Jackie O: Public, Private, Secret with J. Randy Taraborrelli

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Today, on Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, Sharon connects with journalist and celebrity biographer, J. Randy Taraborrelli, to chat about his new book “Jackie: Public, Private, Secret.” In his book, he paints a portrait of the lesser known parts of the iconic life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. We all know public details of her time as First Lady in the White House, and recall the historic imagery of her wearing a pink Chanel suit with the matching pink hat on the day President Kennedy was assassinated. But with only a few years spent in the White House, what fabric makes the full life of this beloved First Lady? This conversation brings to light the story of a woman’s total lived experience in a way that is surprising, complex, and distinctive.

Special thanks to our guest, J. Randy Taraborrelli, for joining us today.

Host/Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon

Guest: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

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0:00.0	Hello friends. Welcome. Delighted to have you with me today. Oh, this is a good conversation.
0:11.0	You are going to want to listen to this one. I am speaking with author Jay Randi Teraparelli
0:16.2	who has a new book out about Jackie Kennedy called Jackie, public, private, secret, and
0:22.6	man. Did I learn a lot about Jackie? So let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon. And here's
0:29.7	where it gets interesting. I am really excited to be chatting today with Jay Randi Teraparelli.
0:37.4	Thank you so much for being here. Oh, my pleasure. My pleasure. Well, you have written many works
0:44.2	about the Kennedy family, about Jackie. And your new book is called Jackie, public, private,
0:53.0	secret. And first of all, to be able to get access to Jackie Kennedy is no small feat. She was
1:00.9	notoriously kind of like don't find stuff out about me. I got to keep it all close to the best.
1:08.2	First of all, what made you interested in writing about this particular group of people
1:13.8	and more specifically about Jackie? Well, I love writing about families. My best books have really
1:19.8	been about families. I've done the Hilton's, I've done the Sinatra's, the Jackson's. I did
1:27.3	Marilyn Monroe's family, Elizabeth Taylor's family, you know, and I just think that we can see
1:32.3	so much of our own families and other families. And when you have big major sort of iconic families,
1:40.9	what I love about that work is trying to find the moments in their lives that we can
1:48.2	best relate to. One would think that you would have pretty much nothing in common with Jacqueline
1:54.6	Onassis. One might think, wow, that woman lived a life that I could not possibly relate to.
2:02.6	But when you unpack it as I did in this book, Jackie, public, private, secret, you find that there
2:09.9	are so many human moments in her life that are so relatable that they bring you closer to her
2:20.4	experience. And then in understanding what she went through, I think it helps us understand
2:25.8	our own lives. And that's really the point of biography for me. There's no point in it at all
2:31.7	except if you can see your own experience reflected back at you through this person's life.
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