JFK photo a fake - real Playboy 1967 no-JFK photo here

Ok, the matter of the TZM.com JFK Naked sexy women on a yacht photo issue - now called "the JFK photo scandal" is closed.

Someone over at Democratic Underground got the photo from an archived copy of the 1967 Playboy issue my source said contained the actual photo. That magazine is Playboy, Vol. 14, No. 11, November 1967, P. 137. (Article name "Playboy's Charter Yacht Party".)

Here's the photo:

Now, as of this writing, I've beat TMZ.com to the punch.  

Naked sexy women on boat with JFK and Ted Kennedy? NO!

My source, a person who wishes to be known as "Peter B in Wisconsin" has found his copy of the Playboy he says contains the actual photo the TMZ.com picture is based on.

Is this photo a fake? 

If you recall, TMZ.com claims to have found and verified a photo that they say shows then-Senator John F. Kennedy sunning on the deck of a yacht that's populated with naked sexy women. (It's possible they could be naked and not sexy, you know.)

The Playboy edition Peter B says the photo is in, is this:

Playboy, Vol. 14, No. 11, November 1967, P. 137. (Article name
"Playboy's Charter Yacht Party".)

If anyone has a copy of the mag, please go and get it.

UPDATE: confirmed as in question by TMZ.com

But I think we can call the TMZ.com photo issue at the least still very questionable until we see the Playboy Mag.

I just hope TMZ.com doesn't say it was just testing bloggers!  Well, we passed it, anyway!

Naked women on boating trip with JFK and Ted Kennedy? Fake?

I just received a rather cryptic email that the TMZ.com photo of Naked women on a boating trip allegedly with JFK and Ted Kennedy, may be a very good fake after all.

The person who wrote me claims that the original photo appeared in Playboy in the mid-60s.


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Iranian police allegedly shot Ali Mousavi in the head during protests in Enghelab Square in Tehran , according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Here's video posted on YouTube at Iranprotest channel:





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JFK and Ted Kennedy on a yacht with naked sexy women?

Did President John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy hang out on a yacht with a bevy of naked women - topless and bottomless - in August of 1956? And if so, why wasn't the photo discovered until now?

This photo:

Courtesy of TMZ.com

In perhaps its most incredible find yet, TMZ.com has revealed a photo that, if universally confirmed, could have altered the course of World History.

The photo allegedly shows John F. Kennedy catching some rays on a yacht (he's said to be on the left) while above and around him are naked women. Some of them are skinny-dipping; others lounging. It looks like Hugh Hefner's Playboy dream. TMZ also links the photo to reported accounts that then-Senator JFK and his brother Ted Kennedy and Senator George Smathers had taken a two-week Mediterraneanboat boating trip where they reportedly entertained a number of women.

But is it real? TMZ.com claims it is:

TMZ had multiple experts examine the photo -- all say there is no evidence the picture was Photoshopped. The original print -- which is creased -- was scanned and examined for evidence of inconsistent lighting, photo composition and other forms of manipulation. The experts all concluded the photo appears authentic.

Professor Jeff Sedlik, a forensic photo expert, says the print appears to be authentic. Sedlik says the photo is printed on paper consistent with what was used in the 1950s. The emulsion on the surface of the print has numerous cracks -- the result of aging and handling....

Forensic analyst Sedlik superimposed an image of Kennedy taken at the Democratic National Convention in August 1956, just days before Kennedy went on the Mediterranean cruise. Sedlik says the features from the two pics almost precisely sync up. TMZ has also had two Kennedy biographers examine the photo -- they also believe JFK is in the picture.

TMZ.com claims that they got the photo from the son of a "man who owned a car dealership on the East Coast" who would brag about it. But here are my questions: first, who took the photo? Second, how did they come to be in position to take it? Third, how did such a controversial photo lay undiscovered for so long? Fourth, who was really on the boat? Fifth, if it's real, who was instrumental in arranging for it not to be discovered.

I'm sure you can think of even more questions than I've offered.

Stay tuned.