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The Kennedys ‘A brief shining moment’: When Camelot came to Washington

out that its 35th president lived in Camelot until after he was gone. But the way we think about 1961, it’s all we can imagine.

The week after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, his wife and first lady Jacqueline - Jackie, to all of us - had called Life magazine and asked to be interviewed. She wanted to frame her husband’s legacy before the historians got it.

In the course of the interview, Jackie t…

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