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PBS NewsHour | New Collection Listens in on JFK's Secret White House Tapes | PBS

Duration: 09:04
Program: PBS NewsHour #10479
Broadcast Date: Oct. 18, 2012

A new book, "Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy," shares a treasure trove of the president's secretly-recorded phone calls, meetings and private reflections. Gwen Ifill talks to Ted Widmer, historian and librarian of Brown University, who edited and annotated the tape transcripts.

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Post Date: October 18, 2012