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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Double Trauma for 'Hidden Children'

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In 1939, approximately 1.6 million Jewish children lived in areas that would be occupied by Nazi Germany and its allies. Although scholars differ on the numbers, it seems safe to say that between 100,000 and 500,000 of these children survived.


Many of these survivors were hidden children; some secreted in attics or cellars, others living in the open, with Christian families.


Joanna Michlic is director of the Families and Holocaust Project at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. She said that children who survived the Holocaust living as Christians with adopted families experienced “two massive ruptures” that affected their sense of self.

The first occurred following the separation from their biological families. Jewish parents hid their children in Christian homes or convents, where the children had to learn to conceal their identities.

The second rupture was “when the children were confronted with the news of being Jewish,” as Michlic put it, and had to leave their Christian lives behind.


Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/152160/#ixzz1npdqPce9

Michael Jackson's family photo album up for auction

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Never-seen family photo album is up for auction.



The snaps are of relatives and friends taken in the 1970s. They are a unique insight into the famous Jackson clan.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108208/Michael-Jacksons-family-photo-album-goes-auction.html#ixzz1npPEd2ZT

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Nun Returns to H'wood

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Few stars rose higher than Elvis Presley.  She was billed as the next Grace Kelly, Delores Hart starred in ten movies including " King Creole " and "Loving You," even delivering the King his first on-screen kiss 


Despite standing on the brink of stardom she waved good-bye to hollywood for a greater passion.

Delores was in love with God and her relationship with him led her to the convent.

At the Oscars, a film about her life "God is the bigger Elvis" led her back to Hollywood.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

the celebration of old times and old values in the movies

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One of the dirty little secrets of Hollywood is that it is full of self-loathing. We tend to think that the denizens of the film industry luxuriate in the popcorn movies they deliver to us, that they love the bombast that is now the primary reason people go to the movies. Indeed, the stereotype of the movie mogul is still a man or woman who cares more about money than prestige, and who boasts, as a writer once remarked of Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn when Cohn said a movie wasn't any good because he kept wiggling in his seat, that the whole world is "wired to his ass." They are us — only richer.


But even though it is true that the people who run Hollywood love the grosses that a superhero movie or a high-tech thriller or a teenage sex comedy bring into the studio coffers, the industry has had a sense of reserve and higher purpose that goes back to the movies' early days. The very first movie moguls, Louis B. Mayer, William Fox and the Warner brothers, to name a few, didn't gain traction in the business by talking down to their audience but by talking up to it. They eschewed cheesy movies for more elegant fare — pictures like the religious epic "Ben Hur" for MGM, the Dickens' adaptation "Oliver Twist" for Fox and Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windemere's Fan" for Warners. They raised the movies' status and their own in the process.

Academy Awards Through the Years

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The first ce­re­mony made the Los Angeles Times front page un­der the head­line “Film-Mer­it Trophies Awar­ded.” Cov­er­age was all of one pho­to­graph and two para­graphs. Since then the Academy Awards have be­come an event watched around the world.

Story of the Tuxedo or the Dinner Jacket

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Since 1846 ....

Remembering Jackie Gleason

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February 26th, 1916 was the day John Herbert Gleason was born in Brooklyn. The street-wise kid adept at pool and sharp-edged comedy hit the big-time in the 1950s with "The Jackie Gleason Show" on CBS, and remains with us in reruns as bus driver Ralph Kramden.

King of the "B" Movies

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Independent director-producer Roger Corman, legendary for his exploitation films that catered to teenage audiences in drive-ins, has been labeled "King of the B Movies" for his proficiency in producing films with threadbare budgets. He's also nurtured a generation or two of Hollywood talent, including Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Ron Howard and Joe Dante, and helped launch or revive the careers of Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and Sandra Bullock.


Corman began directing low-budget westerns, teen dramas and science fiction films in the mid-1950s, with the western "Five Guns West," and "Apache Woman" (1955), starring Lloyd Bridges as a federal agent who falls hard for a Native American beauty (Joan Taylor).

Evolution of the Movie Trailer

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First Best Picture

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We remember the silent film classic that won Best Picture on the very first Oscar night:  It soared and roared with movie magic unlike anything America had ever seen.

Paramount's 1927 World War I epic "Wings" had the usual aerial duels . . . and then came the unusual - the patina of reality.

