Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History
should be noted that Vidal has also called them the “Holy Family” and the President and First Lady the “Sun God” and Goddess.”
     
    When JFK was 22, Irene Wiley sculptured a likeness of him as a winged angel; her work was presented to the Vatican where it was used as a part of a panel in which the angel hovers over St. Therese while she writes in a book. After his fatal trip to Dallas, President Kennedy’s remains were code-named “Angel” and that was also the name of the “flying hearse” (Air Force One) which returned him to the capitol.
     
    Tragedy seems to live with the Kennedy family, newspapers tell us. Indeed, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, Teddy Kennedy suffered a severe back injury in a plane crash; before JFK’s assassination, his father suffered a crippling stroke, sister Rosemary has been mentally handicapped since birth, Kathleen was killed in a plane crash, and eldest son Joseph was killed in action during World War II. Only a few years ago, the son of Senator Ted Kennedy was forced to undergo the amputation of his leg; prior to that, his father was involved in the drowning of a young secretary which effectively silenced the Senator against those who murdered his brothers, since, with typical J. Edgar Hoover morality, most of the facts of the case were suppressed and would find a swift and international messenger should the senator from Massachusetts renege on his “commitments.” Let us examine the incredible symbolism deeply related to the Kennedy family and perhaps discern an etiology.
     
    The “Rowan” is a death plant in herbal lore and was an ingredient in a sleeping potion witches gave their husbands when they wanted to perform activities to which their spouses would strongly object. The rowan, like so many “magical,” plants was used by Christians as protection against ill fortune. It was also a means of church decoration and was widely planted in cemeteries in the belief that it would restrain the dead from premature resurrection. In some places, the First of May was called Rowan or Hawthorne Day, or Rowan Tree Witch Day.
     
    Peter Lawford, one time brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy, was later married to Mary Rowan, the daughter of
Laugh-In
series television star Dan Rowan. Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy Lawford were divorced in 1966 and it was then that Lawford took his “Rowan” to bed. He also made certain similar arrangements for Marilyn Monroe in the service of John and Robert Kennedy. Marilyn Monroe has been described as the “Silvery Witch of us all” (Norman Mailer) and she is important in the fertility and death symbolism pervading the “Boston Brahmins.”
     
    President Kennedy was the recipient of a birthday party in his honor in Madison Square Garden and Peter Lawford invited Marilyn Monroe to sing “Happy Birthday” there. When she was scheduled to sing, a spotlight was thrown on an empty stage and she was announced three times. She appeared after the third call and was introduced as “the late Marilyn Monroe.”
     
    Among her husbands was a Shriner (Mason) named Robert Slatzer. In Slatzer’s book,
The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe,
circumstantial evidence is presented suggesting that Attorney General Robert Kennedy was somehow involved in the “curious death.” At no time, however, has Mr. Slatzer referred to Masonic sorcery.
     
    The European news magazine,
Das Neue Blatt
details not only the much touted love affair between the Hollywood star and the President, but the rivalry between the First Lady and the star. The Das Neue Blatt article broadly hinted that Jackie “helped drive Marilyn to her suicide.” Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis has a family and a past at least as strange and enigmatic as that of her deceased first husband.
     
    Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale was the sister of John Bouvier, the father of Jacqueline. Mrs. Beale and her daughter Edith (Edie) lived in a state of wretchedness and destitution in a

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