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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…

Bart Brickley

Bart Brickley wrote a letter of reference for JFK for his commission into the United States naval reserve. The prominent Boston attorney wrote that he…

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…

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Blair Clark

Blair Clark was a member of Spee Club and considered to be a top man around the Harvard campus, in part because he was editor…

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…

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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]

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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…

Donald Thurber

Donald Thurber was a Harvard chum of Jack’s. He relayed his impressions of Kennedy to another biographer, He was a person who would ask questions…

Ed McLaughlin

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.

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…

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