# Was JFK Secretly Married in 1947? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 23, 2007, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jfk-secretly-married-in-1947/389071 "2007-01-23T08:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jfk-secretly-married-in-1947/389071/82 "2011-08-18T14:46:29Z")
Thank you. Reminds me of my late (and quite mentally ill) grandmother. Poor thing. I hope she gets some help. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jfk-secretly-married-in-1947/389071/83 "2011-08-18T14:49:07Z")
Wait! Just one more que . . . ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jfk-secretly-married-in-1947/389071/84 "2011-08-19T04:22:41Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > WAG: combination of the fact that in the US, it’s almost pro forma to be able to get an annulment (well, that’s a bit flip - but I suspect it’s a bit easier than in other countries), and the fact that he was a Kennedy. Arguably, his tomcattery may have helped, in that it would have been an argument for his unreadiness to truly commit to his first marriage. Actually, the fact that he declared during the annulment proceedings that he had never intended to remain faithful to his spouse would have had a much bigger impact on the church decision to grant the annulment than any family connections. Such “connections” play no part in the typical bureaucracy involved in the church courts, which are pretty much independent, and his open support for _Roe v Wade_ and other issues would have negated any such connections, anyway–particularly since, by the time of the annulment, he was the effective _paterfamilias_ with no family member having more power to look out for him. (Those that need to see favoritism and corruption in anything and everything connected with the RCC or the Kennedys are liable to prefer to believe that something underhanded happened, but there is no evidence of it and no need to suppose it.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jfk-secretly-married-in-1947/389071.md?page=4)