Whats the connection between Camelot and the Kennedys?
Camelot, a Broadway musical about the court of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table, opened in December 1960, just weeks after JFK’s election. Starring Richard Burton and Julie Andrews, the popular show was a hit with the country and a favorite with President Kennedy. We had no idea though that the enduring, mythic connection between an idealized King Arthur’s Court and the Kennedy White House was spun by a media-savvy Jackie Kennedy shortly after JFK’s assassination in November of 1963. Here’s how we found “The Story Behind Camelot.” We composed a search for web pages containing mentions of both Camelot and the Kennedys by typing “+camelot +Kennedy.” We tried this search on four different engines before we got lucky and located an ABC News article on Northern Light, a search site that indexes web documents as well as fee-based news archives and text coll
