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 Jacqueline Kennedy
The Washington Times-Herald. She worked at the now defunct Washington Times-Herald as an Inquiring Camera Girl. During her employment there, she interviewed her future husband John F. Kennedy.
1953. The famous couple were married at St. Mary's in Newport, Rhode Island and their reception was held at her mother and step-father's Newport estate, Hammersmith Farm. To her dismay, she was given away, not by her real father, but by her step-father.
Caroline Lee Bouvier. Though Jackie's sister's name is Caroline, she actually prefers to be called by her middle name, Lee. Lee is also Jackie's middle name and their mother's maiden name.
4. One of her children, a baby girl was stillborn; she also gave birth to a baby boy, but he died shortly after. After JFK's death, she had their bodies exhumed and moved beside their father's grave at Arlington National Cemetary.
Oleg Cassini. Jackie actually preferred french designers, but JFK insisted she hire an American designer to create her wardrobe while he was President.
3. Jackie's daughter Caroline has three children, Rose, Tatiana, and Jack.
Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. After living what can only be described as an amazing life, Jackie died in her bed at the young age of 64.
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Prior to their marriage Jackie interviewed John F Kennedy in addition to Richard Nixon who would become JFK's opponent in the 1960 presidential election. She also covered the inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953.
September 12 1953. Jackie and JFK were wed at Saint Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island and spent their honeymoon in Acapulco, Mexico. Interestingly, it was later said that Jackie did not particularly care for her wedding dress, though she wore it anyway.
4. 1956-Arabella Kennedy, Stillborn
1957-Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
1960-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, died in 1999 as the result of a plane crash
1963-Patrick Bouvier Kennedy,died two days after birth as the result of a respiratory illness.
Aristotle Onassis. Jackie and Onassis were married on his private island, Skorpios.
Grand Central Station. Grand Central Station was due to be demolished but was preserved with the help of Jackie who loved history and historic buildings.
My Life With Jacqueline Kennedy. Mary Barelli Gallagher was Jackie's personal assistant for 11 years up until 1964. In her memoirs, Gallagher painted a motherly picture of Jackie, in contrast to her more usual image as a fashionable socialite.
New York City. New York City became Jackie's permanent home for the rest of her life which ended in 1994 with her death from cancer. She was buried at Arlington National Cemetery next to JFK, their infant son Patrick, and stillborn daughter Arabella who had all died over three decades earlier.
| Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was well known for her French heritage, yet she was actually only 1/8 French. What has received little to no press is that she was also descended from four great-grandparents who immigrated to the US from the same country. Of which nationality did Jackie Bouvier claim 1/2 of her lineage? | Hail to the Chief's Wife #10: Jacqueline Kennedy
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Irish. Her mother, Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss, was the granddaughter of four immigrants from County Cork making her a full blooded Irish lass, a fact she was loathe to acknowledge. Jackie's father, John Bouvier, was 3/4 English and 1/4 French.
Not to be a housewife. In a review of one of the numerous biographies written about her, Publisher's Weekly noted the dichotomy of Jackie's personality: "fierce intellectual and a compulsive shopper, a craver of solitude who nevertheless shone in the spotlight, a snob with a strong social conscience, a would-be career woman who also sought out the security of marriage to wealthy, prominent husbands... Jackie is indeed a study in contradictions... her personality is a consequence of her upbringing as the child of unhappily wed, social-climbing parents, of a cultural climate that at once encouraged women to nurture their talents and expected them to view themselves primarily as wives and mothers".
| In 1951 Jacqueline Bouvier won 'Vogue' magazine's "Prix de Paris" essay contest. Her subject was "People I Wish I Had Known." Those she cited were Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire and which Russian-born founder of the Ballet Russes? | Hail to the Chief's Wife #10: Jacqueline Kennedy
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Sergei Diaghilev. The requirements for the essay were rigorous. According to her biography on the National First Ladies Library, in addition to the essay the submission required "an original theme for an entire issue, illustrations, articles, layout and design, an advertising campaign that could be tied into the issue's content". As the winner, young Jackie was entitled to spend half the year in Paris as an assistant editor for 'Vogue,' but turned the prize down at the insistence of her mother, who feared she would stay in France.
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) was a Russian pianist and composer; George Balanchine (1904-1983) was also Russian-born ballet choreographer but well known to Jackie and very much alive when she wrote the essay for Vogue; Mikhail Barishnikov (born 1948) was three years old at the time of the Prix de Paris competition.
Halston. Roy Halston Frowick was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1932. He became the chief milliner at Bergdorf Goodman in New York after serving as the co-designer for famed hat maker Lilly Daché. In Halston's New York Times obituary from 1990 he is quoted as having said he designed the pillbox specifically to fit Mrs. Kennedy's "large head."
| One of Mrs. Kennedy's accomplishments as First Lady was the 1962 exhibit at the National Gallery of one of the world's most famous paintings. Using her charm, knowledge of history and political connections, which artwork did she arrange to have on display for the first time outside of Europe? | Hail to the Chief's Wife #10: Jacqueline Kennedy
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. An excellent article on the exhibit and how Mrs. Kennedy used her wit and wiles on French Minister of Cultural Andre Malroux is "The Two First Ladies" from the November 2008 edition of Vanity Fair magazine. (http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/11/monalisa_excerpt200811)
| The lives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis' aunt, Edith Bouvier Beale, and cousin, "Little Edie", who lived in squalor in their crumbling Hamptons mansion, were made public in a famous 1975 documentary. This film also spawned a 2006 Broadway musical and a 2009 HBO docudrama, all with the same title which was the name of their dilapidated estate. What was it? | Hail to the Chief's Wife #10: Jacqueline Kennedy
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Grey Gardens. Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson won Tony Awards for their Broadway portrayals of Jackie's aunt and cousin, respectively in the musical "Grey Gardens". The same roles were played by Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore in the HBO movie of the same name. The Grey Gardens estate was purchased following Little Edie's death by author Sally Quinn and her husband, former 'Washington Post' editor Ben Bradlee.
Michael Jackson. A July 4, 2009 article from Reuters states that though the book "Moon Walk" quickly sold out its initial 500,000 copies, Jackson, who had total control in the matter, rejected plans for both additional printings and a paperback version. Mrs. Onassis, who broke her long-time policy of not writing a forward for any book by doing so for Jackson, wasn't pleased.
Their two infant children who preceded them in death. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was buried with the former president and their daughter Arabella, who was stillborn in 1956 and son Patrick, who was born in 1963 with hyaline membrane disease, now called infant respiratory distress syndrome.
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