![]() ![]() So why try to rekindle the Kennedy flame again now? The official reason from Caroline is the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy presidency. ![]() Joe Kennedy, the family patriarch, used to make movies, after all the Kennedys produced their own family TV show for a time, and it was Jackie herself who suggested the Camelot analogy to a reporter days after Jack’s death. “Wealth, fame, accomplishment, political power, tragedy.”īut her endurance as an icon also has a lot to do with the skill and care the family has put into creating and perpetuating that image. “Jackie embodied every grand literary theme there is,” says Michael Beschloss, the historian who helped pull together and edit the interviews. The continued power of the Kennedy brand has a lot to do with an unbeatable story line, of course. A Diane Sawyer special with daughter Caroline based on those never-before-heard interviews drew 8 million viewers Tuesday night, ABC’s biggest non-sports audience in five years. ![]() ![]() Kennedy,” which comes with eight CDs, is already No. Half a century after John Kennedy’s presidency, our unofficial royal family still has a remarkable pull on the country’s collective imagination.Ī new book, “Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. ![]()
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