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John F Kennedy's love letters put up for auction


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John F Kennedy was portrayed as happily married but had many affairs

Secret love letters written by former US President John F Kennedy to a Swedish woman are being put up for auction.
The letters were written to Gunilla von Post when Mr Kennedy was an ambitious US senator in the 1950s.
Their love affair began before Mr Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier - but continued afterwards.
Bidding for the letters starts at $25,000 (£16,000), but they are expected to fetch much more.
Ms Von Post, now 78 years old, revealed her affair with the former US leader in a 1997 book, but the 11 handwritten letters and three telegrams have remained private until now.
In an interview with US broadcaster ABC News in 1997, she said her heart went "boom boom boom boom" when she was with Mr Kennedy.
"I was very happy to hear from him, but I said 'He's a married man'," she said.
The two first met on the French Riviera in the summer of 1953 when Mr Kennedy was 36 and Ms Von Post was 21, ABC reported.
Despite being only a month before Mr Kennedy's marriage, they danced all night and parted with a romantic kiss.
Mr Kennedy wrote his first letter to the Swedish beauty in June 1954.
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Letters were often written on senate stationery Pic: legendaryauctions.com

In it he wrote: "I might get a boat and sail around the Mediterranean for two weeks - with you as crew."
But in November 1954 Mr Kennedy underwent major surgery on his back and wrote to Ms Von Post from a New York hospital asking: "Is there any chance you will be coming to the US?"
The following year the two secretly met at an old castle in Sweden.
"I borrowed him for a week, a beautiful week that no-one can take away from me, from that," Ms Von Post told ABC.
In the last letter - dated August 1955 - Mr Kennedy wrote: "I just got word today - that my wife and sister are coming here. It will all be complicated the way I feel now - my Swedish flicka [Swedish for little girl]. All I have done is sit in the sun and look at the ocean and think of Gunilla. All Love, Jack."
Mr Kennedy had numerous affairs which only came to light after his assassination in 1963.
Chicago-based Legendaryauctions.com is taking online bids for the letters.
Auction house president Doug Allen told ABC he believes the letters should fetch up to $100,000.

original copies of letters after link

http://http://legendaryauctions.com/LotDetail.aspx?lotid=106663

See jump offs have always existed. It's a shame now 78 year old jump off to the former president trying to get her 15 minutes of fame and money. Since Tiger's scandals. Jump offs of all ages are coming out of the woodwork
 

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this is a shame. I feel sorry for his daughter. On one hand I think it is disrespectful that they are selling this letter, but on the other hand, he should have never written it...
 

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Damn, jump-offs coming back from the grave now to bite you in the ass
 

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Why would anyone want to buy these love letters?

I imagine a Hollywood screenwriter purchasing the letters and using them to create a screenplay about the Senator and his unrequited love OR taking creative liberty and writing a tell-all book.
 

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Well as long as this other woman isn't expecting sympathy out of this I'm not bothered by it (because as someone said if he didn't write it we wouldn't have known).

If she wants us to feel sorry for her on some level over it that's never going to happen.
 

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She said in the letter that he wanted to leave Jackie for her.
 

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He was cheating on his wife with multiple women to the point he was writing foreigners love letters, but y’all still refer yo her as a jump off. While he gets to be called his respective name. The jokes write themselves :neutral
 

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