Director William Wellman wanted it right because he was a fighter pilot in WWI. As a B-movie director after the war, he was an unlikely choice to helm the studio's big picture of that year.


Studio boss Jesse Lasky asked why Wellman thought he could do the job: "My father said, 'My war record does,'" said Wellman Jr. "'And I'll make you the best damn picture this studio's ever made.' And I think he did."

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7400066n&tag=cbsnewsTwoColLowerPromoArea;fd.morenews



Saturday, February 25, 2012

Golden nights from a golden age: Old Hollywood glamour reigns supreme as iconic movie stars dazzle at bygone Oscars

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At link ... wonderful b&w photographs from Oscar nights of the past.

The stunning pictures capture the sophistication and allure of stars on awards nights more than half a century ago.

http://www.peoplestylewatch.com/people/stylewatch/package/article/0,,20552373_20573592,00.html

Monday, February 20, 2012

President's Day

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On President's Day - we bone up on lesser-known presidential tidbits of trivia for an Oval Office view at an different angle.

remembering Warren G. Harding http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7400066n&tag=cbsnewsTwoColLowerPromoArea;fd.morenews

and John Tyler http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7400066n&tag=cbsnewsTwoColLowerPromoArea;fd.morenews

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Former NYPD cop remembers arresting Willie Sutton 60 years ago today - NYPOST.com

Former NYPD cop remembers arresting Willie Sutton 60 years ago today - NYPOST.com

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Rare Porcelain Sculpture Found

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A rare porcelain sculpture of a child's head that has spent centuries hidden away in a private collection is set to break the world record sale price at auction.


The eight inch tall sculpture, made by Louis Francois Roubiliac between 1748 and 1750, depicts a child's smiling face and has been described as the 'holy grail' of English porcelein.


The art piece is so rare it moved the first expert who saw it to tears and it is now being sold at British Pottery and Porcelain auction by Bonhams, London.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103071/Porcelain-sculpture-childs-head-hidden-private-collection-set-fetch-250-000.html#ixzz1mmy15w7e

Hitler's Lovechild?

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Here we go again .... another Hitler story -

They shared the same piercing gaze, defined jawline and stern mouth set off with a clipped moustache.



But the Frenchman who believed he was the secret son of Adolf Hitler was never able to prove his family line before he died. He wasn’t even sure he wanted to.

Now new information has emerged that adds weight to Jean-Marie Loret’s claim to have been Hitler’s son from a brief relationship with a French woman during the First World War.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102796/Did-Hitler-father-lovechild-New-claims-emerge-Fuhrer-son-Frenchwoman.html#ixzz1mmlnQcrZ

Lord Lucan!

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Nicknamed 'Lucky Lucan', the Right Honourable Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, vanished in 1974 after his children's nanny Sandra Rivett was found dead in his estranged wife's London home.


The mystery surrounding his disappearance after 38-years has led to more than 70 sightings of him in countries like South Africa, Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands.

But now a woman, who worked for one of his gambling acquaintances, the late John Aspinall, has revealed to the BBC she arranged flights for his children to Africa so he could view them 'from a distance'. The woman has revealed Lord Lucan was living a secret life in Africa in the 1980s after he went missing.



The theory has been confirmed by a former detective detective who said he received a tip-off from a credible witness that Lucan was living on the continent.

The woman, who asked not to be identified but assumed the name of Jill Findlay for the Inside Out programme, said she was an assistant to Mr Aspinall, the multi-millionaire zoo and casino owner who died in 2000.



She said she was often privy to meetings where the missing aristocrat was discussed by her boss and Sir James Goldsmith, the multi-millionaire businessman.


'Instructions were to make arrangements for John Bingham, also known as Lord Lucan, to see his children and to do that I had to book his two eldest children on flights to Africa,' she said.


'I don't know the exact dates but it was between 1979 and 1981 and it was on two occasions I booked flights.'  Ms Findlay said the children would have visited Kenya and Gabon but did not meet or speak to their father.

His children's nanny Ms Rivett was found murdered in November 1974 after Lucan allegedly mistook her for his wife.  He also attacked Lady Lucan who was savagely beaten but she managed to escape and raise the alarm at a nearby pub.

