Early life
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was in Southampton, New York, Wall Street stockbroker John Bouvier III and Janet Norton Lee Vernou born. Jacqueline had a younger sister, Caroline Lee, known as Lee, was born in 1933. His parents divorced in 1940 and his mother married the heiress of the Standard Oil Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr. 1942nd By Janet’s second marriage Jacqueline won a half-sister and half brother, James and Janet Auchincloss.
family of his mother, Lee, were mostly of Irish descent, his father, John Vernou Bouvier III was three sixteenths French and English before. Michel Bouvier, Jacqueline-grandfather, was born in France and was a contemporary of Joseph Bonaparte and Stephen Girard. He was a carpenter from Philadelphia, merchant and real estate speculator. [Edit] Wife of Michael, was Vernou Louise, the daughter of John Vernou, a tobacconist MIGR French and Elizabeth Clifford Lindsay, born an American. Grandfather of Jacqueline, John Vernou Bouvier Jr., has a very noble ancestry of his family in his book made the story of the vanity of the family of our ancestors. Recent research and research by the cousin of Jacqueline, John H. Davis made in his book The Bouviers. Portrait of an American family have the most fantasy lines denied
She spent her first years in New York and East Hampton, New York, the estate of the Bouvier family “Lasata.” [Edit] divided by the divorce of their parents Jacqueline Lee and her time between homes of their mother in McLean, Virginia and Newport, Rhode Iceland and home to her father in New York and Long Iceland.
At a very young age she was an avid rider and horse would remain a passion. As a child, she enjoyed drawing and, reading, and lacrosse. [Edit] Education and young adults

Bouvier continued his secondary education at the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland (19421944) and Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Connecticut (19,441,947). [Edit]
When the company debuted in 1947, said Hearst columnist Igor Cassini Debutante of the year.
Bouvier spent his first two years of study at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and spent his junior year (19491950) in France at the University of Grenoble and the Sorbonne, by a program of Smith College. On the way home in the U.S., it was in the George Washington University in Washington, DC, Threaded, where he obtained in 1951 a Bachelor of Arts in French literature. Bouvier college graduation coincided with the completion of their sister school, and both have spent the summer of 1951 while traveling through Europe. This trip is the subject of Kennedy autobiographical book, A Special Summer, who was also the only one of its publications to his drawings.
After studying Bouvier was hired as curious as a photographer for the Washington Times-Herald. ‘S position, you need to ask questions of the spiritual man at random on the street and take their photos selected in addition to selected excerpts from their replies appear in the newspaper. During this time she was with a young stockbroker John Husted, employed for three months.
Kennedy marriage and family
Jacqueline Kennedy at Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Iceland on his wedding day in 1953.
Jacqueline Kennedy and Senator John at that time belonged to the same social circle and often attended the same functions. were introduced in May 1952, at a dinner hosted by mutual friends she officially the first time. The two began dating shortly after, and their commitment has been officially announced 25th June 1953.
Bouvier Kennedy married 12th September 1953, at St. Mary’s, Newport, Rhode Iceland, a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Richard Cushing in Boston. About 700 guests attended the ceremony and 1200 attended the reception that followed at Hammersmith Farm.
The wedding cake was created by the bakery in Fall River Plourde, Massachusetts. The wedding dress, now stored at the Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, and clothes of their agents were created by designer Ann Lowe of New York.
The two honeymoon in Acapulco, Mexico, in McLean, cleared, Virginia.
Jacqueline suffered a miscarriage in 1955 and gave birth to a daughter born dead in 1956. In the same year the couple sold their property, Hickory Hill, Robert and Ethel Kennedy and moved to a townhouse on N Street in Georgetown. Kennedy then gave birth to a second daughter, Caroline, 1957, and a son, John, 1960, both by Caesarean section.
Name Birth Death

Notes Arabella Kennedy

23rd 23rd August 1956 August 1956
Stillborn daughter.
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
27th November 1957
married Edwin Schlossberg, has two daughters and a son. It is the last surviving child of Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
25th 16th November 1960
July, 1999
magazine publisher and lawyer. Married to Carolyn Bessette. Both Kennedy and his wife died in a plane crash along Lauren Bessette, sister Caroline, 16 July 1999, from Martha’s Vineyard in a Piper Saratoga II HP piloted by Kennedy.
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy

