Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Biography

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was the first lady of the United States after she married John F. Kennady in 1935. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s husband John F. Kennedy became the 35th president of the U.S in the year 1961 after he served as the U.S. House Representative as well as the Senate for the U.S. House. Though Jacquline Kennedy Onassis was known for her style and elegance she worked along with her husband to restore the elegance of the white house as it was originally and to ensure the protection of its holdings. But after her husband and the 35th president of the United States, John Kennedy was assassinated she then moved to New York wherein in 1968 she married Aristotle Onassis. Thus she became known as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis but before her second marriage, she was known by the middle name of her first husband, Jacqueline F Kennedy. Finally, in the year 1994, she died of cancer. 

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Early Life of Jackey Kennedy

Jacqueline Kennedy date of birth is 28th of July, 1929 and she was born in a wealthy family residing in Southampton in New york. She was born to her parents John Bouvier, her father who was a stockbroker by profession and was A French Catholic descendant by ethnicity. Whereas her mother, Janet who belonged to Irish Catholic heritage was an accomplished and successful female horse rider. Jackey Kennedy was a curious, bright girl from the very beginning who was also mischievous on some occasions. According to her biography, she was one of her teachers’ favorite students and they often anonymously described Jackey Kennedy as the pretty little girl who was a darling to all her teachers because she was very smart, clever and highly artistic but also full of the devil. She was so mischievous that her geography teacher had to exclude her from the class because of her disturbing conduct.

Being a part of a highly privileged family she learned ballet at Metropolitan Opera House and at the age of 12 she started taking French lessons but she really used to enjoy horse riding like her mother and thus have acquired some extraordinary skill to ride on horseback all by herself. In the year 1940, he won the National Junior Horsemanship competition when she was just 11 years old. She was so skilled with horse riding that she won the same championship twice back to back that was reported by New York Times as a rare distinction that anyone has achieved in 11 years of age other than Jackey Kennedy who then lived with her parents in East Hampton of Long Island.

She was then admitted to one of the most prestigious boarding schools in Farmington of Connecticut. The school was not just famous for its meticulous academics but with academics, the school also paid much attention to building good personal and social manners by emphasizing the art of conversation for each of its students. There she not only excelled in her academics but also wrote essays and various poems for her school’s newspaper very often. She was also highly appreciated to win school awards as a topper student in literature in her senior year. She was also honored by a local newspaper as titled “Debutante of the year” in 1947 when she was completing her senior years in her boarding school. Though she was very popular for her beauty, she had greater ambition than to just be recognized because of her popularity and beauty. She also expressed in her senior yearbook that she wanted to be more than just a housewife for someone.

She later enrolled herself at Vassar College that was in New York soon after she graduated from Miss Porter's School. She studied history, language (French), art and literature as a part of her degree course. She spends a year studying in Paris which she later recalls as the best year of student life she ever had throughout her life as a student. She also penned her experience studying in a foreign land. She wrote that staying away from home gave her the chance to analyze herself more critically and to not be ashamed to be hungry for knowledge that she was somewhat ashamed of and tried to hide in many ways. She is glad that she returned home to start from the beginning but she could not leave behind her profound love for Europe.

Upon her return from Paris, she was enrolled in George Washington University that was in Washington DC. She graduated in 1951 with a degree of B.A. in French literature. Later she was offered a job that she accepted as “Inquiring Camera Girl '' for Washington Times-Herald Newspaper. Under this job profile, she had to photograph as well as interview various residents of the city and then comprehend all their pictures and views together into a column. Some of her brilliant work as a correspondent of a reputed newspaper was a story on the crowning ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II, covering the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a real-time interview with Richard Nixon. 

Jacqueline Kennedy: U.S. First Lady 

In 1952, Jacqueline Onasis met John F. Kennedy who was then serving as a congressman and elected senator of Massachusetts at a dinner party. They married one another on 12th September 1953, just a year later they officially met. In 1957 she gave birth to their first child and named her Caroline Kennedy. The same year she encouraged John Kennedy to write a book that she later helped him edit and titled “Profiles in Courage” which was his first book that was published in the same year of their childbirth. This book was about the brave senators in the house who risked their jobs and positions to take a stand for the right cause. 

In 1960, when John Kennedy declared his candidacy for U.S. presence his wife Jackie Kennedy was expecting their second child. Thus she could not be physically present with her husband during promotional events but she constantly carried out promotions on behalf of him from home that included reverting his letters, giving interviews, tapping promotional commercials and she also wrote a weekly column of a weekly newspaper under the title “Campaign Wife”.

After John Kennedy won the election against Richard Nixon by a very thin margin in the number of votes and was declared as the 35th president of the United States of America. Post that event, within less than three weeks she gave birth to their second child and named him John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Though they also had their third child together on 7th August 1963 but due to his premature birth condition, he died just after two days of his birth. 

It was Jacqueline’s idea to transform the white house into a museum that will reflect the cultural history of America and will inculcate a feeling of Patriotism and motivate the visitors for social services. She went to an extent to procure the furniture and arts that were once owned by the previous presidents of the United States and even the artifacts that were owned by the famous George Washington, Abraham Lincon and James Madison. She has also put extraordinary efforts to collect the pieces that represent the old culture and history of different periods of the U.S.

After the compilation of restoring the White House in an all-new way on 14th February 1962, she arranged for a thorough tour of the White House on national television. On that day the national television of the United States recorded the highest views that were more than 56 million to watch the special televised tour of the White house. For the same, she was also honored with an Emmy Award for her extraordinary and unparalleled efforts and artistic outlook. 

Though before Jacqueline being the first lady of the U.S.A a custom of high-end dinner parties were primarily included the diplomats, governing officials and statesmen but later Jacqueline also included the profound writers, artists, musicians and scientists to share the space with the politicians to initiate a relation of art and literature with politics. She is to date considered as the flagbearer of arts to introduce it successfully in politics. Because of her great interest and profound love towards literature and different cultures, traveling abroad with the president or alone has helped her gather a lot of goodwill for America.  

Marriage of Jacqueline Kennedy

After the unfortunate assassination of her husband and then president of she was a widow for five years before she met and married Aristotle Onassis who was a Greek shipping person. But unfortunately, after seven years of their marriage, he also died leaving Jacqueline a widow for the second time.

After the two incidents, she decided to resume her career from where she had left after her marriage. She then joined as an editor of Viking Press in New York. Later she moved to Doubleday to serve as a senior editor. On 19th May 1994, she died when she was 64 years of age. She was buried beside the burial site of her first husband John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery. She was always regarded and remembered as the first beloved lady of the U.S. and one of the most respected iconic women in American history.     

The Assassination of JFK

Jacquelin Kennedy was riding a horse alongside her husband John Kennedy in Texas and in front of hundreds of people cheering on 22nd November 1963 when a gunman named Lee Hervey Ostwald targeted and shot down John Kennedy. She was 34 years of age at that time. Jacqueline’s impassive composure in her blood-stained pink riding suit instantly became a national image of mourning. Even after the demise of the 35th president, his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, honored him with a metaphor for his administration that remained as a mark of enduring his memories.