Jackie Kennedy's Marriage Was Even MORE Disturbing Than You Think

A pink suit sits in a vault at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland — unwashed, still stained, sent with a handwritten note that has no signature. No request to examine it has ever been granted. That suit is the last piece of a marriage Jackie Kennedy spent fourteen years negotiating. In August 1956, Jackie delivered a stillborn daughter in Newport while John F. Kennedy was on a yacht in the Mediterranean. Within days she had retained a divorce attorney. Joseph Kennedy Sr. offered her "freedom" — and, according to J. Randy Taraborrelli, a deposit of $100,000 after Caroline was born. Biographers disagree on the exact figure; the arrangement itself is not disputed. This documentary follows the deal, the White House years Barbara Leaming calls "operational," the four-hour Hyannis Port interview that created the myth of Camelot, the thirty-nine hours of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, and the Onassis prenuptial agreement the country condemned her for. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 4:01 The Empty Room 6:45 The Lunch 9:01 The Arrangement 11:22 Operational 13:48 Camelot 20:03 Thirty-Nine Hours 25:04 The Second Contract 32:01 The Vault Sources discussed: J. Randy Taraborrelli — Jackie: Public, Private, Secret; JFK: Public, Private, Secret; Jackie, Janet & Lee · Barbara Leaming — Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years · Steven Levingston — The Kennedy Baby; Twilight of Camelot · Thurston Clarke — JFK's Last Hundred Days · Theodore H. White — In Search of History · Maureen Callahan — Ask Not · Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince (2014, treated with caution).