7 9th August 1963 August 1963
the glass skin disease died, now more common than respiratory distress syndrome in infants below the age of two.
First Lady of the United States for the presidency UnisCampagne

Jacqueline Kennedy campaigning alongside her husband in Appleton, Wisconsin, March 1960
On 2 John F. Kennedy in January 1960 announced his candidacy for president and began his national campaign. Even if you had originally intended to take an active role in the campaign, Kennedy learned she was pregnant shortly after the campaign began. Because of its difficult previous pregnancies, the doctor told him to stay at the Kennedy home. In George Town, Kennedy took the election campaign of her husband passed by answering letters, glue to TV commercials, interviews on television and print, and writes a syndicated weekly column, “Campaign woman.” She has few appearances in person.

While First Lady Mrs. Kennedy, the president, André Malraux, Marie-Madeleine Lioux Malraux, Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson with just descended the White House Grand Staircase on the way to a dinner with French Culture Minister, who in April 1962. Mrs. Kennedy wears a gown designed by Oleg Cassini.
In the eighth general election November 1960, John F. Kennedy narrowly beat Republican Richard Nixon in the U.S. presidential election. Slightly more than two weeks later, Mrs. Kennedy gave birth the couple’s first son, John, Jr. When her husband as president of 20th Was sworn in January 1961, Kennedy was in 31 years in one of the youngest first ladies in history, behind Frances Folsom Cleveland and Julia Tyler. The former first lady Mamie Eisenhower was reportedly unhappy with the idea of John F. Kennedy in the office to get the warrant for her husband. Despite new First Lady Jackie birth of their son John Jr., by caesarean section two weeks prior, Mamie refused to inform Jackie that use a wheelchair available for her, while Mrs. Kennedy shows the different sections of the White House. See Grandma discontent during the tour, Jackie kept her composure, while the presence of Mrs. Eisenhower eventually collapse in the private as soon as the new First Lady returned home. When Mamie Eisenhower asked later why they would do such a thing in question, the former First Lady said simply:
Like any first lady, Kennedy was found in the spotlight, while they did not do it, “Because they never asked.” to give interviews or be photographed, she has preferred to do as much privacy as possible for themselves and their children.
memories keep Kennedy for the reorganization of entertainment for social events at the White House, seeking to recover several White House interiors, which carried his taste in clothing during the Kennedy presidency, his popularity among the foreign dignitaries, and the country in grief after her husband’s assassination in 1963.
Kennedy is one of the most popular First Ladies.

social success as a First Lady, Kennedy has devoted much of his time planning social events at the White House and State properties of others. Often, the invited artists, writers, scientists, poets and musicians mingle with politicians, diplomats, statesmen. [Edit]
Perhaps because of its ability to entertain, Kennedy was very popular with international dignitaries. was [change] When Khrushchev asked, shaking hands with President Kennedy for a photo, Khrushchev said, “I want to shake his hand first.” Jacqueline was also in Paris, France, during his visit was with Kennedy, and when she traveled to India with Lee in 1962. [Edit]
The President and Mrs. Kennedy in La Morita, Venezuela, 16 December 1961

