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You would think at this point, there would be nothing new to discover on the Kennedys, the Clan of Massachusetts, which gave us a historical president (which was only at the office of 1,000 days), two assassinations and innumerable scandals. There were about 40,000 pounds published about them from JFK's assassination in 1963 and hundreds of films and televisions, including New Release.Chappaquiddick, now in theaters and the Netflix documentary seriesBobby Kennedy for the President. Do not we already know everything about the most famous political dynasty of the 20th century?

Maybe or maybe not. You might think that you are well versed in all things Kennedy, but there are probably the minuties that slipped through the cracks. Discover these fooled but real facts on the Camelot White House and their loved ones, and you might be surprised to know how much you really know. And for more good trivia affecting the legend of Camelot, do not miss these20 rumors the strongest on the Kennedys!

Ted Kennedy Once asked aloud if his family was a victim of a "terrible curse", and although it was certainly true that many of his relatives have suffered huge bad luck, his brother John took the cake.

When JFK was shot in 1963, it was not the first time that his death seemed imminent. As a Catholic throughout life, he received the latest sacramental rites from the church to three separate occasions, first on a return boat trip to the United States of England in 1947, when he fell so seriously sick that a priest has been summoned. It has been administered again the last rites a few years later, in 1951, after obtaining a hazardously high fever during their trip to Asia, then in 1954 after a surgery of the merger of the spine brought it to Slide into a coma. Its fourth and its latest rites were given on this fateful day in Dallas, when a country lost its leader.

Just because the United States and the Soviet Union were involved in a cold war did not mean that they could not play from time to time. During the first visit of Kennedy with Soviet Prime MinisterNikita KhrushchevevAt a 1961 summit in Vienna, the first lady was sitting next to Khrushchev at dinner and she asked questions about the dogs launched in the space as part of the Soviet mission to do it on the moon.

A few weeks after Kennedys returned to Washington, a cashier arrived at the White House filled with puppies. It was a gift from Khrushchev, the offspring of one of the dogs who had returned safely from space. And for some lights - but true! -News about your dog, here's the20 signs that your pet hates you.

In an interview with 1968 with the radio network of the voice of America, a youngRobert F. Kennedy-Who was well on the point of winning this year's democratic primaryA bold prediction. "In the next 40 years," he said, "a black person] can reach the same position as my brother A", which means President John F. Kennedy's President.

And what happenedexactly forty years Later, in 2008? The United States elected the very first African-American president,Barack Obama. Bobby Kennedy was even beaten Nostradamus at the prediction game. And for more predictions, do not miss these25 crazy predictions over the next 25 years.

JFK's father had his own political ambitions and once hoped to become the US ambassador in the United Kingdom. But first, he should convincePresident Franklin Roosevelt, his long-standing friend, that he was right for work. It should have been easy, right? Well, not so much.

In the autumn of 1937, the FDR invited Kennedy to his office and asked him, aproplos of nothing, "Do you want to bother you to take your pants?"

Joe Kennedy was shocked and did not know how to answer. "Did you say what I think I said?" He asked, and the President replied, "Yes, indeed." So, the businessman and the investor have dropped his pants and stood there in his underwear, wait to know why he had been forced to suffer from such humiliation.

The president finally explained: "Joe, just look at your legs. You are just about the most marked man I've ever seen." He might not be sent to London, because the induction ceremony of the ambassador involved wearing "knee britchies and silk stockings," said Roosevelt. "When photos of our new ambassador appear around the world, we will be a stock of laughter."

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The single lion of the Senate,Ted Kennedy,Had a brush with death in the early 1960s after his brother had been killed.

It campaigned for the re-election in the Senate and, on a trip from Washington to Massachusetts, for the democratic convention of the state, his plane crashed into an orchard three shy miles of the track. Two people (including the pilot) were killed and Kennedy, who had to be dragged with the wreck, had broken three vertebrae and two ribs and had a collapsed lung. And for more more on the outrageous side of politics, check these15 white lies with enormous historical consequences.

In the era before the Internet and social media, it was always possible for a president to have a secret life. And we are not talking about extramarital business. President John F. Kennedy has suffered many deadly illnesses and physical challenges throughout his life, which understood everything, against the Trever and Cough Crestedd on Addison's disease (a rare disorder of the adrenal glands) and Low chronic back problems.

It has never allowed its many saddling evils of the surgery of the vertebral column fusion in 1954, it used the free time to write its award-winning pulitzer book,Courage profiles-But his medical records were kept as a secretly kept secret not only during his presidency, but forNearly half a century after his death.

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It is possible that his back back - that JFK wore for his back pain, against the advice of his doctor - could have been the reason why he died of his bullet wounds.

The first shot, which crossed the back of his shoulder, should have dropped it into the car and avoid other shots. But because of his corset style back arm, it was "still standing like a target," saysDr. KENNETH SALYER, one of the doctors of Dallas who treated JFK on this fateful day. Governor of TexasJohn Connally He was also shot in the chest, but because he fell, he was spared extra damage. If Kennedy was "carved like John Conny," Saléer said, he could have lived very well.

Up to a few days after the murder of her husband in 1963, Jackie met a journalist to talk about her husband's legacy and pointed out that JFK was a fan of musical comedyCotelot, and especially the words, "never let him forget / once there was a place / for a brief brilliant moment / it was Camelot". As Jackie tells the writer, "there will be great presidents, but there will never be another Camelot ... It will never be like that again." And if you like all these trivia, do not miss the50 amazing facts for people who can not have enough amazing facts.

Rosemary Kennedy-SE was a third of Joe Sr. and nine pink children - had a rough life from the beginning. Born with mental handicaps caused by a negligent nurse - she delayed Rosemary's birth, because there was no doctor present, anything but sweet babe in the birth canal - his parents feared that she would reflect badly the reputation and the political ambitions of the family.

So in 1941, when Rosemary was 23 years old, they programmed a frontal lobotomy for her in the spacing of New York, a procedure that would have contributed to mood swings. But it caused considerably more damage, the doctor scratching Rosemary's brain tissue until she can not talk anymore. She lived five other decades, although especially in an institution, she was claimed (and sometimes refuted) that she helped inspire the Special Olympics.

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Conor Kennedy, A grandson from Robert Kennedy, did not follow the traces of his grandfather in politics - he chose to be an environmental activist, but he shares the propensity of the family to get out of the Famous women.

In 2012, when he was only 18 years old and still in high school, he dated the Pop MegastarTaylor Swift. Unlike some of his other little friends, SWIFT has never written a song on the young Kennedy (whom we know), but she did once admitted that the only time she has "Star-structure A-T- She was struck to meet Caroline and Ethel Kennedy. " And for more about what makes every man fall in love with Taylor Swift, check these11 reasons each man does not like so secretally Taylor Swift.

What, you thought that Richard Nixon was the first president to have all the conversations in the oval office and the cabinet room recorded for prosperity?

Installed in July 1962, recording devices captured nearly 300 hours of conversation of the meeting and the phone. Some were outrageous - he was critical ofMartin Luther King Jr, telling his brother Bobby that "the king is so hot nowadays that it's like having [Karl] Marx coming to the White House" But nothing like what took the presidency of Nixon.

Kennedy may have claimed in 1961 that the United States would be victorious in the "spatial race" with the Soviets, but he did not feel so confident a few years later. In fact, in a speech from 1963 to the United Nation, the President proposed that the two enemy nations be cooperating, by sharing their resources to help each other.

Why, he asked the UN gathering: "does the first flight of man should be a question of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union prepare for such shipments, participate in immense duplicate on research, construction and expenses? "Whatever plan to join forces with the Soviets, he never went in conclusion, because Kennedy was murdered two months later.

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Former secret service agent Clint Hill wrote in his bookFive presidents This JFK was particularly protective of Jackie, telling his staff exactly to his staff, which about his private life could be revealed to the world.

Hill says that before a trip to Italy in 1962, the president presented very specific rules as to the place and how the first lady could and could not be photographed. "(He) assured that I understood that he did not want any scene of disco, no scenes with glasses or bottles of wine on the table and no bikini shots" from Jackie.

Yes, strange but true, Jackie actually has briefly darkNew Yorker designerCharles Addams, who gave the world the macabre madness of theAddams family.

Addams could not have been more different from his last husband. He had married his third woman in a pet cemetery and lived on the thirteenth floor of a New York penthouse filled with strange as medieval weapons and a weave suit. Jackie was a big fan of addams and once pretended that she had more in common with Morticia Addams, the cartoon family matriarch who once said "black is my happy color" that most people realized .

A help to JFK says the President often worried about what would happen to his reckless son, who loved the helicopters and refused to get out when they landed, when "he is old enough and wants to learn to fly. "

But no one was more fearful by John Jr. Flying that his mother Jackie, who forbids him to obtain a pilot license and even pleaded ofMaurice Temtelsman "Do everything it took" to stop John flying.

It did not work; Shortly after the death of his mother, John Jr. went against his wishes and obtained his pilot license. Person, not even boxerMike Tyson, who has already said to John, he was "crazy" to steal - could stop him, and of course, just as his parents worried, he died in an aircraft accident in 1999, breaking into the vineyard of Atlantic, Massachusetts while on the road to a family wedding.

