Alleged Photo of JFK with Naked Women Is Actually From 1967 Playboy Spread
David Sessions
Washington Reporter
Posted:
12/28/09
A photo published by TMZ Sunday only appeared to catch John F. Kennedy in an embarrassing pose: A yellowed, creased photo shows two naked women jumping from a boat's deck into the water, while two others recline in the sun on an upper deck. A man sunning himself on the lower deck was supposedly JFK, TMZ asserted. The claim is false.
TMZ now concedes that it is actually a 1967 shoot from Playboy. The photo accompanied a story headlined "Playboy's Charter Yacht Party: How to Have a Ball on the Briny With an Able-Bodies Complement of Ship's Belles."
The former president, of course, was dead by 1967. Moreover, the claim that it was JFK seems to have been motivated by animus: The original story also claimed that this photo was taken during a two-week trip that then-Sen. John F. Kennedy took with his brother, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, and Sen. George Smathers took in 1956 -- at a time when Jackie Kennedy, who was pregnant, was rushed to the hospital while her husband was away and gave birth to the couple's first child, Arabella, who was stillborn.
TMZ's initial report claimed that the photograph was owned by an unnamed East Coast car dealer, who kept it in a drawer and bragged about owning a picture of the president cavorting with naked women. The man was said to have died this year and his son supposedly inherited the photo.
TMZ now concedes that it is actually a 1967 shoot from Playboy. The photo accompanied a story headlined "Playboy's Charter Yacht Party: How to Have a Ball on the Briny With an Able-Bodies Complement of Ship's Belles."
The former president, of course, was dead by 1967. Moreover, the claim that it was JFK seems to have been motivated by animus: The original story also claimed that this photo was taken during a two-week trip that then-Sen. John F. Kennedy took with his brother, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, and Sen. George Smathers took in 1956 -- at a time when Jackie Kennedy, who was pregnant, was rushed to the hospital while her husband was away and gave birth to the couple's first child, Arabella, who was stillborn.
TMZ's initial report claimed that the photograph was owned by an unnamed East Coast car dealer, who kept it in a drawer and bragged about owning a picture of the president cavorting with naked women. The man was said to have died this year and his son supposedly inherited the photo.