The song IS about JFK. Sumner had this weird theory that JFK hired the mobster Jack Ruby to kill his wife, Jackie O. This so he could be with Marylin Monroe. However, the shooter misses and shoots JFK instead.
Then Marilyn commits suicide, realizing what happened, and Ruby kills Oswald because his hitman business goes bust.
Sumner never thought this all the way through though: Monroe committed suicide a year before JFK was assasinated. Otherwise an interesting theory, though.
But the song is sung from Jackie O's perspective, begging Jack to spare her.
The song's producer - Stephen Hague - has said that it's the only song about domestic violence you can dance to.
The song IS about JFK. Sumner had this weird theory that JFK hired the mobster Jack Ruby to kill his wife, Jackie O. This so he could be with Marylin Monroe. However, the shooter misses and shoots JFK instead.
Then Marilyn commits suicide, realizing what happened, and Ruby kills Oswald because his hitman business goes bust.
Sumner never thought this all the way through though: Monroe committed suicide a year before JFK was assasinated. Otherwise an interesting theory, though.
But the song is sung from Jackie O's perspective, begging Jack to spare her.
The song's producer - Stephen Hague - has said that it's the only song about domestic violence you can dance to.