. >> reporter: tonight, jacqueline kennedy tells her story. good evening and welcome. tonight, the voice we never thought we'd hear. the private history we never thought we would learn. almost 50 years ago, jacqueline bouvier kennedy went sigh leapt after she left the white house, refusing to give press interviews. so, it was stunning to learn that only four months after her husband's assassination, she sat down and quietly recorded more than eight hours of audio tape about their time together and what happened at the white house. those tapes are now included in a new ok, "jacqueline kennedy: historic conversations on life with john f. kennedy." and by the way, that is how she pronounced her name, jacqueline. we think these tapes are surprising. and as you're about to see, a portrait of a young person who thinks she is one kind of person only to discover she is another. and they are also a story of someone who is a hisness to history and making history herself. a first lady deciding her country would lay cultural claim to the american century. so, now, it is time to beg

never before heard tapes of jacqueline kennedy, the private reflections and dramatic take on the greatest emergency of her husband's presidency. >> i just want to be with you and i want to die with you and the children do too. >> tonight hear her words for the first time. >>> plus, miracle babies. bundles of cuddly joy may be the last hope for their species but they're not born by chance. we'll show you how science is lending nature a hand. >>> good evening. i'm terry moran and we begin tonight with "spongebob squarepants." the wildly popular nickelodeon cartoon. why? well, it turns out a new study by child psychologists suggests the cheerful little sponge could threaten your child's development. the psychologists set out to measure how the cartoon affects cognitive capability and impulse control of those who watch it. neal karlinsky tells us what it discovered and what nickelodeon has to say about it ♪ who lives in a pineapple under the sea spongebob squarepants ♪ >> reporter: until now everyone's favorite nonsensical sponge who lives under the sea has had only one main enemy, plankton,

the recordings are a part of the new book, "jacqueline kennedy: historic conversations on life with john f. kennedy." on friday, after we purchased a copy at a bookstore we shared early excerpts with you. tonight on what would have been the kennedys 58th wedding anniversary. andrea mitchell has more. >> reporter: she was still in what her daughter caroline described as the extreme stages of grief. speaking publically only once. >> the knowledge of the affection in which my husband was held by all of you has sustained me. >> reporter: while famously private, the young widow sat down with historian arthur schlesinger, jr., and secretly recorded her most personal thoughts for posterity. >> it's just not as simple as that story sounds. >> reporter: in sharp contrast to the formal white house guide. >> i think every first lady should do something in this position to help the things she cares about. >> reporter: this jacqueline kennedy paints an intimate family portrait. jfk kneeling on the edge of the bed to say his prayers each night -- a habit she describes as both childish and sweet. the p

ininhose newly unearthed tapes heard for the first time tonight, jacqueline kennedy tells the inside story of the love affair with her husband, the president. >> life with him was always so fast. but it isn't until you look back that you see what happened when. >> tonight, a a ane sawyer special report. >>> plus, jackson family secrets. michael jackson's brother jermaine finally tells his side of the family story. from his secret plan for smuggling the star out of the country to his touching tribute at michael's funeral. ♪ smile though your heart is aching ♪ >>> and, the hero gene? an incredible bystander rescue. but it's hardly the first. so, what is it about some humans that make them capable of super-human action? >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline."" september 13th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin tonight with an abc news exclusive. a unique look inside camelot. the story as told by the first lady about her husband, the president. the details are in those

jacqueline ordered they be kept under seal by the kennedy library until after her death. now, they will be part of a new book being released on wednesday. they gave us an intimate look at some of the most intense moments during kennedy's presidency. listen to what she said during the cuban missile. >> i said please, don't go away -- >> even if you live in a bombshell in the white house, please -- >>> jacqueline says the time in the white house was the happiest years. >>> diane sawyer will host a prime time two-hour special of jacqueline kennedy in her own words. it airs from 9:00 to 11:00 right here on abc7. >> in november, arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords will sit down with her first interview since a gunman shot her. giffords seen in an emotional part during a budget battle. that interview will coincide with the couple's memoir, gabby a story of courage and hope. she was shot in the head and recovering from brain injuries. interview will air right here on abc7. >> got to listen to the details on the forecast. >> we'll talk about a warming trend after we look out

