Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis married John F. Kennedy in When she became first lady in , she worked to restore the White House to its original elegance and to protect its holdings. She died of cancer in Her father, John Bouvier, was a wealthy New York stockbroker of French Catholic descent, and her mother, Janet, was an accomplished equestrienne of Irish Catholic heritage.
Onassis was a bright, curious and occasionally mischievous child. One of her elementary school teachers described her as "a darling child, the prettiest little girl, very clever, very artistic, and full of the devil.
Onassis enjoyed a privileged childhood of ballet lessons at the Metropolitan Opera House and French lessons beginning at age of Like her mother, Onassis loved riding and was highly skilled on horseback. In , at the age of 11, she won a national junior horsemanship competition.
The New York Times reported, "Jacqueline Bouvier, an eleven-year-old equestrienne from East Hampton, Long Island, scored a double victory in the horsemanship competition.
Miss Bouvier achieved a rare distinction. The occasions are few when the same rider wins both competitions in the same show. Onassis attended Miss Porter's School, a prestigious boarding school in Farmington, Connecticut; in addition to its rigorous academics, the school also emphasized proper manners and the art of conversation. There she excelled as a student, writing frequent essays and poems for the school newspaper and winning the award as the school's top literature student in her senior year.
Also during her senior year, in , Onassis was named "Debutante of the Year" by a local newspaper. However, Onassis had greater ambitions than being recognized for her beauty and popularity.
She wrote in the yearbook that her life ambition was "not to be a housewife. She spent her junior year studying abroad in Paris. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something that I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again but with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
Her job was to photograph and interview various Washington residents, and then weave their pictures and responses together in her column. Eisenhower's inauguration and a report on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. It was at a dinner party in that Onassis met a dashing young congressman and senator-elect from Massachusetts named John F. Kennedy; he "leaned across the asparagus and asked her for a date.
Onassis gave birth to her first child, Caroline Kennedy, in That same year, she encouraged Kennedy to write and, subsequently, helped him edit Profiles in Courage , his famous book about U. In January , John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the U. Although Onassis was pregnant at the time and thus unable to join him on the campaign trail, she campaigned tirelessly from home.
She answered letters, gave interviews, taped commercials and wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column called "Campaign Wife.
On November 8, , Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon by a razor-thin margin to become the 35th president of the United States; less three weeks later, Onassis gave birth to their second child, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. October 1, Paul Schutzer. November 9, Keystone Getty Images. December 10, January January 20, Hulton Archive Getty Images.
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Kennedy, Jr. On the plane, Jackie found a change of clothes waiting for her. She wiped off her face, but would later recall for a Life magazine writer: "One second later, I thought, 'Why did I wash the blood off?
With this in mind, Jackie opted not to change her clothes, even as she agreed to be present as Johnson took the official oath of office. The former first lady had always understood the power of imagery to convey messages.
By showing up in her bloody outfit, she reminded everyone there, and everyone who would later see photos from the ceremony, of the slain president. Air Force One soon took off for Washington, D. Jackie went to sit near her husband's casket, still in her bloody outfit. I want them to see what they have done. Right-wing opponents abhorred the fact that Kennedy was Catholic, disliked his proposal for Medicare and hated his support for integration.
Given this, much of the nation initially assumed that a far-right component must have been responsible for his assassination. Jackie likely shared this belief, as she'd seen for herself how disliked her husband was by some.
These political enemies may have been the intended recipients for Jackie's message of "I want them to see what they've done. It's — it had to be some silly little Communist. John F. Kennedy and wife Jackie greeting the crowd at Love Field upon arrival for campaign tour on the day of his assassination on November 22, Jackie's refusal to change her clothes wasn't solely about projecting an image. After accompanying Kennedy's body to Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital for a required autopsy, she was no longer on public display.
She also had time to change out of her blood-soaked outfit while waiting in the on-site presidential suite. Yet she continued to refuse to do so. Instead, at Bethesda Jackie began to relive the trauma she'd experienced. She'd already told Robert Kennedy , who'd joined her after Air Force One landed, what had happened in Dallas in that limousine and afterward. Now she repeated the story, over and over, to the friends and family who'd gathered around her.
She also recalled another recent loss: the death of her premature son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, less than four months earlier. Jackie never lost control as she replayed the devastation she'd endured.
But amidst this trauma, changing her outfit was the last thing she wanted to contemplate.
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