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On October 20, 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy married her long-time friend Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipping magnate who was able to provide the privacy and security she sought for herself and her children.
Nov 21, 2023 · JFK and Jackie welcomed four children during their marriage, although only Caroline and JFK Jr. ever left the hospital. In 1956 — one year before Caroline's arrival — Jackie gave birth to a ...
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- Marriage to John F. Kennedy and 1960 election
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, née Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, was born on July 28, 1929, in Southampton, New York.
Who were the husbands of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis?
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier married future U.S. president John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1953. Jacqueline Kennedy's second husband was the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, whom she married in October 1968.
What was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis known for?
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was noted for her style and elegance. As first lady, she made the White House a showcase for America’s most talented and accomplished individuals, and worked to restore the White House to its original elegance and to protect its holdings. Following the assassination of her husband President Kennedy, her quiet dignity brought an outpouring of admiration from Americans and people all over the world.
Who were the children of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis?
Jacqueline was the elder of two daughters of Janet Lee and John (“Black Jack”) Bouvier III, a stock speculator. As a child, she developed the interests she would still relish as an adult: horseback riding, writing, and painting. In 1942, after her parents had divorced and her mother married Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr., a wealthy lawyer, Jacqueline divided her time between the family’s Merrywood estate in Virginia and Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island.
At age 15 she began attending boarding school, and in 1947 she enrolled at Vassar College. During her junior year abroad, while studying at the Sorbonne, she polished her French and solidified her affinity for French culture and style, which she sometimes associated with her adored father. She graduated from George Washington University in 1951 and took a job as a reporter-photographer at the Washington Times-Herald. She notably covered the coronation (1952) of Elizabeth II.
In 1951 Jacqueline met John F. Kennedy, son of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy and a popular congressman from Massachusetts, and two years later, after he became a U.S. senator, he proposed marriage. On September 12, 1953, the couple wed in St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island. The early years of their marriage included considerable disappointment and sadness. John underwent spinal surgery, and she suffered a miscarriage and delivered a stillborn daughter. Their luck appeared to change with the birth of a healthy daughter, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, on November 27, 1957. Three years later John announced that he was running for president, and Jacqueline initially traveled with her husband. However, after becoming pregnant again, she stayed at home on the advice of her doctors but continued to be involved in the campaign. She notably wrote “Campaign Wife,” a weekly news column. On November 8, 1960, John was narrowly elected president, and weeks later Jacqueline gave birth to a son, John F. Kennedy, Jr.
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The youngest first lady in nearly 80 years, Jacqueline left a distinct mark on the job. During the 1960 election campaign, she hired Letitia Baldrige, who was both politically savvy and astute on matters of etiquette, to assist her as social secretary. Through Baldrige, Jacqueline announced that she intended to make the White House a showcase for America’s most talented and accomplished individuals, and she invited musicians, actors, and intellectuals—including Nobel Prize winners—to the executive mansion.
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Her most-enduring contribution was her work to restore the White House to its original elegance and to protect its holdings. She established the White House Historical Association, which was charged with educating the public and raising funds, and she wrote the foreword to the association’s first edition of The White House: An Historic Guide (1962). To catalog the mansion’s holdings, Jacqueline hired a curator from the Smithsonian Institution, a job that eventually became permanent. Congress, acting with the first lady’s support, passed a law to encourage donations of valuable art and furniture and made White House furnishings of “artistic or historic importance” the “inalienable property” of the nation, so that residents could not dispose of them at will. After extensive refurbishing, Jacqueline led a nationally televised tour of the White House in February 1962.
During her short time in the White House, Jacqueline became one of the most popular first ladies. During her travels with the president to Europe (1961) and to Central and South America (1962), she won wide praise for her beauty, fashion sense, and facility with languages. Alluding to his wife’s immense popularity during their tour of France in 1961, President Kennedy jokingly reintroduced himself to reporters as the “the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.” Parents named their daughters after Jacqueline, and women copied her bouffant hairstyle, pillbox hat, and flat-heeled pumps.
In November 1963 Jacqueline agreed to make one of her infrequent political appearances and accompanied her husband to Texas. (She had just returned from a vacation in Greece following the death of her newborn son, Patrick Bouvier.) As the president’s motorcade moved through Dallas, he was assassinated as she sat beside him; 99 minutes later she stood beside Lyndon Johnson in her blood-stained suit as he took the oath of office, an unprecedented appearance by a widowed first lady. On her return to the capital, Jacqueline oversaw the planning of her husband’s funeral, using many of the details of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral a century earlier. Her quiet dignity (and the sight of her two young children standing beside her during the ceremony) brought an outpouring of admiration from Americans and from all over the world.
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- Arabella was stillborn. If not for a tragic miscarriage in 1955, just two years after they were married, John and Jackie Kennedy may have had a fifth child.
- Caroline's birth changed JFK for the better. Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, the only child of John and Jackie Kennedy to live to old age, was born in 1957. Biographer Steven Livingston writes that the healthy birth of JFK's first daughter Caroline inspired a newfound sense of duty and responsibility in the Massachusetts senator at the time.
- John Jr. died in a plane crash. After the birth of Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, John and Jackie had a son, John F. Kennedy Jr., while his father was president-elect in 1960.
- Patrick Kennedy lived less than two days. The final child of John F. and Jackie Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, was born in 1963, the same year his father was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas.
Nov 22, 2023 · Jackie and JFK had four children, two of whom who died as infants: Arabella, born stillborn in 1956, Caroline, born 1957, John Jr., born 1960, and Patrick, who died two days after his premature...
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Jul 28, 2022 · Enigmatic first lady Jacqueline Kennedy found the most joy in her children—and "paid special attention to John"—after living through unspeakable tragedy squarely in the public eye.
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May 19, 2024 · Her mother remarried, and Kennedy Onassis grew up between her stepfather’s estates in Fairfax, Va. and Newport, R.I., her father’s apartment in New York City, and the family home in East...
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