Interview Replay: Helen O'Donnel from 2018

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination we're setting the wayback machine to 2018 when I spoke with Helen O'Donnell. Helen is an accomplished author and historian as well as the daughter of President Kennedy’s chief of staff Kenny O’Donnell -- you might recognize Kenny from Kevin Costner’s portrayal of him in the stellar film about the Cuban Missile Crisis, Thirteen Days. Helen’s new book -- out now -- is called Launching LBJ: How A Kennedy Insider Helped Define Johnson's Presidency, culled from Kenny O’Donnell’s tapes and journals about the early days of the Johnson administration following Kennedy’s assassination. Meantime, please subscribe to our Patreon page at bobcescashow.com. Music by Jim Wurster.

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0:00.0	The Bob Seska Show.
0:03.0	Bob. Bob. Bob. Bob. Bob.
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0:07.0	Loga, Luga.
0:10.0	Why don't I just call you Bob?
0:12.0	The Bob Siska Show.
0:13.0	Oh, hello, happy to do.
0:17.0	Oh, hello, happy Thanksgiving Eve.
0:22.0	We're on vacation, so what we're going to do today
0:25.0	because it's the 60th anniversary of the JFK Assassination, we're going to set the
0:28.4	wayback machine to 2018 when I first interviewed the great Helen O'Donnell.
0:33.8	Helen is of course the daughter of JFK's chief of staff
0:37.0	Kenny O'Donnell, who by the way was portrayed by Kevin Koesner
0:40.4	in the must watch JFK movie 13 days.
0:44.0	So when I spoke with Helen, she was super busy with the release of her book called
0:47.5	Launching LBJ. I got a link in the description for that.
0:50.5	It was about the presidential transition period after the assassination
0:54.2	when the LBJ administration was first getting started. Okay so this interview
0:58.8	first of all my voice is weird in this because of the old microphone I was using, so get ready for that.
1:05.0	Also, hunker down because this talk is close to two hours long, but it's worth the time,
1:10.0	especially if you're a student of mid-1960's political history.
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