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Glynnis MacNichol

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
399 total appearances

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Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Like that's the entire country tuning in.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

There's that scene in the, on the Calvin Klein office where they're all watching the funeral.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Like that's a,

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

I remember those moments of like all television networks turn into one thing.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And I clearly remember that.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

I don't know if it's Dan Rather or Tom Brokaw said during this funeral, we will be referring to her as Mrs. Kennedy, not Mrs. Kennedy Onassis.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Like it was offensive to the American sensibility to even acknowledge that she

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

had married, you know, Onassis.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Yeah.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

They really capture this shifting moment in New York.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

I think people forget even that the crime rates were sky high up until the early 90s and then flipped sort of on a dime into the late 90s as being one of the safest places in the world.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And the fact that they didn't move to the Upper East Side to a doorman building made them very vulnerable to this sort of sidewalk tabloid journalism, which really just arrived around 1995, 96.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

So they're sort of standing in this weird epicenter of

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

of all these shifting currents that are all flowing through them, you know, and what they represent at this time.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And, you know, will he, he was, he was as much a public figure from birth as a private one, but without all the protections of the Royal family and without sort of that historical necessarily expectation, although he certainly had some as JFK's child, but it's like they're, they weirdly have,

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

they, they weirdly embody a whole moment and a whole, and not just New York city, but just sort of in American culture that like this flip happens that I think, you know, is, is super fascinating and, you know, still relevant that I clocked that thing too.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

When he was walking through the office, smelling, he always, you know, he walked with a swagger and like an openness.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And I remember seeing her on the street and she was terrified at all times.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Like she was such clearly petrified of being out.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And it sort of makes me sad in hindsight.