Kathleen-or "Kick" as it was sometimes known, a nickname given for his supposed "irrepressible nature" -was the fourth born in a family of nine children, but unlike his brothers and sisters, she was not so impatient Do exactly as his parent has decreed.

"She was the only rebel of the family," says Biographer Lynne McTaggart. "She was the only one (in Kennedy clan) that did not work the prescribed route."

She announted her Catholic parents by engaging in a Protestant LordWilliam 'Billy' Cavendish, Heir of the Duke de Devonshire - And when his mother tried to delay marriage, the couple has just falted. The romance ended with tragedy, with Cavendish dying in the Second World War and Kathleen herself perished in an aircraft not much later, just 28 years old. Only his father attended the funeral.

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We want it to be an exaggeration, but there are many evidence that two sons of Kennedy thoughtAdolf Hitler-Yes, the Nazi dictator at the center of the Second World War, did not deserve his bad reputation. During a visit of 1934 in Nazi Germany, Joe Jr. wrote to his father the Hitler's sterilization law - forced sterilizations of about 300,000 to 400,000 people who were deemed to suffer from "loyalty" - Was "A good thing" that "do" far with many disgusting specimens of men who live in this land. "

Even more painful, a future president of 28, who turns in Germany in 1945 as a war correspondent forYesterday The magazines wrote in his diary that Hitler "had in him the material whose captions are made" and predicted that "Hitler will emerge from the hatred which now surrounds him as one of the most important figures who lived."

John's first son and Jackie Kennedy, who was a single photographed player playing under his father's office in the Oval office, is often reflected affectionately by the nickname "John John". Even in adulthood, the heir in the heritage of Kennedy was sealed with the name.

But according to Jackie's personal assistant, Kathy McKon, "John hated the nickname of the nickname. Nobody in his family called him that he came when a declared white house had already heard of the president to his son of Bambin. two times."

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Some think that it is only a rumor, but it is true that Kennedy-who, at the time of his presidency, was the richest man to take the office, with a family fortune worth a value Of $ 1 billion, in fact, donated his whole. Salary of $ 100,000 from President to Charity. At the time, he was the only president for George Washington to refuse the income - he probably helped to have experienced a $ 10 million trust fund, according to Biographer Richard Reeves-and the money after taxes , has been given several dozen charities. , including scouts of the boy and the scouts of America, the United Negro College Fund and the Jewish Philanthropic Federation.

When we see Photos of Jackie Kennedy, she always looks glamorous and healthy. It's hard to imagine that she drinking alcohol, much less a dirty habit like cigarettes. But, it turns out that the first lady was very addicted to nicotine.

She had a staggering habit with three pack-one day - it's 60 cigarettes in one day - which lasted forty years. She even smoked through her pregnancies - although to be just at the time, cigarettes were not widely considered pest. It only ceased in 1994 after being diagnosed with a non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and even only at the insistence of his daughter Caroline. Jackie did it on our list of these20 Timeless Doublures of Extraordinary Women in History.

Back in 1958,Larry King crushed his car in JFK while the politician visited Miami. Although the damage to cars were not particularly serious, the president of being, which was parked at the time, was apparently very upset to the situation.

King remembers Kennedy saying: "Discussion Sunday morning, no traffic, not a cloud in the sky, I'm parked-how could you meet me?" However, Kennedy's wrath was short-lived and the king claims that the politician said he had dropped the problem if King promised his vote.

With a family going by so many tragedies, you expect enough tears in Kennedy Household. However, this was not the case, thanks to a mandate issued by Kennedy Family Matriarch Rose.

"It would be selfish and demoralizing to focus on our tragedies," she stated in her autobiography. "There was a saying after Jack's death, for grandchildren, without crying in the house. If you cry, you'll be returned wherever you come."

JFK did not have ordinary heroes: he was inspired by nothing but the greatest spy in the world. After suffering a copy ofIan Fleming's Royal casino In 1955, Kennedy became a massive fan of the author and his most famous character, with Fleming'sOf Russia with love Win a place on his list of favorite books. In fact, JFK was a fanatic so bond he even organized a private projection ofDr. NO to the White House.

Child, Robert F. Kennedy had a keen interest in collecting stamps, a hobby he shared with the presidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt. In fact, in 1935, at the age of 10, Bobby wrote at the time-president to express his interest in the collection of stamps, to which FDR responded by having him penetrate with a pound of stamps and an album in which to collect them. "Maybe when you are in Washington, you will come and let me show you my collection," wrote Roosevelt.

JFK came from a big family and had a great of his own at least in terms of pets. During his term in the White House, the Kennedys have kept 11 dogs, including fishing, one of the dogs sent to Jackie Kennedy by Nikita Khrushchevev -Five horses, a pair of hamsters, two parakeets, a canaries, a cat and a rabbit as pets.

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