Shortly after the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy called the writer Theodore White and invited him to Hyannis Port to write a piece about her late husband for Life magazine. The essay based on the interview appeared in the December 6th issue. It was this essay that created the association of Camelot with the 1000-day presidency of JFK. White would later write that Camelot represented, “a magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers, and poets met at the White House, and the barbarians beyond the walls held back.”
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 05:59:01 +0000