history: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/us/12jackie.html
“In Tapes, Candid Talk by Young Kennedy Widow,” Janny Scott, NYT Sept. 11, 2011.
QUOTE
She quotes Mr. Kennedy saying of Lyndon B. Johnson, his vice president, “Oh, God, can you ever imagine what would happen to the country if Lyndon was president?” And Mr. Kennedy on Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Charlatan is an unfair word,” but “he did an awful lot for effect.”
UNQUOTE
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