Bobby and Jackie; a modern American Greek tragedy

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-09-10 09:34

Photographs showing former president John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie and the couple's children John Jr. and Caroline, on display March 18, are among the items to be offered at an auction of the late president's momorabilia in New York today and March 19, 1998.[Agencies]

Both RFK and Jacqueline Kennedy were involved with others while continuing their own affair, according to the book. Jackie was linked with Aristotle Onassis, whom she married after Robert Kennedy's death.

Heymann said the Kennedy family had made no comment about the book, his fourth based on the Kennedy family.

"They are immured to (their lives) being revealed publicly," he said. "From a public relations standpoint they have nothing to gain. If they deny it, it only sheds more publicity."

Senator Ted Kennedy, the last brother, died recently, taking what he may have known to the grave.

"He didn't want to talk about it but said it may have taken place," Heymann said before Ted Kennedy's death.

The tragedy for both RFK and Kennedy Onassis was that they could never marry.

"It would have ended Bobby's political career," Heymann said. "They were an ill-fated Romeo and Juliet."

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