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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994), wife of the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Admired for her elegance and taste while in the White House, she won further admiration for her courage following the assassination of her husband in 1963. Five years after his death, she married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Encarta

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About Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy OnassisJacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994) was the wife of John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963 and was known as Jacqueline Kennedy or Jackie Kennedy. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1961 until her husband's assassination in 1963. From 1968 until his death in 1975, she was married to Aristotle Onassis and was known as Jacqueline Onassis, Jackie Onassis, or more informally as Jackie O. In later years she had a successful career as a book editor. She preferred her first name to be pronounced in the French manner.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born at Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York, into New York society. She was the elder daughter of John Vernou Bouvier III (1891-1957) and Janet Norton Lee Bouvier (Auchincloss Morris) (1906-1989). Her name commemorated both sides of her family ("Jacqueline" celebrating three generations of "Jacks" on her father's side and "Lee" celebrating the surname of her maternal grandparents). In attempts to get on the social register both sides of her family were to make exaggerations about her heritage with Bouviers making claims she descended from the royal Fontaines in France and the Lees declaring she was part of the "Virginia Lees." She was of mostly Irish, Scottish, and English descent; her French paternal ancestry is distant, with her last French ancestor being Michel Bouvier, a Philadelphia-based cabinetmaker who was her great grandfather. Jacqueline was joined by a sister, Caroline Lee, known as Lee, in 1933. Her father, nicknamed "Black Jack", was a playboy stockbroker whose womanizing led to his eventual divorce from Janet when Jackie was a young girl. While Black Jack never remarried, Janet married her second husband, Standard Oil heir Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr. and had two children with him, Jacqueline's half-siblings Janet Jennings and James Auchincloss. In her later years, Jacqueline's mother married Bingham Morris. Jacqueline spent summers of her first 12 years at the estate of her paternal grandparents called Lasata in East Hampton where she became an accomplished equestrienne competing with her favorite horse Danseuse, meaning "female dancer" in French. For more, see Wikipedia, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Jacqueline Kennedy at Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island on the day of her wedding in 1953.

Jacqueline Kennedy at Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island on the day of her wedding in 1953.

Jacqueline Kennedy at Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island on the day of her wedding in 1953.

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Jacqueline Kennedy campaigning alongside her husband in Appleton, Wisconsin, in March 1960

Jacqueline Kennedy campaigning alongside her husband in Appleton, Wisconsin, in March 1960

Jacqueline Kennedy campaigning alongside her husband in Appleton, Wisconsin, in March 1960.

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Mrs. Kennedy, the President, André Malraux, Marie-Madeleine Lioux Malraux, Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson

Mrs. Kennedy, the president, André Malraux, Marie-Madeleine Lioux Malraux, Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson having just descended the White House Grand Staircase on their way to a dinner with the French cultural minister, May 1962. Mrs. Kennedy wears a gown designed by Guy Douvier for Christian Dior.

Mrs. Kennedy, the president, André Malraux, Marie-Madeleine Lioux Malraux, Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson having just descended the White House Grand Staircase on their way to a dinner with the French cultural minister, May 1962. Mrs. Kennedy wears a gown designed by Guy Douvier for Christian Dior.

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Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy
Biography of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of President John F. Kennedy.
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Biography of Jackie on Arlington National Cemetery's site.
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An illustrated biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady and editor.
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The Presidential limousine before the assassination. Jacqueline is in the back seat to the President's left.

The Presidential limousine before the assassination. Jacqueline is in the back seat to the President's left.

The Presidential limousine before the assassination. Jacqueline is in the back seat to the President's left.

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