jacqueline ordered they be kept under seal by the kennedy library until after her death. now, they will be part of a new book being released on wednesday. they gave us an intimate look at some of the most intense moments during kennedy's presidency. listen to what she said during the cuban missile. >> i said please, don't go away -- >> even if you live in a bombshell in the white house, please -- >>> jacqueline says the time in the white house was the happiest years. >>> diane sawyer will host a prime time two-hour special of jacqueline kennedy in her own words. it airs from 9:00 to 11:00 right here on abc7. >> in november, arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords will sit down with her first interview since a gunman shot her. giffords seen in an emotional part during a budget battle. that interview will coincide with the couple's memoir, gabby a story of courage and hope. she was shot in the head and recovering from brain injuries. interview will air right here on abc7. >> got to listen to the details on the forecast. >> we'll talk about a warming trend after we look out

in a newly released book accompanied by 8 1/2 hours of audio, jacqueline kennedy, historic conversationsth john f. kennedy. the revealing conversation shows sides of the first lady never seen before. here she is on her reaction to the cuban missile crisis. >> i said, please don't send me away to camp david, you know, me and the children. please don't send me anywhere. if anything happens, we're all going to stay right here with you. and, you know, i said, even if there's not room in the bomb shelter in the white house, which i'd seen, i said, please then i just want to be on the lawn when it happens. you know, but i just want to be with you and i want to die with you and the children do, too. than live without you. so he said he wouldn't send me away. he didn't really want to send me away, either. >> and the first lady was very open in her discussion of lyndon johnson in the role of vice president. >> it was so funny because jack thinking of being vice president and how awful it would be gave lyndon so many things to do. he never did them. he could have done more with the space thing. he

so, she even takes on europe's biggest snobs -- the french. >> i am the man who accompanied jacqueline kennedyparis. and i've enjoyed it. >> reporter: do you think it surprised him how she emerged in the white house? suddenly? >> i think it surprised her. >> reporter: to the astonishment of the kennedy family, the woman who had been a liability became the biggest political asset of all. >> when we got in the white house, all the things that i'd always done suddenly became wonderful and i was so happy for jack that he could be proud of me then, because, you know, it made him so happy. it made me so happy. so those were our happiest years. >> and we will have so much more on this special two-hour event tonight, including the emotional way it ended for everyone. it's on "20/20" beginning at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> and coming up, david muir on the front lines. a dangerous new turn in the biggest humanitarian crisis on earth. comes centrum. with vitamins and minerals balanced to support your energy... ♪ ..and healthy skin. everyday benefits from advanced formulas. discover the complete benefits of c

. >>> jacqueline kennedy. the hihioric tapes, locked away for almost 50 years, revealing the private woman who changed american history. >>> and ten years later. the 9/11 babies who lost their dads, reminding us to celebrate love and life. our "persons of the week." >>> good evening to you. we are a nation coming together tonight to remember 9/11, ten years ago, and to stand sentry on the new threat that has been leveled against the united states. as the clock runs down to the anniversary on sunday, police, national guard, bomb-sniffing dogs are all out in force in new york and washington, d.c. intelligence officials are pouring over the names on flights from abroad. and abc news has learned new details on this terror threat. abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross has been talking to intelligence officials all day and he is standing at one of the many police checkpoints all over this city tonight. brian? >> reporter: good evening, diane. abc news has, in fact, learned new details of the source of t

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for instance, the cuban missile crise, when jacqueline kennedy tells historian and kennedy incider arthurer, about what those tense days were like for her and the family. let's listen. >> please don't send me away to camp david, please, don't send me anywhere. anything happens we're all going to stay right here with you. >> suarez: it's a reminder that this was not kidding around. the world fet like it was rice on the precipice. when the first lady says to the president, "i and the children want to die with you," it was striking. >> be out on the lawn not in a bomb shelter. the other thing it tells something. their marriage. in my experience, the president does not have a great marriage with the first lady, and there's a big political political crisis, the president usually doesn't want to spend very much time with his wife, would rather be around cronies or something. john kennedy's first instinct when he knows about the cuban missile crisis is in the book. he calls up jackie who is in virginia, there's something funny in his voice, he says. he says, "please bring the children right now

