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Unsealed Jackie Kennedy Interviews to Air on TV

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A series of unsealed 1960s audio recordings of Jacqueline Kennedy talking about her life with husband and revered President John F. Kennedy will be broadcast on television, ABC News said on Wednesday. In 1964, the former first lady did seven interviews totaling eight and a half hours with late historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. that were recorded for posterity but have never been made public before, ABC said. They have now been unsealed and will be condensed and aired in several ABC television and radio shows, beginning in September. “My mother took very seriously the obligation to preserve and document the history of my father’s administration — and these interviews are the result,” said Kennedy’s daughter Caroline, who is releasing the tapes at the same time as writing the forward of a book based upon the oral history interviews. ABC said the conversations with Schlesinger “reflect