{"id":4145,"date":"2019-09-19T14:27:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2019-09-19T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T12:28:50","slug":"jonas-mekas-and-john-f-kennedys-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2019\/09\/19\/jonas-mekas-and-john-f-kennedys-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Mekas and John F. Kennedy\u2019s Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jackie Kennedy at her home, 1970 . In: A dance with Fred Astaire \/ Jonas Mekas ; [edited by Johan Kugelberg, Jonas Mekas, and Sebastian Mekas]. \u2013 New York : Anthology Editions, 2017, p. 318.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Jonas Mekas<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackie Kennedy was one of the most special women I was privileged to know in my life. I do not mean her position in society: I mean her intelligence, a very special intelligence with a deep sensitivity, and her elegance, her style, her generosity, her simple, straight, magic human quality. I could go on and on.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[…] <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event took place the very first time I visited Jackie in her Fifth Avenue home. Somehow the talk turned to John F. Kennedy and movies. <\/em>„You know,<\/em>” Jackie said, <\/em>„just a few months before he died somebody gave him as a present a little 8mm movie camera. He always carried it in the pocket of his raincoat. You know, as I am thinking now, it must still be there.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She went to the closet and found a beige raincoat and there it was! In the raincoat pocket there was a small 8mm movie camera! She brought it to me. I regret I do not remember now the brand of the camera.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

„He did some filming. But he never finished the roll. It\u2019s still in the camera,” she said. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She put the camera back into the pocket of the raincoat.<\/em>[1]<\/a>
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[1]<\/a>A dance with Fred Astaire \/ Jonas\nMekas ; [edited by Johan Kugelberg, Jonas Mekas, and Sebastian Mekas]. \u2013 New\nYork : Anthology Editions, 2017, p. 319<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonas Mekas: Jackie Kennedy was one of the most special women I was privileged to know in my life. I do not mean her position in society: I mean her intelligence, a very special intelligence with a deep sensitivity, and her elegance, her style, her generosity, her simple, straight, magic human quality. I could go … Toliau skaityti „Jonas Mekas and John F. Kennedy\u2019s Camera”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1581],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naujienos","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}