JFK Photo That Could Have Changed History

[The Straight Story]

JFK Photo That Could Have Changed History

TMZ has obtained a never-before published photograph which appears to show John F. Kennedy on a boat filled with naked women -- it's a photo that could have altered world events.

(pic at link, nsfw)

We believe the photo was taken in the mid-1950s. It shows two naked women jumping off the boat and two more naked women sunning on the top deck. Just below the top deck -- a man appearing to be John F. Kennedy is lying on a deck, sunning himself.

TMZ had multiple experts examine the photo -- all say there is no evidence the picture was Photoshopped. The original print -- which is creased -- was scanned and examined for evidence of inconsistent lighting, photo composition and other forms of manipulation. The experts all concluded the photo appears authentic.

Professor Jeff Sedlik, a forensic photo expert, says the print appears to be authentic. Sedlik says the photo is printed on paper consistent with what was used in the 1950s. The emulsion on the surface of the print has numerous cracks -- the result of aging and handling.

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[peekaloo]

1. Yeah this would have set the Bray of Prigs in motion.

[Lex]

35. LOL!

:thumbsup:

[el_bryanto]

2. Well good news

I mean there isn't a liberal icon we can't tear down, eventually.

Bryant

[johnfunk]

42. Kennedy was a moderate, not a liberal -- and still a pretty good president

[el_bryanto]

51. You don't have to be particularly liberal to be a liberal icon, given how conservative this nation

is. Look at the fervor when Bill "Big Dog" Clinton speaks.

Bryant

[KittyWampus]

3. when will the photo of Cheney eating babies circa 1950 surface?

[DFW]

11. It won't

He didn't start indulging in that in public until some ten years later.

[Don Caballero]

4. What is the point of this?

This man was one of our greatest leaders ever and since his death it has been nothing but attack, attack, attack.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. Is there anyone alive that doesn't know JFK was a philanderer?

I fail to see how this will hurt him.

[vadawg]

9. its history, and interesting... shouldnt we get to see stuff like this even if it does tarnish our

heroes....

[Don Caballero]

12. I don't think so

Although he was a public figure, his private life should stay that way. Why must we worry about the private lives of our leaders?

[vadawg]

21. hes also dead, so why not get to see the whole of his life..

do you not think its more important to learn everything about historical figures in order to understand them and the times they were in, or do youthink when we discuss frinstance hitler we should never talk about his vegism or the fact that he was into architecture or that he had a crush on a female relative.... The very fact that you call him a leader means that we should know more about him and his life if its someone you are going to trust to lead...

[Don Caballero]

22. I love Kennedy for what he did for America

It is in bad taste to get into the man's private life. President Obama and his family should be shuttered from such things. Their private life is irrelevant to his leadership.

[vadawg]

25. not when it comes to writing the history of said leaders, i got no feelings for kennedy other than

as a historical figure, when i read about him i dont want to read the redacted version but rather the actual history, warts and all

[Don Caballero]

27. Our leaders deserve their privacy

Maybe all our secrets should be printed and exposed to the public.

[vadawg]

30. you seem to miss the point of him being dead and now part of history

mayby you want all leaders to be able to rewrite their lifes before we elect them just so we dont see any skeletons they may have. Not sure how you equate learning that one leader hung out with naked chicks is so earth shattering that it needs to be kept a secret for ever... I guess when it comes to history you only want the approved version...

[NashVegas]

40. To Get Clicks And Raise Online Advertising Rates

There's very little a technocrat cannot rationalize.

[Cetacea]

45. nm.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Well, good for him and the ladies. -nt

[MilesColtrane]

6. Vote Quimby.

[peekaloo]

18. That illiterate, wife swapping, tax cheating, pot smoking Spend o Crat?

Oh yeah he's no longer illiterate.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Does this matter?

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

[NYC_SKP]

10. Good for him! Looks like all are having a great time.

Clothing is over-rated.

:P

[BuelahWitch]

13. Like we didn't know JFK was a womanizer before?

:shrug:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

16. Until this very minute, I thought he was a genteel family man.

[BuelahWitch]

43. Are you being sarcastic

Or confusing JFK with his brother Bobby? Stuff about the President and his many mistresses has been around for at least 35 years, maybe longer.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

46. Yes, it was sarcasm.

[HipChick]

14. So what? Big Deal..are the puritans circling the fires yet?..

[DFW]

15. Big deal--so all this will do is make W jealous n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. How could it have changed history?

The media generally ignored this kind of crap back then.

You could also argue that it was his brother Teddy who helped change this policy. :)

[enlightenment]

36. Historical speculation.

If the photo had been released at the time, it might have (probably would have) impacted Kennedy's election bid - whether that would have resulted in his losing the election is debatable.

But, yeah, it would have - with the emphasis on the past tense - changed history.

Now? If verifiably JFK, it's just an interesting and largely irrelevant addendum to the historical record.

[POAS]

57. It would have cemented the male vote in 1960!! n/t

[WeDidIt]

19. I do not think that was Jack Kennedy

Sorry, too fuzzy. there is no evidence backing up the allegation that it is Jack Kennedy.

