THE TRUTH About Their Relationship

IN THE AFTERMATH OF HER HUSBAND'S MURDER, JACKIE TOOK COMFORT IN THE SOOTHING PRESENCE OF HIS YOUNGER BROTHER ROBERT

- Louise A. Barile, reporting by Katie Bruno

In the spring of 1964, America’s former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, landed on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Still reeling from the assassination of her husband John F. Kennedy a few months earlier, she hoped that the time alone with her inner circle — including her brother-in-law Robert Kennedy — in a beautiful place would feel healing.

Jackie and Bobby had always enjoyed a warm relationship, but their shared grief over JFK’s death drew them closer. “Bobby was always more accepting of her than the other Kennedy family members,” Paul Brandus, author of Jackie: Her Transition From First Lady to Jackie O., tells Closer. “He was protective of her.”