Details Of JFK Affair Emerge

The affair between Jack and Mimi involved pool parties, foreign trips and giggling with other favored ladies, a newspaper reported Friday.

A day after a 60-year-old grandmother admitted she had an affair with President Kennedy four decades ago when she was a 19-year-old White House intern, the New York Daily News reported new details about the relationship between Kennedy and Marion (Mimi) Fahnestock.

In a statement given to reporters outside her Upper East Side Manhattan apartment on Thursday, Fahnestock said she was involved in a sexual relationship with Mr. Kennedy from June 1962 to November 1963.

Fahnestock, now an administrator at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, worked at the White House for two summers and stayed into the fall of 1963. She returned to college just weeks before Kennedy was killed on Nov. 22, 1963. It was unclear if the affair ended before the president was assassinated.

"I was 19 years old, a very young, very naive, very innocent young girl," Fahnestock told the Daily News.

In Friday's editions, the Daily News said Fahnestock accompanied the president to pool parties as well as on a jaunt to the Bahamas, where Mr. Kennedy was to meet the British prime minister.

At one point during the trip, aides spotted the young intern hiding on the floor of the president's car.

The paper says Fahnestock was light-hearted enough about the tryst to joke with other women who were possibly involved with the commander-in-chief, but was upset when she was left behind during Mr. Kennedy's trip to Germany for the "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" speech.

The president, furious that she had been forgotten, almost fired Fahnestock's boss, the paper reported.

Fahnestock's admission came after a new biography alleged an affair between the president and an unidentified intern. Robert Dallek, author of "An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963," learned of the affair from a White House aide whose oral history was recently unsealed.

Kennedy is known to have had numerous extramarital liaisons, but this is the first report of an affair with an intern.

"When Kennedy had all these affairs, these trysts, the press didn't pay attention, or they knew about it, but they didn't report on it," Dalek told CBS News' The Early Show Wednesday.

Dallek reports the recollections of Barbara Gamarekian, a former White House aide, about the president's affair with a college student who worked in the press office despite a lack of clerical skills. She said the beautiful unpaid employee was only used for Kennedy's sexual gratification.

Gamarekian had asked that the 17 pages in her oral history dealing with the intern be kept secret for a decade, then later asked the Kennedy Library in Boston, where her account is archived, to keep it sealed.

Dallek discovered the blacked-out pages while researching his book and persuaded her to disclose the information.

The Daily News reported that Fahnestock is well-liked in her neighborhood and has helped launch programs for helping the poor and homeless at the church where she works.

Fahnestock has two married daughters and four grandchildren. Her husband, investment banker Anthony Fahnestock, died in 1993.