Happy birthday, Jackie O!

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Jackie Kennedy's Marriage to John F. Kennedy
Jackie Kennedy's Marriage to John F. Kennedy


The beautiful former First lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, noted for her style and elegance, was the wife of President John F. Kennedy and a U.S. first lady. She later married Aristotle Onassis. Jacqueline would have turned 86 years old today.

Jacqueline, known around the world to most as 'Jackie O,' was born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier on July 28, 1929, in Southampton, New York. According to biography.com, she married John F. Kennedy in 1953. When she became first lady in 1961, she worked to restore the White House to its original elegance and to protect its holdings. After JFK's assassination in 1963, she moved to New York City. She married Aristotle Onassis in 1968. She died of cancer in 1994.

Firstladies.org notes that At an early age, Jacqueline Kennedy wrote essays and poems which were sometimes published in local newspapers. In her high school newspaper Salmagundi, she penned a cartoon series and won the graduating award for literature. In 1951, she submitted an entry to Vogue magazine's Prix de Paris contest, the prize for which was to spend half a year in New York, and the other half in Paris as a junior editor for the magazine.

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