Larry King Live
Lee Radziwill Shares Her Remarkable Memories
Aired March 27, 2001 - 9:00 p.m. ET
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LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, Lee Radziwill, sister of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, eyewitness to history, brand of the famous. She shares her remarkable memories in a new book, "Happy Times." That's next on LARRY KING LIVE.
Good evening. Great pleasure to have a special guest tonight, Lee Radziwill, the sister of the late Jackie Kennedy Onassis and the author of "Happy Times," a collection of amazing pictures -- a lot more than pictures. Why did you do this? Why this book?
LEE RADZIWILL, AUTHOR, "HAPPY TIMES": Well, I did it because it was a difficult period in my life, and so I was considering writing, and I thought that it would be uplifting to go back and look at some things worth remembering, and that it'd be happy and those memories were exciting. So that's why I started to embark on this project.
KING: Did it work?
RADZIWILL: It did. It certainly did.
KING: It got you through a bad period?
RADZIWILL: Oh, it was an enormous help, and it was a great pleasure too, because...
KING: This was dealing with loss, right?
RADZIWILL: Well, yes, it was, but you know, memories are very powerful, and so much had happened in this particular decade that was wonderful as well as not so perfect, but it really was a great help. And then you immerse yourself in it. And I enjoyed it a lot.
KING: Must be fun looking back over old pictures, right, but it's fun and cathartic.