restoration of the White House The White House Blue Room by Stephane Boudin 1962nd Boudin chose the period of the Madison administration, again much of the original features of French Empire style.
The restoration of the White House Jacqueline Kennedy was the first major project. She was dismayed during her pre-opening tour of the White House to find some historical significance in the house. The rooms were average, with pieces that she felt lacked a sense of history established. His first attempt, began his first day in the residence (with the help of the decorator Sister Parish, the Company) to the family’s home more attractive and conducive to family life, including adding a kitchen on the floor family room and rooms for their children. On almost immediately exhausted the resources for this effort, it is a committee of Fine Arts established to monitor and consult the financing of the restoration, but also requested early American furniture expert Henry du Pont.
His skillful management of this project was hardly noted at the time, [citation], except in relation to shock talkative [edit] repeated repainting of a room, or install the high cost of the old characters Zuber wallpaper in the accounts of the family dining room (000 donations of money), but found later that they managed the tension between Parish, Bridge, and Boudin with unfailing success, [citation needed], the publication of the first guide in the White House, including further sales funded the restoration initiated, she put a bill of Congress noted that the White House include establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, rather than claim the original purpose, Ex-presidents on, and she wrote personal requests of those who gave of historical interest, and could later on the White House is .
On 14 Adopted in February 1962, Mrs. Kennedy, American television viewers on a tour of the White House with Charles Collingwood of CBS. In the tour, she said: “I just feel that everything in the White House, the entertainment besth is given if there is an American company, you can help, I want to do when notust long as it is the best.. . Working with Rachel Lambert Mellon, Mrs. Kennedy redesign and replanting of the garden of the White House Rose Garden and the East, which was renamed regulated Jacqueline Kennedy Garden after the murder of her husband. His efforts for the restoration and preservation at the White House has a lasting legacy in the form of the Historical Society of the White House, the Committee for the Conservation of the White House next was in the White House Furnishings Committee, a permanent curator of the White House Endowment Fund of the White House and White House Acquisition Trust.
radio the restoration of the White House really helped the Kennedy administration. [Edit] The United States has international support during the Cold War demanded that influence reach public opinion. Mrs. Kennedy and the celebrity status made a high-level, which the White House tour is highly desirable. The tour was recorded and distributed to 106 countries, there was much demand for the elite and the rulers see the film. 1962 14th at the Annual Meeting Emmy Awards (NBC, May 22), Bob Newhart vibrant Hollywood Palladium, Johnny Carson of the Hotel Astor in New York and NBC journalist David Brinkley hosts at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington DC and took the public eye as a special case, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences administration Jacqueline Kennedy for CBS-TV tour of the White House. Lady Bird Johnson, the excellent camera-shy first lady agreed. The actual Emmy statuette is exposed in the Kennedy Library Boston, Massachusetts. Focus and admiration for Jacqueline Kennedy had on the negative attention her husband. While the attention of the public worldwide, won the First Lady at the White House allies and international support for the Kennedy administration and its policies of the Cold War.

