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Arabella Kennedy

  • Death: August 23, 1956 (stillborn)
  • Funeral: Newport, RI
  • Services: Newport, RI
  • Internment: St. Columba's Cemetery, Newport, RI/Arlington National Cemetery

John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III 

  • Death: August 3, 1957 (liver cancer)
  • Funeral: Date needed
  • Services: St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City
  • Internment: Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery, East Hampton, NY

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy

  • Death: August 9, 1963 (Hyaline Membrane Disease)
  • Funeral: August 10, 1963
  • Services: Private chapel of Cardinal Richard Cushing, Boston, MA
  • Internment: Holyhood Cemetery/Arlington National Cemetery

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  • Death: November 22, 1963 (gunshot wounds)
  • Funeral: November 25, 1963
  • Services: St. Matthew's Cathedral, Washington, DC
  • Internment: Arlington National Cemetery
  • Jackie's funeral attire: Givenchy

Robert Francis Kennedy

  • Death: June 6, 1968 (gunshot wounds)
  • Funeral: June 8, 1968
  • Services: St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City
  • Internment: Arlington National Cemetery

Aristotle Onassis

  • Death: March 15, 1975 (respiratory failure/Myasthenia Gravis)
  • Funeral: March 1975
  • Funeral and Internment: Onassis Chapel, Skorpios Island, Greece
  • Jackie's funeral attire: Valentino

Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss

  • Death: July 22, 1989 (Alzheimer's)
  • Funeral: July 28, 1989
  • Services:Trinity Church, Newport, RI
  • Internment: Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery, Newport, RI

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

  • Death: May 19, 1994 (Non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
  • Funeral: May 23, 1994
  • Services: St. Ignatius Loyola, New York City
  • Internment: Arlington National Cemetery
  • Jackie's funeral shroud: Unknown

John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

  • Deaths: July 16, 1999 (plane crash)
  • Funeral: July 22, 1999, USS Briscoe off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, MA
  • Services: July 23, 1999, the Church of St. Thomas More, New York City
  • Internment: Burial at sea

Edward Moore Kennedy

  • Death: August 25, 2009 (brain tumor)
  • Funeral: August 29, 2009
  • Services: Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Boston, MA
  • Internment: Arlington National Cemetery