Later that night he is thought to have fled to friends in Sussex and his car was found abandoned at Newhaven, East Sussex. He was never seen in the UK again.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102954/New-evidence-reveals-Lord-Lucan-living-secret-life-Africa.html#ixzz1mkjmXJpj

Friday, February 17, 2012

Sepulveda Boulevard Tunnel Opens

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Sept. 27, 1930: Following opening ceremonies, a procession of cars, horses and wagons proceeds south through the new Sepulveda Boulevard tunnel. After eight years of construction, the new tunnel connects the San Fernando Valley with West Los Angeles.


In an article the next day, the Los Angeles Times reported:

Leading a three-mile procession of Indians, Mexicans, Spaniards and other pioneers of the Southwest, who came by thousands in ox carts, covered wagons and on gaily caparisoned horses, Mayor [John] Porter yesterday turned a golden key and opened wide the gates of Sepulveda Boulevard tunnel, the new thoroughfare through the Santa Monica Mountains which links San Fernando Valley with the beaches and West Los Angeles.

Misses Eleanor Poulton, Anna Jane Hill and Martha Sellemeyer, in Spanish costumes recalling the days of the dons, presented the key to Mayor Porter, who formally dedicated the tunnel and the new boulevard to the use of the people of Los Angeles county.

From the tunnel, the parade proceeded to Beverly Boulevard, at which point an entertainment, including addresses by prominent citizens, was given and a barbecue was provided by Charles Pressly of Santa Barbara.

The eight-year project built eight miles of new highway at a cost of $550,000, the article noted

Martin Luther King Jr. in L.A. Times

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Martin Luther King Jr., born Jan. 15, 1929, assassinated April 4, 1968, changed America forever with his leadership of the civil rights movement. His determination to bring change through nonviolent methods contributed to passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.


King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech is regarded as one of the finest in American history. In 1964 Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize.

For more on King, check out The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change website.

Beatty and MacLaine

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Actor Warren Beatty embraces his sister actress Shirley MacLaine as they face the media and crowd outside the 1966 Academy Awards ceremony, where they were presenters.

Chinese New Year Celebrations in Los Angeles

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The photo gallery was published in the Jan. 27, 1928, Los Angeles Times.

The original caption reported:
Yesterday Was Bad Day for Invisible Devils

“Happy New Year!” being said Chinese style down on Apablasa street in Chinatown. The lion doing his annual dance, bringing good luck for the new year and driving away any stray devils from the doorstep mid the smoke of booming firecrackers.

Apablasa Street was in Old Chinatown. Most of the community was removed for construction of Union Station. There have actually been four Chinese communities in downtown Los Angeles.

Simone Signoret and the Communist Connection

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French actress Simone Signoret denied in 1960 that she was ever a Communist. Signoret had the night before, won the lead actress Oscar for the 1959 movie “Room at the Top.”


During an L.A. Times interview, Signoret stated she had never been a member of the Communist Party in France or anywhere else. “Sure,” Signoret added, “I was once refused a visa to visit the United States in 1957. Someone said it was because I signed the Stockholm Appeal seeking to end wars and stop the manufacture of atom bombs. I’m still for that.”

Signoret and her husband, French singer Yves Montand, always supported leftist and human rights causes. Not mentioned in the 1960 interview: Montand and Signoret visited Moscow in 1956 and met Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev. But after the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Montand and Signoret denounced Soviet communism.

Packers Won First Super Bowl

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Jan. 15, 1967: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in the first Super Bowl, played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. At halftime, the Chiefs were only behind 14-10, but the Packers took over in the third quarter.

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Super Bowl halftime Bell Rocket Air Men
http://framework.latimes.com/2012/02/02/super-bowl-halftime-bell-rocket-air-men/

Norman Rockwell

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June 30, 1965: Artist Norman Rockwell posed for Los Angeles Times staff photographer R. L. Oliver at the Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park in Los Angeles.

The Beetle

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In 1969, Beetle sales in the United States peaked at 367,607. By 1977, the model had been discontinued — annual sales having dropped below 50,000.

Alien Registration Act of 1940

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In 1940, Congress passed the Alien Registration Act, a national security measure that required all non-citizen adults to register with the government.

In addition to alien registration, the act — also know as the Smith Act — set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government.

