America reached its peak, in so many ways, on the night of March 24, 1962, the night John Kennedy screwed Marilyn Monroe at Bing Crosby’s house in Palm Springs. The entire American experiment — revolution, industrial capitalism, democracy, the movies — had been leading to that single moment of pure glamour: living gods making love in a paradise on earth.
Is This (Finally) the End of the Kennedys? | Stephen Marche, Esquire
Brilliant lede.