Abe Ribicoff
Abe Ribicoff was the Democratic Governor of Connecticut and a long-time political ally of Kennedy. While not in the innermost JFK circle Ribicoff played a…
Arkady Gerney
Arkady Gerney was an old friend of both JFK and Jackie, having known both since their college days. He came from well-to-do Swiss American family…
Ben Smith
Ben Smith was a friend and roommate of Jack’s from Harvard. Also a Navy man, he had spent the war as a captain on Navy…
Cam Newberry
JFK’s fellow Spee Club member at Harvard.
Charles Bartlett
Charles Bartlett the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who famously arranged the dinner party where JFK and Jackie first met as adults.
Charles “Chuck” Spalding
Long-time JFK friend who married another Kennedy friend – Betty Spalding who was a friend of Kick’s. He was a frequent invitee to Kennedy family…
Charles J. Kersten
Charles J. Kersten became a friend and close associate of Jack’s in the spring of 1947. He entered Congress in the same class as JFK…
Chris Dunphy
Chris Dunphy was a longtime golfing partner of JFK’s in Palm Beach, Florida. Apparently, the golfing buddies typically had a bet going on the game…
Claude Hooten
Claude Hooten was a JFK Harvard classmate who volunteered to help out in the West Virginia primary [300, p. 104]
Dean Martin
Dean Martin reportedly first met Jack Kennedy when they were both in Chicago. Martin was working with Jerry Lewis doing a comedy act at the…
Ed McLaughlin
Edward McLaughin, Jr. was an attorney and friend of JFK. It was to McLaughlin that Kennedy made his infamous remark about the women that he…
McLaughlin, Ed
Ed McLaughlin (affectionately called Eddie by his friends) was the son of a Boston fire commissioner. McLaughlin served in the Pacific as a member of…
Edward C. Duffy
Edward C. Duffy was a young Catholic priest serving at St. Xavier parish in Hyannis Port who was befriended by JFK. They met during the…
Edward Grant Stockdale
Edward Grant Stockdale (who was known universally to his friends and family as Grant) was a Miami businessman who was asked by George Smathers to…
Frank Sinatra
The singer was a favorite of JFK’s until he was dropped from the Kennedy circle because of possible bad publicity.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. was a friend and political ally of JFK.
Fred Rosen
Fred Rosen was a Navy buddy of JFK’s from postinsg in Charleston, South Carolina, Chicago midshipman school, and the Melville Torpedo Motor Boat School. Rosen…
George Mead
George Mead was a friend of both JFK and Kick. Mead’s family had a summer place on Great Island in Hyannis. His father (also George…
Godfrey Kauffman
Godfrey Kauffman was JFK’s roommate at Choate House. [1, p. 31]
Gore Vidal
Write Gore Vidal was both a Kennedy friend (in part through his family “connection” with Jacqueline Bouvier) and then later rejected