{"id":6265,"date":"2025-11-16T19:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2025-11-16T19:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:10:50","slug":"the-cruellest-twist-of-jfks-assassination-has-been-uncovered-in-a-new-intimate-account-of-his-final-days-but-whats-sending-chills-through-historians-is-jackie-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=6265","title":{"rendered":"The cruellest twist of JFK\u2019s assassination has been uncovered in a new intimate account of his final days \u2014 but what\u2019s sending chills through historians is Jackie Kennedy\u2019s eerie 3am premonition the night before he died, a whispered warning she reportedly shared only once and never spoke of again, a moment so unsettling that those who\u2019ve read the newly revealed notes say it changes everything we thought we knew about Dallas, about fate, and about the final hours of America\u2019s most mythologised president&#8230; READ MORE BELOW \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"featured-image page-header-image-single grid-container grid-parent\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews79.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumb-2025-11-16T172028.334-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnews79.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumb-2025-11-16T172028.334-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/globalnews79.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumb-2025-11-16T172028.334-1-300x162.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">The cruellest twist of JFK\u2019s assassination has been uncovered in a new intimate account of his final days \u2014 but what\u2019s sending chills through historians is Jackie Kennedy\u2019s eerie 3am premonition the night before he died, a whispered warning she reportedly shared only once and never spoke of again, a moment so unsettling that those who\u2019ve read the newly revealed notes say it changes everything we thought we knew about Dallas, about fate, and about the final hours of America\u2019s most mythologised president.<\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"posted-on\"><time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2025-11-16T17:22:56+07:00\">16\/11\/2025<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">In yesterday\u2019s Daily Mail, we revealed the depths to which Jack Kennedy fell for the beautiful and spirited Joan Lundberg, a flight attendant who lived in a trailer park. Her pregnancy nearly sunk his marriage to Jackie but America\u2019s golden couple endured, and even blossomed, before tragedy struck..<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On the morning of Sunday, October 20, 1963, a month before he was assassinated, President John F. Kennedy paid a visit to his father Joe at his home in Hyannis Port,\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">Massachusetts<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He and Joe, who remained incapacitated following a stroke, went out on the family yacht after having breakfast together. Then Jack \u2013 as he was widely known \u2013 went for a stroll on the beach with his wife Jackie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As their neighbours Larry Newman and his wife Sancy watched, Jack set up a bowl of water, a can of shaving cream, and a razor next to a folding chair and began shaving his face under the hot sun.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As he did so, Jackie knelt behind him and ran her fingers through his hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018They appeared to be such a loving couple with not a care in the world,\u2019 said Sancy Newman. \u2018It was so lovely and so intimate, I was actually a little mesmerised by it.\u2019 It was an image all the more striking because of the long-standing problems in the Kennedy marriage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In 1956, only three years after their wedding, a fellow guest at a dinner party held in one of Washington\u2019s most exclusive social clubs had asked Jackie how she liked being married to a senator.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7b172e717eefe008\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/11\/15\/23\/103913559-15294683-image-m-110_1763247718538.jpg\" alt=\"President John F. Kennedy and Jackie at Dallas airport on November 22, 1963, ahead of the fateful drive through the city that would end with his assassination\" width=\"634\" height=\"808\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">President John F. Kennedy and Jackie at Dallas airport on November 22, 1963, ahead of the fateful drive through the city that would end with his assassination<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This was days after she had discovered that Jack had been sleeping with a flight attendant named Joan Lundberg \u2013 and she was in no mood for pretence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It was the biggest goddamn mistake of my life,\u2019 she snapped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The man she was speaking to was taken aback but she didn\u2019t care and it was left to her stepfather Hugh to apologise and explain they were dealing with \u2018a rather delicate\u2019 family matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018We don\u2019t always make the right choices in marriage,\u2019 he said. \u2018Jackie will make a better choice next time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As I described in yesterday\u2019s Daily Mail, that had