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John F. Kennedy: Beyond Marilyn
JFK’s oldest and best friend was Kirk LeMoyne Billings, known as “Lem.” The two became fast friends in prep school and, after graduation, they traveled to Europe together.
They remained close until Kennedy’s assassination—Billings had his own room in the White House, and Joe Kennedy Sr. called him “a second son.” (Which is odd considering JFK had two brothers).
Reportedly, Lem once made a pass at Kennedy when they were young: According to the 2008 book Jack and Lem, Kennedy lightly rebuffed him, saying, “I’m not that kind of boy.”
But in 2015’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: RFK Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream, Jerry Oppenheimer claims they had a sexual relationship “that included oral sex, with Jack always on the receiving end.”
Lawrence J. Quirk, who worked with Billings on Kennedy’s first congressional campaign in 1946, told Oppenheimer, “Jack was in love with Lem being in love with him and considered him the ideal follower-adorer.”
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