With The Colorized Kennedys

A blog dedicated to colorizing photos of the Kennedy family. Kennedy sideblog of @withthecolorizedbeatles

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Hello!

welcome to my blog! here you'll find carefully colorized photos of the kennedys that i work on. my colorizations are all done manually and with as much care and historical accuracy as possible.

i started this blog because i'm a sucker who loves both the kennedys and colorizing photos. every black and white photo feels like a new adventure, and i love sharing these colorized versions with all of you!

i'm VERY open to requests!! seriously, if you have a kennedy photo that you've always wanted to see in color, message me or submit it in my asks. i'm always looking for new projects and i get so excited when people send me pics to work on!

btw if you're into the beatles, check out my other blog @withthecolorizedbeatles where i do the same thing but with the bug boys! PLEASE PLEASE message me there for requests and other stuff. i've been meaning to post there more often as well but i can't find any good photos to post... if you're into fanfictions, i also write! if you’re into kennedy fanfics such as kennedy x reader or rpf (like jack x jackie, etc.), send in your requests! and yes, i also write smut 🤭 so feel free to submit those too. just keep it cool—no weird kinks or anything too out there, please!

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guess who has cancer?

yeah. it’s me. surprise.

specifically, it’s hodgkin’s lymphoma. but i’m okay!! it’s not super dramatic. it’s treatable. i’m doing the treatments—drugs, radioactive what-the-hell, all that. i’ve got a solid medical team and amazing people around me, and i’m honestly feeling more hopeful than scared these days. it’s just been a weird couple of months and i haven’t had much to say online.

i’ve been meaning to post about it for a while now but didn’t really know how to say it without sounding like an after-school special. i didn’t want to just disappear either after seeing so many messages asking where i am or wishes expressing my wellbeing. now you know why i haven't been active at all haha.

thank you to everyone who messaged me or noticed i was gone! i haven't responded to them but i’ve seen it and it means so much. sorry for basically making this blog wilt.

love you all. stay safe. seriously... if something feels off in your body, get it checked. please!!!

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Robert F. Kennedy & Ethel Kennedy on their wedding day, June 17, 1950.

Happy 75th wedding anniversary! 💗

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Maria Romanova was so beautiful.

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very important, very serious colorisation request: this drawing of RFK that LBJ did

how could i deny such a request?

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hi! do you accept requests for bobby x ethel fics?

yes!! give me your prompt and i'll see what i can do.

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something i wondered about just now but. i remember reading teddy’s biography for kennedy lore ofc and finding out just how serious jack was about his godfather duties. one time an overwhelmed, teenage teddy impulsively decided to run away from home and he hadn’t made it very far before he called home to reiterate that he was running away to his parents. jack, however, was the one who picked up the phone and heard teddy venting about how he was finished and tired and leaving home. and jack didn’t laugh at him. didn’t minimize his feelings or ring him out like any other adult would’ve done at the time. instead he made an “adolescent boy feel like a worthy person whose feelings mattered” by merely wisely suggesting that teddy meet him at the theater to watch a war picture (with his war hero older brother) and if he still felt like he wanted to run away after it was finished, then he could still go. no harm, no foul. after the movie was done, jack innocently reasoned that it was too late and that teddy should get a good night’s sleep first before running away in the morning. and on that same night, jack found their father and told him to “let up” on teddy. he would also pick teddy up from boarding school the morning after kick’s death, driving back home together in a somber, steady silence. all these little details about his dynamic with jack that ted was able to share because he was still alive to share them. and these details wouldn’t have come from any other external kennedy biography because how would they know such one-on-one details? personal memories forever preserved between two people unless one later decided to share it.

and it just makes me think about bobby. bobby and jack. oftentimes, biographers become so preoccupied in trying to instill how unclose they were growing up ( and of course there is truth in that ) that they undermine what most likely existed instead. because what about the small, noteworthy moments in between the eye rolls and the hurt feelings and the slight distance that exists between siblings when one of them is still too little? the walks along the beach jack would take bobby on? the spy novels he would geek to bobby and only bobby about? the moments where bobby was a pillar for jack throughout his deathly near misses, a steady presence that calmed a sick, anxious jack and the nurses around him? the moments when he might’ve been running down the stairs to go sail with his friends, only to see bobby’s sad little downtrodden face after their father had been a little too brusque with him that morning — pausing for a beat before turning around and telling him with a pseudo-stern tone just this once, alright? a shy grin quickly overtaking bobby’s face and jack’s chest loosening up at the sight though he surely would’ve hidden it with a casual scoff before gesturing at him to follow? and i’m sure that there were so many more of those in-between moments that we’ll never get to know because they didn’t live long enough to share them.

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Jean Kennedy, 1952.

(colorized by me!)

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1952 - Members of the Kennedy family celebrate the birthday of Kathleen Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, on the porch of the family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Left to right: Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Jean Kennedy (holding Kathleen); Ethel (in back); Patricia Kennedy; and Eunice Kennedy.

(colorized by me!)

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21-year-old Ethel Skakel in a newspaper photo taken for her engagement announcement to Robert F. Kennedy, 1950.

(colorized by me!)

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Kathleen Kennedy in London, 1938.

(colorized by me!)

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Sorry for the spam these are just tooooo cute!! May you please colorize these pics of baby Jack?

John F. Kennedy in Nantasket Beach, 1918.

(colorized by me!)

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hi! love ur work :) i was wondering if you have a masterlist with all your work?

hii!! thank you for your kinds words. once i upload a few more fanfictions i'll post a masterlist and pin in to my profile xx

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HAPPY 108TH BIRTHDAY TO THIS HOT ASS MAN!

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Hi!! :3 may you please colorize this photo? Thank you so much!

A photo John F. Kennedy sent to his sister Jean, dated 1942.

"For Sister Jean, It only took five easy lessons. Love, Jack."

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i was wondering if you could color this photo? 🥹 it’s my favorite

John F. Kennedy surrounded by beachgoers in Los Angeles, 1962.

(colorized by me!)

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Hi! Just a little question about rpf requests. I know it's probably mostly for the actual Kennedy couples (Jack x Jackie, Bobby x Ethel), but I was wondering if it could also be a crackship: Joe Jr. x Jackie? Would you be comfortable in writing a one-shot about these two together, smut or no? Please let me know, and I'll make sure to send in a request!

Blame it on The Kennedys 2011 miniseries for giving me the idea though. The first scene of Episode 1 was Jackie showing Caroline the Kennedy family album and remarking, "Wasn't he handsome?" upon observing a photo of Joe Jr. (who of course, she never got the chance to meet)

Also! Here is a photo of Joe Jr. that you could colorize if you want!

thanks for asking! this is quite an interesting question, as i've never really thought about this ship haha. i could definitely give it a go, though i’ll admit joe jr. isn’t someone i'm really familiar with unlike bobby or jack. still, would love to hear your request!