"Camera Girl": The story of Jackie before JFK
[ad_1]
If you were alive in February 1962, there's a good chance you saw first lady Jacqueline Kennedy's tour of the newly-restored White House, which was broadcast on all three TV networks to an audience of about 80 million. But people who knew her well say that the real Jackie was not at all like the flawless figurine who appeared on screen. Smith asked, "Seemed that some people assumed that the most interesting thing about Jacqueline Bouvier is that she married a Kennedy?" Writer Carl Sferazza Anthony said, "I think the presumption has been that her life only became interesting after she married him, when in fact, because she was so interesting, he married her." Anthony is author of a dozen books about first ladies. His latest, "Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy" (published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, part of our parent company, Paramount Global...