"Jacqueline Kennedy: In Her Own Words" Tomorrow Night On ABC

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/12/11 at 8:33pm

This looks FASCINATING.

The ABC special “Jacqueline Kennedy: In Her Own Words,” featuring never-before-heard interviews with the former first lady, will air from 9 to 11 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13.
Diane Sawyer will report the special, which will feature an interview with Caroline Kennedy, the first lady’s daughter.

ABC News noted that Mrs. Kennedy recorded the interviews soon after President John Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963.

ABC News said her words “have remained strictly sealed — until now. The more than eight hours of official audio recordings were made with one of America’s most respected historians, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. From that point on, the famously private former first lady steadfastly refused to publicly discuss her memories of those years.”

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 9/12/11 at 8:36pm

It's audio only, right?

Edit- shoulda read your post more carefully, I see it is.

And I see the full eight hours are being released on disc, but I guess ABC will air the highlights. I'll be listening.

Updated On: 9/12/11 at 08:36 PM

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 9/13/11 at 10:15pm

http://powerwall.msnbc.msn.com/politics/jackie-os-dark-side-1701315.story#!wallState=0__%2Fpolitics%2Fjackie-os-dark-side-1701315.story

[Kalimba]

Posted: 9/13/11 at 10:16pm

Mamie Eisenhower, what a c*nt.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/13/11 at 10:39pm

Jackie shoulda punched her in the tits.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 9/13/11 at 10:43pm

"Mamie Eisenhower, what a c*nt."

Well, if the haircut fits...

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/13/11 at 11:39pm

Did Jackie say "staunch"? I coulda sworn she said "staunch."

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 9/14/11 at 9:54am

I was revited by this special last night. I couldn't believe what she said about Indira Ghandi and those women from South Korea!

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 9/14/11 at 5:45pm

"I was revited by this special last night."

You must mean "rivetted," Dottie, as in "rivetted" or bolted to your chair. With all these "evites" flying around, at first I thought you meant you were re-evited!

What is there about Martin Luther King that will has to be kept hidden by court order until the 2020's? What effect will this have, if any, on his legacy in history? His holiday did displace the celebrated birthdays of two U.S. Presidents by creating a consolidation. Are there things that need to be hidden for the privacy of persons who are still alive such that this is being kept from the U.S. public?

There have been plenty of sex scandals before that have not been hidden. What effect has Bill Clinton's sex scandal had on his legacy?

I wonder if the "spying" on Martin Luther King was deemed unlawful so as to support the delay or if there is some other reason. It'll be a long wait.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/14/11 at 5:49pm

I'm listening to the CD's right now. SO Fascinating!

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 9/14/11 at 9:15pm

@ Jordan: Where did you buy the CDs? I thought only the transcription (book) was out......

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/14/11 at 9:29pm

Barnes & Noble. The book comes with 8 CD's.

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 9/14/11 at 9:50pm

@Jordan. Thanks. I just ordered the book/CDs on Amazon. About 32.00. Seems relatively reasonable. Is JUST the audio cheaper? Me and my Mom are just dying to read/listen to this. We HATE the Kennedys and their freaking phony "mystique". I was 10 in Nov. 63, so this era is entrenched in my memory. Just finished the book "The Kennedy Curse". Came out in 2004. Fantastic and well researched.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kennedy-curse-edward-klein/1102543930

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 9/15/11 at 7:31am

"The origin of Presidents' Day lies in the 1880s, when the birthday of George Washingtoncommander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and the first president of the United Stateswas first celebrated as a federal holiday. In 1968 Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill, which moved a number of federal holidays to Mondays. The change was designed to schedule certain holidays so that workers had a number of long weekends throughout the year, but it has been opposed by those who believe that those holidays should be celebrated on the dates they actually commemorate. During debate on the bill, it was proposed that Washington's Birthday be renamed Presidents' Day to honor the birthdays of both Washington (February 22) and Abraham Lincoln (February12); although Lincoln's birthday was celebrated in many states, it was never an official federal holiday. Following much discussion, Congress rejected the name change. After the bill went into effect in 1971, however, Presidents' Day became the commonly accepted name, due in part to retailers' use of that name to promote sales and the holidays proximity to Lincolns birthday. Presidents' Day is usually marked by public ceremonies in Washington, D.C., and throughout the country."

The Martin Luther King holiday (signed into law in 1983) had NOTHING to do with "displacing the celebrated birthdays of two U.S. Presidents by creating a consolidation".


The history of Presidents Day

[LaurenB]

Posted: 9/15/11 at 8:14am

'The Martin Luther King holiday (signed into law in 1983) had NOTHING to do with "displacing the celebrated birthdays of two U.S. Presidents by creating a consolidation".'

Actually, that's not exactly how I remembered it. And it's a bit disturbing that The History Channel has sort of rewritten history.

The introduction of Martin Luther King Day did have an impact on how holidays were celebrated at work and in schools. People can quibble about whether something was a federal or state holiday, or they can quibble about official names of the days, but the point is that when and where I grew up, we had 2 holidays in February celebrating Washington and Lincoln. Businesses and schools were closed. Afterwards, we only had 1 holiday in February - Presidents Day - and the new Martin Luther King Day in January.

Here is a better description.

Presidents Day

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 9/15/11 at 8:49am

Thank you for the Snpoes.com article. It makes the same point. If, wherever you grew up, did not consolidate the two presidential birthdays until 1983, that was a state-made decision. The original assertion was that a presuident somehow "lost" his holiday because we had to make room for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The consolidation move - no matter where or when it happened in your local - was not made in order to accomodate MLK.

More to the point, Lincoln's birthday was never a federal holiday. It was/is observed on a state by state basis. My husband grew up in Illinois and always had that holiday. I grew up in Maryland and we never observed that day. I'll bet states in the south didn't either! Updated On: 9/15/11 at 08:49 AM

[redmustang]

Posted: 9/16/11 at 6:05pm

Really spooky how much she sounds like her cousin Edie Beale.