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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Date of Birth: July 28, 1929
Date of Death: May 19, 1994 [64]
Married: Sept 12, 1953 - John
Kennedy
Children: 3 |
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- Born into wealth and once named "Queen
debutante of the year," she brought a short-lived but popular
era to the
White House
- Dubbed as Camelot - a term used in
retrospect - the glamour of the Kennedys wasn't as it seemed
- Jackie herself said her home life
was almost nil, and her husband's infidelity intolerable
- Pregnant for most of the presidential
campaign with her second child John, born shortly after the election,
she still managed to be active in the campaign and found time
to write a weekly newspaper column, "Campaign Wife"
- As First Lady she urged Congress to
declare the White House an Historic Landmark
- Mrs. Kennedy supervised the first
complete photographic inventory of its possessions, and personally
edited the first White House tour book
- She married Greek Shipping Magnate
Aristotle Onassis, who at the time of his death he was beginning
divorce proceedings from the former First Lady
- She returned to the United States
and began a publishing career
- She dided from Hodgkins disease in
1994
- After an extensive make-over to the
White House, she hosted a nationally broadcast television tour
on CBS in 1962
- As First Lady she declared the formal
dining configuration in the White House ousted in favor of round
tables, a seating arrangement still used today for State dinners
and receptions
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