seemed a serious possibility at one point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The affair with Joan Lundberg so angered Jackie that she had hired divorce lawyers, backing down only when her father-in-law bribed her with today\u2019s equivalent of \u00a31.4million to stay in the marriage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The deal she made with her husband was that, while she knew she had to come to terms with the notion of his infidelity, he should do nothing to embarrass her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Don\u2019t you dare rub it in my face,\u2019 she had warned him, but he had come perilously close to doing just that \u2013 subsequently getting Joan pregnant and paying for her to have an abortion shortly before she ended the affair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Fortunate that Joan had agreed to terminate the pregnancy, he\u2019d had a close call and he\u2019d never forget it, vowing never to get into a similar situation again. Thereafter, he rethought his version of infidelity, as he explained to the actor Peter Lawford, his sister Pat\u2019s husband.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-90664ef4818bbc12\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/11\/15\/23\/103914191-15294683-image-a-111_1763247979388.jpg\" alt=\"JFK\u2019s affair with Joan Lundberg so angered Jackie that she had hired divorce lawyers, backing down only when her father-in-law bribed her with today\u2019s equivalent of \u00a31.4million to stay in the marriage\" width=\"634\" height=\"477\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">JFK\u2019s affair with Joan Lundberg so angered Jackie that she had hired divorce lawyers, backing down only when her father-in-law bribed her with today\u2019s equivalent of \u00a31.4million to stay in the marriage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018One night here with a girl, and one night there, that\u2019s OK, I guess, but an actual relationship? No. That can only be with Jackie. I will never take a chance with my marriage again.\u2019 Some of those nights \u2018here\u2019 and \u2018there\u2019 were spent with Judy Campbell, a raven-haired divorcee with full lips and dark eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Intelligent, charismatic and a great conversationalist, she had briefly dated Frank Sinatra and he introduced her to Jack following a \u2018Rat Pack\u2019 show in Las Vegas in February 1960.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">To Jack, she looked just like Joan Lundberg but although there are enough entries in White House visitor logs to suggest that their liaisons continued after he was elected president in November that year, he seems to have successfully avoided getting into a relationship with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Those liaisons came to an end in December 1962 when his brother Bobby, aware that Judy was a friend of leading Chicago mobster Sam Giancana, pointed out the potential for blackmail and told him he should finish it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Jack agreed. She\u2019d just been a lark anyway. It wasn\u2019t that difficult for him to let her go, even if Judy appears to have had more trouble breaking things off, continuing to call him until Jackie threatened to have the Secret Service track her down. She never called again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Very little got by the First Lady,\u2019 recalled Secret Service agent Anthony Sherman. \u2018She was not naive to any of it, trust me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">To that end, Jackie had installed a spy in the office of Jack\u2019s PA to keep her abreast of any suspicious calls. A woman she knew through family connections, she was hired as a secretary at Jackie\u2019s suggestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Just keep me posted of anything that perks your ears,\u2019 Jackie told her \u2013 and so she became fully aware of regular visits to the White House made by Mary Meyer, a pretty blonde divorcee who was the sister-in-law of one of their good friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Although Jackie had specifically demanded discretion from her husband years earlier, she tolerated Mary\u2019s presence because Jack had sworn to her that she only offered him oral sex and, like many women of the time, Jackie believed that this didn\u2019t constitute \u2018real\u2019 sex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Jackie took a dim view of Mary because of the way she knew she serviced Jack,\u2019 said one of her family members. \u2018She had no respect for her: \u2018If that\u2019s the kind of reputation she wants around here,\u2019 she said, meaning the White House, \u2018that\u2019s her problem\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-13a6d2988270bece\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/11\/15\/23\/103913489-15294683-image-a-112_1763248098087.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie became aware of regular visits to the White House made by Mary Meyer, who was the sister-in-law of one of their good friends. She tolerated her presence because Jack had sworn to her that she only offered him oral sex and, like many women of the time, Jackie believed that this didn\u2019t constitute \u2018real\u2019 sex\" width=\"634\" height=\"769\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Jackie became aware of regular visits to the White House made by Mary Meyer, who was the sister-in-law of one of their good friends. She tolerated her presence because Jack had sworn to her that she only offered him oral sex and, like many women of the time, Jackie believed that this didn\u2019t constitute \u2018real\u2019 sex<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018She also felt Mary was jealous of her. \u2018She wants all of this,\u2019 she told me, motioning her surroundings, \u2018but she\u2019ll never have it. Maybe someone should tell her that easy women don\u2019t find husbands\u2019.