One Brief Shining Moment

December, 1983

William Manchester's friendship with John F. Kennedy began in Boston immediately after World War Two, when both were young veterans crippled by wounds. Their relationship continued during Kennedy's White House years, when Manchester was the President's trusted confidant. Early in 1964, Jacqueline and Robert Kennedy asked the author to write ''The Death of a President,'' his definitive account of the Dallas tragedy. This fall, Manchester published his 15th book, ''One Brief Shining Moment: Rememb...

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