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TIL One picture exists of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe together. The Secret Service prohibited pics of the two from being taken due to fears of the affair. The photo was drying when the Secret Service confiscated every picture Stoughton took of them. He kept it a secret for Jackie Kennedy.

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