Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page manuscript of the book has proved to be something of a shock to just about everyone. Re-creating the events on and after the day of the assassination in exhaustive detail and in sometimes mawkish language, it describes Jackie Kennedy's every thought and emotion after her husband's death with such fidelity that the Kennedys-who have not read it but are familiar with its contents-feel that it contains things far too personal to print. "That's all she has left-her personal life," says a member of the family. "She wants to protect...
Some of the anecdotes that he included have appeared before, but Manchester tells them through Jackie's eyes, thus multiplying the impact. One scene that agitated the Kennedys was his description of Jackie's horror-stricken reaction as she saw her husband's skull shattered by Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's last-and fatal-shot. Numbed and bewildered, she cradled her husband's head in her lap, sought to cover his gaping wound with her hand-as if by that act she could heal...
...Parkland Hospital, she tried to enter her husband's room, but was blocked by a nurse until a doctor appeared and told the nurse to let her in. Through the day, Jackie refused to change from her blood-spattered clothes so that, as Manchester quotes her, "they can see what they've done." Another section that disturbed Jackie was Manchester's account of her feeling of emptiness and despair when she went to bed at the White House on the night of the assassination. In helpless, futile anguish, she tore at the pillow that night...
Jackie wanted at least three other things deleted from the manuscript. One is an emotionally charged account of how the children, Caroline, then 5, and John, 2, learned of their father's death. Another was a letter that she had placed in her dead husband's casket before it was sealed. A third was a series of letters she had written, often in conjunction with her daughter Caroline, to Jack; she was particularly upset at the inclusion of a letter that she had sent him from Greece the month before his death...
...woman who had enchanted Manchester with her "camellia beauty," as he once described it, now showed a broad vein of Carborundum beneath it. Calling newsmen to her Park Avenue office, she did not show up herself, but sent over a statement composed by Ted Sorensen, who wrote her husband's most memorable speeches. The book, it said, "is in part both tasteless and distorted." It was replete with "inaccurate and unfair references to other individuals"-obviously, Johnson-"in contrast with its generous references to all members of the Kennedy family." Most important, to expose "all the private grief, personal...