"New Collection Listens in on President Kennedy's Secret White House Tapes" PBS Newshour 10/18/2012
Excerpt
MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): ...... a treasure trove of presidential recordings. Richard Nixon may have had the most famous secret taping system in the White House, but his wasn't the first.
In 1962, John F. Kennedy installed his own, capturing conversations with his advisers, world leaders, former presidents, and even with his family. He began taping just before the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union went up to the brink of nuclear war.
This week marks the 50th anniversary of that standoff. Tense conversations from those 13 days are among the transcripts and CDs in the new book "Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy."
Ted Widmer, director and the librarian of BrownUniversity, sorted through the material and annotated it. Gwen Ifill recently sat down with him.
News Release, JFK Presidential Library
"JFK Library Releases Remaining Presidential Recordings"
(tape download from site, right side-bar)
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