"Book Reveals Unheard Interviews With Jacqueline Kennedy"

[Clio the Leo]

This one CAN NOT get published soon enough! Looking forward to a CSPAN special on the audio tapes! (Oh please! oh please! oh please!)

Book Reveals Unheard Interviews With Jacqueline Kennedy

By DAVE ITZKOFF

Nearly seven hours of previously unreleased interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy, recorded just months after the death of President John F. Kennedy and intended for deposit in a future presidential library, will be released as a book, the publisher Hyperion said on Tuesday. The original interviews with Mrs. Kennedy were conducted in the spring of 1964 with the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. as part of an oral history project intended to preserve memories of Kennedy and his administration. In the seven interviews, Hyperion said, Mrs. Kennedy discusses various subjects including her husband’s election campaigns, his handling of challenges like the Cuban Missile Crisis, her role as a wife, mother, and first lady; and what her husband would have done in a second term as president.

The book, which does not yet have a title, is planned for release in September 2011 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy presidency, and is being edited by Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline. In a statement, Caroline Kennedy said: “My mother’s passion for history guided and informed her work in the White House. She believed in my father, his vision for America, and in the art of politics. She felt it was important to share her knowledge and excitement with future generations. It is a privilege for me to honor the memory of my parents by making this unique history available.” The Kennedy family plans to make the complete transcript of the interview as well as audio recordings available.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/book-reveals-unheard-interviews-with-jacqueline-kennedy/

[gateley]

1. I'm looking forward to it -- thanks! nt

[Cha]

2. Interesting for our history..

so tragic what happened to JFK.