Still, Billings was viewed by many I interviewed for my biography of RFK Jr. as his gay Svengali who guided and literally tried to control every aspect of Bobby Jr.'s life from the time he was in his mid-teens. ', White House visitor: Billings often spent the night at the White House, which upset Jackie Kennedy. His name was Lem Billings. Of course, he had always loved the Cape and was completely happy there.'" While Billings' missive is long gone, a startled Kennedy responded, 'Please don't write to me on toilet paper anymore. Have you heard from him?' His latest book, The Kardashians: An American Drama, will be published in September. In her memoir, Times To Remember, published eleven years after Jack's assassination in Dallas in 1963, she wrote that Billings had 'remained Jack's lifelong close friend, confidant, sharer in old memories and new experiencesHe has really been part of 'our family' since that first time he showed up at our house as one of 'Jack's surprises. and yet you still think JFK was alive in December 1963! Bobby Kennedy Jr. gave the eulogy. "Raffish and yet prissy," they write of Billings "a sort of court chronicler reporting on the old days which even Bobby and Ethel didn't recall and functioning as the all-purpose cheerleader, godfather, and pallbearer who could always be counted on. According to Pitts, Billings never recovered from the death of his friend, suffering from a "deep depression" in the weeks and months after President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Now thats very exciting! said Kennedy with a grin.. According to author Christopher Bram (2012), Vidal told the playwright he shouldnt cruise our next president, then repeated the remark to Kennedy. [49], Friends from the 1970s confirmed that Billings was homosexual, but not open to discussing it. Prince Andrew has 'offered to manage prestigious Royal estates including Balmoral but King Charles has told PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Yes, Madonna toyboys are fun but not if you value your dignity. When Billings died of a heart attack in 1981, Bobby Jr gave the eulogy (From left to right: Lem Billings, Bobby Kennedy Jr andEthel Kennedy), Part of the family: From childhood to adulthood, Billings stayed close to Jack Kennedy and his family. "He did not want to hear one negative syllable, and there were a lot of negatives going along.". I'm not that kind of boy.'. As they became close, Billings confided that his relationship with Kennedy was, in fact, sexual, to a point. [6][7], In 1941, Billings failed medical tests required by the military. 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Lem outlived his friend by eighteen years; he died in 1981, and left his papers to the JFK Presidential library in Boston, MA. According to Quirk, Billings revealed that his friendship with the future president of the United States 'included oral sex, with Jack always on the receiving end. As we both know, homosexual relationships in English boarding schools were put down to adolescent hijinks and men *grew out of them*. 'They make fun of my voice. You can follow her on Twitter. "Jack was anxious to reach Lem and to find out how he was doing. It would be the last Christmas in which the United States would be at peace for more than four years. The bond between Billings and John F. Kennedy continues to be of interest to many, with a new wave of attention cresting on social media apps like TikTok, where users have pored back over candid photos of the young men together. He never lost this.". He escorted Mrs. Stephen Smith, sister of the late President, to . [47], Billings spent less time with the President in the fall of 1963. During the night of May 28, 1981-almost two decades after JFK's untimely death - 65-year-old Lem Billings died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack. [51] Red Fay, a friend of the President from his World War II service, said of Billings: "I didn't see anything overtly gay about him; I think he was neutral. [13] He later had several jobs, including selling Coca-Cola dispensers to drugstores and working at a General Shoe store. ', Their arrangement, Quirk asserted, 'enabled Jack to sustain his self-delusion that straight men who received oral sex from other males were really only straights looking for sexual release,' and he further observed, 'Jack was in love with Lem being in love with him and considered him the ideal follower adorer. Describing his friend as a "very normal, regular boy," Billings said his favorite of Jack's characteristics was his light spirit: "I've never known anyone in my life with such a wonderful humor and the wonderful ability to make one laugh and to have a good time. But the man married to Jackie Kennedy was quietly chided for his compulsive philandering. At least one of these intimates, Kirk LeMoyne Lem Billings, was one of Jacks cherished body men, and he lived part-time in the White House throughout the three years of Kennedys presidency. Williams, a handsome gay southerner, had already written seven hit plays. She had to submit questions in advance. Published: 16:57 GMT, 9 June 2017 | Updated: 19:00 GMT, 9 June 2017. (Page 307)Listen to a short phone conversation between the two of them: DAVID PITTS is a longtime journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post and other leading newspapers. Billings had been a prep school roommate of John F. Kennedy, an usher at his wedding, and a campaigner for his successful 1960 presidential bid. He was also plagued by ill health. Jack" he said as he gazed at him softly, It's been a long time. In many ways, Kennedy was also enjoying the kind of sex life that would later characterize the gay mens party of the 1970s. . 