“It is the heart of the Kennedy Compound suspended somewhere between the past and the present,” writes Kate Storey.
In the final years of the Roaring Twenties, Joseph P. Kennedy, patriarch of what would become known as “America’s royal family,” purchased a white clapboard house in Hyannis Port, a picturesque village on Cape Cod.
“This house has been the shelter, the walls behind which the family grieved, laughed, exhaled,” writes Kate Storey in her new book. “It is the heart of the Kennedy Compound suspended somewhere between the past and the present.”And then a tall fence went up — a privacy stockade affair that kept out peering eyes.
“He is so big and has such a big derriere it is funny to see him throw himself around,” Rose wrote in her diary, according to Storey. A newly engaged Senator John F. Kennedy playing touch football on the lawn in 1953 with Jacqueline Bouvier and his brother Edward.The lobotomy procedure was a failure and Rosemary would be hidden away in a Catholic institution in Wisconsin.Rose sent for her daughter to join the family on the Cape in 1975.Along with the tragedy of Rosemary was the scandal surrounding Joe’s affair with Hollywood’s reigning silent film sex goddess Gloria Swanson.
Rose Kennedy saw summers in Hyannis Port as “a golden interval” with Joe spending more time with his children.That affair lasted ten years before DesRosiers moved on to become a secretary on Jack Kennedy’s presidential plane, accommodating JFK by massaging his feet and hands in private.Frank Sinatra was a frequent guest along with international playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, known for his sizzling sexual prowess .JFK and Jackie strolled across the lawn after announcing their engagement.
“She romanced Onassis right on the street in front of my house,” a Hyannis Port neighbor told Storey. “They used to have a champagne lunch here and then they would go dancing up the hill in front of my house and then go whistling down the street to their house. And I just kept asking myself, ‘How in God’s name could she love that guy?’ ”Rose Kennedy on her 92nd birthday in Hyannis Port.
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