John F Kennedy Impregnated Flight Attendant, Paid For Abortion After His Daughter’s Birth: Book

Last Updated:June 26, 2025, 18:24 IST

The book claims that the 35th President of the United States also sent USD 400 to the flight attendant to get abortion.

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A book giving a peek into the life of former US President John F Kennedy claims that the American leader once got a flight attendant pregnant and also paid for her abortion, all this only a few months after his daughter Caroline was born.

The claims were made in his new biography, JFK: Public, Private, Secret’, by J. Randy Taraborrelli. The book talks about Kennedy’s affair with a young flight attendant named Joan Lundberg, according to People.

Two years after meeting Lundberg in 1956, the former American president received a call from her—informing him that she was pregnant with his child.

“Joan would recall that her news about the baby was ‘like a knife to Jack’s heart.’ Jack couldn’t help but wonder if Joan had purposely planned the pregnancy, given that she’d seen his devotion to Jackie after Caroline’s birth. He also wondered if he was really the father, and Joan assured him he was," the author writes in the book, as per People.

According to the book, Kennedy also told her that he would send her $400 to get an abortion. “‘Being a politician is who I am,’ he told her. ‘Politics is all I know. If you take that away . . .’ His voice trailed off. Before she could respond, he disconnected the line," says the book.

He sent the money, and Lundberg, who was then 23, “took care of things".

“Jack was very clear; he didn’t want Joan to have the baby…'" She was angry and disappointed, but also realistic," reads the book.

The book authored by J. Randy Taraborrelli is to be published on July 17.

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