>>> this is "world news," and tonight she speaks, the jacqueline kennedy tapes, the witness to history who ended up making history herself. >>> a young wife in a missile crisis. the pledge she gives her husband that she and her children will die with him. >>> healthy living. women with a family history of breast cancer now getting the disease earlier than theirir mothers did. what could be the reason? and what do you do? >>> and spongebob surprise. does the guy in the square pants waddle veryoung brains in less than ten minutes? the little cartoon at the center of a very serious debate. >>> good evening and a good new week to you. we begin tonight with the tapes everyone is talking about, jacqueline kennedy, the world's most famous and mysterious first lady, the woman who retreated into silence refusing interviews left behind 8 1/2 hours of audiotape recorded right after her husband's assassination. and tomorrow only on abc news, a two-hour prime time event with video released to us by the kennedy family. the family also issuing a book about what she revealed. but tonight we begin with

what was jacqueline kennedy's favorite photo with her husband? her daughter caroline opens the family album. >>> candid camera. a hilarious and touching love story, by some computer novices who don't know the camera is rolling. >> i don't know how to do it. ♪ hello my darling ♪ hello my baby >>> good evening to you. we begin tonight with the white house on the hot seat over a story we broke right here on abc news. did a half billion dollars of your taxpayer money go to a company certain to fail? and why? members of congress called the white house on the carpet today and abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross, who broke the story, tells us those new twists today. >> reporter: more than $500 million dollars in taxpayer money was given to the now bankrupt company, and no one is taking responsibility for it today. >> you tell me what you're going to tell the taxpayers. >> reporter: administration officials in front of congress dodged tough questions about solyndra, saying such problems can be expected with start-up companies and that no o

, and arthur schlesinger called "jacqueline kennedy, historic conversations on life with johnkennedy." please welcome back to the program, caroline kennedy. ( applause ) so nice to see you again. >> you, too. >> jon: thanks for coming. it's transcripts. i read an awful lot of historical nonfiction on the show because i don't want or have a life. but... ( laughter ) >> that was clear from earlier. ( laughter ). >> jon: you should see what our prop people had to go through today. this truly is one of the most remarkable pieces of history i've-- i've ever read, i've ever been engaged with. it's-- it's so human to hear-- i can't imagine what it's like for you-- tell me-- to hear your mother-- four months after your farther's passing discussing it with this historian. >> well, i think for me it's quite familiar because i know her, and so it's just nice to be able to feel sort of a connection with her in the way she sought world again. but i am really struck by how much courage it took for her to do this and how much-- how complex and interesting it is, and it really brings a whole

the recordings are part of a new book, jacqueline kennedy, historic conversations on life with john f. kennedy. we bought a copy last week, and tonight we hear more about how she felt about her husband, her family during a very scary time. our report again from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: they appeared to be a storybook couple from their marriage 58 years ago this week. >> you're pretty much in love with him, aren't you? >> oh, no. i said no, didn't i? >> yes, you did. you want to do it again? >> reporter: she described herself as a victorian wife. from the election campaign to the white house as a young family. at work and at play, she called the white house years the happiest in her life. before the tragedy and scandals, it was that brief shining moment she later called camelot, frozen in memory and brought back to life in her conversations with arthur schlesinger, jr. in 1964. daughter caroline says her mother was still in extreme grief at the time, less than four months after the assassination. on march 2nd, john jr. wandered into the room. >> john, what happened to your f

the exhibit here in boston opens tomorrow, and the book hits the shelves tomorrow, "jacqueline kennedyic conversations on life with john f. kennedy." megyn? megyn: mollying line, thank you. the president has taken to the microphones where he will be making a push on his new jobs bill. we're going to take a listen for a little bit, then we're going to stream the remarks live on foxnews.com. let's take a had been to the headlines. >> in pockets of working americans. [cheers and applause] everything in this american jobs act is the kind of proposal that, in the past, has been supported by both republicans and democrats. everything in it will be paid for. and every one of you can make it happen by sending a message to congress that says, pass this bill. [cheers and applause] ohio, if you pass this bill, then right here in this state ten of thousands of construction workers will have a job again. [cheers and applause] this is one of the most common sense ideas out there. all over the country, there are roads and bridges and schools just like fort hayes in need of repair. some of the buildin

