JFK With Pipe, Circa 1963
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Few people know that Mrs. Jackie Kennedy smoked a pipe as well. She always had one in her purse along with some tobacco. She never smoked it in public and I don't believe that photos were ever taken of her smoking a pipe, however it was one of her favorite vices and kept secret.
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JFK was primarily a Habanos smoker, and, sad to say, a flaming hypocrite regarding the presidential order he signed forbidding imports of Cuban products manufactured after 1959 into the U.S. He was careful to have an aide procure vast quantities of his favorite Habano just prior to his signing.
BTW, many American Habanos lovers may not be aware of the fact that it is perfectly legal for them to import pre-Castro Cuban cigars.
BTW, many American Habanos lovers may not be aware of the fact that it is perfectly legal for them to import pre-Castro Cuban cigars.
Great photo Numbersix. Thanks for that. I live only an hour away from the JFK Library and have yet to visit. I know, shame on me, but maybe in a few weeks I'll make the trek.
@ DocWatson the JFK library is by far one of the best Presidential libraries. The location is right on the water and there is a "T" stop within walking distance (Umass-Boston Red line). You should certainly invest the time. It's wonderful and even the food at the restaurant is good it serves some of President Kennedy's favorites. Cheers! :puffpipe:
Great pictures, numbersix. Thanks for posting. I had never heard of him smoking a pipe, but I have heard that he didn't smoke his cigars in public to avoid the image of the stereotypical cigar smoking politician.
Now the question is what blends did JFK and Jackie smoke.
Now the question is what blends did JFK and Jackie smoke.
Thanks for the post No. 6. Being massively interested in the Apollo Programme, JFK is one of my favourite American Presidents. Looking at pictures from that era, many that worked on the Programme seemed to be pipe smokers, but I'd never seen a picture of Kennedy with one.
As for the pre-Castro Cuban cigars, good luck finding any and if you do you're going to pay a small fortune for them.
After having a few drinks, I do damn good JFK impersonation.
And while not a conspiracy theory man, is anyone else excited at the prospect of the Assassination Records Review Board releasing the last of the documents in 2017?
And while not a conspiracy theory man, is anyone else excited at the prospect of the Assassination Records Review Board releasing the last of the documents in 2017?
Excited by the prospect, yes. I just don't trust that they'll be anything revealing or all that interesting left to read in the text. Government agencies don't like the skeletons in their closet, nor do they willingly let them out to roam in public.
I expect plenty of black mark-outs.
On the topic at hand, however, the pictures are appreciated. I'm a sucker for anything historical.
Jack was a H. Upmann man, actually the day before he signed the 1963 Embargo act he sent his secretary of state to Cuba to purchase an accusation of 3,000 H. Upmanns. Once he made it back to the states and to the oval office to present Jack with the H. Upmanns it was at that point that he reached into his desk drawer, took out the papers and signed the embargo act. Just a little history note.
Glad you guys liked it - I was thinking that I was the only one who didn't know this.
@docwatson Awesome info - thanks for sharing it.
Interesting how no one ever tried finding the second gunman. Case closed.
@docwatson Awesome info - thanks for sharing it.
Technically speaking, it was a conspiracy. Not everyone seems to know this, but there was a "second" Warren commission that concluded that there was likely a second gunman. By strict definition, that's a conspiracy. And the odds that it was only Oswald (who said he was a fall guy, or 'patsy') and one other person that conspired the whole thing is unlikely when you add in the fact that it was a mob-connected gunman who silenced Oswald.
http://www.history.com/topics/warren-commission
Interesting how no one ever tried finding the second gunman. Case closed.
That's not the way Pierre Salinger, JFK's press secretary, told the story in the first issue of Cigar Aficionado. According to Salinger, he was sent by JFK to scour cigar stores in DC to buy him 1,000 Petit Upmanns. Salinger got 1,200. I think that's just a smudge more likely to have happened than Dean Rusk going to Cuba to buy them! (Why go to Cuba if they are available around the corner?)
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