Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...March 26, 1964, he and Bobby Kennedy signed the eleven-point "Memorandum of Understanding." The key paragraph said that "the completed manuscript shall be reviewed by Mrs. John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, and the text shall not be published unless and until approved by them." Another said that "the book may not be published before Nov. 22, 1968," unless the family agreed. A third ruled that "no motion picture or TV adaptation shall ever be made based on the book," and gave the Kennedys the right of approval over sale of other rights-including magazine serialization...
...been pure agony," said Manchester at one point, and the agony did not end when he turned his manuscript-pruned from 1,400 to 1,200 pages-over to Harper's Thomas at the turn of the year. Neither Bobby nor Jackie wanted to read it because, as a friend said, it would be "far too painful." But they farmed out copies to five close friends, most notably John Seigenthaler, an ex-Justice Department aide who is now editor of the Nashville Tennessean, and Edwin Guthman, a former aide of Bobby's who is now national news editor...
...Artists-despite the ban on movie sales. Without the Kennedys' O.K., rights for British publication were sold to London Publisher Michael Joseph for an unspecified sum and to the Book-of-the-Month Club in the U.S. Manchester's agent, Donald Congdon, sent 25 copies of the manuscript to six magazines-LIFE, Look, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's and Good Housekeeping-for bids...
...that point began what a member of the Kennedy family describes as "a long era of negotiations." Through its agents, the family took a closer look at Manchester's first manuscript and realized that much more was wrong than a few factual errors. Pamela Turnure Timmins, Jackie's secretary, drafted a three-page memo detailing passages that Jackie found objectionable. Bobby met with Manchester at his Senate office in Washington and at his Virginia home the following month to discuss changes. Kennedy agents told Look that they had to approve the articles, but Look rejected the suggested changes...