Friends and Family

Research by Steven L. Brawley

Key People in Jackie's Life

  • Auchincloss, Hugh D.: stepfather
  • Auchincloss, Hugh D. “Yusha” III: stepbrother
  • Auchincloss, James: half brother
  • Baldrige, Letitia: friend and White House social secretary
  • Bartlett, Charlie and Martha: friends
  • Battelle, Kenneth: hairdresser
  • Beale, Edith Ewing (née Bouvier): paternal aunt
  • Beard, Peter: friend
  • Bessette, Carolyn: daughter-in-law
  • Billings, Lem: friend
  • Boudin, Stéphane: interior designer
  • Bouvier, Caroline Lee: sister. Married to Michael Canfield, Stanislaw Radziwill, and Herbert Ross
  • Bouvier, Caroline (née Ewing): paternal great-grandmother
  • Bouvier, John Vernou: paternal great-grandfather
  • Bouvier, John Vernou II: paternal grandfather
  • Bouvier, John “Black Jack” Vernou III: father
  • Bouvier, Maude Frances (née Sergeant): paternal grandmother
  • Bowdoin, Helen and Judy: sisters who accompanied Jackie on her first trip to Europe
  • Bradlee, Benjamin: friend and journalist
  • Cassini, Oleg: official White House fashion designer
  • Cecil, Mimi: cousin
  • Chopra, M.D., Deepak: friend and meditation coach
  • de Renty, Countess Guyot: Parisian host during her year studying at the Sorbonne
  • Du Pont, Henry Francis: art collector/historian
  • Forger, Alexander: personal lawyer
  • Fout, Paul and Eve: friends
  • Galbraith, John Kenneth: friend
  • Gallagher, Mary: personal secretary
  • Galitzine, Irene: friend and fashion scout
  • Gates, John “Demi”: friend
  • Gilpatrick, Ros: friend
  • Ormsby-Gore, David: friend
  • Hennessy, Luella: nurse during pregnancy
  • Hogan M.D., Michael: plastic surgeon
  • Hill, Clint: White House secret service agent
  • Husted, John: fiancé (January - March 1952)
  • Jacobs, Marcia; editorial assistant
  • Kennedy, Arabella: daughter
  • Kennedy, Ethel: sister-in-law
  • Kennedy, John Fitzgerald: first husband
  • Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Jr: son
  • Kennedy, Joseph: father-in-law
  • Kennedy, Robert: brother-in-law
  • Kennedy, Rose: mother-in-law
  • Kennedy, Rosemary: sister-in-law
  • Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier: son
  • Ketchum, James: White House curator 1963–1969
  • Kimmerle, Miss: childhood nanny
  • Lawford, Patricia: sister-in-law
  • Lawford, Peter: brother-in-law
  • Lee, James Thomas: maternal grandfather
  • Lee, Margaret (née Merritt): maternal grandmother
  • Lincoln, Evelyn: JFK's secretary
  • Lowe, Ann: designed Kennedy wedding gown
  • Marinetti, Hope; editorial assistant
  • Mellon, Rachel Lambert "Bunny": friend
  • Meyer, Andre: friend and financial adviser
  • Morris, Janet Norton Bouvier Auchincloss (née Lee): mother
  • Morris, Bingham “Booch”: stepfather
  • Mowinckel, Letizia: friend and fashion scout
  • "Mugsy", chauffer
  • Newey, Miss: childhood nanny
  • Onassis, Alexander: stepson
  • Onassis, Aristotle: second husband
  • Onassis, Christina: stepdaughter
  • Ormsby-Gore, David; friend
  • Pagano Joan: fitness trainer
  • Parish, Sister: interior designer
  • Paredes, Providencia: personal attendant and friend
  • Pearce, Lorraine: White House curator 1961–1962
  • Pei, I. M.: architect of JFK library
  • Radziwill, Anthony: nephew
  • Radziwill, Tina: niece
  • Rikfind, Simon Hirsch: lawyer
  • Roosevelt, Kate: childhood friend
  • Rutherfurd, Janet Jennings (née Auchincloss): half sister
  • Sargent, John: friend who hired her at Doubleday
  • Schlossberg, Caroline Bouvier (née Kennedy): daughter
  • Schlossberg, Edward: son-in-law
  • Schlossberg, John Bouvier Kennedy: grandson
  • Schlossberg, Rose: granddaughter
  • Schlossberg, Tatiana: granddaughter
  • Sgubin, Marta: nanny, cook, and friend
  • Shaw, Maude: children's nanny
  • Shriver Eunice: sister-in-law
  • Shriver, Sargent: brother-in-law
  • Simon, Carly: friend
  • Singleton, Becky: editorial assistant
  • Smith, Jean: sister-in-law
  • Smith, Stephen: brother-in-law
  • Tempelsman, Maurice: live-in companion from mid-1970s to JKO's death; financial adviser
  • Van Rensselaer Thayer, Mary: personal biographer
  • Tracey, Bruce: editorial assistant
  • Tuckerman, Nancy: friend and second White House social secretary
  • Turnure, Pam: White House press secretary and assistant in NY office
  • Valentino: designed Onassis wedding gown
  • Verdon, Rene: White House chef
  • Vidal, Gore: Hugh's stepson
  • Vos Elder III, William: White House curator 1962–1963
  • Young, Rusty: White House chief floral designer
  • Waldrop, Frank: editor of the Washington Times-Herald
  • Walsh, Thomas: obstetrician
  • Walton, William: friend
  • Warnecke, Carl: architect of JFK's grave; romantic relationship
  • Weitzner,Tillie: yoga instructor
  • West, J.B.: White House chief usher
  • Whitehouse, Charles: friend
  • Wrightsman, Jayne: friend

Timeline

Research by Steven L. Brawley

Key Dates in Jackie's Life

  • 1929 Born in Southampton, Long Island on July 28
  • 1933 Sister Caroline Lee born March 3
  • 1935 Begins school at Miss Chapin's in New York City
  • 1938 Wins first equestrian blue ribbon at East Hampton Horse Show
  • 1940 Parents divorce
  • 1942 Mother marries Hugh Auchincloss
  • 1944 Begins Miss Porter's School
  • 1947 Named Debutante of the Year; enrolls at Vassar
  • 1948 Makes first trip to Europe
  • 1949 Attends the Sorbonne for a year as an exchange student
  • 1951 Graduates from George Washington University with BA
  • 1951 Wins Vogue's Prix de Paris writing contest
  • 1952 Announces engagement to John Husted in January; breaks off engagement in March
  • 1952 Hiired as Inquiring Camera Girl at Washington Times-Herald
  • 1953 Becomes engaged to John F. Kennedy on June 23; marries on September 12
  • 1955 Suffers miscarriage after 3 months
  • 1956 Stillborn birth of daughter Arabella
  • 1957 Father, John “Black Jack” Bouvier, dies August 3
  • 1957 Daughter Caroline Bouvier Kennedy born November 27
  • 1960 John F. Kennedy elected President; son John Jr. born November 25
  • 1961 Becomes nation's third-youngest First Lady on January 20
  • 1961 Begins White House restoration
  • 1962 Hosts televised tour of the White House on February 14; wins honorary Emmy award
  • 1963 Gives birth to son Patrick Bouvier on August 7, who dies two days later
  • 1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated on November 22
  • 1964 Does oral history for JFK Library
  • 1964: Does interview for book "Death of a President"
  • 1964: Testifies before Warren Commission
  • 1964 Moves to New York with children
  • 1966 Files suit against William Manchester concerning his book "The Death of a President"
  • 1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated on June 6
  • 1968 Marries Aristotle Onassis
  • 1972 Wins suit against photographer Ron Galella requiring him to stay 50 feet away from herself, and 75 feet away from her children.
  • 1974: Does oral history for LBJ Library
  • 1975 Supports saving Grand Central Station from demolition
  • 1975 Onassis dies March 15
  • 1976 Hired at Viking Press as book editor
  • 1978 Begins work at Doubleday
  • 1979 John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston dedicated October 20
  • 1988 Becomes grandmother for first time to Caroline's daughter Rose Kennedy Schlossberg
  • 1994 Dies May 19 in New York City after battle with Non Hodgkins Lymphoma.

