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President Kennedy and the First Lady at the Chamber of Commerce Breakfast, November 22, 1963.
Footage from Oliver Stone’s JFK
Caroline Kennedy playing with bubbles
Footage by Cecile W. Stoughton
Smathers remembers his pal being “deeply preoccupied by death,” talking endlessly on a Florida fishing trip about the best ways to die. He remembered Kennedy deciding it had to be drowning, “but only if you lost consciousness.”
“Quick”—that was the key. “The point is, you’ve got to live each day like it’s your last day on earth,” he recalled Jack telling him. ‘That’s what I’m doing.” Ted Reardon recalled a similar conversation on the way home from Capitol Hill one late afternoon in Jack’s convertible. “It was a bright, shining, day. We had the top down. Out of the blue he said, ‘What do you think is the best way of dying?’” A new friend, the newspaper columnist and Georgetown mandarin Joseph Alsop, recalled Jack’s bluntness when it came to his short-range outlook. “Unless I’m very mistaken, he said that as a matter of fact, he had a kind of slow-acting—very slow-acting—leukemia and that he did not expect to live more than ten years or so, but there was no use thinking about it and he was going to do the best he could and enjoy himself as much as he could in the time that was given to him.”
—Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews
The moment Jackie taught her son how to salute his father.
“Jackie was teaching him how to salute, and I made movies of that. He learned how to salute under my camera.”
Footage by Cecile W. Stoughton
President Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., Summer of 1963.
Footage by Cecile W. Stoughton
There cannot ever be another Jackie — her singularity is what made her sui generis, unique. But this should not discourage us. Instead, we can study Jackie’s life and the choices she made at each turn, as student, young mother, first lady, widow, and working woman, and work to make our own lives the best they can be. This, after all, is true Jackie Style.
— Pamela Keogh
She was a remarkable mother, the way she spoke and engaged the children.
- Sue Wilson
Miss Norma Jean modeling, 1940s
Footage by Leo Cailoa
Miss Norma Jean modeling, 1940s
Footage by Leo Cailoa
What it really all adds up to is love — not love as it is described with such facility in popular magazines, but the kind of love that is affection and respect, order and encouragement, and support. Our awareness of this was an incalculable source of strength, and because real love is something unselfish and involves sacrifice and giving, we could not help but profit from it.
— Bobby Kennedy
We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
— Marilyn Monroe
The greatest responsibility in your life is your children.
— Jacqueline Kennedy
God gave her very great gifts and imposed upon her great burdens. She bore them all with dignity and grace and uncommon common sense.
— Bill Clinton
