Jousting Over a Camelot Love Letter
A love letter written by Jacqueline Kennedy to President John F. Kennedy one month before he was assassinated may become the subject of a legal dispute between the letter's owner and the Kennedy children, New York's Daily News reports. John Jr. and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg want the letter returned to them. They are said to be considering legal action against Robert White, who had previously offered to give the letter to Caroline if the JFK Library would buy two Kennedy diaries from him for $650,000, the News said. Sources say JFK's private secretary Evelyn Lincoln, who died in 1995, may have filched the letter and other Kennedy heirlooms and sold some of them to White. White claims Jacqueline gave the letter and other items to Lincoln. Written during a vacation in Greece when the first lady was 34, the letter reads in part: "I think how lucky I am to miss you ... I realize here so much that I am having something you can never have -- the absence of tension ... I wish so much I could give you that ..."
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