Edited Books

Research by Steven L. Brawley (Primary Source: William Kuhn)

Books Edited by Jackie

1956

  • PROFILES IN COURAGE (editing support from Jacqueline Kennedy) by John F. Kennedy

1962/1963

  • THE WHITE HOUSE: AN HISTORIC GUIDE (editing support from Jacqueline Kennedy) by the White House Historical Association

1976

  • REMEMBER THE LADIES: WOMEN IN AMERICA, 1750-1815 by De Pauw, Linda Grant, and Conover Hunt
  • IN THE RUSSIAN STYLE (edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

1978

  • HIMSELF! THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MAYOR RICHARD J. DALEY by Eugene C. Kennedy
  • THE FIREBIRD AND OTHER RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES by Boris Zvorykin

1979

  • ATGET’S GARDENS: A SELECTION OF EUGENE ATGET’S GARDEN PHOTOGRAPHS by William Howard Adams
  • OUT IN INNER SPACE: A PSYCHOANALYST EXPLORES THE NEW THERAPIES by Stephen A. Appelbaum

1980

  • MY BOOK OF FLOWERS by Princess Grace with Gwen Robyns
  • ALLURE by Diana Vreeland
  • A CIVIL WAR COURTSHIP: THE LETTERS OF EDWIN WELLER FROM ANTIETAM TO ATLANTA by Edwin Weller

1981

  • THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WOMAN by Olivier Bernier
  • TEN MEN AND HISTORY by Don Cook
  • FATHER’S DAY: A NOVEL by Eugene C. Kennedy
  • THE NEW TIFFANY TABLE SETTINGS by John Loring and Henry B. Platt
  • HOW TO SAVE YOUR OWN STREET by Raquel Ramati
  • UNSEEN VERSAILLES by Deborah Turbeville

1982

  • THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO by Jonathan Cott and Christine Doudna

1983

  • GOODBYE EUROPE: A NOVEL IN SIX PARTS by Richard de Combray
  • MAVERICK IN MAUVE: THE DIARY OF A ROMANTIC AGE by Florence Adele Sloane

1984

  • FALSE DAWN: WOMEN IN THE AGE OF THE SUN KING by Louis Auchincloss
  • LOUIS THE BELOVED: THE LIFE OF LOUIS XV by Olivier Bernier
  • FIREWORKS by George Plimpton

1985

  • SECRETS OF MARIE ANTOINETTE: BY MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN CONSORT OF LOUIS XVI, KING OF FRANCE by Olivier Bernier
  • A SECOND PARADISE: INDIAN COURTLY LIFE, 1590-1947 by Naveen Patnaik

1986

  • DANCING ON MY GRAVE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Gelsey Kirkland
  • TIFFANY TASTE by John Loring

1987

  • LOUIS XIV: A ROYAL LIFE by Olivier Bernier
  • THE SEARCH FOR OMM SETY: A STORY OF ETERNAL LOVE by Jonathan Cott
  • TIFFANY’S 150 YEARS by John Loring
  • TO THE INLAND EMPIRE: CORONADO AND OUR SPANISH LEGACY by Stewart L. Udall
  • THE SAMARKAND DIMENSION by David Wise

1988

  • THE POWER OF MYTH by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
  • FRED ASTAIRE: HIS FRIENDS TALK by Sarah Giles
  • MOONWALK by Michael Jackson
  • THE TIFFANY WEDDING by John Loring
  • SOMERSET HOMECOMING by Dorothy Spurill Redford
  • CLARA BOW: RUNNIN’ WILD by David Stenn

