Two weeks after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, author Theodore White was told by his widow, Jacqueline: “At night before we’d go to sleep, Jack liked to play some records; and the song he loved the most came at the end of this record. 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’. . . there’ll be great presidents again. . . but there’ll never be another Camelot. . . . This was Camelot. . . . Let’s not forget.” (Life, Dec. 6, 1963). This sense of innocence lost and hope blighted is echoed in the musical’s story.
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