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Jacqueline Kennedy(1929-1994)

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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28, 1929 in Southampton, New York, to Janet Norton (Lee) and John Vernou "Blackjack" Bouvier III, a stockbroker. Her sister Caroline Lee (aka Lee Radziwill) was born four years after her. Her mother was of Irish descent and her father had French, English, German, and Scottish ancestry.

Jackie lived in posh penthouse apartments in New York City until her parents divorced when she was about six. Several years later her mother married Hugh D. Auchincloss and Jackie became the stepsister of two brothers and a sister from Hugh's previous marriages. Soon there were another brother and sister as a result of the new marriage.

Jackie attended boarding schools and then Vassar. After two years, though, she got tired of schools 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, DC, graduating in 1951. She took a job at the CIA and in January of 1952 went to work at a Washington newspaper as a photographer. During an assignment, she met U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, who was 12 years her senior. They were married on September 12, 1953. After having one stillborn daughter, Arabella Kennedy, along came Caroline Kennedy, on November 27, 1957. Their first son John Kennedy Jr., who was born on November 25, 1960. In 1961 John Kennedy became the 35th President of the US. Jackie spent the White House years doing her best to save the historical landmarks around Washington. In August of 1963 she went into labor with their fourth child, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, but sadly, he died shortly after birth. Jackie was not scheduled to go to Texas with her husband, but decided to go as a means of perhaps putting the death of Patrick behind them. She was sitting next to him in the open-air limousine on November 22, 1963, when JFK was assassinated.

In 1968 her brother-in-law, Robert F. Kennedy, was also assassinated. The combination of the death of two children and the murders of her husband and brother-in-law proved to be too much for her, and she came to the conclusion that she and her family could not live safely in the US any longer. On October 20, 1968, she married Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis. After he died in the mid-'70s she returned to New York and became a book editor. She dedicated the last 20 years of her life to her children, her grandchildren and her friend Maurice Tempelsman. In the early 1990s she found out she had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and died on May 19, 1994. Shortly after her death there was a sale of some of her prized possessions. Arnold Schwarzenegger spent more than a million dollars on some of the things to honor the aunt and uncle of his wife, Maria Shriver.
BornJuly 28, 1929
DiedMay 19, 1994(64)
BornJuly 28, 1929
DiedMay 19, 1994(64)
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  • Won 1 Primetime Emmy
    • 1 win total

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Giovanni Agnelli and Jacqueline Kennedy in Agnelli (2017)
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John Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy, and Jacqueline Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy and Maurice Tempelsman in A Tale of Two Sisters (2015)
Jacqueline Kennedy in A Tale of Two Sisters (2015)
Jacqueline Kennedy and Ron Galella in A Tale of Two Sisters (2015)
Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis in A Tale of Two Sisters (2015)
Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis in A Tale of Two Sisters (2015)
Caroline Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Aristotle Onassis in A Tale of Two Sisters (2015)

Known for

A Tour of the White House (1962)
A Tour of the White House
8.2
TV Movie
  • Self - First Lady and Hostess(as Mrs. John F. Kennedy)
  • 1962
Primary (1960)
Primary
7.1
  • Self
  • 1960
To Venice with Love
  • Self(as Jacqueline Onassis)
  • 1980
Jacqueline Kennedy in Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey (1962)
Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey
Short
  • Self
  • 1962

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Personal details

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  • Official site
    • The White House - First Ladies
  • Alternative names
    • Jackie Bouvier
  • Height
    • 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
  • Born
    • July 28, 1929
    • Southampton, New York, USA
  • Died
    • May 19, 1994
    • New York City, New York, USA(non-Hodgkin's lymphoma)
  • Spouses
      Aristotle OnassisOctober 20, 1968 - March 15, 1975 (his death)
  • Children
      John Kennedy Jr.
  • Parents
    • Janet Auchincloss
  • Relatives
      Rose Schlossberg(Grandchild)
  • Publicity listings
    • 6 Biographical Movies
    • 15 Print Biographies
    • 26 Portrayals
    • 1 Interview
    • 13 Articles
    • 9 Pictorials
    • 18 Magazine Cover Photos

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  • Trivia
    On her way back to Washington from Dallas after her husband's murder Lady Bird Johnson advised her to clean up and change her outfit so that she would be presentable for the television cameras. Mrs. Kennedy, mindful of the impact of the cameras, refused because she wanted the public to see her in the outfit that was still stained with her husband's blood. Being urged to change her mind by those around her she replied, "Let them see what they have done".
  • Quotes
    I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
  • Trademark
      Her pillbox hats, tailored suits and dresses which were all made exclusively for her by French designer Oleg Cassini.
  • Nicknames
    • Jackie O
    • Supertanker

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