Overview

• JFK met Joan Lundberg at a Santa Monica bar in August 1956 and maintained a clandestine affair that stretched into 1958
• Jackie Kennedy confronted her husband about the liaison and briefly sought a divorce before Joe Kennedy offered Jackie a financial settlement to stay married
• In June 1958, Lundberg informed JFK that she was pregnant and he told her she could not have the baby, citing political risks and doubts about paternity
• Taraborrelli’s excerpts describe JFK sending Lundberg $400 with instructions to terminate the pregnancy and wiring additional funds when the first payment failed
• These revelations appear in J. Randy Taraborrelli’s book JFK: Public, Private, Secret, with excerpts published in June ahead of the July 15 release