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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis |
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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born in Southhampton, New York on July 28, 1929.
Her family was wealthy. Her father worked as a stock broker. Jackie's parents separated when she was eight. Her mother re-married. She married another stock broker named Hugh Auchincloss. They took Jackie with them to live in Washington, D.C. She attended private schools. After high school, she went to Vassar College to study art history. She also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. She returned to the US and attended George Washington University. Jackie took a job with the Washington Times Herald in 1952. Her job was photographing and interviewing important people in the Washington area. One of the people she interviewed was Senator John F. Kennedy. She married him on September 12, 1953. The wedding was held in Newport, Rhode Island. She was 24 and he was 36. The wedding was large. They had 1,700 guests at the reception. Jackie had a miscarriage in 1955 and another baby was still born in 1956. Then two healthy babies were born, Caroline in 1957, and John Jr. in 1960. John Jr. was born just a few weeks before his father was elected President. While she was First Lady, she tried to shelter her children from the public attention and to gain them some privacy. This was very difficult because the President and First Lady were very popular and anything they did was news worthy. Jacqueline dressed in the latest elegant fashion. Her marriage was strained by her extravagant spending, refusal to attend some official events and her husband's relationships with other women. In 1963, their third child, Patrick, died two days after his birth. This brought the couple closer together. On November 22, President Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvery Oswald. No one who was alive at that time will forget the pictures of Jackie in the car and in her blood stained suit watching Vice President Lyndon Johnson being sworn in as President. After the President's death, Jackie hardly had any privacy. Reporters followed her everywhere. She later married Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy Greek shipowner. Aristotle died in 1975. Jackie went back to work as an editor for a New York publisher. She died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma (a form of cancer) on May 19, 1994. Jackie is buried in Arlington National Cemetery next to President Kennedy.
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