But Kennedy made a special arrangement for Mary Hemingway, his fourth wife and now his widow, to go to Cuba to retrieve her and Hemingway’s legacy there. Finca Vigía, Hemingway's house near ...

The collection ended up in the Kennedy library through a series of events that linked the Kennedys to Hemingway’s fourth wife, Mary ... planned to turn the house into a Hemingway museum.

Kennedy and Hemingway corresponded twice, but they never met in person. It was their wives who made the fortuitous connection possible. With nowhere to store her husband’s vast assortment of papers, ...

After Hemingway’s death in 1961, Kennedy helped his widow gain access to the author’s former home in Cuba to retrieve his papers and other belongings. Mary Hemingway later decided to offer the ...

Two months before he hosted a conference on narcotics at the White House, President John F. Kennedy smoked marijuana with his mistress, American socialite Mary Meyer, according to retired history ...

BOSTON — Bar bills, personal notes, telegrams and even recipes from Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway are available for the first time at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and ...

After his death, Kennedy, despite the extreme tensions that followed the Bay of Pigs episode, gained permission for Hemingway’s fourth wife and widow, Mary, to go to Cuba to collect her husband ...