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For President Kennedy: An Epilogue (essay)

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For President Kennedy: An Epilogue is an essay by American journalist Theodore H White and Jacqueline Kennedy writen soon after the assasination of her husband, United States President John F Kennedy. - AsNotedIn




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Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1963/11/29 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Widow Mrs Kennedy urges White to write in LIFE that Jack was truly "a man of magic," that his presidency was truly special, that the era was, to use the words she borrowed from a Broadway musical, "one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot." John Kennedy Summer Home, Hyannis Barnstable
1963/11/29 Franklin D Roosevelt Jr Life White encounters Chuck Spaulding, Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, Dave Powers and Pat Lawford - and perhaps one or two others, plus service personnel.
1963/11/29 Theodore H White Work Summoned by Jacqueline, White arrives at her Hyannisport home: She was absolutely composed when I arrived.... The chief memory I have is of her composure - of her beauty (dressed in black trim slacks, beige pullover sweater, her eyes wider than pools). John Kennedy Summer Home, Hyannis Barnstable
1963/11/30 LIFE Publisher LIFE holds the presses, at a cost of $30,000 an hour for overtime, until Theodore White finally dictates his story to editors form the telephone in the Kennedy kitchen at 2 am, with his interview subject hovering nearby.
1963/11/30 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Contributing Editor Mrs Kennedy scribbles "and it will never be that way again!" the Camelot quote. At the end of the essay, she pencils in: "And all she could think of was tell people there will never be that Camelot again." John Kennedy Summer Home, Hyannis Barnstable
1963/12/06 Theodore H White Author "For President Kennedy: An Epilogue" by Theodore H White is published in LIFE magazine. Assassination of John F Kennedy
1963/12/06 LIFE Publisher "For President Kennedy: An Epilogue" by Theodore H White is published in LIFE magazine. Assassination of John F Kennedy
1969/00/00 Theodore H White Author White donates his "Camelot documents", including handwritten notes from the interview and the typed manuscript of the essay - with editing marks by Mrs Kennedy - to the Kennedy Library, stipulating that they remain sealed until one year after her death. John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Boston
1994/05/26 John F Kennedy Presidential Library releases Theodore H White's "Camelot documents". John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Boston

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Particulars for For President Kennedy: An Epilogue (essay):
Writing Type Article
Art Type Essay an analytic or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view
Narrative Arts Factual concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it
Narrative Arts Narrative an account of connected events
Narrative Arts Prose ordinary written language

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Original Language: English



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