Did JFK father a love child during WWII?

An Austrian-American woman has claimed that she had an affair — and a child — with John F Kennedy while he was convalescing in the US during World War II.

Lisa Lanett also added that the former US president offered to marry her. Now 87, Lanett told the Austrian newspaper Kurier, she had a two-year affair with Kennedy after they met in Phoenix, Arizona, during the Second World War.

And added that Kennedy, then a young and single US navy officer, had offered to marry her when she became pregnant with their son, Tony, but she turned down the offer.

However, Kennedy did pay for the child’s education right up until the president was assassinated, she said.

Lanett’s son Tony Bohler, who is now 63-years-old, said that he could never work out why he didn’t look like the Mexican-born man that he was originally told was his father.

“My mother always told me her former husband, Juan, was my father. I’d always had my doubts because he, being a Mexican, looked very Mexican,” The Telegraph quoted him, as saying.

Kennedy moved to the city in 1943 while recuperating from back surgery after he was injured when his torpedo boat was rammed by a Japanese cruiser. They fell in love and he took her for romantic trysts around America, she claimed.