0 references. Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings (April 15, 1916 - May 28, 1981) was a close friend of the Kennedy family, who had his own room at the White House during the Kennedy presidency. it would not surprise me knowing how most of the Kennedys (including ole Joe!) However he does quote Billings admission that he may have been in love with Kennedy his whole life. And did he personally lend a hand from time to time? They were especially fanatical about football. Jack Kennedy and Lem Billings met at Choate and remained friends until the Dallas gunfire that ended Kennedy's life thirty years later. Perhaps, given his deep personal knowledge of the President and his friendship with the First Lady, he even gave directions as the photographer snapped the candid shots that would charm both the nation and historians. Inside Matt Hancock's 41-hour battle to save his career when photo of 'a snog and heavy petting' with aide Will Vladimir Putin's empress pay the ultimate price for his war on the West? I was pleased to note that things picked up after your arrival,' referring to Montgomery's battle with Rommel at El Alamein. We might even attach the adjectives exclusive and romantic to this youthful friendship. He might have been the reason I never got married. During the night of May 28, 1981almost two decades after JFK's untimely death - 65-year-old Lem Billings died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Private Policy and Terms of Use. I suppose if you dont do the missionary sex position thing you can call yourself straight and for any other position, it is just experimental straight sex? This essay was originally published at OutHistory.orgon November 22, 2013; it has been updated and re-edited. Access Restriction Status: Open. Kennedy. However, he avoided the notoriety of coming out even after Kennedys death, perhaps because he feared that it would draw more negative attention to the extended Kennedy family, which soon struggled with a range of scandals: Chappaquidick, alcoholism, divorce and drugs were but a few. Those who knew Charles described him as a sour, angry man. "Lem was sixteen, and Jack was fifteen, when they met while working on the school yearbook at Choate School for Boys, the prestigious New England preparatory school located in Wallingford, Conn. From all accounts it was instant friendship. [3] They became fast friends, drawn to each other by their mutual distaste for their strict school. I don't think it's true that he did not have views of his own, as some have said. as not being gay since they only gave each other BJs (as in Lewinsky/Clinton sex?)! Booth, 32 years old, died of "undetermined causes" with no obvious signs of . I don't know how we will carry on without him. Lem, although said by Arthur Schlesinger to have been jealous of others who drew Jacks attention, was undoubtedly one of the personal assistants and friends who facilitated the Presidents daily need for sex by making sure that women were available when needed. ", Last edited on 24 December 2022, at 15:36, "JFK's Best Friend Lem: Transcript | JFK Library", Princeton University Undergraduate Senior Theses, 1924-2018 Art and Archaeology, 1926-2018, Alfred E. 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Jensen, "Managing the Kennedy Millions," June 12, 1977, Doris Kearns Goodwin, "Fitzgeralds and Kennedys," March 8, 1987, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lem_Billings&oldid=1129296144, This page was last edited on 24 December 2022, at 15:36. An autopsy report says Billings' cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. He wanted to be with him, to be a part of whatever he wanted to do to continue Jack's legacy." Have a nice one! Billings, he said, "had a natural jealousy. The story about Lem Billings '39 and JFK was very interesting and even moving (cover story, April 12). 