- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was an American writer, literature editor, photographer, and socialite
- She became First Lady of the United States as the wife of President John F. Kennedy
- Find more facts about her below
| Real name: | Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Height
| | How tall was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? | 170 cm / 5 ft 7 in | | Born: | 28 July 1929 Comment | | When did Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis die? / Died | 19 May 1994 | | How many years did Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis live? / Lived | 64 years | | Where was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis born? | Southampton, New York, U.S.A. | | Where did Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis die? / Deathplace | New York City, U.S.A. | | Nicknames: | Jackie Kennedy, Jackie Onassis | | Zodiac sign: | Leo |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis worth? | $200,000,000
| | Hair color: | Redish brown | | Eyes color: | Hazel |
Who was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? / Facts
- Early life and family - Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York, to Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III and socialite Janet Norton Lee.
Her father had French, English, German, Scottish, and remote Dutch, ancestry, and her mother was of Irish descent.
Jacqueline's younger sister, Caroline Lee, was born four years later in 1933.
Bouvier spent her early childhood years in Manhattan and at Lasata, the Bouviers' country estate in East Hampton on Long Island.
- Education - In 1935, Bouvier was enrolled in Manhattan's Chapin School, which she attended for Grades 1–7.
She attended the Holton-Arms School in Northwest Washington, D.C. from 1942 to 1944, and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, from 1944 to 1947.
In her senior class yearbook, Bouvier was acknowledged for "her wit, her accomplishment as a horsewoman, and her unwillingness to become a housewife".
She was named Debutante of the Year 1947-1948.
In the fall of 1947, Bouvier entered Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, at that time a women's institution.
Bouvier was an accomplished student who participated in the school's art and drama clubs and wrote for its newspaper.
She transferred to George Washington University in Washington, D.C., graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature in 1951.
- Journalism -Jacqueline had been assigned to cover the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London for The Washington Times-Herald.
- Marriage to John F. Kennedy - Bouvier and U.S. Representative John F. Kennedy belonged to the same social circle and were formally introduced by a mutual friend, journalist Charles L. Bartlett, at a dinner party in May 1952.
She was attracted to Kennedy's physical appearance, wit and wealth.
Their engagement was officially announced on June 25, 1953, and they married on September 12, 1953.
Jacqueline suffered a miscarriage in 1955 and in August 1956 gave birth to a stillborn daughter, Arabella.
She gave birth to daughter Caroline Kennedy on November 27, 1957.
- As First Lady - On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy narrowly defeated Republican opponent Richard Nixon in the U.S. presidential election.
On November 25, Jacqueline gave birth to the couple's first son, John F. Kennedy, Jr.
As a presidential couple, the Kennedys differed from the Eisenhowers by their political affiliation, youth, and their relationship with the media.
Although Jacqueline stated that her priority as a First Lady was to take care of the President and their children, she also dedicated her time to the promotion of American arts and preservation of its history.
Throughout her husband's presidency and more than any of the preceding First Ladies, Kennedy made many official visits to other countries, on her own or with the President.
In early 1963, Jacqueline was again pregnant, which led her to curtail her official duties.
On August 7 (five weeks ahead of her scheduled due date), she went into labor and gave birth to a boy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, via emergency Caesarean section.
The infant's lungs were not fully developed, and he died of hyaline membrane disease 2 days after birth.
- White House restoration - The restoration of the White House was her main contribution, but she also furthered the cause by hosting social events that brought together elite figures from politics and the arts.
- Emmy Award - On February 14, 1962, Jacqueline, accompanied by Charles Collingwood of CBS News, took American television viewers on a tour of the White House.
The film was watched by 56 million television viewers in the United States, and was later distributed to 106 countries.
Jacqueline won a special Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Trustees Award for it at the Emmy Awards in 1962, which was accepted on her behalf by Lady Bird Johnson.
She was the only First Lady to win an Emmy.
- Assassination and funeral of John F. Kennedy - Jacqueline was not scheduled to go to Texas with her husband, but decided to go as a means of perhaps putting the death of Patrick behind them.
