Jacqueline
Bouvier,
the daughter of a New York City financier,
was
born in Southampton, New York, was born in 1929. She worked as a photographer
with the Washington Times before
marrying John
F. Kennedy
in 1953.
Over
the next few years four children were born
but only two, Caroline and John, survived infancy.
In
1960 Kennedy, the Democratic
Party
candidate,
was elected president when he defeated Richard
Nixon, the Republican Party
candidate, by 34,226,925 votes to 34,108,662.
On
22nd November, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Within
two hours of the killing, a suspect, Lee
Harvey Oswald, was arrested. Throughout the the time Oswald was
in custody, he stuck to his story that he had not been involved in
the assassination. On 24th November, while being transported by the
Dallas police from the city to the county jail, Oswald was shot dead
by Jack Ruby.
In
1968 Jackie Kennedy married the Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle
Onassis. Later she worked as an editor for the publishers, Viking
(1975-1977) and Doubleday (1978-82).
Jacqueline
Onassis
(Kennedy) died in 1994.
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