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mary Meyer\u2019s visits came to an end when Phil Graham, publisher and co-owner of the Washington Post, got drunk at a newspaper convention and gave a mostly incoherent speech in which he referred obliquely to Jack\u2019s affair with her, joking that she was \u2018the president\u2019s new favourite\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The next day, fearing Graham\u2019s remarks would be reported since they were delivered to a room full of Press people, Jack felt he had no choice but to tell Jackie about the potentially humiliating revelations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Mary Meyer is finished,\u2019 she told him. \u2018It\u2019s either her or me. You choose.\u2019 She was now drawing a line in the sand, adding that if their marriage was to survive the next year in the White House, or the next four after that, things would have to change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After she spoke to Jack, she called Mary. We don\u2019t know the details of that conversation, only that Jackie said she told her: \u2018I want you to stay the hell away from my husband.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It seemed that this warning was unnecessary because, by the beginning of 1963, Jack was beginning to feel remorseful about not only Mary Meyer but any woman he\u2019d ever had in his bed who wasn\u2019t his wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I remember him telling me, \u2018I love Jackie. She\u2019s my whole life\u2019,\u2019 said his friend, Democrat Senator George Smathers. \u2018I thought to myself, \u2018Oh yeah? Since when? Since when has Jackie ever been your whole life?\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b7a26997571a09be\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/11\/15\/23\/103914241-15294683-image-a-113_1763248320597.jpg\" alt=\"The affair with Judy Campbell came to an end\u00a0when JFK\u2019s brother Bobby, aware that Judy (pictured with her then husband, actor William Campbell) was a friend of leading Chicago mobster Sam Giancana, pointed out the potential for blackmail and told him he should finish it\" width=\"634\" height=\"510\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The affair with Judy Campbell came to an end\u00a0when JFK\u2019s brother Bobby, aware that Judy (pictured with her then husband, actor William Campbell) was a friend of leading Chicago mobster Sam Giancana, pointed out the potential for blackmail and told him he should finish it<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018But he was changing. Things were different. We could all see it. He told me, \u2018Every bad decision I\u2019ve ever made has been my own fault. I\u2019m sick of being a chip off the old block\u2019. I sure knew what that meant.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It seems that Jack Kennedy might finally have come face-to-face with a hard truth, that the worst parts of himself reminded him of the worst parts of his father Joe \u2013 a rampant philanderer whose infidelity had left his mother Rose feeling unheard, unvalued and unloved for so many years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Like all the Kennedys, Jack was known to be a stoic person but that August in 1963 he surprised friends and family with the depth of his feeling when his and<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Jackie\u2019s son Patrick \u2013 who would have been a younger brother to Caroline, then five, and John Junior, two \u2013 was born prematurely and died shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He choked back tears as he told his brother Teddy\u2019s wife Joan that he felt he was being punished, that he\u2019d made some big mistakes along the way and now God was taking retribution on him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I haven\u2019t been the best husband and it\u2019s very painful,\u2019 he told her. \u2018And by painful, I mean shameful.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Perhaps, with the passage of more time, he would\u2019ve figured out certain things about himself and worked to square things with those he loved. But tragically, the clock was beginning to run out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">With his first term well under way, it now made sense to look towards the second and he really needed to make a trip to Texas where his liberal civil rights policies had seen his popularity sinking.<\/p>\n<div class=\"floatRHS\">\n<div data-mol-fe-xpmodule-related-story-factbox=\"true\" data-xp-platform=\"mol.web.desktop\" data-xp-channel-color=\"mailplus\" data-track-module=\"related-story-factbox^related-story-factbox-jfks-secret-trailer-park-lover-the-sex-w\" data-reactroot=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image_HQjDD_In\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/11\/14\/19\/103895517-0-image-a-100_1763148714883.jpg\" alt=\"article image\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">With that in the offing, Jackie had to think long and hard about Texas governor John Connally\u2019s suggestion that she should accompany Jack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018The women want to see her,\u2019 Connally told him. \u2018They want to see what her hairdo and clothes look like. It\u2019s important to them.