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Kennedy Anything Including Possible Affairs, oral history interview for the John F. Kennedy Library. They soon began spiraling toward their eventual demise. Wikipedia (3 entries) edit. Soon I discovered that he glared with equal suspicion at anyone whose friendship with JFK postdated his own. Lem (Kenny Johnson) refuses to live the rest of his life as a fugitive in Mexico.S5E11 - Postpartum (FX The Shield)I DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE VIDEO CLIPS. On March 4, 1961, The New York Times reported, Billings even escorted two baby hamsters, Debbie and Billie, from New York to Washington, for young Caroline. Although Alford refused, she did not always have the self-confidence to say no: earlier, she had fellated a staff member in Jacks presence. For many other Americans as well, Bobby became the last best hope for resurrecting Camelot, for a return to the kind of liberal idealism that Jack had epitomized. Billings was a prep school roommate of Kennedy, an usher at his wedding and a campaigner for his successful 1960 presidential bid. ", Still, he was well aware of his proximity to history. The year also brought a staggering . During the night of May 28, 1981almost two decades after JFK's untimely death - 65-year-old Lem Billings died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack. The comments below have been moderated in advance. Authorities have identified the woman found dead Tuesday in a residence on Avenue B in Billings as Shanna Lynn Booth. Jack's best friend was Lem, and he would want to remind everyone of that today. As Vice President at the Emerson Drug Company in Baltimore, he was responsible for inventing the 1950s fad drink Fizzies by adding a fruit flavor to disguise the sodium citrate taste. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. [67], On May 28, 1981, Billings died in his sleep following a heart attack in his Manhattan apartment. (Page 4), "When Jack wasn't trying to get Lem to sing on family occasions, he was cajoling him into playing sports -- usually touch football, a game Lem came to loathe. Once, Alford remembered, Kennedy suggested that she would be doing him a favor if she agreed to help his younger brother, Ted, a newly elected Senator, with his own tensions, while the President watched from across the pool. Kennedy and Billings remained intimate in part by managing Jacks sex life, his career, and his family, together. Sexual Abuse at Choate Went On for Decades. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3269576/How-Ethel-Kennedy-.. view all Lem Billings's Timeline From 1933 to 1946, Billings and JFK exchanged letters, with Jack often antagonizing Lem in the correspondence. Lem profited from the friendship--he was an official member of the Kennedy clan, he went to fancy White House parties and even had his own friendship at the presidential mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Joe generously paid for half the cost of Lem's ticket on the way over, saying Lem could pay at least part of it back when he graduated from Princeton. In reference to this relationship, I came across another interview in which JFKs sexuality was discussed and that interviewer defended JFKs relationship with Lem? In which 20 year old John F Kennedy's best friend shows up on his doorstep one evening. The parents who fear their 11-year-olds will be scarred for life by the graphic sex education lessons that Two Insulate Britain protesters are jailed for contempt of court after they defied a judge's orders not to 'Derek fights on, it makes me fall in love with him all over again:' Kate Garraway reveals there are days French authorities fear 'narco-tourists' could flock to Normandy beaches after 'more than two tonnes of Hopes for cervical cancer vaccine after trials in mice showed it reduced tumours 80 per cent of the time. Princeton University. Like many gay men of his generation, Lem may have been very comfortable with his own sexuality and the privacy of his relationship to Jack. Eunice Kennedy Shriver said, 'I'm sure he's already organizing everything in heaven so it will be completely ready for us -- with just the right Early American furniture, the right curtains, the right rugs, the right paintings, and everything ready for a big, big party. They met in 1933 in their sophomore year at Choate Rosemary Hall, the exclusive Connecticut prep school, when both were teenagers, working together on their class's yearbook, and Billings instantly became attracted sexually and otherwise to the handsome scion of America's self-styled royal family. In less than a year, the country would be at war." Vidal, the author of a best-selling gay World War II novel, published in 1947 at a time when most queer books were ruled obscene and evidence of homosexual acts could bring a prison term, was unabashedly public about his affairs with men. But Kennedy's reaction to Billings gay come-on soon changed and he became more amenable to his friend's advances, according to the writer Lawrence J. Quirk, author of 'The Kennedys in Hollywood.' [4] The Muckers would pull pranks around the school and even planned to dump horse manure in the school gym, but that fell through after the headmaster found out. JFKs sex life, and his attachments to men, also needs to be better understood for what it reveals about his inner life, and for a moment in United States political history when sex itself was undergoing seismic changes. Billings was so much a part of the extended Kennedy clan that he was regularly included in family gatherings, and Attorney General Robert Bobby Kennedy named his son Michael LeMoyne Kennedy. Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings and Mary Lasker attend a party at the New York City home of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. On June 14, 1977. John F. Kennedy bi-sexual or gay? In "Jack and Lem", author David Pitts looks at the relationship between the late president and Kirk LeMoyne Billings or "Lem". myocardial infarction. Lem Billings is a well known Celebrity. But there is also an important story about race, and social class, to be told here. 'I borrowed the other half from an inheritance I was about to receive from my grandmother after I graduated from college,' remembered Lem. It would go on to become one of his most prized possessions." [62], After the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Billings became depressed and started to drink in excess, an addiction that plagued him for most of his life. Poor guy. Though Billings who was working as a New York City advertising executive at the time of the assassination continued on at his firm for another decade, his life was never the same. (Page 35), Jack and Lem in a Palm Beach photo booth just before their European tour, 1937, "Jack and Lem's summer in Europe began on July 1, 1937. Vessey paid Masters with meth and a vehicle in exchange for the death of Billings. Who was Jack Lemmon's wife? The . Like the rest of the free world, Billings was devastated when President Kennedy was assassinated. [9] He saw action in North Africa in 194243. Billings would later spend nights in the White House where he had his own room, Schoolboy crush? Between 1933 and 1935, The bond between Jack and Lem grew so tight, journalist David Pitts wrote in Jack and Lem (2008), that they really had no need for friendships with other boys.. But this may, in fact, just be gossip. Jack and Lem, as a reviewer for The New York Daily News put it in 1996, engaged in the kind of sexual experimentation not unknown at all-boys boarding schools.. Smith, 433-4; see also: Smith, 113: "The only counterbalance to the [Kennedy] family's philistinism had been Lem Billings, whose passion for art and antiques had begun with his Princeton theses on Tintoretto, a precociously sophisticated study. In 1929, Billy's brother, the reclusive, never married Charles Lemp had moved back into the Lemp Mansion with his dog. He claimed he had no idea who the Kennedys were, but they wanted to meet Williams, and Vidal produced him. David Pitts quotes Vidal cruelly calling Billings a lifelong slave, the principal fag at court, and a nurse who helped Jack deal with the pain caused by Addisons disease. The one iconic photo of President John F. Kennedy up close and personal with a woman other than Jackie shows him and his attorney general brother, Robert, coming on to curvaceous Marilyn Monroe at a party. Collier and Horowitz described Billings, later in life, as invariably enmeshed in his late friend's larger family. Get that ass! he said to Vidal. Harvard University. The two became friends, then roommates. He believed Billings loved Kennedy. I am sure the good Lord knows that heaven is Jesus and Lem and Jack and Bobby loving one another.'. 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Kirk LeMoyne " Lem " Billings (April 15, 1916 - May 28, 1981) was an American businessman known for his close and long-time friendship with John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy family. At one point, he is said to have remarked: "After I go, there'll be no more Kennedys.". To begin with, why would JFK give him a private room at the white house, to come and go at his leisure? [28] One presidential aide later said that "some people saw him so much they thought he was the Secret Service. John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings, right, who was a classmate from the Choate School and Princeton University, outside a drugstore, ca. 228. When their brother Bobby married Ethel Skakel in a royal-like wedding in Greenwich, Connecticut, the staunchly conservative republican and seemingly homophobic Skakels let their feelings about Billings' gayness be known. According to the book, a gift from Billings a whale's-tooth scrimshaw was buried with him. were sexual animals, and its hard for me to believe that a guy like Lem who loved JFK, would stand by and let himself be used and be rebuffed by JFK! One reason is that, in retrospect, the Kennedy presidency provides a transition from the years of what historian David K. Johnson calls the lavender scare and the unbuttoned, experimental 1960s that launched the gay rights movement. Otherwise he attended without female accompaniment. Public Seminar is a journal of ideas, politics, and culture published by the Public Seminar Publishing Initiative at The New School. Billings had once told Bobby that. The president was famously believed to have affairs during their marriage. ', But Billings was embarrassed about his effeminate mannerisms he'd remain publicly closeted for his lifetime. Billings reportedly told Kennedy of his romantic intentions in prep school (JFK pictured chatting with Marilyn Monroe and Robert