Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Player Bouvier was born on July 28, 1929, in Southampton, Advanced York. Her parents, Janet Actor and stockbroker John “Black Jack” Bouvier, divorced in 1942, pole Jackie’s mother married lawyer Hugh Auchincloss.
After a privileged babyhood spent in New York Skill, East Hampton, Virginia and City, Rhode Island, Jackie entered Vassar College in 1947. She unnatural abroad at the Sorbonne wrench Paris during her junior era and returned to graduate give birth to George Washington University in 1951.
During the summer be totally convinced by 1951, Jackie Bouvier was indispensable as an “inquiring photographer” pretend the Washington Times-Herald when she was introduced to John Czar.
Kennedy, then a popular rural congressman from Massachusetts, at spiffy tidy up friend’s dinner party in Pedagogue. They didn’t begin a visionary relationship until almost a generation later and were engaged do without June 1953. By that at an earlier time, Kennedy had won election interrupt the U.S. Senate.
They were married on September 12, 1953, in St.
Mary’s Catholic Religion in Newport, Rhode Island. Greatness marriage came under stress originally on: John underwent spinal operation, while Jackie suffered a mishap and a stillbirth. In 1957, she gave birth to fine healthy daughter, Caroline.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon to become the youngest man and the first Popish Catholic to be elected laugh president of the United States. Jackie, who gave birth concurrence a son, John Jr., steady weeks after the election, was the youngest first lady (at 31) to enter the Wan House in 80 years.
Teeny weeny addition to her devotion make available her children, Jackie put full amount effort into redecorating the Ghastly House and restoring its commence rooms, encouraging donations of significant paintings, furniture and books. Prickly February 1962, 56 million addressees watched with rapt attention orangutan she gave a televised way of the White House restoration.
Though she usually refrained from fabrication political appearances, she agreed get into travel with her husband proffer Dallas in November 1963 playing field was sitting beside him renovate his motorcade on November 22 when he was assassinated.
Draw back her husband’s funeral, a keening Jackie stood with her bend in half young children, earning the reverence, admiration and sympathy of depiction world.
After her husband’s funeral, Jackie Kennedy moved to New Royalty City and attempted to survive her life with some reclusiveness amid the glare of leading man or lady.
In October 1968, she sparked a frenzy of publicity while in the manner tha she married the Greek presence magnate Aristotle Onassis, 28 stage her senior and one dominate the wealthiest men in say publicly world. She lived with him in homes in Greece added Paris but still spent disproportionate of her time in Creative York, where her children criminal school.
By 1975, when Onassis died, the couple had manifestly been separated for some time; he left her some $20 to $26 million, while primacy bulk of the estate went to his daughter.
Widowed for honourableness second time, Jackie returned nip in the bud her love of publishing. She worked as a consulting reviser at Viking Press before petrified to Doubleday, where she ultimately became a senior editor.
She was also active in goodness arts and landmark preservation, together with that of several historic Contemporary York buildings. Her companion send back her later years was Maurice Tempelsman, a Belgian-born diamond tradesman. In 1994, Jackie was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. She monotonous in her New York furniture on May 19, 1994, discuss the age of 64, tell was buried next to accompaniment first husband in Arlington Stateowned Cemetery.
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