won't bring closure. >> this morning, the world is getting first chance to listen to tapes of jacqueline kennedyshe talked about her time in the white house. the tapes were recorded in 1964, four months after john kennedy was assassinated. at her request, these staips tapes were sealed until after her own death. it's part of a new book that will be released on wednesday. some of what is on those tapes were played on "good morning america." >>> again, you can hear more excerpts of those tapes from jacqueline kennedy on "good morning america" right after our newscasts at 7:00. >>> it's 6:15 and time to start weather this week. it will be zbleis clouds out there this morning. temperatures will be up and slowly diminish as they blow off to the west. leftovers from the thunderstorms from the sierra yesterday. we'll have more storms in the sierra as the afternoon unfolds that could push few more clouds into our neighborhoods tonight. live from the southeast from downtown san francisco. so far, no flight arrival delays into san francisco. we'll have an update in about ten minutes. beautiful picture fro

interpreted cautiously because of the study's small size. >>> there are newly released audiotapes of jacqueline kennedyng about her time in white house. they were recorded in 1964, four months after john kennedy was assassinated. at her request they were sealed until after her own death. it's part of a new book that will be released on wednesday. diane sawyer will have an exclusive report on those tapes tomorrow night but she has excerpts this morning on "good morning america." >> you know go ahead the morning papers. you he always came in before coming into the oval office and he would be half asleep or having breakfast. >> you can hear more excerpts of those tapes from jacqueline kennedy on "good morning america." that is right after our newscasts at 7:00 a.m. >> remember i.b.m.'s super computer watson, may be coming to an office near you. watson destroyed the top jeopardy players now they want the xuirgt power and helping to diagnose medical problems and authorize treatments. dr. watson will do it with a special app that relates symptoms and history to medical journals. they say future uses could be

get sodium out of foods. >>> talk about taking a step back in time, the taped interviews of jacqueline kennedy have left her granddaughters, quote, horrified. caroline kennedy said her daughters were shocked listening to their grandmother's old-fashioned views of the role of women. remember the time was 1964. the young widow at the time described her marriage as, quote, a rather terribly victorian relationship and said that she got all her opinions from her husband, president john f. kennedy. caroline kennedy says her girls asked did they really think that? the audio recordings are being released along with a new book. >>> were you part of this whole thing at target? you probably heard about hurricane mossoni. the racks featuring the italian zigzag party of empty today. i just heard about it for the first time. rob didn't know either. all of that merchandise is on ebay. fans who picked up missoni tote bags for $34 are getting up to $100 for these items in online auctions. the collection was a limited edition and was supposed to be on sale through october, but now that it's all sold out, target

jacqueline kennedy, in her own words, talking about her marriage to the former president. john-john's voice. >> you hear so much more. she did these just months after john f. kennedy was assassinated, talking to a close friend of theirs. and she talks about everyone and everything in that time. fascinating stuff. really is. >>> check out this family. 1 husband, 3 wives, 24 kids. they're the real-life big love. they'll be live in our next half hour. i want to know how they sleep. >> people want to know a lot of things. >>> we have another abc news exclusive, george. jermaine jackson, speaking out about his brother, michael. the new details about michael's plans for the future. the secret recordings he made of hollllood's greats. >> surprising stuff there. >>> another high-profile family murder trial set to begin in the same orlando courtroom where casey anthony was acquitted earlier this summer. in this case, wealthy orlando businessman bob ward is accused of killing his wife by shooting her in the face. his defense? she killed herself. and andrea canning is here with the j

. >>> jacqueline kennedy, like you have never heard her before. the abc news exclusive in her own words. personal, historic conversations reported just after jfk's death. the tapes seal for almost 50 years. now revealed for the first time. diane sawyer is here with the first look. >>> foiled at the pharmacy. why did walgreen's fire the pharmacist? the pharmacist shoots back in self-defense. >>> too sexy too young? why this young girl's mother says everyone's missing the point. this morning, she takes on the critics. >>> good morning, everyone. you saw the police officers out there. i had to go through a security check to get here to times square. it was a moving weekend. >> so much so. >> all the tributes for 9/11. among the memorable imagag. these children doing rubbings of the etchings of their loved ones names at the 9/11 memorial at lower manhattan. this picture, the father seeing his son's name for the first time. it says it all. instantly famous as an iconic portrait of grief. >> here's the new york post right here. he said he didn't have to

