Ellie Ellwand Narration Demo
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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during the long winter of 1963. During the lonely nights that seemed to never end the wakeful nights that no quantity of vodka could assuage, Jackie Kennedy would relive the sliver of time between the first gunshot, which had missed the car, and the second, which hit both the president and Texas governor John Connally. Those 3.5 seconds became of cardinal importance to her. In the course of her marriage, she had constructed herself as Jack Kennedy's one woman, Pretoria in guard. So again and again that winter of 1963 to 64 she rehearsed the same brief sequence. If only she had been looking to the right. She told herself she might have saved her husband. If only she had recognized the sound of the first shot. She could have pulled him down in time, a symbol of strength for a traumatized nation. That winter, Jacqueline Kennedy was, in fact, falling apart