While his wife travelled shopping (her materialistic nature was never explored by the press. In fact, when she died it is hard to find any mention at all of her second husband, Aristotle Onasis or his great wealth. The press remained loyal to JFK to the end) he began spending more and more time with Ellen Rometsch who was a beautiful hooker. Poised, well dressed, always knowing how to act in  all social situations she had a steady list of johns that numbered at least 50. She had married a soldier assigned to the West Berlin embassy and slept her way through the embassy. She was known as a woman who would do anything without question and with great exuberance. JFK had fallen head over heels for her. He told Baker she was the most exciting woman he had ever met. What he didn't know, was that she was a Soviet spy.

 

If you have followed this story since part 1, you know JFK's actions against Cuba and Castro led to the missiles being placed in Cuba in the first place, a fact still not known by the majority of Americans and not taught in schools. You know he played with hookers who were at times Soviet spies. He ignored proof that the Soviets had placed missiles in Cuba for the good of an election. The phrase reckless seems too limited to describe this out of control self destructive President. Conspiracy theorists will no doubt be disappointed to discover Hoover owned JFK, and now they were chortling together over the sexcapades in Washington.

 

Andrei Gromyko arrived in America to attend the UN General Assembly but first he was summoned to a meeting of Bobby and JFK. Unknown to him, the President recorded the conversation and trapped him. Gromyko denied there were any missiles in Cuba. One lie after another, all party lines, were being captured on tape. In diplomacy this would have been the moment to confront Gromyko and show him the pictures. But JFK sat silent. Silent.

 

He had already decided to make political hay out of the missiles. He would make a blockade to stop ships heading to Cuba and in public order Kruschev to withdraw the ships and missiles. This would create the image of a tough, no budging guy. But behind the scenes he would make a deal with Kruschev- so to cement his shot to become President a second term, he would play with the possibility of a nuclear war. What he couldn't know was that this false image would hang like a dark cloud over Presidents to come. It would hang over LBJ and Nixon on Nam- the public had seen after all JFK stand up to nuclear bombs - how could we negotiate or make allowances after that? The public would never expect that from a strong President. When Biden said we refuse to talk to the Taliban and get involved in humanitarian actions and we are there to fight, he echoes the image of JFK on the missile crisis. The problem is, its a lie. A great big shining lie. That has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths since it came to be viewed by the public as the tough way to deal with enemies. Sadly, our Ivy League schools teach our future Presidents the bullshit version of history.

 

The Soviets had over 130 nuclear warheads in Cuba.  JFK thought it would take days for the Cubans to assemble them, but what he never knew was that Soviet soldiers were with the weapons and they could be assembled in a matter of less than two hours. JFK thought if anything got out of hand he would have days to work out a deal, as he had in secret with Kruschev when he allowed the Berlin wall to go up. He didn't know he didn't have days.

 

The Russians announced their ships would not be stopped by a blockade. Castro offered Cuba up as a sacrifice- he urged the Soviets to strike the U.S. and evacuate him, before the U.S. retaliated. China urged Kruschev to wipe the U.S. out. Things were getting out of hand.

 

Yet while Americans sat in shock as the President compared Cuba to Nazi Germany in a speech and said there would be no negotiations, the Russian ships weren't going through our ships to Cuba, the CIA noticed something very odd. There was no buildup of troops in Soviet areas. Nothing. No military response at all. While Americans were being told about us being on the line of nuclear war, the Soviets hadn't moved troops anywhere. We on the other hand, we're on Defcon alert, the highest level of alert.

 

Adlai Stevenson who knew nothing of JFK having contact with Kruschev spoke to the press. He said we could always take our missiles out of Turkey in trade for the Soviets removing the missiles from Cuba. JFK went ballistic. That was exactly what he had offered the Russians. If the public and NATO partners had discovered this, not to mention the GOP, while JFK was doing phony sabre rattling he would not have become President again.

 

After JFK's first speech to America Bobby Kennedy went into the Soviet embassy for the first of many meetings. He explained his brother would be President for the next 6 years, then he would follow for 8. He told them the American public would never allow them in if they knew the truth. He then handed the Soviet Union representative a letter outlining everything JFK had done to remove the missiles. For the next 14 years, the Soviet Union would hold a letter, a confession, on how the President had lied to the public and his cabinet and the complicity of his brother. JFK was willing to trust the Soviets with information that would end his and Roberts careers if it became known.

 

The Russian ships turned around. JFK had shown that without negotiating he was anything but soft on an enemy. Bobby Kennedy blasted Adlai for his "soft on communism approach" and ended his career. Stevenson could never go to Camelot again. JFK continued his obsession with Castro and re-started all the murder plots against him.

 

But there was this problem in England. Hookers who had been Soviet spies and slept with the President were in a scandal which now had a name. The Profumo scandal. Top heads of government were booted out of government. JFK went to Hoover for help, but Hoover had little power over England. He did warn the President that the woman he was in love with was a Soviet spy. He went to a fundraiser and told him he needed $50,000 immediately but when pressed just said the money was for the his own, the Presidents use. The fundraiser got the money, but people distrusted this request. Rumors were all over Texas that the money was not for JFK. All future fundraisers were ignored when he put them on, a week after JFK died he jumped off a building. The hooker? Resettled abroad with a 50,000 dollar bank account.

 

But it was too late. British authorities had followed the trail to Washington, D.C. and now Republicans knew the President had slept with spies. At the start of November in 1963, the GOP decided to hold hearings.

 

Just a week earlier JFK had torn a groin muscle at a pool orgy and was given a special brace. This brace would remain classified until the late 1990's. As his car made its way through Dallas he wore two braces- one for his back, one for his groin. Lee Harvey Oswald who the Soviets had named as "unstable", the man who had sent a letter threatening the President and Texas politicians with death and Hoover had failed to put on a watch list, took aim and fired at the President. The first shot was not a fatal shot, but the two braces kept JFK sitting up straight so that the head shot could be made. In the end, JFK's sex life killed him.

 

The Republicans dropped the hearings idea, which had not been announced to the public. And the mythologies began.