In the spring of 1964, a few months after President Kennedy’s death, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded a series of interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and former Special Assistant to the President Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The tapes, held on deposit at the Kennedy Library, remained strictly sealed since then in accordance with Mrs. Kennedy’s wishes. The oral history is being shared this year as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Presidency, and the JFK library has opened a new exhibit featuring snippets from those interviews.
In the conversations highlighted in the exhibit, Mrs. Kennedy chronicles the details of domestic life with her husband and children inside the White House, and shares her insights into the milestone events of the Cold War that she witnessed at close range.
Featuring the words of Mrs. Kennedy alongside original documents, photographs, and artifacts from the collections of the Kennedy Library, this unique presentation sheds new light both on the great events and personalities of the 20th century, as well as on the extraordinary insights of the woman describing them.
The opening of “In Her Voice: Jacqueline Kennedy, The White House Years” coincides with the publication of these never-before-heard interviews as a book and audio set titled Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy.
