Jackie Kennedy Onassis was said to have penned a personal memoir to be published several years after her passing so when will this be published if ever?

Answer 1

Jackie was once heard to say 'I want to live my life, not record it." As of 2012, it is believed that Jackie Kennedy Onassis never wrote a personal memoir about herself. But if the rumors are to be believed (and many Jackie admirers and loathers believe there is one more surprise that Jackie left for them) those memoirs would not be made public until long after the individuals (and perhaps their immediate families) will have passed away, which would be about a century after the Kennedy Presidency. Some have said she wanted 14 hours of audio tapes she recorded to be released publicly 50 years after the death of Caroline Kennedy, according to a USA Today Article in the early 1990's. Whether this turned out to be the 6 and a half hour interview with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. that was released in 2011 remains to be seen, given the distortions of the tabloid press, and the extensive privacy that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis took with all her private papers and sealed interviews with historians and reporters.