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The unfinished business of John F. Kennedy’s vision for world peace

  • Written by Philip A. Goduti, Jr., Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Quinnipiac University
imageJohn and Jackie Kennedy in Paris in May 1961. Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Less than a week after her husband’s assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, Jackie Kennedy granted an interview with esteemed political writer Theodore White for Life magazine, one of the leading national publications of its day.

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