Jackie Kennedy Tapes Offer View On An Era, And Icon Just months after President John F. Kennedy's death, his wife sat down with historian Arthur Schlesinger to share her experience as first lady.

The tapes were recorded with leading historian Arthur Schlesinger Jnr within months of the assassination on November 22, 1963, and had been sealed in a vault at the Kennedy Library in Boston.

BOSTON - On the afternoon of May 4, 1963, President Kennedy wasn't in a mood to mince words. As he met in the White House with members of a liberal political group, he fumed when one of them ...