The only known picture of President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe together, 1962
This black and white image, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, is the only known photograph of JFK and Monroe together. Monroe is still wearing the infamously tight-fighting, sheer rhinestone-studded dress she wore when singing earlier at Madison Square Garden.
President Kennedy, whose head is tilted slightly is looking down while listening to Marilyn. His brother, Robert Kennedy, is standing next to the pair looking on. Singer Harry Belafonte is in the background and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who served as an advisor in the Kennedy White House, is standing off to the side smiling.
Anthony Sherman was one of the Secret Service agents at work that night. He recalled, “Oh boy! I’ll never forget that night. I was assigned at the checkpoint at the private home where the party took place. I remember the car pulling up very vividly and the door opened and out walked this unbelievably beautiful woman, Marylin Monrow, with this older man [Isadore Miller, Arthur’s father, and Mailyn’s “date” for the evening, a man she adored and called “Dad’].
She had on this dress – or whatever it was – it was more like a see-through thing – that she, apparently, had worn on stage. What a knockout. Everyone was stopped dead in their tracks as she got out of the car and walked toward the entrance.
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