Memoir Claims Jackie Kennedy Rode Naked in a Car With JFK’s Grave Designer
Jackie Kennedy rode around naked in a convertible with John F. Kennedy’s grave designer during a 1966 trip to Hawaii, according to a posthumous memoir.
The book, Camelot’s Architect: The Untold Story of Jackie Kennedy, Lafayette Square, and a Secret Romance by John Carl Warnecke, is scheduled for release on November 10.
The 1966 Hawaii Trip
Warnecke, who died in 2010 at age 91, met Jackie Kennedy in 1962 at a British embassy dinner. The two grew close while collaborating on the preservation project for Washington’s historic Lafayette Square alongside President John F. Kennedy. In the summer of 1966, Warnecke was in Honolulu to design the State Capitol and invited Jackie Kennedy to rent a beach house nearby.
Upon arriving in Hawaii, Jackie Kennedy rented a property about a mile south of Warnecke’s residence. When Warnecke walked up the beach to visit her, he discovered her lying face down on a towel wearing only an enormous straw hat. “She was completely nude,” Warnecke writes in the memoir.
Warnecke’s account stands as his own personal recollection, with no other individuals confirming the specific events. The memoir details a subsequent evening when Warnecke stepped inside his house for a jacket and returned to find Jackie Kennedy waiting in the back of his convertible.
An Unclothed Drive
Warnecke described looking out to find his car pulled out of the garage. “What amazed me most was that she did not have a stitch of clothing on,” he writes. He recalled turning around multiple times during the drive, noting that she told him, “I’m all yours. All of me. I’m letting you know how much I love you.”
En route to dinner, traffic prompted the pair to pull off at a secluded spot by the water. “At last, surrounded by moonlight and the sounds of the nearby ocean, we laughed, then fully enjoyed the moment,” Warnecke writes. He summarized the excursion by stating his goal was to bring her back to a normal life.
Aftermath and Later Years
Following the Hawaii trip, Jackie Kennedy eventually married Aristotle Onassis, and Warnecke also married. The pair stayed in touch over the decades. After Onassis died and Warnecke divorced, they renewed their friendship.
“There was nothing physical going on between us, yet it felt as if we were in some ways still carrying on an exciting secret affair,” Warnecke writes in the book.
The memoir is set to become available wherever books are sold starting November 10.
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