. >>> jacqueline kennedy is blunt and candid in just released recordings. here, the former first lady says she pleaded to stay at her husband's side during the cuban missile crisis, even if it ended with a nuclear attack on washington. >> i said even if there's not room in the bomb shelter, i want to be on the lawn. i just want to be with you and i want to die with you and the children do, too. >> they released the tapes to mark the 50th anniversary of her father's presidency. >>> here now, your chance to talk back on the big stories of the day. what if congress took a pay cut? carol joins me now from new york. big old hypothetical? >> yeah. what would you say if congress took a pay cut. don't laugh. i can hear you out there laughing. stop it right now. a nonpartisan group sent this letter to lawmakers urging them to cut their extravagant salaries of $174,000 a year by 10%. it would save taxpayers $100 million over ten years. before you say fat chance, democratic senator sherrod brown is calling on lawmakers to wait until age 66 to receive a pension. right

>> reporter: well, the book will hit the shelves tomorrow, it comes out, jacqueline kennedy, historic conversations on life with john f. kennedy and also here at the j.f.k. library and museum in boston there will be a beautiful exhibit, the public can stop by and get a first hand look at all of these recordings. bill: interesting history, from the library in boston. thanks, molly. molly line, martha? martha: a fantastic presidential library, if you haven't been there, put it on your list of things to do. a great place to go. here's a question, where is the cowboy's lasso when you need it? check this out, an escaped big croc met his match! bill: and, continues various over the democrats' new ad supporting the president's jobs bill. was it legal under house rules? >> the next election is 14 months away. and the people who sent us here, the people who hired us to work for them, they don't have the luxury of waiting 14 months. a lot of them are living week-to-week and paycheck to paycheck. [ male announcer ] look down. it's high time to make our floor look better and feel softer. ♪ how 'b

historians are having a field day with the released jacqueline kennedy tapes. >> you can see why. ew with the former first lady recorded four months after the assassination of her husband, john f. kennedy, has been kept under wraps for nearly 50 years until now. >> these tapes contain personal information. personal comments that we never heard before. tell us about it. >> in her own voice. that's what's amaze being it. that's really what is so fascinating hearing the sound of her voice. how she expresses herself. she is so refined, contrition. very, very engaging. you can't help but listen. there is a certain candor, frankness. this is a woman that had an opinion about people and at least in private and presence of someone she considered a friend, interve interviewer. she said lyndon johnson had an enormous ego and his wife, lady bird johnson, was in her words, quote, like a training hunted dog. by the irish, they have a persecution thing about them. witch-hunt senator joseph mccarthy, see says, he smelled of drink and his eyes looked awful. here is what she had to say about civil

we've been fascinated by the jacqueline kennedy tapes. interviews these recorded just months after jfk's assassination. they've been locked in a fault until now. now, "historic conversations on life with john f. kennedy," is in stores today. we're going to delve into the treasure trove with caroline. but first, listen to more of the tapes. a voice so seldom heard. 34-year-old jacqueline bouvier kennedy, reflecting on life with jfk, just four months after his death. >> it's funny. i used to worry about going into the white house. the goldfish bowl. the secret service. i never see my husband. i spend so much time worrying, would it ruin our marriage? >> reporter: revealing the private truth behind some of their most iconic, public moments. >> that was so much emotion, when we kissed. his eyes really did fill with tears. oh, jack. what a day. >> reporter: an intimate look at what life was really like in that mythical, often mysterious whitithouse. >> jack was the most unself-conscious person i've ever seen. he was unself-conscious about walki

hear more of the newly surfaced audiotapes of jacqueline kennedy including a plea to her husband during the cuban missile crisis. >>> lady antebellum performs live in the studio. keep it on this channel for more on news, weather and sports. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day on your nbc station. have a good one.

