Why JFK's Own Wife Said He Would Have Prevented Vietnam

In the spring of 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded eight hours of private conversation about her husband. She spoke about Vietnam, about the men who replaced him, and about what she believed would have happened if Dallas hadn't. Those recordings were sealed for forty-seven years. This is what was on them. —— In October 1963, President Kennedy signed a classified memorandum calling for the withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam. Six weeks later, he was dead. Four days after that, the memorandum was reversed. Jacqueline Kennedy knew what he had planned. She said so — once, privately, to a historian she trusted, in a room she believed no one outside the family would ever hear. BehindTheDynasty examines the Schlesinger tapes, the documented record of NSAM 263 and 273, and the forty-seven-year decision to keep her account out of the public historical debate during every year it would have mattered most. —— CHAPTERS 0:00 — The Woman Who Said Nothing 2:10 — The Georgetown Tapes 4:45 — What She Said About Vietnam 8:15 — The Men She Named 10:50 — Why Forty-Seven Years 13:20 — The Cost of Silence —— #JFK #JackieKennedy #Vietnam #Kennedy #AmericanHistory #BehindTheDynasty