Jackie Kennedy accorde une interview à un journaliste quelques jours après la mort violente de son époux John Fitzgerald Kennedy, assassiné le 22 novembre 1963 à Dallas. Pour l'ex-First Lady, c'est l'occasion de relater les quelques jours qui ont suivis ces heures funestes. Par exemple, en dépit des mesures de sécurité considérables prises par l'équipe du président Lyndon B. Johnson, elle demande à accompagner le cercueil de son mari jusqu'au bout. Robert Kennedy, très proche de son frère et dont les rapports sont tendus avec le nouveau président, lui apporte son soutien indéfectible. La jeune veuve, âgée d'à peine 34 ans, est déterminée à ce que l'héritage de son époux lui survive...
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00:01People like to believe in fairy tales.
00:04You ready?
00:06Of course.
00:13And you?
00:15I believe that the characters we read about on the page end up being more real than the men who stand beside us.
00:30I am saying, Jack. Jack, can you hear me? Jack, I love you, Jack.
00:51People need their history.
00:53They need to know that real men actually lived here.
01:05Well, I've grown accustomed to a great divide between what people believe and what I know to be real.
01:11And how would you like him remembered?
01:13There should be more horses, more soldiers.
01:15Why are you doing this, Mr. Kennedy?
01:17There's more crying, more cameras.
01:18This is making us look like barbarians.
01:20What's wrong with you?
01:21You don't have to do this.
01:22I will march with Jack.
01:25Alone, if necessary.
01:27I'm not the First Lady anymore.
01:31I lost Jack somewhere.
01:34What was real.
01:36What was performance.
01:52I'm guessing you won't allow me to write any of that.
02:09No.
02:11Because I never said that.
02:13I never said that.
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