a point driven home by former first lady jacqueline kennedy in a series of recorded interviews that shenths after her husband was assassinated. the transcripts are compiled in a new book. in this excerpt, mrs. kennedy talks about lyndon johnson's own self-doubt. and what separates a good president from a truly great one. >> when we came to somebody's house in georgetown the other night, got very drunk and said i don't know if i'm capable to be president, if my equipment is adequate. people were thinking i'm bitter. but i'm not bitter. i want it to be put in context the kind of president that jack was and the kind of president that lyndon was. some of the great things that jack did, can't be stopped. when something really crisis happens, that's the difference. i just want them to know because they don't have that kind of president but not because it's inevitable. >>> joining me now to discuss is george will, cokie roberts and abc's senior political correspondent jonathan karl, george, she did, jackie captured a truism that president's mettle is tested in a crisis, is this president risin

. >>> "let me finish" tonight with the intrigue about the jacqueline kennedy tapes. lly transfixed by them. i've been studying jack kennedy, who he was, what he was like to be with, for years. he wives obviously saw a side of him others didn't. they had two of them, a fine intellectual relationship batting comments back and forth about the people around them all the time, enjoying the life they shared, a life at the very top. yes, they were quite a pair in public, but imagine their back and forth in private over the sound of old jack kennedy's record player. and while the tapes haven't come out yet, those that have gotten out confirms some interesting stuff. one is that jacqueline kennedy knew her husband pretty well, more than most people knew him, at least, and in a different way. she called him that unforgettable elusive man. elusive he certainly was. she again more than anyone knew how many sides there were to him. the idealist was just a big part of it. not only one, and it was only one side of him, she said that and said all men are a combination of bad and good

. >>> let me finish tonight with the intrigue about the jacqueline kennedy tapes. y transfixed by them. i was studying jack kennedy. he wives obviously saw a side of him others didn't. they had two of them, a fine intellectual relationship batting comments back and forth about the people around them all the time, enjoying the life they shared, a life at the very top. they were quite a pair in public, but imagine the back-and-forth in private over the sound of his record player. while the tapes haven't come out yet, some confirm some interesting stuff. one is that jacqueline kennedy knew her husband pretty well, and in a different way. she called him that unforgettable elusive man. she again more than anyone knew how many sides there were to her. the idealist was just a big part of it. not only one, and it was only one side of him, she said that all men are a combination of bad and good. she was taken with how jack prayed on his knees each night before going to bed, how he went to church religiously, confession regularly, even as i discovered he had to sneak in the s

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. >> pelley: jacqueline kennedy was one of the most private of first ladies.terviews. now, 17 years after her death, she is making news with a candid interview she gave historian arthur schlesinger. it was recorded nearly half a century ago when mrs. kennedy was 35. chip reid reports it's being released this week for the first time. >> reporter: in february, 1962, first lady jackie kennedy gave cbs a tour of the redecorated white house. >> i just think that everything in the white house should be the best. >> reporter: it was the first time americans had her her speak at length. her voice and poise captivated the nation. in a series of interviews in 1964 just months after her husband was assassinated, she said that for her, the tour had been a turning point. >> suddenly everything had been a liability before-- your hair, that you spoke french, that you didn't just adore and campaign. everyone thought i was a snob and hated politics. then i was having a baby and couldn't campaign. and when we get in the white house all the things that i'd always done suddenly b

. >>> tonight we get to hear the voice of former first lady jacqueline kennedy recorded in 1964, kept secret until now. her comments tape recorded by the late historian arthur slessinger jr. are in a new book and compilation audio cd. with a forward by her only surviving child, caroline kennedy slaussberg. the interviews run seven hours and are candid and down right bracing at times. both her children can be heard in the background, but it's her comments on the figures of our time that are sometimes most striking. like this one about the reverend dr. martin luther king jr., mrs. kennedy harshly judged his personal life and was told that the civil rights icon had misbehaved poorly at jfk's funeral. as a result, this is how she felt about him and quotes her husband as having felt about him. >> i mean martin luther king is really a tricky person, but i wouldn't know, he never said anything against martin luther king to me. so i don't know if bobby would would be the one to find out what he really thought of him. but bobby told me later, i just can't see a picture of martin luther king wi