JFK Special 4. | How Jackie O Defined An Era

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

If the Kennedy's were America's first royal family, then Jackie was its queen.

She was a style icon who, alongside her husband and president JFK, symbolised a fresh hopeful start in post-war America.

And then on 22nd November 1963, the unimaginable happened.

But who was the woman who led the country in its grief? Famously defining that time in America as Camelot. Who was the woman behind the immaculate hair do and pink Chanel suits? What was her life like before the spotlight, and how did she seek to rebuild it after JFK's assassination?

Today Kate is joined by two guests to tell her story. Author Eleanor Herman, and first up Laurence Leamer, author of The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family, to find out more.

This episode was edited and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:52.6	Hello my lovely betwixters. It's me, Kate Lister. I am here with your fair dues warning. You know
1:00.8	what is coming. If you get a stick around and listen to this podcast then you need to be warned
1:06.0	and here is your warning. This is an adult podcast spoken by adults to other adults about
1:11.6	adulty things and an adulty way covering a range of adult subjects and you should be an adult too.
1:18.7	Well I certainly feel safer. I hope you do too. And if you don't, well tough because fair dues
1:23.8	we did warn you.
1:25.3	Thank you so much. Take your seat for twixters and mind your language. We are at a high society
1:38.2	dinner in Washington DC in 1952. Don't stare but on the table just across from us amongst the
1:46.2	champagne flutes and silverware. A beautiful 24-year-old Jacqueline Lee Bouvier is being introduced
1:55.0	to a much older gentleman of quite high standing. This handsome tanned and it must be said he is
2:03.8	considerably older than her. These 36 is Congressman John Fitzgerald Kennedy. His charm is undeniable
2:13.6	and as he would later tell his brother Bobby he was smitten. However, Jacquie already had a boyfriend
2:21.2	who was waiting for an outside in the parking lot. Although she might not have realised it,
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