Hearsay With Cathy Lewis

Segment A: Letters to Jackie When President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 the nation, and the world, mourned. Over the course of the two years following Kennedy's death his widow Jackie received 1.5 million condolence letters. The letters remained largely untouched for decades, but historian and News Hour with Jim Lehrer commentator Ellen Fitzpatrick has gathered 250 of the letters in a collection titled Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation. You'll want to tune in to hear about the heartfelt and moving letters Fitzpatrick has brought to light. Segment B: A Taste of Honey Acclaimed author, critic and literary scholar Jabari Asim has penned and published his first work of fiction A Taste of Honey: Stories. Though it is a work of fiction the stories are rooted in the tumultuous reality of 1968 America. The sixteen interconnected stories create a realistic depiction of life for African Americans living in a fictionalized small Midwestern town.