One Brief Shining Moment

Yes, we came up – we were up there the weekend before Patrick’s – and this would be, if I could terminate it here, the weekend before Patrick was born. In fact it was very embarrassing to me, because the President and I had planned that we were going to go with John John and Caroline and Sally over to the shopping center or something, say at 2:30 or 3 o’clock, down in Hyannis. So I went upstairs at the time I was supposed to, and I knocked on the door and he said, “Come on in.” I walked in, and he and Jackie were in bed together. And I said, “God almighty, why did you tell me to come in? I don’t want to walk in here.” He said, “Oh, that’s all right.” I just felt, you know, this wasn’t the time or place that I come in, but there she was. She was lying there with him, and I guess they were chatting. She was about to give birth and I guess felt uncomfortable, but she just wanted to be with him, so they were lying there in each other’s arms and chatting. - Paul B. "Red" Fay, in an interview for the JFK Library

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy sits with her daughters Rosemary Kennedy and Eunice Kennedy in the grass near the house the family rented on Beach Avenue at Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts. 1922.

this is my all time favourite photo

British Royal Family - The Princess of Wales during The Royal Charity Polo Cup 2026 Guards Polo Club in Egham, England. (Photos by Samir Hussein) | July 10, 2026

British Royal Family - The Princess of Wales during The Royal Charity Polo Cup 2026 Guards Polo Club in Egham, England. (Photos by Mark Cuthbert) | July 10, 2026

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Robert Dalleck John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, 1917-1963