F Kennedy). The affair was socially isolating for a very young and sexually un-liberated woman, causing her to deceive friends, boyfriends and ultimately her husband and children for most of her adult life. In 1958, her cousin Gore Vidal brought playwright Tennessee Williams to the Kennedy home in Palm Beach, FL. William Lemp III died an untimely death of a heart attack at the age of 42. "Depending upon where the lung cancer was, her heart could have taken a direct hit," said Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a cardiologist and founder of the Women's Heart Clinic at the Mayo Clinic. (Page 95), Jack and Lem on leave, Palm Beach, 1944"It's not clear whether Lem wanted to join the navy and see combat because Jack had, or because he wanted it for himself. This may have been true of his wife, although perhaps she understood from the beginning that their marriage would be non-monogamous. Because of him, I was never lonely, Billings said once. Could he have been the third leg of what was clearly an unconventional marriage? Was this part of his commitment to the Presidents good health? [4], Some historians believe that Billings expressed his sexual interest in Kennedy in writing in 1934 and that Kennedy rebuffed his advances. Lem Billings is a member of famous Celebrity list. Lem Billings andBobby Kennedy Jr became close after JFK's death and allegedly took drugs together. Details of Lem Billings and JFK's three decade relationship are revealed in 'Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And The Dark Side Of The Dream'. Our most accurate accounts of JFKs emotional carelessness are not from Lem, who was loyal to his friend until his death, but from women who later came forward about affairs that now, in the era of #MeToo, sometimes raise harsh questions about whether some of these relationships were abusive. He was by all accounts JFK's best friend . Kennedy first met Billings when they were teenagers at a school called Choate. Billings, Lem (Kirk LeMoyne), 1916-1981. Claire Potter is professor of history at The New School, and Executive Editor of Public Seminar. Witch, Harridan, Harpy, and new insults like Karen and Terf. Ethel's alcoholic, philandering brother, George Skakel Jr., actually booted Billings in the a** at the church, knocking him into the aisle. "Because of him," Lem Billings once said of President Kennedy, "I was never lonely" As of 2018 Lem Billings is 65 years (age at death) years old. [60] In 1965, Jacqueline Kennedy invited Billings to accompany her and her children to England for the unveiling of a memorial to President Kennedy at Runnymede. Felicia Farr m. 19622001 Cynthia Stone m. 19501956 Jack Lemmon / Wife He was 76. Yesterday was Jack's birthday. In a third, the President is walking on the beach with the late Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, as they grieved the death of their premature son Patrick. In addition to Lem, Kennedys bisexual brother in law, actor Peter Lawford, and novelist Gore Vidal, a relative of Jackies, were frequent visitors and playmates. Born in 1916, Billings was the son of a Pittsburgh doctor. While JFK is legendarily known as a master womanizer who frequently cheated on his first lady, his curious three-decades long intimate friendship with Billings suggests more than a simple bromance. He had a very independent mind. Kirk LeMoyne Billings and John F. Kennedy. "[45] Billings also served the President as an artistic adviser, selecting scrimshaw for display in the Oval Office[46] and, on one European tour, quickly assembling a selection of artworks to be presented as gifts. "The agency, which was the 13th largest in the United States in 1971, went bankrupt the following year, listing almost $11 million in liabilities. In Jackies absence, Lem managed the Presidents dinner parties, social life and children. The murder of Curtis Lemansky marked the beginning of the end for the Strike Team. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to receive selections from new issues of, what historian David K. Johnson calls the lavender scare, According to author Christopher Bram (2012), her fictional account of the love affair between Eleanor Roosevelt. Later Years. Both boys kept diaries on the trip, although Lem's was more of a scrapbook. One of their friends thought "that Jackie was trying to close Lem out. [68] His dying wish was for the young Kennedy men to carry his casket to its final resting place. [31] He accompanied the President to church,[32] launched a kite for the President's daughter Caroline,[33] and delivered pet hamsters to the Kennedy children. They werent even related. A new book is claiming that John F. Kennedy had more than just a platonic friendship with his life-long gay best friend, Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings. Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings (April 15, 1916 - May 28, 1981) was a prep school roommate and then lifelong close friend of President John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963).
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