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Jack and Lem: John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship

by David Pitts · 2007

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Documents the life-long friendship between John F. Kennedy and former classmate Kirk LeMoyne Billings, a homosexual who was a prominent fixture in the Kennedy family, in an account based on interviews, letters, and telegrams.

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