A Ship Built to Sink — Almost

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See when the Scripps Floating Instrument Platform, FLIP, research vessel deploys off San Clemente Island.

At the link see photos showing the vessel as it flips after the ballast tanks are filled with sea water after which the 55-foot bow then rises to a vertical position and into a space perfect for ocean research.

Nixon’s Last Campaign Stop

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Nov. 4, 1972: During his last campaign stop ever, President Nixon reaches out to shake hands with members of a large crowd — estimated at 50,000 — at Ontario International Airport. After 26 years in politics, Nixon addressed the crowd about his plans to end the Vietnam War.

John Glenn Became America's Biggest Hero 50 Years Ago

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John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, doing so three times at an altitude of up to 162 statute miles and speeds of up to 17,500 miles an hour, finally returning home with a successful splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean, 800 miles off Bermuda.


It was no accident that Glenn was chosen to be first to orbit the planet. As a U.S. Marine, he flew 59 combat missions in World War II and later flew 63 more during the Korean War.

He became known as one of the best test pilots in the country, and in 1957, prior to being chosen one of the seven Mercury astronauts who would take on the Russians in the new space race, Glenn flew to New York from Los Angeles in 3 hours and 23 minutes, becoming the first pilot to make a transcontinental flight averaging above the speed of sound.

Declassified Documents Show FBI, MI5 Spied on Chaplin

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According to declassified documents quoted in The Guardian, the FBI had a 2,000-page file on Charlie Chaplin and reached out across the pond for help spying on him. In 1952, J. Edgar Hoover contacted the UK's MI5 security agency because he was concerned that Chaplin was a Communist sympathizer; meanwhile, the Brits wondered if the actor was actually - quelle horreur! - French.

Was Charlie Chaplin a Frenchman? MI5 files reveal he may have been born near Paris... or even in Russia!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102325/Was-Charlie-Chaplin-Frenchman-MI5-files-reveal-born-near-Paris--Russia.html#ixzz1mmqlRzQe

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

200lb Space Rock

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A rock which rested inconspicuously on the doorstep of a house for at least 80 years has been revealed as the biggest meteorite ever found to have landed in Britain.



The , which is 1.6ft long, had been sitting by the front door of Lake House, a stately home near Wilsford-cum-Lake, Wiltshire, since the early 1900s. It is thought to have landed on Earth 30,000 years ago.

It had been thought that the rock landed in another part of the world before being brought England by a collector.

Massive: The meteorite from Lake House which, at 1.6ft long and a weight of 200lb, is believed to be the biggest ever discovered to have fallen on Britain

But researchers now believe that it actually landed here some 30,000 years ago - making it four times bigger than any other meteorite found in Britain.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2101066/Biggest-meteorite-drop-Britain-doorstep-stately-home.html#ixzz1mQ5bFvU6

'I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett'

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The romantic words from one poet to another which are now available online are 573 love letters between 19th century poet Elizabeth Barrett and her future husband, Robert Browning. The letters have long fascinated scholars and poetry fans.


Although transcriptions of their correspondence have been published, the handwritten letters could only be seen at Wellesley College, near Boston, U.S., where the collection has been kept since 1930.

Barrett, one of the most well-known poets of the Victorian era, suffered from chronic illness and was in her late 30s when Browning first wrote her in 1845 to tell her he admired her work.


After more than a year of almost daily letters between them, the couple married in secret in September 1846, defying her father's prohibition against her ever marrying.

The website designed for readers to view the correspondence includes handwritten letters and transcriptions, as well as a zoom function for readers to decipher faded or illegible words.



The body of letters will also be searchable by keywords.


Readers will share their journey as they find love together, while corresponding about other writers, philosophy and their own work.


Barrett first wrote the lines of what would become her most famous poem after she met Browning, 'How Do I Love Thee? Let me count the ways.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2101034/Valentines-Day-messages-Elizabeth-Barretts-romantic-verses-Robert-Browning-online.html#ixzz1mPv8IlIh

Hollywood Romances: The Golden Era For Valentine's Day

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On Valentine's Day, go back in time and revell in the passionate romances of Hollywood's Golden Age.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Discovery of the Queen of Sheba's Mines

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British archaeologists have struck gold with a discovery that may solve the mystery of where the Queen of Sheba unearthed her fabled treasures.


