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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28th, 1929 in East Hampton, Long Island. Jacqueline's mother was Janet Lee Bouvier, a highly ambitious horseback rider. Jacqueline was nicknamed "Jackie" after her father, Jack Bouvier. Young Jackie's parents were a very well off coupled. Her father had an estimated fortune of 7 million dollars and Janet came from a wealthy family also, her father had been chairman of the board of Chase National Bank. Asides for the Bouviers wealth, the other thing they were most noted for was their beauty, Jack in particular. His slim nose, wide set blue eyes, shiny black hair and muscular build earned him the description as "drippingly handsome". Jack's cutting edge instincts, swarthiness, and love for beautiful young women earned him the nick name " Black Jack". Janet, who was sixteen years younger than Jack was not as beautiful as he was handsome. Janet did not possess a showgirl prettiness but she was said to have possessed an interesting look. She was petite and had a somewhat animated look to her. Her nose and chin were long and pointed. When Jackie was born it was happily noted that Jackie lo
Upon Jackie's return from Europe, she was offered a job as a journalist by one of Hugh Auchincloss's friends. Jackie became the writer of a section in the Washington Times Herald called the inquiring Photographer. Jackie was soon introduced to another photographer, Charles Bartlett. Bartlett invited Jackie over to his house for a dinner party one evening. There she met a young Congressman named John Kennedy. Jackie and Kennedy went on a few dates but were not exposed to the public eye. In January 1953, Kennedy escorted Jackie to Eisenhower's Inaugural Ball.(Birmingham) After Jackie's first year at Vassar, she traveled to Europe for two months on a trip paid for by her father. The trip was with her Latin teacher and was run by Vassar. When Jackie arrived home from her trip, she decided she did not want to continue school at Vassar. Jackie then enrolled in George Washington University in Washington, DC.(Heymann) On November 22nd, Jackie and John traveled to San Antonio Texas to have a meeting with the Chamber of Commerce. After leaving then went directly to Dallas where Kennedy was to meet with business leaders. At one o' clock p.m. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas. Then on October 20th 1968, Jackie married Aristotle Onassis on the Greek island Scorpios. Aristotle was not only her sister's ex boyfriend, but he was also the richest man in the world. Their relationship was short lived. The couple had different tastes and their relationship had been condemned from the beginning. Early in 1951, Jackie became engaged to a New York Banker, John Husted. The summer after Jackie Finished college, the engagement was broken off and Jackie returned to revisit Europe.(Heymann) In march 1975, Aristotle was planning on divorcing Jackie, before he could do so he died. After his death, Jackie became very wealthy. She needed something to occupy herself with so she became an editor with Viking Press. Two years later she moved over to Doubleday Press. Janet won custody of her two daughters. Jackie and Lee considered living with their mother "humdrum " while visiting their father was a "treat". Jack had great influence over his daughters. He taught them about personal style and what men looked for in women. Whatever their father considered good, these girls did.(Guthrie)
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