JFK and lost youth | Opinion
JFK's limo speeds toward Parkland Hospital moments after he was shot.As writers, we face the difficult task of trying to know our characters intimately in order to make them real to ourselves and to our readers. But sometimes it’s the characters who inhabit us.. When I’ve been asked where I was when I learned what had happened, I recite ― without affect or emotion, a brief summary of the time and place.
My youth and the fact that I didn’t watch the news where I would have seen JFK in more lifelike terms short-circuited a possible emotional connection with him. Although I was fascinated by the coverage, especially inmagazine, I was a detached observant. My hero was Willie Mays whose baseball accomplishments I watched on TV and followed in the sports pages.
When the book came out a few months ago, there was a spate of interviews with the media and a request from the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas to participate in their on-camera oral history project. Consequently, I’d chosen the first person. I, Jack Kennedy. In writing the book, I had become Jack Kennedy. Writing in his voice, I empathized with his never-ending illnesses, overbearing father/distant mother and a school he found impossibly repressive.
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