President John F. Kennedy took the virginity of a 19-year-old White House intern in his wife Jackie’s bed before engaging in an 18-month affair with the young woman that continued until his assassination in 1963.
The scandal is recounted by DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan in her new book ‘Don’t ask: The Kennedys and the women they destroyed’which is published exclusively by Mail in a major new series.
In 1962, JFK’s right-hand man, Dave Powers, would invite intern Mimi Beardsley to join JFK at one of his infamous “pool parties,” a near-daily occurrence at the White House involving young female employees. .
President John F. Kennedy took the virginity of a 19-year-old White House intern in his wife Jackie’s bed before engaging in an 18-month affair with the young woman that continued until his assassination in 1963. (Pictured: Mimi Beardsley, the White House intern).
In 1962, JFK’s right-hand man, Dave Powers, invited intern Mimi Beardsley to join JFK at one of his infamous “pool parties,” a near-daily White House occurrence involving young female staffers. .
Shortly after the swim, and just four days into her internship, Beardsley received another call from Powers, this time inviting her to an informal meeting at the Kennedy family residence.
Shortly after the swim, and just four days into her internship, Beardsley received another call from Powers, this time inviting her to an informal meeting at the Kennedy family residence.
There, Callahan writes, JFK “got (Beardsley) drunk” (drinking daiquiris), before taking her on a private tour of his home. When they arrived at his wife Jackie’s bedroom, he guided her to her bed and took her virginity.
Beardsley published a book about his experience in 2011, in which he recalled: “The next thing I knew, he was standing in front of me, his face inches away. He put both hands on my shoulders and guided me to the edge of the bed.
‘Slowly, he unbuttoned the top of my shirt and touched my breasts. Then she started taking off my underwear.
She added: ‘I always imagined my first time would be with the man I loved on my wedding night. Could I have done anything to resist President Kennedy? I doubt it.’
Mimi has stated that she does not feel guilty about her long affair with JFK, who was 26 years her senior.
‘I wasn’t invading the Kennedys’ marriage; He was simply occupying the President’s time when his wife was away. If he wasn’t worried, why should I be? she said.
JFK was serially unfaithful to his wife, to such an extent, Callahan writes, that Jackie suspected he had even slept with her sister, Lee Radziwill.