travel abroad before the Kennedys visited France, a special program was filmed in French with Mrs. Kennedy on the grass house white. When the Kennedys visited France, she had already won the hearts of the French people, the French public with his ability to impress speak French. After the visit, Time magazine seemed pleased with the First Lady and stated: “It was also the man who came with her.” Even President Kennedy joked: “I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris and I liked it”
Pakistani President Ayub Khan and Jacqueline Kennedy with Sardar
At the request of. John Kenneth Galbraith, President Kennedy’s ambassador to India, took over Mrs. Kennedy a tour of India and Pakistan, his sister Lee Radziwill with it, since plenty of documented in the photojournalism of the time and Galbraith in journals and memoirs. At the time, Ambassador Galbraith presented a significant discrepancy between the widely noted concern with clothes Mrs. Kennedy and other frivolity and personal relationships, his considerable intelligence. [Edit]
While in Karachi finds it time to take a ride on a camel with his sister. In Lahore, Pakistan President Ayub Khan presented shot Kennedy with a horse very often, Sardar (the term for eader Urdu). Subsequently, this gift was generally accurate assessment of the King of Saudi Arabia, including the various memories of the years in the Kennedy White House by President Kennedy’s friend, journalist and editor Benjamin Bradlee. It’s never been clear to distract that this general misallocation of the gift negligence or willful attempt to divert attention from the U.S. preference for Pakistan from India. While at a party for themselves in the gardens of Shalimar, Mrs. Kennedy told guests, “my whole life I dreamed of coming to the Shalimar Gardens. It is even more beautiful than what I had ‘a dream. I just wish . my husband could be with me “While in Lahore, she had a friendly conversation with the Iranian Empress Farah Pahlavi, many of them [edit] Mrs. Kennedy
The death of his youngest son
main article. Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
In the spring of 1963, Kennedy was pregnant again and cut his official duties. She spent most of the summer at the rented house on Squaw Kennedy Iceland, near Cape Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port Cod, where she gave birth prematurely 7th August 1963. She gave birth to a boy Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, on an emergency Caesarean section at Otis Air Force Base, five and a half weeks early. His lungs have not fully developed and he died at Boston Children’s Hospital of hyaline membrane disease (now known as respiratory distress syndrome) to 9 August 1963. The couple was devastated by the loss of her young son on the ground, and that the tragedy brought them closer than ever before auparavant.Assassinat
and funeral of John F. Kennedy
Main article: the assassination of John F. Kennedy
John & Jacqueline Kennedy at Love Field in Dallas on the day of the assassination on 21
November 1963 left the first pair of the White House for a political trip to Texas, stopping in San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth and on that day. After a breakfast on 22 November flew to Kennedy from Carswell Air Force Base in Dallas Love Field on Air Force One, accompanied by Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie. A 9.5 miles (15.3 km) procession, she was was at the Trade Mart, where the president will speak at a lunch to take. Mrs. Kennedy was sitting beside her husband in the limousine, sat with the governor and his wife in front of them. Vice President Johnson and his wife in another car in the procession.
The presidential limousine murder. Jacqueline is up in the back seat beside the President.
After the procession turned the corner on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza, Kennedy heard what she thought was a motorcycle to go back and do not recognize this, it was a shot until she heard screaming Governor Connally. In 8.4 seconds two shots had sounded, and she bent to her husband. The last shot had struck the president in the head. Mrs. Kennedy, shocked, left to crawl in the back seat and half on the trunk (later, she had no recollection of having done this). Your Agent Secret Service, Clint Hill, later told the Warren Commission that he thought she was in the trunk of a piece of the skull of the President, who had torn affected. Hill ran to the car and jumped on it, the leadership of Mrs. Kennedy returned to his seat. The car rushed to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and arrived there, the body of the President was transported to a trauma room. Mrs. Kennedy, for now stayed in the room with parents and friends of the patients outside.
few minutes after treatment of her husband, Mrs. Kennedy, accompanied by the President of physician, Admiral George Burkley, left his folding chair outside Trauma Room One and tried to enter the operating room. Nurse Doris Nelson stopped and tried to close the door to enter Kennedy. It has stopped and the doctor suggested that the President is a sedative, which they rejected last. “I want to, when he died in his,” she said Burkley. He finally convinced Nelson, authorize access to the emergency room, said: “That’s right, it’s his prerogative.”
Later, when the coffin arrived, the widow removed her ring and marriage, he pushed his finger from the presidency. She said to Ken O’Donnell, “Now I have nothing.”
Jackie wearing her bloodstained pink suit Chanel while Johnson was sworn in as president.
After the death of the President rejected Mrs. Kennedy to remove his clothes stained with blood, and regretted the blood washed from his face and hands. She went on to the pink suit stained with blood while aboard Air Force One en route and stood next to Johnson when he took the oath of office as president to wear. She said Lady Bird Johnson, “I want them to see what she has done to Jack.”
Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, John Jr., Caroline, and Peter Lawford withdrawal of U.S. Capitol for a ceremony in layers around the state of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 24 November 1963
Mrs. Kennedy played an active role in planning the details of a state funeral for her husband, which was based on Abraham Lincoln. The funeral service at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington DC was held, and burial in Arlington National Cemetery, led the procession widow on foot and would the eternal flame at the location of the grave light, a flame that had been created at his request, Lady Jean Campbell’s report of the London Evening Standard. “Jacqueline Kennedy gave the American people something they have always lacked. Majesty
After the murder and the media coverage of his intense during and after the funeral, concentrated, Mrs. Kennedy went to public officials. And there was a brief appearance in Washington in honor of the Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who had climbed on board the limousine in Dallas to try to protect them and the president.
Life after the assassination attempt was a week after the assassination
interviewed Mrs. Kennedy in Hyannisport on November 29 by Theodore H. White of Life magazine. At that meeting, they compared the Kennedy years in the White House to mythical Camelot of King Arthur, adding that the president often plays theme song from the musical recording of Lerner and Loewe at bedtime. It quoted the Queen Guinevere in the musical and tries to express how the loss sentir.Officiel Jackie Kennedy Portrait White House

