A LINGERING WONDERMENT ~

WHO WAS ACUTALLY JFK, JR.’S FATHER?

by Pat Shannan

I have spent the past half century researching and reporting on conspiracy facts rather than the  mere theory of which we are so often accused. However, here I shall waver just a little, but not without some solid circumstansial evidence pointing to logic and truth.

I was in my early twenties during the John F. Kennedy presidential years and was immediately consumed by the false facts of his assassination, which I have written about often; but this Kennedy story is different from any you have ever heard. It concerns the later strange attraction between Jackie and Aristotle Onassis, who eventually married in 1968.

In those days I had noted a few times without comment how little alike brother and sister JFK, Jr. and Caroline resembled each other during childhood and even less so in adulthood, but said or wrote nothing because I had nothing to base it on. (Now I do.) She was three years older, born in 1957 and he in 1960. In his early adult years, while I was flying on an airliner and looking at his picture in a magazine, I remember commenting to the person sitting next to me about how “Greek” he looked. No man anywhere was more handsome! Maybe I was already suspecting something. Can’t remember and certainly had no details then.

 After Jr. died in that tragic plane crash in 1999, I didn’t dwell on the question until sometime later when I read of JFK’s fling with Judith Campbell Exner, which began nine months before he was elected to the presidency in November of 1960. In the book she wrote before she died in 1999, Exner told of the infamous affair that began

after she was introduced to JFK by Frank Sinatra on February 7, 1960 when Kennedy was on the campaign trail out west.

It is well known today that Jackie was aware of her husband’s philandering over all his adult years and the fact that it had not ceased in the past seven years that they had been married. Another of similar character was one of the richest men in the world — Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis, who at the time JFK was in California with Sinatra, just happened to be having an on-going whoopee with Jackie’s sister, Lee Radziwill. Lee invited Jackie to fly to Europe with her and spend some time with her and Ari on his boat in Greece while Jack was away campaigning. They flew out of New York on February 10, 1960. They stayed just under two weeks, during which time the two sisters and Ari were the only people living on his boat. Soon afterwards, it became public knowledge that Lee and Jackie became “divorced” and never reconciled, and the quiet reason became somewhat obvious when Jackie and Ari married in 1968.

Much of the world was appalled at such a development and could never understand the former first lady’s attraction to a man 23 years her senior — except perhaps that of a few million bux. However, there might have been one more even stronger and older motivation driving the two together in marriage.

I, like a few million Americans, I am sure, have always remembered JFK Jr.’s birthday for only one reason: as we watched the JFK funeral on TV, we learned that it was occuring on Jr.s’ third birthday (remember the salute?!) — making his DOB 11/25/60. Am I getting your attention yet?

A couple of weeks added to 2/10/60 comes to 2/24/60, which is the day Jackie returned to NY (we learned from different research). Now, let us compute further: we have always been told that the gestation period for the human woman is nine months, but I have learned in recent years that that is only approximate, and the more precise time that doctors use is 39 weeks. So with that in mind, do your math and subtract 39 weeks from November 25th and see whatcha’ get! I did it by subtracting the 36 days remaining in the year from 365 and getting 329. Then by subtracting the first 41 days of the year up to Feb.10th from the 329, I got 288. Then the remaining two weeks from 2/10 up until 2/24 were 14 more days subtracted from the 288, making 274. The 274 days divided by 7 comes out to be 39 weeks!

Was JFK, Jr. actually Ari Jr.? Dunno. I am only telling you the facts as I know them. As another circumstantial point of reference, see Onassis’s daughter Christina here, who appears to be more closely related to John, Jr. than “Sweet Caroline” ever did.

 

Could this be the single thing that drove them to marriage eight years later — the child they already had? Except for the money, what else could it have been? The few people that I have told this to over the years ALL said, “No way would she have fooled around with that ugly old bastard!” To which I have countered, “You have only seen his oldster pix, search out his younger ones. He was a very handsome young Greek man, as well, only slightly less so than his maybe offspring known as JFK, Jr.”

Another strange but little known development in the early relationship of Jackie and Ari occurred in August of 1963 following the death of Jackie’s last child, Patrick, of a respiratory ailment after only two days of life. With Jack’s full knowledge, she visited Onassis again in Greece. Why would JFK allow such a thing? Did he already know the whole truth of the story? With this being exactly three and a half years after the first encounter, we can only wonder how many more trysts between the two occurred during the previous months and years.

Can any reader offer any further evidence — circumstantial or otherwise — to this greatly possible fact but meanwhile just a theory?

Your input is welcomed.