European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 21, 1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis the stars and stripes Page 7jackie preserved Ca me lot by Rick Hampson and Karen Schwartz the associated press new York a she was Many things but above ail she was the woman in the Pillbox hat who crawled across the limousine trunk her husbands blood splattered across her stylish Pink suit. In a few moments in Dallas Jacqueline Kennedy who died of cancer thursday at 64, was transformed from first lady to first widow. Even her subsequent marriage to a greek shipping tycoon change that. If she resented her status As american Royalty she had herself to blame. She helped create the myth of i Camelot a myth that endured even As it was tattered by one revelation after a other about her husbands presidency. When John f. Kennedy was elected in 1960, his wife said she Felt a was though i have just turned into a piece of Public property. Its really frightening to lose your anonymity at 31.�?� years later she offered this assessment a. A a a a i have been through a lot and i have suffered a great Deal. But i have had lots of Happy moments As Well. I have come to the conclusion that we must not expect too much from life. You cannot separate the Good from the her life after Dallas had plenty of both. She was a private person who endured harassment from photographers a single Mother who raised two seemingly Happy children in a fishbowl a millionaire who went to work like everyone else. She did her Best to shield her children and by All accounts she took great Pride in John jr., a lawyer who seems to have. Developed a disposition to match his Good looks and Caroline a lawyer who bore her three grandchildren. As reports surfaced of president Kennedy a womanizing his Reliance on painkillers and his general recklessness she held her silence. Everything called attention to her her wealth estimated in 1989 to be More than $200 million her dark wide eyed Beauty and her social position beginning with her Southampton birth and Newport r.i., childhood. And her reticence a she went 25 years without granting an interview. After the motorcade in Dallas on nov. 22, 1963, the nations horror and grief were leavened by admiration for her Brave lonely resolve. At Parkland memorial Hospital As the priest said his Blessing Over her husbands Corpse Jacqueline Kennedy took a ring from her Finger and placed it in his at the funeral by Young Caroline and John John Jacqueline Kennedy a became a Symbol for All of us of great nobility and character in an age of general impoverishment of soul a said Kennedy aide Larry of Brien. She stunned Many admirers in 1968 when she married Aristotle Onassis a 62-year-old tycoon who was already a Jet set legend. Quot Jackie How could you a demanded one newspaper headline. A within a few years there was a falling out. When Onassis died in a Paris Hospital in 1975 after a Long illness his wife was in new York. He left her Only $120,000, but she contested his will and won a $26 million settlement from her stepdaughter Christina. In some of the Many books and movies devoted to her Jacqueline Onassis was portrayed As calculating spiteful and greedy. But her friends disagreed. Quot the Jackie they know has managed to preserve her dignity through an ordeal by the press such As no other woman in this Century has had of undergo a Edward Klein said in a 1989 Magazine profile. President John f. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline before their motorcade started through Dallas on nov. 22,1963. It a the Kennedy clan gathered on May 28, 1992, for the profile in courage award at the John f. Kennedy Library in Boston from left sen. Edward m. Kennedy of Massachusetts Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis her children John f. Kennedyjr. And Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Edwin Schlossberg husband of Caroline. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born july 28, 1929, in the Long Island resort Community of Southampton to stockbroker John a Black Jack Bouvier and Janet Lee Bouvier who divorced when she was 10, her Mother then married Washington businessman Hugh d. Auchincloss. Jacqueline who pronounced her name to rhyme with a Queen a was dubbed Debutante of the year in 1947 after her coming out. She attended Vassar and the sorbonne before graduating from George Washington University in 1951 with a major in French literature. That year while working As a photog Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis age 64. Bom july 28.1929. The White House wife of John of Kennedy the 35th president of the it United states. Rode alongside her husband when he was assassinated in Dallas on nov. 22,1863. After Washington married greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis in 1968 after his death in 1975, began work in the publishing business. At Doubleday edited books by Michael Jackson and Ballerina Getsey Kirkland. Family a daughter Caroline 36 son John jr., 33 three grandchildren. Source apr a a a a a a John f. Kennedyjr. Salutes the casket of his slain father in Washington after the funeral mass on nov. 25, 1963. His Mother and his sister Caroline stand beside him and his uncles Ted left and Robert flank his Mother. Raphur for the Washington times her Aid she interviewed Kennedy then a Massachusetts senator. The couple were engaged in 1953. Jacqueline Kennedy was 31 when her husband 43, was elected 35th president. They moved into the White House with their children a Caroline born in 1957, and John jr., born less than a month after the election. The new first lady dedicated herself to redecorating the while House travelling and shopping. Thanks to her Pillbox hats bouffant hairdos White gloves and Oleg Cassini gowns were the rage. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis holds the Arm of her new husband Aristotle Onas Sis after their wedding in a tiny Chapel on the Island of scorpios in the ionian sea. They were married oct. 20,1968. A a a a it it a. A Quot a. A. A in August 1963, she gave birth to Patrick Bouvier Kennedy but the infant died after three Days. It was not the years last tragedy. Shortly after her husbands death she summoned Theodore White of life Magazine to the Kennedy Home at Cape cod mass he recalled a she did no to want Jack to be forgotten. She reported How at night he would often listen to Camelot on their phonograph and How he personally identified with the words of the last song a done to let it be forgot that there once was a spot for one Brief shining moment that was known As Camelot a