strength and courage during her husband’s assassination of Kennedy and funeral won her admiration around the world. After his death, Kennedy was with her children in their quarters at the White House for two weeks to go prepared. Kennedy and her children spent the winter in 1964 in the House Averell Harriman in the section of Georgetown, Washington, DC, before purchase of his house on another block of the same road. Later, in 1964, in the hope that more privacy for her children, Mrs. Kennedy decided to buy an apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York and sold his new house in Georgetown, they sold the country house in Atoka, Virginia, where to place them, and President Kennedy had. She spent a year in mourning, so that some public appearances, during which time Caroline said one of his teachers that his mother often cried.
Kennedy at her husband’s memory perpetuated by attending dedications selected memory. These include the 1967 christening of the Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) (released 2007), Newport News, Virginia, and a monument in Hyannisport, Massachusetts. She was also the official inauguration of the Memorial of the United Kingdom to President Kennedy at Runnymede, England and dedication of a park near New Ross, Ireland. It plans oversaw the creation of the John F. Kennedy Library, which is the repository for official documents of the Kennedy administration. Initial plans have the library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, located in the vicinity of Harvard University, proved problematic for various reasons it is in Boston. The library finished, designed by IM Pei, a museum and was ordained in Boston in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter.
Caroline Kennedy broke a bottle of champagne against the hull of the aircraft carrier U.S. Navy named after his father. His mother and younger brother, John F. Kennedy, Jr. shot smile Eye on the launching ceremony of the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) May 1967.

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During his widow, Jacqueline has an affair with the press a few men, including David Ormsby-Gore and Roswell Gilpatric [edit] But in June 1968 when his brother-brother Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, she came for her life and her children fear and said. “If they’re killing Kennedys, then my Child targets … I want out of this country. “On October 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy Greek shipowner, providing the ability, his family’s privacy and security she needed for her and has her children.
The wedding took place on Skorpios, Onassis’ private island in the Ionian Sea, Greece. Jacqueline entitled to the protection of the secret services and postage privilege that is a widow of a President of the United States after her marriage to Onassis. After marriage, the media gave her the nickname “Jackie O.” that a popular shorthand reference for them.
remained once the marriage brought her adverse publicity and seemed the picture of the grieving widow of President dim [Edit], and it became the target of the paparazzi followed her everywhere much to his discontent and disorder. But marriage seemed initially quite successful, the pair share their time between New York, Paris and Skorpios.
Then tragedy struck again, the only son Alexander Onassis died in a plane crash in January 1973. His health began to rapid decline and he died in Paris, 15 March 1975. His financial legacy is difficult under Greek law, inherit as a surviving spouse could be non-Greeks limited dictated. After two years of legal struggle Jacqueline Onassis finally to Christina, the daughter and sole heiress Onassis, regulation of, 000,000 agreed to waive all other claims to the property Onassis.

made in recent years, the death Onassis in 1975, Mrs. Onassis, then 46, a widow for the second time now that her kids were older, she decided to work that is related to their fulfillment. Since she had always loved writing and literature in 1975, Jacqueline accepted a position as editor at Viking Press. But in 1978 the President of the Viking Press, Thomas H. Guinzburg authorized the acquisition of the novel by Jeffrey Archer Shall We Tell the President?, Which was set in a fictional future presidency of Edward M. Kennedy, and describes a murder plot against him . Although Guinzburg authorized the purchase of books and publications with Mrs. Onassis, after the publication of a negative opinion on Sunday New York Times that Mrs. Onassis partly to blame for his release had said she abruptly resigned a day after Viking Press. Then she moved to Doubleday as assistant editor on an old friend, John Sargent, who lives in New York City, Martha’s Vineyard and the Kennedy compound in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Since the mid-1970s until his death, his companion Maurice Tempelsman, a manufacturer of home Belgian diamond dealer who was long separated from his wife.
continue to be the subject of considerable media interest in which the most famous photographer Ron Galella. He followed her everywhere and photographed Then they went about their daily activities, obtaining a franchise, iconic images of her. You finally get a restraining order against him and the situation has attracted the attention of the paparazzi-style photography. to photograph in 1995 John F. Kennedy Jr. Galella allowed at public events.
Among the many books she has edited Larry Gonick’s Cartoon History of the Universe. He expressed gratitude in the acknowledgments in volume 2 Charisma on Mrs. Onassis from the Canadian Author Robertson Davies joy had given notice that at the beginning of an exercise at an American university, where he was found