1989

  • EMPIRE OF THE CZAR: A JOURNEY THROUGH ETERNAL RUSSIA by Marquis de Custine
  • THE DEMOCRATIC FOREST by William Eggleston
  • FIXES by Eugene C. Kennedy
  • TIFFANY PARTIES by John Loring
  • A WORLD OF IDEAS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUGHTFUL MEN AND WOMEN ABOUT AMERICAN LIFE TODAY AND THE IDEAS SHAPING OUR FUTURE by Bill D. Moyers
  • THE GOLDEN COCKEREL AND OTHER FAIRY TALES by Alexander Pushkin
  • AMY THE DANCING BEAR by Carly Simon
  • UP THROUGH THE WATER by Darcey Steinke
  • HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN? A MEMOIR OF POLAND, 1939-1945 by Christine Zamoyska-Panek with Fred Benton Holmberg

1990

  • THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE 1, VOLUMES 1-7, FROM THE BIG BANG TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT by Larry Gonick
  • THE SHAPE OF LOVE by Gelsey Kirkland
  • THE CAIRO TRILOGY: PALACE WALK, PALACE OF DESIRE, SUGAR STREET by Naguib Mahfouz
  • A WORLD OF IDEAS II: PUBLIC OPINIONS FROM PRIVATE CITIZENS by Bill Moyers
  • CAPITAL OF HEAVEN by Marc Riboud
  • THE BOY OF THE BELLS by Carly Simon

1991

  • THE RAVEN’S BRIDE by Elizabeth Crook
  • BLOOD MEMORY by Martha Graham
  • THE FRENCHWOMAN’S BEDROOM by Mary-Sargent Ladd
  • A FIRE IN THE MIND: THE LIFE OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL by Stephen Larsen
  • ONCE UPON A TO Z: AN ALPHABET ODYSSEY by Jody Linscott
  • I REMEMBER BALANCHINE: RECOLLECTIONS OF THE BALLET MASTER BY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM by Francis Mason
  • LEARNING TO LOOK by John Pope-Hennessy
  • NO MINOR CHORDS: MY DAYS IN HOLLYWOOD by Andre Previn
  • BUTTERFLY COOING LIKE A DOVE by Miriam Rothschild
  • THE FISHERMAN’S SONG by Carly Simon
  • AT THE ZOO by Paul Simon
  • THE DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER by Jakob Walter

1992

  • THE COST OF COURAGE: THE JOURNEY OF AN AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN by Carl Elliot Sr. and Michael D’orso
  • LEGENDARY DECORATION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Mark Hampton
  • THE TIFFANY GOURMET COOKBOOK by John Loring
  • STANFORD WHITE’S NEW YORK by David Garrard Lowe
  • EGYPTIAN TIME by Robert Lyons
  • THE LAST TSAR: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF NICHOLAS II by Edvard Radzinsky
  • PROTECT AND DEFEND by Jack Valenti

1993

  • TAMING THE STORM; THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE FRANK M JOHSON JR AND THE SOUTH’S FIGHT OVER CIVIL RIGHTS by Jack Bass
  • DANCING SPIRIT; AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Judith Jamison with Howard Kaplan
  • POET AND DANCER by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • THE LITTLE BALLERINA AND HER DANCING HORSE by Gelsey Kirkland
  • THE WORTHY WONDERS LOST AT SEA; A WHIMSICAL WORD SEARCH ADVENTURE by Jody Linscott
  • THE BEST OF ROLLING STONE: 25 YEARS OF JOURNALISM ON THE EDGE by Robert Love
  • HEALING AND THE MIND by Bill Moyers
  • THE GARDEN OF LIFE; AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HEALING PLANTS OF INDIA by Naveen Patnaik
  • THE NIGHTTIME CHAUFFEUR by Carly Simon
  • BOMBSHELL: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JEAN HARLOW by David Stenn

1994

  • PARIS AFTER THE LIBERATION, 1944-1949 by Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper
  • ISIS AND OSIRIS; EXPLORING THE GODDESS MYTH by Jonathan Cott
  • PROMISED LANDS: A NOVEL OF THE TEXAS REBELLION by Elizabeth Crook
  • PHOTOGRAPHS, 1933-1967 by Toni Frissell
  • THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE 2, VOLUMES 8-13, FROM THE SPRINGTIME OF CHINA TO THE FALL OF ROME, INDIA TOO! by Larry Gonick
  • LOST IN THE TAIGA ONE RUSSIAN FAMILY’S FIFTY-YEAR STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE SIBERIAN WILDERNESS by Vasily Peskov
  • THE THREE GOLDEN KEYS by Peter Sis

1995

  • SKIES IN BLOSSOM; THE NATURE POETRY OF EMILY DICKINSON by Emily Dickinson
  • SHARDS OF MEMORY by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE: A FESTIVAL OF POETS by Bill D. Moyers
  • THE WEDDING by Dorothy West

1996

  • STALIN: THE FIRST IN-DEPTH BIOGRAPHY BASED ON EXPLOSIVE NEW DOCUMENTS FROM RUSSIA’S SECRET ARCHIVES by Edvard Radzinsky

 

 

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