A forthcoming book on the Kennedy family claims that the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis fought to nip in the bud a selected problem in her Cape Cod garden.
Within the book The White House by the Sea, Kate Storey came upon, to her dismay, that marijuana was growing in her garden.
According to an excerpt obtained by Town & Country, around 1975, Kennedy’s assistant noticed some members of the family hanging across the garden, which piqued her interest.
After realizing she had stumbled upon something nefarious, she told former police chief Jack Dempsey, who was visiting the property with the Secret Service.
Neither her assistant, Kathy McKeon, nor Dempsey believed the gardeners were responsible, in order that they told Onassis about their discovery.
“Are you joking?” she allegedly told McKeon, who passed the news directly to her. “Oh my god, it cannot get out. How are we going to fix this?”
McKeon took her to Dempsey, and the previous officer told Onassis, according to the book, “Just ignore it … we’ll do it.”
![Jacqueline Kennedy pictured at the Kennedy estate in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts in June 1953.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000011177299.jpg?w=1021)
The book said she was blissful with it and replied, “Okay … I don’t need it to get out.”
Later that day, Dempsey and the Secret Service destroyed the factory.
None of Onassis’s children, Caroline and John, were suspected of planting marijuana.
A representative for her only surviving child, Caroline Kennedy, US ambassador to Australia, didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment, nor did she. John F. Kennedy Foundation.
![Captured in 1953, Senator John. F Kennedy and his fiancée Jacqueline Bouvier enter the Kennedy home.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/NYPICHPDPICT000013724560.jpg?w=995)
The book reveals the stories of the Kennedy family in their oasis – Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
The late President John F. Kennedy and his family were known to spend a few years in the world. After Kennedy’s death in 1963, his wife continued to go there after the death of her second husband Aristotle Onassis in 1975.
Onassis greatly enjoyed her time on the Cape, recurrently inviting clan. According to the book, beloved Onassis liked to sunbathe naked and paint on her porch.
“Jackie O”, as she was commonly known, died in 1994.
She was previously deceased by each her husbands and one other son who died as a newborn, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy.