You should tell me your favourite JFK facts because I find your posts very interesting /nf 🐇
This has been sitting in my askbox for so long so here we go🫡 not gonna list my favorites but rather as much as i can remember while typing this
jfks eyes are green ,not blue contrary to popular belief! many official documents confirm this which you can easily find online
when not wearing shoes ,jfk had a fairly noticeable limp; because one side of his body was smaller than the other! This included his legs as well (left to be specific iirc) and this is more noticeable in childhood photos if anything
Tied to the fact above ,its also why he had to often wear lifts on one pair of his shoes
Speaking of shoes ,jfk's back pain was so terrible that it reached a point even tying his shoelaces was difficult for him. the chronic pain was genuinely debilitating! he was notorious for his health (or the lack thereof) where at times he'd be made to use crutches bc even walking became hard for him. Literally could not get out of BED on some days bc he was so exhausted and his body hurt .. and people get so surprised when i tell them this
Ive talked to u abt this in ur dms before but he also wore glasses when cameras werent around!
back in the 60s and the decades before it wearing a blue tshirt under a suit or anything of that sort was considered as bold and unprofessional as was wearing any other color like green or purple for ex. It wasnt until the early 60s where they began becoming more normalized— and this is thanks to jfk! he popularized blue tshirts in America after being seen with them on multiple times on addresses and public appearances. Whats interesting abt this is the reason rumored behind it and its that he was inspired by james bond 😭 whose actor wore blue shirts multiple times on film. Im nott exactly sure how true this is but he was pretty big james bond fan anyway so 😭😭
jfk's nickname for jackie was 'kid' and jackies nickname for him aside from jack was bunny
many sleep physicians heavily suggest that jfk had hypersomnolence. In other words that he was really sleepy 24/7 😭 which he indeed was! which obviously couldve had many reasons but the main one is the fatigue that came from his addisons disease— its one of its largest and most common symptoms. that and the exhaustion that wouldve probably come from his like 10 other chronic illnesses 😭 not even as a symptom. Just dealing w that shit is tiring if that makes sense. + Couldve been a side effect for medications he took
speaking of sleep, he was an incredibly light sleeper! the smallest noise would immediately wake him which sounds like hell honestly
he took so many pills and medications a day it's genuinely concerning and even above that. Something that always surprises people is the fact he took antianxiety medication + antipsychotics i think too? But definitely for sure antianxiety and for that reason a lot of specialists think he had GAD but i personally wouldnt say if he did or not
since we're on the topic of meds he was so self conscious of his appearance bc of them😭 since the steroids he took puffed up his face every now and then (moon face) he was always wary of how he looked especially especially his weight. He had such an unhealthy fixation towards it youre well within your right to say he had some form of ED especially with everything else we know abt his eating habits. The one thing he couldn't travel anywhere without was a bathroom scale theres no way thats normal
jfk liked to trick on the secret service now and then. He loved going out with any one of his boyfriends late at night to watch a film only to come back even later— all unbeknownst to the secret service 😭 theyd frazzle and look for him everywhere .. and of course theyd eventually find him anyway giggling with whoever guy he had gone out with that night. The ss would attempt to talk him out of it ,warning him of his 'night outs' dangers but obv it did not go through to him
speaking of night outs .. after JFK moved his friend Lem Billings into the whitehouse (becoming the first 'friend of the president' to live in the white house) he would stay for entire nights in his room and do sleepovers sometimes its so dumb. Jackie didn't enjoy this aspect of their relationship at all cause no matter how close you are to your friend you dont just sleep in their room for nights at a time .. especially with everything else they did
jfk was a. below average driver 😭 he liked to drive by himself but he was far from the best at it. He'd be trailing off somewhere in his compound and the ss would be following behind just in case
jfk hated hated i mean LOATHED being touched 😭 this one especially shocks people bc of the rumors regarding his sex life and wtv but he genuinely felt so uncomfortable when people touched him nonsexually. Even the closest people to him as well.. to the point that it took Jackie the final few months of their marriage to finally break through that wall and have him feel safe and comfortable enough to let her touch him. He would literally pull away if you as much as placed your hand on his shoulder according to lem in a source i cant find rn
he and jackie had to sleep on separate mattresses due to him needing a hard one for his back 😭 so what they would do is stick two beds right next to one another to create a king sized one
jfk was such a sweet tooth tbh it could only be rivaled by his own daughter (whom he had such a close and tender relationship with of course but thats for another post ..) but to be frank he kind of needed to be one! His blood pressure and sugar were low more often than not .. a result of his addisons disease im p sure
Tied to the one above unfortunately his constantly low bp made him a susceptible target of fainting and blacking out more than the average person. To his luck if he overworked himself even a little he would collapse .. he was literally like a porcelain doll in a way he was so frail in terms of health
he (and his brother bobby) both had a terrible issue with dissociation. They couldnt help but zone out and completely derealize during social events or conversations and there are a couple of videos you can find online with him doing this
he fidgeted SO. MUCH. Like im autistic and neurodivergent and yet i dont do it as much as he did fuck did he have 😭 many say that his fidgeting was 1) subconscious and 2) to help ease his pain. We know the latter was how he dealt w his back pain ,he used to use his rocking chair as a type of fidget to keep his mind numb .. for one he had a terrible habit of tapping his teeth with his fingernails and it took him jackie to.. not like teach him out of it but get him to sort of stop in a way i guess
21. he was friends with frank sinatra! Even singing a campaign song for him, "High Hopes"! After JFK was elected president, Kennedy found out that sinatra had connections to the italian mob and thats when he distanced himself from Frank
22. jfk loved animals but unfortunately had the worst allergies known to man 😭 theres one instance where he tried to impress jackie by riding a horse i think when they were still in their early years of marriage? or before that even im not sure .. but not even half an hour or so later he was sneezing all over the place and out of breath like he was gonna die or something
23. kennedy was quite an avid reader. He loved to read in his free time and whenever he was sick . He mainly did this during childhood and teenagehood where sickness took up more than half of his life at that point ,and with no one to company him during the hours sitting on a bed (i mean not even his own mother .. barely writing to him a letter or two if she even replied to his) (except for lem whom wrote to him almost daily im pretty sure? Im not sure if he used to visit or not but considering he was sick he probably couldn't) he found himself reading books and classic literature to ease the hours that passed alone
24. his relationship with his mom was so bad like genuinely it deserves a post of its own. theres one instance in the 50s i think talking with his friends he allegedly said 'my mother never held or hugged me! never! never!' and im sure it kickstarted his aversion to touch somehow 😭
25. jfk loved getting his hair played with. So did bobby i think but im not sure 😭 i think we all do honestly but for him it was all the more relaxing for it being a foreign thing to him .. some of our best memories as children were when our parents used to play and run their fingers through our heads and we knew how relaxing it was! But he never got that as a kid i dont think 😕
26. kennedy was the one who taught caroline (and jr im pretty sure) how to swim! In a passing down of his love for the ocean and sea to his children he taught them both from an early age swimming ,so in a way they could join him during his swims if they wanted to
^ helping him swim i think here
im tired of thinking of more so thats it! and feel free to add some other facts or anecdotes in the rbs or replies id love to read them
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