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  1. Nov 22, 2017 · First Lady Jackie Kennedy was plunged into shock and despair when her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated at 46 on Nov. 22, 1963. But even in the midst of unimaginable tragedy ...

    • 2 min
    • ‘Silly Little Communist’
    • ‘One Brief Shining Moment’
    • An Enduring Myth

    From Andrews Air Force Base, President Kennedy’s body was not yet ready to go home to the White House. First, accompanied by Jackie, a navy ambulance took him to Bethesda Naval Hospital, across the Maryland border from Washington. There would be an autopsy to document the official cause of death. Kennedy had been a naval officer, so Jackie, even be...

    The day after Thanksgiving, on Friday, Nov. 29, Jackie called Theodore White, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the bestselling book The “Making of the President: 1960.” White and John Kennedy had gotten to know each other, and the president had admired him. When Jackie called, White was not home. As he remembered, he “was taken from the dentist’s c...

    Around midnight, White went upstairs to write the story — Life needed it before he left Jackie. He came down around 2 a.m. and tried to dictate the story over a wall-hung telephone in her kitchen. He had already allowed her to pencil changes on the manuscript. As White spoke over the phone, Jackie overheard that his editors in New York wanted to to...

  2. Nov 13, 2013 · Jackie revealed that every night the president would listen to a song from the musical Camelot, which was then a huge hit. "For one brief shining moment, that was...

  3. Apr 23, 2023 · “ Camelot” is back on Broadway. This marks a perfect time to discover what Jacqueline Kennedy actually said about it being a good name for her husband’s 1,000 days as president. I refer to that...

  4. Nov 12, 2013 · James Piereson. Few events in the postwar era have cast such a long shadow over our national life as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy fifty years ago this month. The murder of a ...

  5. Dec 5, 2016 · As Jackie interrogates the work that went into building theCamelot” myth, a framing device details its origin: a Life magazine interview Jacqueline Kennedy ( Natalie Portman) gave a week...

  6. Nov 21, 2013 · Thu 21 Nov 2013 07.30 EST. T he name "Camelot" is such an accepted sobriquet for the Kennedy Administration that many don't recognize it as a creation of Jackie Kennedy's during a Life...

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