According to the Bible, the ruler of Sheba, which spanned modern-day Ethiopa and Yemen, travelled to King Solomon in Jerusalem, bringing 120 talents (four-and-half tons) of gold.

Now an ancient goldmine, together with the ruins of a temple, has been found on the high Gheralta plateau in northern Ethiopia, part of the Queen's former territory.

The entrance lay concealed behind a 20ft stone or slab carved with a sun and crescent moon, the 'calling card of the land of Sheba', according to excavation leader Louise Schofield.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2100463/Archaeologists-strike-Biblical-gold-discovery-Queen-Shebas-fabled-mines.html#ixzz1mJpR9w8n

An Extraordinary Retrial

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A woman who was burned at the stake for sorcery more than 300 years is the subject of an extraordinary retrial which is seeking to clear her name.


Katharina Henot was tried, convicted and burned at the stake in the German city of Cologne in 1627 for being a witch - one of an estimated 25,000 alleged sorcerers incinerated for practicing the dark arts in Germany in days gone by.

However, her supporters are hoping to see her name cleared of any wrongdoing in a trial which could pave the way for other similar hearings to take place.

Mrs Henot ran the local post office and attended parties in the city. Her modern-day defenders say she was tortured and burned because a political rival wanted to get his hands on her money.

Her story is well-known in Germany - there is a statue of her in the town hall in Cologne and a book was written about her.

Now Cologne council - the same body which found her guilty - is reopening her case.

Raine Spencer Rages at Sale of Her Diana Letters

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The discovery of never-before-seen letters from Princess Diana has sparked new heartache for her stepmother Raine Spencer.


Private correspondence between the two women has reignited the debate as to whether Camilla Parker Bowles cast a shadow over her life even before Diana’s engagement.

Auctioneers plan to sell the two handwritten missives, sent by Diana to Raine weeks before Charles proposed. But I can reveal that a furious Countess Spencer is demanding to know the provenance of the letters.

She says she is ‘appalled’ and ‘astonished’ at the sale

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100263/RICHARD-KAY-Raine-Spencer-rages-sale-Diana-letters.html#ixzz1mJieeRoM


Beloved stepmother: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2102934/A-wicked-stepmother-No-Diana-came-love-Acid-Raine-real-mother.html

An Intellectually Superior Race of Children to Repopulate Britain After World War Two

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Yale University has been accused of trying to create a super race of British children during War World Two, it emerged today.


The university offered to evacuate children of Oxford University staff in 1940, but it appears there could have been a sinister motive behind their seemingly kind offer.

There are now reports that leaders of the eugenics movement at Yale University may have extended the invitation because they planned to repopulate a devastated Britain with a race of intellectually superior children

Royal Valentine

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When a former footman and valet in the Royal Household received this Valentine's Day card from Princess Diana, you can imagine how thrilled he must have been.


The pink personalised card - addressed to ‘George’ and signed by the popular Princess - was anonymously sent by Diana in 1989, when she was still married to Prince Charles.

WHITNEY

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Jackie Kennedy in White House

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When Jacqueline Kennedy was asked to help refurbish the White House she threw herself into the task - even designing the new curtains herself.


The former First Lady deployed her incredible eye for detail when she helped decorate the State Rooms, newly released papers from the 1960s reveal.

Rather than rely on an interior designer she personally chose the fabrics and spent hours flicking through samples before selecting the right one.

Among the documents are her hand-drawn ideas for how the Oval Office curtains, which are golden coloured and have a faintly Middle Eastern feel to them.


There are samples of browns, greens and beige colours that Mrs Kennedy sifted through before deciding which one to use.


The Personal Papers of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were donated, along with other historical materials, to the Kennedy Library by Caroline Kennedy and John F Kennedy, Jr.


Library Director Tom Putnam said: 'Students, scholars, and the general public continue to be fascinated by Jacqueline Kennedy and the pivotal role she played in our nation’s history.

'These new documents demonstrate her work as First Lady, her legendary attention to detail, and the incredible range of her understanding of art, history, and public diplomacy.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2100699/Golden-curtains-Oval-office-How-Jacqueline-Kennedy-mark-White-House.html#ixzz1mIr3zt8r