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The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly

‘He didn’t think he was a good man’: new book reveals unseen portrait of JFK

Jackie and John F Kennedy in 1960
Jackie and John F Kennedy in 1960. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features

J Randy Taraborrelli has already written five books on the Kennedy family but his sixth, JFK: Public, Private, Secret, is his first that’s directly about John F Kennedy, 35th US president from 1961 until his assassination in Dallas two years later.

“I have been writing about the Kennedys from Jackie’s perspective for 25 years,” Taraborrelli said, referring to Jacqueline Kennedy, the first lady who lived for another 30 years after he was shot, a figure of worldwide fascination.

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