biography
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Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
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née Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, popularly known as Jackie Kennedy
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| (1929–94)
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| biography:
| US first lady (1961–3), born in Southampton, New York, USA. She studied at Vassar College, the Sorbonne, and Washington University, and worked as a reporter before marrying John F Kennedy in 1953. She was not always comfortable with the demands of being the wife of a Kennedy and a politician, but as first lady she promoted her personal agenda of the arts, history, and high style. Her first child was stillborn, and she lost an infant in 1963, but they had two other children, Caroline (1957– ) and John (1960–99). Her stoic behaviour at Kennedy's death and funeral enhanced her standing with the public, but she stunned the world when in 1968 she married the Greek millionaire shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis. For some years she was the world's premier celebrity, but after Onassis's death (1975), she worked in New York publishing, first with Viking Press (1975–7), then with Doubleday (1978–94), and went about her private rounds of family, the arts, and social engagements. |
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