[goldcanyonaz]

20. JFK was a major slut.

[truth2power]

23. Oh fer gawd's sake!! Who cares??n/t

[MindPilot]

The criticism will be borne mostly of envy.

The moralizing will come from men who are simply jealous that they do not have the wherewithal to lounge on a yacht with naked girls frolicking about; and the women will get all prudish because they are no longer young enough and hot enough to frolic naked on a yacht belonging to a rich and powerful man.

[FreakinDJ]

24. Tinyurl - a dead give away it is PURE BULLSHIT

[tmyers09]

34. The link leads to TMZ...

[jakefrep]

50. ...which means it's probably bullshit.

Al Qaeda could rehabilitate their image if they blew up TMZ's headquarters.

[laughingliberal]

26. I would be very happy to see the day when the sexual activities of our

elected officials are no longer an issue as long as they are legal and consensual. Too many in modern times have been brought down who would have been a force for good in elected office.

[hunter]

28. Oh no! Naked Women!

I want to know: Where are the naked men?

Every time I've jumped off boats naked it's been with a mixed crowd... well except for the times it's been a bunch of stinky old fishermen and retired Navy guys.

[L0oniX]

29. I would be more concerned with the competency of a captain who's PT boat gets cut in half...

from an enemy destroyer. Hero he wasn't. He should have been court marshalled. Were they all sleeping when it happened?

[no_hypocrisy]

31. And the Cuban Missile Crisis would have been equivocably handled well by Richard M. Nixon

had that photo gone public?

[Confusious]

32. So JFK had a thing for women

Marylin Monroe?

I wish I had his problems.

I doubt this would have changed anything. Every president had affairs, even Roosevelt. It's just the shit we deal with today that makes us think it would have changed things. The press had standards back then, and private lives were a non-no.

[wtmusic]

33. JFK was a philanderer???

:wow:

[Bitwit1234]

37. WHO THE HELL CARES (change world history ..bull)

If bush getting a black girl pregnant, she getting beat up and having a miscarriage, and 30 years later committing a suspicious suicide didn't change world events, how could a man laying on a deck with naked woman romping around make a bit of difference. AND when abortions were illegal how come bush was allowed to pay for one for his call girl liaison.

[Lex]

38. Oh NOES, naked ladies!

Good grief.

[dems_rightnow]

39. Impeach him!

Those women are now in their 70's.

[jmowreader]

41. I don't think it would have changed history

The Religious Reich hadn't taken its role of prominence in American society then. The people KNEW Kennedy was a serious pussyhound, 'kay? And they were fine with it. Especially the men. There probably wasn't a man in America who didn't want to fuck Marilyn Monroe, and Kennedy was DOING IT! So Kennedy was just doing for all of us.

OTOH, if Kennedy was trying to become a politician in the 21st Century, he wouldn't have gotten past dogcatcher...between getting swiftboated (well, PT-boated) and his affairs divulged, he would have been lucky to get a job making tacos. Besides, he was an Actual Liberal--not a centrist who's being accused of liberalism by someone who makes Benito Mussolini look like a flaming leftist, but a no-shit Massachusetts Liberal.

[Lint Head]

44. I think being on the same boat with naked women is better than

incinerating and murdering innocent Iraqi men, women and children. It's better than destroying every right we have as Americans.

[hlthe2b]

47. Yes... far better to have an impotent like GWB* who must prove his

"manhood," not by philandering, but by starting illegal wars that kill countless thousands. Or a Cheney, whose pious seething anger leads to the most corrupt of administrations that devours our civil rights and justifies torture in our name.


His philandering was the business of his family, IMO. Of course not much has changed, given the fall-out from Edward's well publicized (and arguably more despicable episode, given Elizabeth's health). So, perhaps the point is made....

[SoCalDem]

48. Men like young naked women.. what a shock

and young women will take their clothes off for an attractive young man..another shock...especially if he's rich..

Married men still like attractive young women...and many will cheat if given a chance..another shocker..

the times were different then..news people sought out news, and allowed pols to have a private life..

[greenbriar]

49. he was on a boat with many ladies when Jackie gave stillbirth to their first child

he never bothered to come to see her

[spanone]

52. tmz makes the national enquirer look dignified

[Recursion]

53. Why doesn't my boat ever fill up with naked women?

I feel like I'm doing something wrong here.

[goldcanyonaz]

54. You need to fill the boat with money first.

[Historic NY]

55. Who took the photo in the first place & how did a car dealer end up with it?

Story seems tailor made for a scandal sheet...and damn skippy it would have been used back in 1960.

[blondeatlast]

56. The photo's real; okay, I'll buy that. But there is no way to positively identify anyone in it--

and besides, who the hell cares anyway?

[City Lights]

58. K&U. nt

[JHB]

59. It's not JFK, it's WJC...

...from when he was in Hawaii planting fake birth notices about Barak Obama.


Photographic evidence that the Clenis is powerful enough to travel through time.

[MilesColtrane]

60. There had been theories that it was so massive it warped the fabric of space-time.

This confirms it.