JFK had my love child, claims Austrian

John F Kennedy had a secret son before he became President. His name is Tony Bohler, and he's a 63-year-old retired art dealer who lives in California. The claim was made by Lisa Lanett, an Austrian-born American, in the Austrian newspaper Kurier.
 
Lanett, whose father was the illegitimate half-brother of Karl I, the last emperor of Austria, says that she had a romance with the future President when he came to Phoenix, Arizona where she was working at her mother’s motel, the Monterey Lodge, in 1943. Kennedy was there recovering from a back injury he'd suffered while fighting the Japanese with the US navy in World War Two, and Lanett claims the pair quickly fell in love.

"We went to Miami and New York, and spent a weekend in Cuba. In the spring of 1945, I realised that I was pregnant. I told John and he offered to marry me," she said. "But I had a wonderful life to that point which I didn't want to give up. Marriage was out of the question for me."

Lanett, now 87, says that JFK continued to see her and her son "now and then" as he embarked on his political career. She claims he paid for Tony, who was adopted by his grandmother, to attend the Peekshill Military Academy, a private school outside New York, until he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.

Tony Bohler himself gives the claims some credence. "My mother always told me her former husband, Juan, was my father. I'd always had my doubts because he, being a Mexican, looked very Mexican." Now, if Caroline Kennedy, JFK's daughter by his wife Jackie, is willing to cooperate, a simple DNA test could prove whether Lanett is telling the truth. ·