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The Premier Center for Sports Medicine, Orthopedic
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Robert H. Byers, MD
Elizabeth A. Dailey, MD
Lisa M. Elvin, NP
John R. Goff, MD
David H. Goltz, MD
Marco Jacobi, PA
Abbey Kennedy, MD
John C. Keohane, MD
Paul H. Kim, MD
Michael J. Oechsel, MD
Ernest H. Sponzilli, MD
Kathleen I. Strahm, PA
Brian W. Su, MD
Paul H. Kim, MD
Dr. Paul Kim completed his orthopedic training at
University of Washington and fellowhip at Hospital
for Special Surgery.
He specializes in disorders of the Foot & Ankle and
practices general orthopedics, for more information
visit his website at www.orthopkim.com.
In Marin / CONVERSATION
to die soon if you don’t come out of this.’ So I
quit smoking and drinking and started to feel
better. Then in 1990, I went back to Dallas,
walked through Dealey Plaza and up to the
sixth floor of the School Book Depository
Building and realized there was little I could
have done differently. Then in 2009, I got that
call from Lisa and at first I said I did not want
to talk to anyone. I finally agreed to meet her
in August 2009 in Washington, D.C. She was
living in the Middle East and we continued to
communicate via the internet and frequent
phone calls. The more I talked about all that
had happened, the better I felt. Eventually, we
wrote our first book together, Mrs. Kennedy
and Me, which was very cathartic for me.
Regarding Jackie Kennedy, in your book you
say that as early as 1961, before a presidential trip to Europe that included Greece, you
were called into President Kennedy’s office
and told not to let Jackie “cross paths with
Aristotle Onassis.” Why was that? I had
an agent working with me on that trip who
was from Greece and his uncle was the chief
of police in Athens, so I asked him. He said
Onassis had bought some surplus Liberty
ships from the U.S. and something went
wrong with the transaction and the U. S. was
suing him, Onassis, for 7 million dollars. Our
opinion was that the president didn’t want
Mrs. Kennedy appearing in a photo with
Onassis for fear of the damage it would do to
Democratic candidates.
In 1963, just prior to the assassination, Jackie
went to Greece with her sister, Lee Radziwill,
and without the president. This time, according to your book, she and Onassis did cross
paths. What happened there? After baby
Patrick Kennedy died in August of 1963,
Jackie fell into a deep depression and her
sister thought she needed to get away and
the president agreed. Onassis was a friend of
Lee Radziwill and he put his yacht Christina
at their disposal. In addition to Princess
Radziwill, there were several people aboard
the Christina, including Mr. and Mrs. Franklin
Roosevelt Jr. and an Italian princess. At one
time, Onassis was skippering the tender from
the yacht Christina carrying Mrs. Kennedy
and my partner, agent Paul Landis, to the
