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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis was the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. She redefined the previously mostly ceremonial role into a platform for arts and culture by hosting multiple high-profile events at the White House and leading its restoration into being a historical site. Through her fashion and cultura…
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culture · First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963 · journalist · literary editor · socialite · writer · model · also Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis, Jackie O., Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Born 28 July 1929 · Died 19 May 1994 · Q165421
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2026· 1 entry
2020· 2 entries
In the 2008 Siena Research Institute survey, Onassis was ranked in the top-five of all criteria, ranking the 2nd-highest in background, 4th-highest in intelligence, 2nd-highest in value to the country, 4th-highest in bei
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Time magazine included her name on its list of 100 Women of the Year
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2019· 1 entry
Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose her for 1962
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2016· 1 entry
Forbes included her on the list "10 Fashion Icons and the Trends They Made Famous"
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2012· 1 entry
Time magazine included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on its All-TIME 100 Fashion Icons list
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2010· 1 entry
That Moonwalk was in fact Onassis' "most successful book," due to her prominent role in supervising its writing for Doubleday and managing its input
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2007· 1 entry
Her name and her first husband's were included on the list of people aboard the Japanese Kaguya mission to the Moon launched on September 14, as part of the Planetary Society's "Wish Upon The Moon" campaign
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1999· 1 entry
Was placed on the list of Gallup's Most-Admired Men and Women of the 20th century
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1998· 1 entry
Starring Halle Berry and Lynn Whitfield and produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions
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1995· 1 entry
The first high school named in her honor
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1994· 11 entries
Died 1994-05-19.
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Moyers dedicated the companion book for his PBS series, The Language of Life as follows: "To Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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“The trouble with me is that I’m an outsider. And that’s a very hard thing to be in American life.”
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“To think that I very nearly didn’t go... What if I’d been here — out riding in Virginia or somewhere — Thank God I went with him.”
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“One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor — you promote the book and the author.”
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“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown — watch raindrops coming down the windowpane?”
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“Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.”
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“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”
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“If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
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And is buried at Arlington National Cemetery alongside President Kennedy and two of their children, one stillborn and one who died shortly after birth
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For her tireless efforts to preserve and protect New York City's great architecture
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1992· 1 entry
The miniseries won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries
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1988· 1 entry
Onassis became a first-time grandmother when her daughter Caroline – married to designer Edwin Schlossberg – gave birth to daughter Rose, followed by Tatiana Celia (1990–2025) and John Bouvier (b
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1984· 1 entry
Tempelsman remained legally married to Lilly throughout his relationship with Onassis
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1977· 1 entry
After John Leonard of The New York Times stated that she held some responsibility for Viking's publication of the Jeffrey Archer novel Shall We Tell the President
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1975· 2 entries
Had a career as a book editor in New York City, first at Viking Press and then at Doubleday, and worked to restore her public image
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Became a consulting editor at Viking Press, a position that she held for two years
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1968· 4 entries
Jacqueline Kennedy married her long-time friend Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipping magnate who was able to provide the privacy and security she sought for herself and her children
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An enraged Jordanian gunman named Sirhan Sirhan mortally wounded Robert Kennedy minutes after he and a crowd of his supporters had been celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary
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Married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, which caused controversy
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Billionaire heiress Doris Duke, with whom Jacqueline Onassis was friends, appointed her as the vice president of the Newport Restoration Foundation
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1964· 2 entries
Kennedy made a televised appearance from the office of the attorney general, thanking the public for the "hundreds of thousands of messages" she had received since the assassination, and said she had been sustained by Am
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And bought a 15th-floor penthouse apartment for $250,000 at 1040 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the hopes of having more privacy
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1963· 2 entries
The first lady and the president embarked on a political trip to Texas with several goals in mind
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Kennedy and her children largely withdrew from public view
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1962· 3 entries
Awarded Trustees Award (1962).
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Jacqueline Kennedy, accompanied by Charles Collingwood of CBS News, took American television viewers on a tour of the White House
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Which was accepted on her behalf by Lady Bird Johnson
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1961· 4 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Orthodox Crusaders of the Holy Sepulchre (1961).
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Kennedy spent $45,446 more on fashion than the $100,000 annual salary her husband earned as president
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A television special was shot in French with the First Lady on the White House lawn
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Career landmark: First Lady of the United States (1961–1963).
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1960· 2 entries
The Kennedys appeared together for a joint interview on Person to Person, interviewed by Charles Collingwood
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Kennedy was known for her highly publicized restoration of the White House and emphasis on arts and culture as well as for her style
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1955· 1 entry
And in August 1956 gave birth to a stillborn daughter, Arabella
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1941· 1 entry
And again as the guest of outgoing first lady Mamie Eisenhower shortly before her husband's inauguration
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1936· 1 entry
And divorced four years later, with the press publishing intimate details of the split
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1935· 1 entry
Jacqueline Bouvier was enrolled in Manhattan's Chapin School, where she attended grades 1–7
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1929· 3 entries
At Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York, to Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III and socialite Janet Norton Lee
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Born 1929-07-28.
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And confirmed as a teenager—and asked for no cameras to film the event, for privacy
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