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At exactly 12:30 P.M. on November 22, 1963, the West End District of Downtown Dallas went into a panic. The large gathering of people who had come to see the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, had just witnessed his assassination. An unknown assailant had shot Kennedy as he traveled in his presidential motorcade with his wife Jackie, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally’s wife Nellie. Soon after his assassination, officials took his body to the Bethesda Naval Hospital. Jackie chose Bethesda because Kennedy was a Naval officer. Meanwhile, Lyndon B. Johnson had taken over as the 36th president of the United States.
A few days after the assassination, Jackie gave an interview to Life magazine. Theodore White, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the bestselling book, The Making of the President: 1960, interviewed her. The magazine held back its issue to include this interview. Apart from detailing the assassination, Jackie told White something that made history as a definition of Kennedy’s time in the White House. She said that Kennedy liked to listen to songs before he slept, and his favorite was a sad song from the Broadway musical about King Arthur called Camelot. Obsessed with getting across the message that Kennedy was “a man of magic” and that we could not replicate his tenure in the White House, Jackie said that it was magical, like the era of King Arthur in Camelot. She said, “The lines he loved to hear were, ‘Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot.’” She added, “There’ll be great presidents again—and the Johnsons are wonderful, they’ve been wonderful to me—but there’ll never be a Camelot again.”
Jackie made the original comparison between the White House during Kennedy’s time and Camelot during King Arthur’s. She emphasized the fact that Kennedy’s time as president at the White House was truly special. This comparison still holds today, and it projected John F. Kennedy as one of history’s most significant presidents.
Apart from the two entities being historical and legendary in nature, the similarities between White House and Camelot stem from a deep understanding of the legend of Camelot and King Arthur.
King Arthur, who was a legendary British king, lived between the late fifth and early sixth centuries. His place of residence was a castle called Camelot. It also housed one of King Arthur’s prized possessions, the Round Table, and the skilled knights who served him. Camelot became a reason for envy because it exuded exclusivity. The other reason for its historical nature is that Camelot was the center from which King Arthur delivered just verdicts, hosted fantastic feasts, and cultivated the company of some of the bravest knights of his time. Ultimately, people associated Camelot with these values and qualities more so than as just another place on the map.
We can compare Camelot to the White House because we associate them with similar values. For example, the White House houses the presidents of the United States, who hold an almost royal position—a luxury with which Kennedy was familiar. There, the president organized get-togethers, meetings, and various feasts and doled out verdicts, just like King Arthur did in Camelot. Finally, it is the place where the president worked with some of the greatest minds in the country, who are similar to a team of modern knights.
Therefore, Jackie Kennedy was right to compare the White House during Kennedy’s time to the Camelot of King Arthur. She brought out an intrinsic fact that binds King Arthur’s Camelot and Kennedy’s White House together, which is that both share similar values and ethics and demonstrate the value of a charismatic leader.
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