--- title: Jackie Kennedy: Why She Put Up With JFK's Cheating description: PEOPLE is teasing a cover story with new information about the couple, promising revelations about their marital agreements canonical: https://time.com/4586033/jackie-kennedy-jfk-cheating-people-cover/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-30T15:27:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:03:21.960Z article:section: History og:title: Why Jackie Kennedy Put Up With JFK's Cheating og:description: "It was a marriage of its time" og:url: https://time.com/4586033/jackie-kennedy-jfk-cheating-people-cover/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d59b0f804a39409/6988b0128e0601e9c04686e4/jackie.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: jackie og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Jackie Kennedy Put Up With JFK's Cheating twitter:description: "It was a marriage of its time" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d59b0f804a39409/6988b0128e0601e9c04686e4/jackie.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Jackie Kennedy Put Up With JFK's Cheating by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 30, 2016 3:27 PM UTC  People by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 30, 2016 3:27 PM UTC On the personal side of [JFK’s presidency](http://people.com/politics/what-jackie-kennedy-knew-about-jfk-cheating/), the only thing as legendary as [Jackie’s glamour](http://time.com/3878253/jackie-kennedy-in-the-sixties-classic-photos-of-an-american-icon/) is Jack’s cheating. The 35th president was infamous for his affairs, which only became more highly publicized after his death in 1963. In the decades since, gossip hounds have tried to find out just how much [Jackie](http://time.com/4152464/natalie-portman-jackie/) really knew about her husband’s infidelities, and what she felt. PEOPLE’s latest cover story has new information about the couple, including revelations about their marital agreements. “It was a marriage of its time,” one unnamed family friend told the magazine. “At the end of the day, Jack came back to Jackie — and that was it. They loved each other.” Read more at [PEOPLE](http://people.com/politics/what-jackie-kennedy-knew-about-jfk-cheating/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4586033/jackie-kennedy-jfk-cheating-people-cover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4586033/jackie-kennedy-jfk-cheating-people-cover/"},"headline":"Why Jackie Kennedy Put Up With JFK's Cheating","datePublished":"2016-11-30T15:27:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:03:21.960Z","description":"\"It was a marriage of its time\"","url":"https://time.com/4586033/jackie-kennedy-jfk-cheating-people-cover/","keywords":["White House","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d59b0f804a39409/6988b0128e0601e9c04686e4/jackie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d59b0f804a39409/6988b0128e0601e9c04686e4/jackie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jackie","caption":"","creditText":"People","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4586033/jackie-kennedy-jfk-cheating-people-cover/","name":"Why Jackie Kennedy Put Up With JFK's Cheating"}}]}] ```