kennedycore

these few precious days i'll spend with you...

[californiastrs]

Jack Kennedy, Lem Billings, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver

[californiastrs]

Bobby, Ted, and Jack Kennedy playing football

[californiastrs]

cuties

[californiastrs]

Behind the scenes of Netflix's new show "Kennedy"

[strryhaze]

“He’s so considerate of everyone. For instance, the governess for his children was going to Paris to study for a year, and he made endless phone calls, both here and abroad, making sure that she’d be met at airports, and would stay at the embassy, and would be looked after the whole time she was in Paris.”

“Kennedy governess Ena Bernard's daughter, Josefina, whom Bobby Kennedy treated like his own child. Bernard’s own daughter, Josefina, became a part of the Kennedy family as her mother was. Josefina Bernardrecalled the time as a teenager when she stayed out late at a dance and didn't get home until 3 a.m. Bobby Kennedy was waiting up for her.

'What time is this for a young lady to come back home?' he asked.

The memory brought tears to her eyes. He said to me, 'Your father is not here. I am your father now.’

'In those days, and even today, you work for a very wealthy family and you are like a piece of furniture; you are not recognized, Josefina told the Sun Sentinel. The Kennedys would always stop and introduce her mother, Ena.”

[joansiesbeloved]

"Jack was so funny. He insisted we go into the Lincoln bedroom first, and despite his bad back he wanted to carry me across the threshold like like a bride. We got into the bedroom and he dropped me on the bed…Oh, we laughed so, but then, we went over to our bedroom and he picked me up and had trouble getting us both through the door!"

— Jackie Kennedy speaking about the Inauguration night at the White House to Walter Cronkite.

[strryhaze]

she’s so beautiful it’s overwhelming but in the best way

[californiastrs]

Rare footage of Ted and Joan Kennedy's wedding, c. November 1958

[californiastrs]

Jack is NEVER beating the allegations

[californiastrs]

kick kennedy and lem billings out with friends c. 1940

[kennedycore]

so uhhh... been kinda inactive lately because i fell down a beatles rabbit hole...

[californiastrs]

does it ever drive you crazy just how fast the night changes?

[californiastrs]

i was reading about how when kick and joe jr were both living in england (kick because she was living with billy, joe jr because that's where he was stationed), kick and joe would have constant arguments over this underwood portable typewriter. neither of them would back down from saying it was theirs. joe eventually won this fight and got to keep the typewriter (his handwriting was so bad he once got special permission from harvard to typewrite all his essays). its just a stupid sibling fight but it is so so gut-wrenching because when joe died, he left kick the typewriter in his will. and she never used it once. she couldn't bring herself to.

[californiastrs]

the house that jack built

In 1936, Joseph Kennedy Sr. sent his sons Jack and Joe to the 40,000 acre J-6 Ranch in Benson, Arizona. Jack, who was 19, had just returned from a long hospital stay because doctors thought he may have leukemia. His father thought the warm weather in Arizona could benefit his health. He and his brother worked with a crew building adobe offices (seen above). The ranch owner, Jack Spieden, called it "The House that Jack Built".

[unmarlou]

seen on the same page in jack kennedy’s personal scrapbook from the mid 1930s, a photo of lem billings that jack captioned, “a pretty sight! woof woof” and a note, presumably from a choate administrator, that jack was penalized for being late to a school event, which he so cleverly inscribed below it, “so what” 

[lancer-andlace]

President Kennedy with his son John

[jfkology]