Look at the newsreel from the Plaza ballroom in April 1954. The Kennedy daughter waltzing with the movie star, three thousand people packed outside the church that morning. America decided this was Hollywood finally marrying politics, and it looked like love. Her father had told her not to do it. Eight years later her husband's actual job in her family was making phone calls — including the last one Marilyn Monroe ever received. In 1965 he was still telling reporters their separation was only geographical. He was lying. And the wife everyone pitied ended up with the children, the divorce, and the archive.