[redheadkennedy]

here to spread my agenda that john fitzgerald kennedy, 35th president of the united states, was ginger

[redheadkennedy]

Save me Bobby’s cracked tooth

[redheadkennedy]

RIP Jack Kennedy I know you would’ve loved the legalisation of marijuana for long-term pain management, and slaughterhouse 5 by kurt vonnegut

[californiastrs]

[redheadkennedy]

He looks like the English teacher who never actually teaches you but comes on your school trip to France, and because he thinks he’s young and cool he lets you get away with messing about and mouthing off to him, thus sparking a deep burning (inappropriate) crush in your formative years that goes on to shape your relationship with men for the rest of your life.

[redheadkennedy]

Bobby’s cracked tooth and the fact that both of them had legit fangs deserves way more discussion I think.

[redheadkennedy]

am the #1 supporter of your agenda to stop ginger jack erasure. he was, without a shadow of a doubt, one of us

Omg hi! If I wrote a book on the subject I would use this as the cover quote 💕✨ also knowing ur not only a Kennedy expert but also a fellow ginge makes me v v pleased 😌

I have a whole dossier on my phone and that’s barely an exaggeration at this point lmaoooo. Here he is again with Red Fay as my control ginger !

[redheadkennedy]

Freeze frame fuckin REWIND, how on earth did I not know that Thomas Vinterberg is directing and exec producing the Netflix Kennedy series???

You’re telling me that the man who made Festen (film about a wealthy, “respectable” family maintaining its rituals while unspeakable damage festers in plain sight) has been handed the keys to the car???

Oh boy oh boy oh boy.

Vinterberg is very very good at understanding how families can be loving and funny and absurd in the same breath as being cruel, twisted and incredibly damaging. The subject matter in Festen is dark as hell admittedly, but it’s also such a live-wire of a film. I’m trying not to get ahead of myself because I’ve been hurt by so-called “prestige” television too many times before, but… we might get some real actual nuance and complexity in this?

To see a Kennedy family depiction that isn’t all lighthearted mythic fluff but nor is it self consciously “hard-hitting” and full of people shouting at each other in terrible accents or staring bleakly out of rainy windows… what a world that would be.

[redheadkennedy]

Introducing: the “ruthless” scion of mid-century American Liberalism…

As an adult, Kennedy retained childlike mannerisms. Put off by someone or something, he would stick out his tongue or make a face. Sitting on a podium listening to a speaker he did not like, he would squirm and look petulant or bored. He was “a little boy in his enthusiasms,” said Coles, capable of showing childish delight over something so simple as licking an ice cream cone. Kennedy once engaged Coles in an animated conversation debating the relative virtues of different flavors of ice cream — vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate (RFK’s personal favorite). On the campaign trail, Kennedy liked to end the day by eating a big bowl of ice cream (while at the same time sipping a Heineken beer).

—from Robert F Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas

[redheadkennedy]

I just want to quickly contrast this with a description of Joe Snr’s chosen vice in The Kennedy Imprisonment by Gary Wills (though it also describes Jack word perfectly too):

Wills talks a lot about the trappings of the Kennedy mens’ various vices, and how Bobby seemed to be curiously exempt from most of them. I just love to think that while the rest of the Kennedy men were busy leering and jeering, Bobby was digging into a tub of ice cream in the corner going “hey guys, have you tried this stuff?!”

A real man, who clearly had a stomach as iron strong as his will (and lack of internal filter).

[redheadkennedy]

I just needed to post this on its own so I’d have it on my blog. I could get this as a tattoo I’m so serious.

[redheadkennedy]

Introducing: the “ruthless” scion of mid-century American Liberalism…

As an adult, Kennedy retained childlike mannerisms. Put off by someone or something, he would stick out his tongue or make a face. Sitting on a podium listening to a speaker he did not like, he would squirm and look petulant or bored. He was “a little boy in his enthusiasms,” said Coles, capable of showing childish delight over something so simple as licking an ice cream cone. Kennedy once engaged Coles in an animated conversation debating the relative virtues of different flavors of ice cream — vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate (RFK’s personal favorite). On the campaign trail, Kennedy liked to end the day by eating a big bowl of ice cream (while at the same time sipping a Heineken beer).

—from Robert F Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas

[redheadkennedy]

A 1935 Christmas card from three Princeton roommates, with a greeting inspired by the song in the new Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film, “Top Hat”

— Frederik Logevall, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century

Take me back to a time where men watch musicals, play dress up and send goofy joint Christmas cards with their bros just for the fun of the game.

[camelotobsessed]

Bobby driving with Teddy

[redheadkennedy]

From an article in The New Yorker: On National Geographic’s “JFK: One Day in America” and Preserving the Past

Love how this picture shows Jack’s natural reddish colouring. As I’ve said before a lot of colour photographs of the time make it look like his hair was much darker, even looking quite similar to Jackie’s a lot of the time. You can see that the contrast between them was actually quite stark, and his hair wasn’t dark at all.

This picture was taken on his last full day alive, and the look on Jackie’s face just devastates me. She had such beautiful and emotive eyes, but even though she’s smiling there’s something about this picture that reminds me of how hauntingly they were filled with grief at Bobby’s funeral.

[strryhaze]

just realized his hair looks super ginger here… a brownish ginger if you will. ginger! jack kennedy truthers rise!

[redheadkennedy]

Yessss… we are winning… !!

Also @strryhaze if you have the deetz on Jackie describing Jack’s hair I would love to hear about it truly

[strryhaze]

from jacqueline kennedy: historic conversations on life with john f. kennedy

[redheadkennedy]

Tysm! The heady vindication coursing through my veins rn, wow.

[redheadkennedy]

I need to read more about the Kennedys time in London and I need to know where they were living and where Joe/Jack/Kick were hanging out cos I wanna visit those places and let my imagination run wild.

I’m probably never gonna get to Boston/NYC/DC any time this century (also vowed never to go there whilst that orange crook is in charge can’t lie) so I will have to make this my own little pilgrimage.

[strryhaze]

just realized his hair looks super ginger here… a brownish ginger if you will. ginger! jack kennedy truthers rise!

[redheadkennedy]

Yessss… we are winning… !!

Also @strryhaze if you have the deetz on Jackie describing Jack’s hair I would love to hear about it truly

[strryhaze]

the concept of bobby having to attend jackie’s wedding to onassis if he had lived

[redheadkennedy]

Also: the concept of Jackie saying “well, that depends on what Bobby wants me to do” if anyone ever asked her about it