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| Birth Name(s) : Jacqueline Lee Bouvier |
Date of Birth: July 28, 1929 |
| Status:
Married
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Partner:
John F. Kennedy, Aristotle Socrates Onassis |
| Profession:
Actor/Public Figure |
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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28 1929 to Janet Norton Lee and John V. Bouvier who was called "Black" Jack Bouvier. She had a sister Caroline Lee, born 4 years after her. She lived in posh pent house apartments in New York until her parents divorced when she was about 6. Several years later her mother married Hugh D. Auchincloss and she became the sister of two brothers and a sister from Hugh's previous marriages and soon after had another brother and sister from the marriage of her mother and Hugh.
She went to boarding schools and then went off to Vassar. After two years though she got sick of it and spent her junior year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. When she got back to the US she did not want to go back to Vassar so she enrolled in George Washington University in Washington D.C. and graduated in 1951. She had a job at the C.I.A. and in January of 1952 went to work at a Washington newspaper where she was a photographer. During an assignment she met Senator John F. Kennedy. They were married on September 12, 1953. Their first child that lived was Caroline Bouvier Kennedy born on November 27, 1957.
In 1960 John Kennedy became the 35th President of the U.S., but before he became President Jackie had a second child. A son called John F. Kennedy Jr. born on November 25, 1960. Jackie spent the White House Years doing her best to save the historical landmarks around Washington. In August of 1963 Jackie went into labor with their third child who was named Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, but sadly he died shortly after his birth. Both parents were sad at the death and it brought them together. Jackie was not supposed to go to Texas with her husband, but with the death of Patrick she decided to go with him. November 22, 1963 was a very heartbreaking day for Jackie. On that day she lost her husband of 10 years.
In 1968 her brother in law Robert Kennedy was assassinated and Jackie could not live in the US any more. On October 20, 1968 she was married to Greek shipping magnet Aristotle Onassis. After he died in the mid 70s she returned to New York and became a book publisher. She dedicated the last 20 years of her life to her children, her grandchildren and her "friend" Maurice Templeton. In the early 90s she found out she had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She died from that on May 19, 1994. Shortly after her death there was a sale of some of her prized possessions. Arnold Schwarzenegger even spent more than a million dollars on some of the things to honor the aunt and uncle of his wife (Maria Shriver). |
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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was the wife of John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963 and was known as Jacqueline Kennedy or Jackie Kennedy. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1961 until her husband's assassination in 1963. She was married to Aristotle Onassis from 1968 until his death in 1975, and was known as Jacqueline Onassis, Jackie Onassis, or more informally as Jackie O. In later years she had a successful career as a book editor. She preferred her first name to be pronounced in the French manner (IPA: /Ê'aklin/)..
Jacqueline was joined by a sister, Caroline Lee, known as Lee, in 1933. Her father, nicknamed "Black Jack", was a playboy stockbroker whose womanizing led to his eventual divorce from Janet when Jackie was a young girl. While Black Jack never remarried, Janet married her second husband, Standard Oil heir Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr. and had two children with him, Jacqueline's half-siblings Janet Jennings and James Auchincloss. In her later years, Jacqueline's mother married Bingham Morris.
Jacqueline spent summers of her first 12 years at the estate of her paternal grandparents called Lasata in East Hampton where she became an accomplished equestrienne competing with her favorite horse Danseuse, meaning "female dancer" in French.
After her parents' formal divorce in 1942 and her mother's remarriage, she was to continue her riding at the Auchincloss's Hammersmith Farm.
In 1951, Jacqueline took her first job as the "Inquiring Camera Girl" for The Washington Times-Herald. Her job was to ask witty questions of the people she met in Washington, D.C. The questions and amusing responses would then appear alongside the interviewee's photograph in the newspaper. One of Jacqueline's subjects for this assignment was a young Massachusetts Congressman named John F. Kennedy.
Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy married on September 12, 1953, at Newport, Rhode Island. The bride's gown and the bridesmaids' dresses were made by Ann Lowe, a well-known fashion designer; the reception was held at Hammersmith Farm, with guests numbering nearly 2,000 people. After the wedding, they returned to Washington, D.C. following a brief honeymoon. Early in their marriage, Senator Kennedy suffered crippling pain in his back from a wartime injury and he had two operations. As he was recovering from surgery, Mrs. Kennedy encouraged him to write a book, Profiles in Courage, which is about several U.S. senators who had risked their careers to fight for the things in which they believed. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957.
In the general election on November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy narrowly beat Republican Richard Milhous Nixon in the 1960 presidential election.
When President Kennedy asked her to accompany him on a campaign trip to Texas, she told him she would go anywhere he needed her. On November 21, 1963 they left Andrews Air Force Base, first stopped in San Antonio, and then went to Houston where they toured NASA facilities. Their last stop that day was in Ft. Worth. After a breakfast the next day, November 22, with the Ft. Worth Chamber of Commerce at The Hotel Texas, President and Mrs. Kennedy flew to Dallas's Love Field. A short motorcade was to take them to the Trademart where he was scheduled to speak. Jackie was seated next to her husband in the limousine when he was shot and mortally wounded in Dealey Plaza. Vice President Johnson and his wife followed in another car in the motorcade. After the President was hit, Jacqueline climbed out of the back seat and crawled toward the Secret Service agent who was at the back. After his death she refused to remove her blood-stained clothing, and regretted having washed the blood off of her face and hands. She continued to wear the famous stained pink suit as she stood next to Johnson on board the plane when he took the oath of office as President.Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, John Jr., Caroline, and Peter Lawford depart the U.S. Capitol after a lying-in-state ceremony for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 24 November 1963
Jacqueline led the nation in mourning as the President lay in repose at the White House and then lay in state in the Capitol rotunda. The funeral service was held for the President at St. Matthew's Cathedral. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery and Jackie was the first to light the eternal flame at the grave site. Lady Jean Campbell reported back to The London Evening Standard: "Jacqueline Kennedy has given the American people… one thing they have always lacked: majesty."
Jacqueline was with her children in New York when Onassis died. Her legacy was severely limited by a rumored prenuptial agreement and by legislation that Onassis had allegedly persuaded the Greek government to approve, which limited how much a non-Greek surviving spouse could inherit. Jacqueline eventually accepted Christina's offer of $26,000,000, waiving all other claims to the Onassis estate. Vanity Fair notes that Jacqueline quadrupled her share of the Onassis estate through investments by the time of her death. |
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