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While Jackie had made about a dozen trips with Jack abroad, she hadn\u2019t accompanied him on any official domestic trips since he had become president and her trepidation had to do with a feeling she\u2019d once had at his side in the days of his campaign for the Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Back then, she\u2019d felt invisible and unnecessary. Now she realised the public had really grown to know and admire her, and that she was an integral part of a powerful political team. She liked it and felt she could really contribute to it, and so she agreed to go to Texas with her husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Before that trip, Jackie took Caroline and John Jr to the Kennedys\u2019 new summer home, which they\u2019d just finished building in Atoka, Virginia, and, while she was away, Jack summoned Mary Meyer to the White House. She arrived an hour later but, based on conversations they later had with others, he did not take her to his bed, instead sending her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018He told me two weeks later that he had a woman at the White House but that he\u2019d had a change of heart,\u2019 recalled George Smathers. \u2018He said he looked at her and had, I guess, a crisis of conscience, which he resolved by saying to himself, \u2018Hell, no. I\u2019m not doing this. I\u2019m done with this\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018When he told me the story, I said, \u2018But, Jack, that\u2019s huge\u2019.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Jack might not have changed overnight but he was definitely trying. That night, he flew to Atoka to be with Jackie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Later, as the sun went down, they snuggled on a hammock, their feet intertwined, whispering to each other as they watched the sky fill with colours. As he stroked her hair, there were long stretches of contented silence between them. It was as if he finally realised that all he ever needed was right there, with him, in that moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">For her part, Jackie would recall feeling as if she were \u2018maybe for the first time, loved, wanted and cared for\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Or, as she told her mother: \u2018Maybe Jack and I don\u2019t have a perfect marriage but, somehow, we\u2019re perfect for each other.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The three weeks of that final, fateful November in Jack\u2019s life passed quickly. Before leaving for Texas, Jackie shared a surprising secret with her mother. Two months earlier, following a family celebration of their tenth wedding anniversary, she and Jack had privately given each other gifts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She presented him with a new St Christopher\u2019s medal because she knew he\u2019d placed his own in Patrick\u2019s coffin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In turn, he gave her a gold-and-emerald ring which, he explained, represented the same fighting spirit of the Irish he\u2019d seen in their son\u2019s fight for survival. He slipped it onto Jackie\u2019s finger next to her wedding band.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-10f4ce6b0474e34c\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/11\/15\/23\/103914281-15294683-image-a-114_1763248543835.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie and JFK with their daughter Caroline at their summer house in\u00a0Atoka, Virginia\" width=\"634\" height=\"630\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Jackie and JFK with their daughter Caroline at their summer house in\u00a0Atoka, Virginia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Before he did so, however, he\u2019d dropped to one knee and asked her to marry him, a gesture which meant the world to her because he\u2019d never actually asked for her hand in marriage. Not officially, anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They planned to renew their vows on their 11th wedding anniversary in September 1964 and those around them noticed Jack being much more loving. Journalist Ben Bradlee, a good friend of the Kennedys, recalled him greeting her with \u2018by far the most affectionate embrace we had ever seen them give each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018We wondered about it, figured it was because of Patrick but, looking back, I think maybe it was more than that\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Although the renewal of their vows was still a year away, Jackie had already started to think about what dress she might wear \u2013 pale yellow or light blue, something in silk, knee-length.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But in the meantime there were more pressing concerns, like their visit to Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Jackie would later recall that as their Lincoln convertible passed through the city\u2019s Dealey Plaza in the blazing heat of Friday, November 22, Jack turned to her and smiled, looking, as she would later remember, more handsome than ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He then turned back to the happy faces of the admiring crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That\u2019s when she heard the sound. The pop of a firecracker? The backfire of a motorcycle?