I watched half of it and turned it off. What a whitewash, especially the revisionist comments from Caroline that were interspersed. Jackie covering for JFK, and then Caroline covering for Jackie? A waste of time.
. . . and Diane Sawyer has no shame.
You want fries... with that?
Yes, super-size... it all.
Her views on King are no different than 80% of the nation back then outside the media and black community and freedom riders.
His legacy is one thing....it’s beyond Greek mythology.
The reality..well...read what Reagan thought if folks think Jackie was full of it.
She did always want someone to replace daddy Black Jack Bouvier..and not lose the family fortune.
So would we:
ROFLMBO!
Good think Rush Limbaugh didn’t say what Jackie said or he would be run out of the country!
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist:
Dr. King disturbed the comfortable and comforted the disturbed. In many ways, he traumatized many people with changes his leadership brought, but publicly she was very gracious.
Bobby Kennedy in his anxiety as Attorney General allowed J. Edgar Hoover to do the wire tapping. It just shows the spirit of the times, Jackson said. The people who hurt us was not Jackie Kennedy. The people who hurt us blocked school doors. They arrested us, unleashed the dogs and stood on the floor of the House and spoke against the public accommodations bill and set the climate of violence against us. I still see Jackie Kennedy in very favorable terms.
I saw about one minute of her pointing out things in the White House.
It took me back to when “The First Family Album” by Vaughn Meader came out mocking the Kennedys. Jackie was vapidly and breathily (is that a word) pointing out the pictures in the White House. “There’s this little one over here, and there’s this big one here, etc.” The whole thing was hilarious. Can’t take her seriously.
Seat Pleasant Mayor Eugene Grant:
Obviously, she has been tarnished and has been exposed for what she really was. That tells you something. She didnt want the truth of who she was released until he she was dead. In reality, it was LBJ who pushed and put his own reputation on the line to get the Civil Rights act passed and not Kennedy. We need to give credit where credit is due and not a fairy tale. Camelot was fairy tale.