Skip to content

Thursday, Apr. 8, 2021

Did Nancy Pelosi have an affair with John F. Kennedy for ‘7 long years’?

Sarah Thompson, Lead Stories
no

A post on social media makes an unsubstantiated accusation alleging an affair between JFK and Pelosi, a claim that materialized in 2020 without evidence. This version of the claim offers no source.

Nancy Pelosi, born March 26, 1940, was 23 years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. This claim alleges that they had an affair "for 7 long years." In 1956, seven years before the death of JFK, Nancy Pelosi was only 16 years old.

Pelosi was the daughter of a Baltimore Democrat who served in the U.S. House and as mayor of Baltimore, and whom Kennedy nominated to a federal agency post.

On August 4, 2008, Nancy Pelosi was a guest speaker at the Kennedy Library. She shared several stories about meeting JFK in her youth, always with her father, and she mentioned no personal familiarity with Kennedy.

This fact brief is responsive to conversations such as this one.

Sources

About fact briefs

Fact briefs are bite-sized, well-sourced explanations that offer clear "yes" or "no" answers to questions, confusions, and unsupported claims circulating online. They rely on publicly available data and documents, often from the original source. Fact briefs are written and published by Gigafact contributor publications.

See all fact briefs

Lead Stories is a fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015. It scouts for trending stories, images, videos and posts that contain false information in order to fact check them as quickly as possible. It actively monitors the fake-news ecosystem and doesn’t wait for reader tips or reports before getting started on a story.

Learn More

Latest Fact Briefs

Be a Friend of facts

Help us fund more great fact briefs like this one.