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Jack flinched. He grabbed his throat. He lurched to the left and looked at Jackie with a puzzled expression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">There was another pop. Then, another. Three in six seconds. Then\u2026 just red. Blood red.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Then\u2026 black.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After a mad race to Parkland Hospital, Jackie, her pink outfit splattered with blood, stood next to Jack\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It was laid out on a stretcher and covered by a white sheet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She bent down, took his foot in her hand and kissed it. She pulled back the sheet. His eyes were wide and staring. She gazed down at his face, which somehow seemed so young to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018His mouth was so beautiful,\u2019 she recalled. She kissed his lips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A week after the assassination, in a conversation with her mother and stepbrother Yusha, Jackie would remember her last night with Jack. It was in Fort Worth\u2019s Hotel Texas, suite 850, after an exhausting day of campaigning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On that day, as she recalled it, she really felt as if she\u2019d found her momentum and had grown into the role of a true political partner for her husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">By the time they got to their hotel room, they were both exhausted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They rarely slept in the same bed though. In Fort Worth, they\u2019d be in adjoining bedrooms in the same suite. However, before retiring, Jackie recalled Jack wanting to spend a few moments with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018You were great today,\u2019 he told her. \u2018How do you feel?\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Oh, gosh, I\u2019m exhausted,\u2019 she answered as he held her close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Realising how tired she was, he told her she didn\u2019t have to appear for a speech the next morning at 8:30. If she could be ready by 9:15 for breakfast in the hotel\u2019s grand ballroom, that would be fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It\u2019s almost over,\u2019 he told her, reassuringly. \u2018Dallas. Then, Austin.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Jackie said she returned to her own room and laid out her clothes for the next day \u2013 the pink suit with navy collar and matching pink pillbox hat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After brushing her hair to get ready for bed, Jackie retired for the evening but at about three in the morning she woke with a start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018She knew she needed to be with Jack,\u2019 her mother explained. \u2018She just knew. She didn\u2019t know how else to explain it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Jackie went to Jack\u2019s door, tapped lightly, let herself into his room and crawled into his bed. They then made love. Afterwards, she said, she returned to her own room. Then she fell asleep, unaware that, to borrow her own delicate phrasing, she and Jack had been \u2018together as husband and wife\u2019 for what would be the very last time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mol-820572d0-c276-11f0-96ec-b9d17492e423\" class=\"art-ins mol-factbox news\" data-version=\"2\" data-permabox-url=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15294683\/JFK-assassination-cruel-twist-jackie-final-night-texas.html\" data-track-module=\"factbox^factbox-how-his-dads-ex-turned-him-down\">\n<h3 class=\"mol-factbox-title\">How his dad\u2019s ex turned him down<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ins cleared mol-factbox-body\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After JFK\u2019s father Joe and his long-term mistress Janet Des Rosiers (pictured) went their separate ways, Joe offered her a job as hostess aboard the Caroline, his private jet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018My job was to keep things operational \u2013 the food, laundry, anything to do with the comfort of his guests,\u2019 she told me. \u2018It was hard work; we\u2019d sometimes hit six or seven cities in a day, but I loved it.\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-4e2f9f1cab46334c\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/11\/15\/23\/103914145-15294683-image-a-108_1763247647809.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"795\" data-gallery-handler-attached=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Before he became president, Jack often used his father\u2019s jet and on one flight, instead of preparing a meal for him in the galley as she usually did, Janet surprised him with a gourmet offering she\u2019d ordered from La Caravelle, a French restaurant in New York: chicken in champagne sauce with pureed mushrooms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I\u2019m so happy you\u2019re back with us,\u2019 he told her as he wolfed it down. \u2018It\u2019s like I never left,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As he ate, the senator took a napkin, scribbled something on it and handed it to her. 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