Jacqueline Kennedy Conversations with JFK (Book and CDs)
Bet we can all remember where we were when President John F. Kennedy’s was assassinated. The whole nation went deep into mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief. Jacqueline Kennedy somehow found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband’s legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late President as well as the recollections of those closest to him throughout his extraordinary political career.
As for the rest of her life, the famously private Jacqueline Kennedy steadfastly refused to discuss her memories of those years, but beginning that March, she fulfilled her obligation to future generations of Americans by sitting down with historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and recording an astonishingly detailed and unvarnished account of her experiences and impressions as the wife and confidante of John F. Kennedy. The tapes of those sessions were then sealed and later deposited in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum upon its completion, in accordance with Mrs. Kennedy’s wishes.
About The Author:
Caroline Kennedy is the daughter of JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the author/editor of eight bestselling books on constitutional law, American history, politics, and poetry. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, Kennedy is the Vice Chair of the New York City Fund for Public Schools. She is the President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
Product Details
Hardcover: 400 pages plus 8 CD Set. Also available in Kindle version
