Jack Worthington

Genetic experts agree that the statistical probability of Jack Worthington, Sr. being the biological father of Jack Worthington, II is 0%, based on the eye color combinations of Worthington's father (brown), mother (brown), and grandparents (three brown – one blue). Worthington's eye color is hazel (blue green), the same color as President Kennedy's. Worthington also has a similar appearance to President Kennedy. Worthington is approximately the same height, weight, hair color, eye color, facial and body type as President Kennedy, materially different from Jack Worthington, Sr. Kennedy researchers who know Worthington also confirm a striking similarity in personality. Worthington's DNA has been traced by experts to the Wexford area of Ireland where the Kennedy family originates.

On February 7, 2008, Vanity Fair magazine disclosed that, for the previous 18 months, they had been investigating whether an unidentified man may be the illegitimate son of John F. Kennedy. On February 13, 2008, The Globe and Mail reported that the man under investigation was Jack Worthington, and that he would not claim to be the son of John F. Kennedy without 100% positive DNA evidence. That DNA evidence is still lacking. In a statement he read to the Globe and Mail, Worthington said,

In 2006, Worthington's father, Jack Worthington, Sr. was dying of the genetic illness Alpha-1 Deficiency. Worthington became concerned that he and his children could be at risk for the disease and asked his mother if he and his children should be tested for Alpha-1 Deficiency. Worthington later said his mother confided to him that neither he nor his children would be at risk for the disease as his biological father was not Jack Worthington, Sr. but President John F. Kennedy.

Worthington attended high school in Houston where he was a noted basketball player. He scored over 3,000 points and was named High School Athlete of the year in 1981 by the Houston Sportswriters and Sportscasters. He later attended The University of Texas where he was the starting point guard for the basketball team. He subsequently received his accounting degree, with honors, from Oklahoma City University and later received an MBA with a concentration in finance from Columbia Business School in New York.

Jack Rodney Worthington II (born November 22, 1961) is an American investment banker. In a 2008 article in Vanity Fair, Worthington claimed that his mother confided to him, as a result of the discovery of a genetic illness of his presumed father later in life, that he is the illegitimate son of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.

Worthington was born in Maverick County, Texas, to Jack Rodney Worthington (August 18, 1937 - May 19, 2007) and Mary Evelyn Bibb Worthington (born 1941). He was born on November 22, 1961, exactly 2 years prior to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He has a younger sister, Nancy, who was born June 4, 1965, exactly three years prior to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot on June 5, 1968, and died on June 6, 1968. Worthington's father was a basketball coach in Houston, Texas. His mother Mary is the niece of Robert Bibb, a county judge who lived in Eagle Pass, Texas, and was a long-time friend and political ally of Lyndon B. Johnson according to documents from the LBJ Library.