Jack Worthington
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Jack Rodney Worthington II (born November 22, 1961 in Maverick County, Texas)[1][2] is an American businessman living in British Columbia, Canada.
On February 7, 2008, it was reported that Vanity Fair magazine had been investigating for the past 18 months whether an unidentified man may be the illegitimate son of former United States President John F. Kennedy.[3]
On February 13, 2008, The Globe and Mail reported that the man under investigation was Jack Worthington, and that the man does believe he is, in fact, Kennedy's son.[4] In a statement he read to the Globe and Mail, Worthington said,
- "Part of [Vanity Fair's] research focuses on my mother's paternal family and their history as lifelong political allies of [Lyndon Johnson] in South Texas. That research is related to the rise of LBJ and fall of JFK, which is an extraordinarily sensitive topic to Americans, so caution and analytical rigour are extremely important."
Worthington's father of record, Jack Rodney Worthington (Aug. 18, 1937 - May 19, 2007)[5], was a school administrator in Houston, Texas to whom his mother was married for 47 years until his death in 2007.[6] Both were undergraduates at Southwest Texas State College when Jack II was conceived in early 1961.[7]
Worthington's mother is Mary Evelyn Bibb Worthington (born 1941). She has refused to discuss the claim.[8] She is the niece of Robert Bibb, a county judge who lived in Eagle Pass, Texas and was a friend of Lyndon Johnson with Johnson spending a night at the judge's house and Bibb spending some nights in the White House.[8]
On February 29, 2008, it was learned that Worthington's mother has denied her son is Kennedy's child.[9]
[edit] References
- ^ Ancestry.com, Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 [database on-line], Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.
- ^ Texas Births, 1926-1995
- ^ "Mystery of a JFK 'Son'", Page Six (column), New York Post, February 7, 2008.
- ^ Marsha Lederman, "Born exactly two years before Dallas", The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Ontario), February 13, 2008.
- ^ San Marcos Daily Record, San Marcos, Texas (May/23/2007) (via groups.google.com)
- ^ Obituary of Jack Rodney Worthington, San Marcos Daily Record (San Marcos, Texas), May 23, 2007.
- ^ Jessica Leeder, "Mother will not discuss alleged Kennedy liaison", The Globe and Mail, February 18, 2008.
- ^ a b Mother will not discuss alleged Kennedy liaison theglobeandmail.com - February 18, 2008
- ^ B.C. man 'betrayed' as mother denies JFK link. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
