![]() ![]() Robert Dallek, a historian, and Jeffrey Kelman, a physician, were granted access to some Kennedy records, including X-rays by Dr. The latest details, based primarily on the files of Janet Travell, one of his many doctors, were published this week. Still, the story of Kennedy's courage and deception has gradually surfaced over the last 39 years. ![]() 22, 1963, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of Kennedy's medical records. Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination. No one knew that, though, because the president's widow, Jacqueline, and his brother, Robert, crossed out those paragraphs before publication. Paul Fay told of that incident in the manuscript of ''The Pleasure of His Company,'' a memoir he wrote in 1966. As Paul Fay screamed in pain, Kennedy said, it feels the same way to me. The president lunged at his friend and stabbed the needle into his leg. Jack, said Paul Fay, the way you take that jab, it looks like it doesn't even hurt. The president used that needle twice every day to replace the adrenaline his glands no longer produced because he had Addison's disease. inject himself in the thigh with the corticosteroids that kept him alive. Kennedy in World War II, remained close enough to the lieutenant who would become president that he occasionally watched J.F.K. ![]()
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