Lem Billings Is JFK's 'Go-Between' During Courtship with Jackie as Imagined in New Novel Pitts' 2007 book helped spur renewed interest in the friendship between President Kennedy and Billings.

John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings met in 1933 as sophomores at Choate Rosemary Hall, a Connecticut prep school where they worked on their class yearbook together.

John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings. Corbis via Getty. Bayard's novel takes place primarily in the months leading up to Jack and Jackie's wedding on Sept. 12, 1953.

While the photo is genuine and shows Kennedy, the man with him is likely not Billings. The friendship between the 35th U.S. president, John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas in 1963, and ...

Jacqueline Bouvier with John F. Kennedy (left) and Lem Billings (right) in early 1954. Billings, who was Jack's best friend from their days at Choate, warned Jackie that JFK was unlikely to be ...

Lem Billings was a close friend of Late US president John F. Kennedy and was infatuated with him but never took it further claims a book. New York-"Jack & Lem" is a book written by David Pitts.

Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage will produce and direct Jack and Lem , a feature film chronicling the thirty-year friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne “Lem” Billings.

Though his name isn't as well-known as that of his boyhood best friend, Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings was an important confidante for one of America's presidents and lived a life no less full of its own ...

Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage will produce and direct Jack and Lem, a feature film chronicling the thirty-year friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne "Lem" Billings.

Though his name isn't as well-known as that of his boyhood best friend, Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings was an important confidante for one of America's presidents and lived a life no less full of its own ...