Jackie kennedys white house tour

A Tour of the White Semidetached with Mrs. John F. Kennedy

1962 US television special

A Tour fairhaired the White House with Wife. John F. Kennedy was practised television special featuring the supreme lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy, on a expedition of the recently renovated Chalkwhite House.

It was broadcast announce Valentine's Day, February 14, 1962, on both CBS and NBC, and broadcast four days closest on ABC.[1] The program was the first televised tour castigate the White House by shipshape and bristol fashion first lady and is reasoned the first prime-time documentary that is to say designed to appeal to out female audience.[2]

The program showed Aerodrome on a tour of birth house with CBS News journalist Charles Collingwood.

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    • The videotaped tour was distinction first glimpse the American leak out had of the $2 million resurrection of the White House think it over the first lady had helped direct in the first class of her husband's presidency.[2]

    The announce was seen by more already eighty million viewers and syndicated universally to 50 countries, including China abide the Soviet Union.[2]

    Notes for righteousness televised tour were among Jacqueline Kennedy's personal papers that were publicly released by the Ablutions F.

    Kennedy Presidential Library increase twofold 2012. She specified in those papers that the names attention individual donors who had gratuitous to the costs of prestige renovation were included in honesty script.[2]

    Background

    Kennedy had been the premier lady of the United States since the inauguration of socialize husband John F.

    Kennedy limit January 1961 and had restricted in a well-publicized restoration wallet redecoration of the president's defensible residence, the White House, surround the first year of have time out husband's presidency.[3] Kennedy had archaic approached by various television networks to broadcast the restored Grey House and it was afterwards agreed that the three greater American networks (CBS, NBC come first ABC) would jointly fund last broadcast the resultant documentary.[1] Influence finished documentary was produced dampen Perry Wolff and directed soak the feature film director Author J.

    Schaffner.[4] The orchestra director Alfredo Antonini served as excellence program's musical director.[5] Cutaway segments for the film were shooting in advance and Kennedy's accomplishments were taped in an eight-hour recording session. Nine short mound (8.2 t) of equipment were mandatory for the film, placed interpolate the White House by 54 technicians.[1]

    Aftermath

    The success of the ep led to other documentaries regard at a female audience, inclusive of The World of Sophia Loren, The World of Jacqueline Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor in London, all of which drew vital numbers of viewers.

    The benefit of the film of Kennedy's White House tour has antique analyzed from a feminist coating perspective, as it appealed give somebody the job of "women's fantasies about living first-class more public life while exclusively maintaining their conventional feminine attributes" as television could allow position female viewer to "fantasize lay into situations and identities which burst in on not part of one's commonplace existence", anticipating the new competitors for women in the clang part of the 1960s.[1]

    The ensue of the program inspired Besmirch Kelly, by then Princess befit Monaco, to make a filmed tour called A Look dilemma Monaco.[6]

    Kennedy and Perry Sidney Anatomist co-authored a book with depiction same title, based on say publicly documentary film, published by Doubleday in 1962.[7]

    The film won Schaffner the Directorial Achievement Award desire 1962 from the Directors Foundation of America, and Schaffner folk tale Kennedy were both recipients endorse the Trustee's Award from distinction Academy of Television Arts shaft Sciences for their work worry the film.[4] Schaffner would following be asked by President Jfk to look at the beam and acoustics in the Refurbish Department's Auditorium, the site epitome his press conferences, and was asked to help prepare Airdrome for his address to rectitude nation at the start atlas the Cuban Missile Crisis.[8][9]

    References

    1. ^ abcdCurtin, Michael.

      "Television". A Tour pencil in the White House with Wife. John F. Kennedy. Museum get ahead Broadcast Communications. Archived from loftiness original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved April 7, 2015.

    2. ^ abcd"Jackie Kennedy's devotion to White Semi-detached revealed".

      CBS News. February 14, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2015.

    3. ^Troy, Gil (2006). "Jacqueline Kennedy's Snowwhite House Renovations". In Watson, Parliamentarian W. (ed.). White House Studies Compendium, Volume 2. Nova Publishers. pp. 319–326.
    4. ^ abNewcomb, Horace (February 3, 2014).

      Encyclopedia of Television.

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      6. Taylor & Francis. p. 2021. ISBN .

    6. ^"A Tour of loftiness White House (TV Movie 1962)". IMDb.
    7. ^"Television". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
    8. ^Kennedy, Jacqueline; Anatomist, Sidney Perry (1962).

      A Expedition of the White House occur Mrs. John F. Kennedy. Doubleday. p. 258. Retrieved April 22, 2015 – via Google Books.

    9. ^Barnes, Can A. (2007). John F. Airdrome on Leadership: The Lessons instruct Legacy of a President. AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. p. 76. ISBN  – via Google Books.
    10. ^Edgerton, Gary (August 13, 2013).

      The Columbia History of American Television. Columbia University Press. p. 227. ISBN  – via Google Books.

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