She was sitting next to him in the open-air limousine on November 22, 1963, when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Jacqueline took an active role in planning her husband's state funeral, modeling it after Abraham Lincoln's service.
Ten months later, it was found that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone when he assassinated President Kennedy.
After the burial, Jacqueline stepped back from official public view.
- Relationship with Robert F. Kennedy - In the aftermath of the assassination, Bobby became a surrogate father for her children until eventual demands by his own large family and his responsibilities as Attorney General required him to reduce attention.
On June 5, 1968, an enraged Palestinian gunman named Sirhan Sirhan mortally wounded Robert F. Kennedy minutes after he and a crowd of his supporters had been celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary.
Bobby Kennedy never regained consciousness and died 26 hours after the shooting.
- Marriage to Aristotle Onassis - After Robert Kennedy's death in 1968, Jacqueline reportedly suffered a relapse of the depression she had suffered in the days following her husband's assassination nearly five years prior.
On October 20, 1968, Kennedy married her long-time friend Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy Greek shipping magnate who was able to provide the privacy and security she sought for herself and her children.
The marriage brought her considerable adverse publicity.
She became the target of paparazzi who followed her everywhere and nicknamed her "Jackie O".
Aristotle Onassis' health deteriorated rapidly following the death of his son Alexander in a plane crash in 1973.
He died of respiratory failure at age 69 in Paris on March 15, 1975.
The Greek law dictated how much a non-Greek surviving spouse could inherit.
After 2 years of legal battles, Jacqueline accepted a settlement of $26 million from Christina Onassis—Aristotle's daughter and sole heir—and waived all other claims to the Onassis estate.
- Later years - In 1975, she became a consulting editor at Viking Press, a position that she held for two years.
Following her resignation from Viking Press, Kennedy was hired by Doubleday, where she worked as an associate editor.
In addition to her work as an editor, Onassis participated in cultural and architectural preservation.
In the early 1990s, Onassis supported Bill Clinton and contributed money to his presidential campaign.
She dedicated the last 20 years of her life to her children, her grandchildren and her friend Maurice Tempelsman.
With help from her companion, Maurice Templesman, her wealth was in excess of $200 million by the time of her death in 1994.
- Trivia - Jacqueline became the subject of intense media attention with her fashion choices, becoming a style icon.
- Death - In December 1993, Jacqueline was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a blood cancer.
She continued to work at Doubleday, but by March the cancer had spread to her spinal cord and brain, and by May to her liver and was deemed terminal.
On May 19, 1994, she died in her sleep in her Manhattan apartment at age 64.
- Funeral - On May 23, 1994, her funeral Mass was held a few blocks away from her apartment at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, the Catholic parish where she was baptized in 1929 and confirmed as a teenager.
She was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, alongside President Kennedy, their son Patrick, and their stillborn daughter Arabella.
- Legacy - Jacqueline Kennedy remains one of the most popular First Ladies.
She was featured 27 times on the annual Gallup list of the top 10 most admired people of the second half of the 20th century - this number is higher than that of any U.S. president.
In 2011, she was ranked in fifth place in a list of the five most influential First Ladies of the 20th century for her "profound effect on American society".
In 2020, Time magazine included her name on its list of 100 Women of the Year.
She was named Woman of the Year 1962 for her efforts in uplifting the American history and art.
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Education
- Chapin School
- Holton-Arms School
- Miss Porter's School
- Vassar College
- George Washington University (BA)
Quotes
There are two kinds of women. Those who want power in the world, and those who want power in bed.
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
I want to live my life, not record it.
I do love you though — and can love you without kissing you every time I see you and I hope you understand that.
I've always thought of being in love as being willing to do anything for the other person — starve to buy them bread and not mind living in Siberia with them — and I've always thought that every minute away from them would be hell — so looking at it that way I guess I'm not in love with you.
If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it — but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
One man can make a difference and every man should try.
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor — you promote the book and the author.
We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see, and not just complain about them. We owe that to our country.
I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
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Last update: 23 October 2020
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Net worth: $200,000,000
