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Good Morning America on Monday touted an adulterous affair John F. Kennedy had in the early 1950s as a "love story" and a "torrid and fleeting romance." Co-host George Stephanopoulos lauded the Kennedys as "American royalty" and the show offered no hint of criticism over the infidelity. [Audio available here.] "Love letters" revealing the relationship between an engaged and then just-married Kennedy and a Swedish woman are being put on auction this week. ...

On Friday, Oct. 7, the United States Postal Service issued a public notice that it has initiated a process for the proposed relocation of the Gypsum Post Office.  “Due to the need for a larger facility, the Postal Service must relocate retail services to a yet-to-be-determined location within the zip code...

JFK's love letters to his "wonderful" Swedish mistress Gunilla von Post sold at a Boston auction for $88,000.

Cannes, France, 1953: the Côte d’Azur is enjoying a golden age after the end of the Second World War. A few years earlier the first edition of the film festival that placed the small town on the world map was held. And there, in that summer of 1953, two people met and played out a furtive love story: he was just a few weeks away from marrying his fiancée, Jacqueline Bouvier. Their names were already famous, but not on the scale they would be in later years. Swedish and American, they...

  The public were in the dark? The youngest person to ever be elected President, JFK was just 43 when he took on the most powerful position in America in 1961. He was viewed as having brought a youthful energy and glamour to the White House, along with his stylish wife, Jacqueline.   He cultivated this? JFK was the first president to hire a Chief Official White House Photographer, enabling candid access to moments with his wife, young son, John, and daughter, Caroline, that served to ...

The letters were written between 1955 and 1956 and are on United States Senate letterhead. For those collectors who love romance and have a fascination with the Kennedys, there’s an upcoming online auction you wont want to miss that features love letters, handwritten by President John F. Kennedy to the Swedish mistress he was smitten with prior to his marriage to Jacqueline Bouvier. The eight-page collection comes from Gunilla Von Post, an aristocrat Kennedy met weeks prior to his 195...

‘I miss you’: JFK’s intimate letters to Swedish mistress up for auction Diti Kohli © Nikki Brickett A love letter that John F. Kennedy wrote to a Swedish paramour a few years after he married Jacqueline Bouvier. Intimate, handwritten love letters from John F. Kennedy to his Swedish mistress are up for auction. The then-US senator from Massachusetts penned the eight page-collection — one full letter and two partial messages on government letterhead — to Gunilla von P...

Written by Megan C. Hills, CNN A series of love letters, handwritten by President John F. Kennedy to his Swedish mistress, are going up for sale at a Boston auction house. The intimate letters -- addressed to Gunilla von Post, an aristocrat he met weeks prior to his 1953 marriage to Jacqueline Bouvier -- reveal Kennedy describing their time together as a "bright memory of my life." The eight-page collection, which includes one full letter and two partial messages, come from Von Posts personal ...

Intimate love letters penned by President John F. Kennedy to his Swedish mistress are up for sale.  The handwritten letters Kennedy wrote to Swedish aristocrat Gunilla von Post are a part of RR Auctions Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.  The letters are estimated to sell for upwards of $30,000.   If you dont marry come over as I should like to see you, one letter postmarked February 1956 reads.  A handwritten letter by John F. Kennedy addressed to Gunilla von Post. Intimate love letters ...