JFK's Secret Love Letters to Swedish Woman Offered for Auction Today

Bidding Starts at $25,000, but Seller Expects Far More

By CHRIS BURY and SUZAN CLARKE
Feb. 15, 2010

Before John F. Kennedy was president of the United States, he was an ambitious U.S. senator. And before he married Jacqueline Bouvier, Kennedy began a fleeting but passionate romance with a Swedish woman. The relationship continued after he was married.

The former president's letters to his Swedish lover are offered for auction.

Kennedy's relationship with Gunilla von Post is documented in poignant letters and telegrams. Up until now, von Post kept the correspondence locked away, so it's never been public.
Today Von Post offers the love letters for auction.
In the letters, Kennedy expresses, in his scrawling longhand, his feelings for von Post.
The two met on the French Riviera in the summer of 1953. He was 36, and she was 21. They danced all night, and parted with a passionate kiss.



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