At the time, the former first lady had embarked on a new chapter of her life as an editor, briefly for Viking Press and then for the remainder of her life at Doubleday, following the deaths of her first husband, President John F. Kennedy, and second husband, shipping tycoon Aristotle Ona...
Ms. Kennedy was enthralled with Melina Mercouri and what she stood for as an artist, and as a Greek.She even once using Mercouri’s ideas on what it meant to be Greek in backing her argument to historian Arthur Schlesinger that her husband was more a Greek “defying the fates,” than ...
There are two movies in "Jackie," Pablo Larraín's film about Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) immediately before, during and after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy. One of these movies is just OK. The other is exceptional. The first one keeps undermining the ...
Kennedy gave her a Van Cleef & Arpels ring with diamond and emerald jewels, each 2.8 carats. Jackie’s second husband, Greek businessman Aristotle Onassis, presented her with a 40-carat emerald-cut diamond by Harry Winston, which she stored in a bank vault. The ring fetched $2.6 million ...
Unquestionably the most stylish first lady with her often understated but assured selections, Kennedy inspired generations of women to follow her lead. The 31-year-old helped to personify the youthful spirit and hopefulness of her husband’s administration. Having attended Vassa...
jackie tried putting her life back together, protecting her children and working to burnish the legend of her husband’s brief presidency by conjuring the myth of camelot. but now it was lee’s time to shine. she had always hated what had been written about her during the kennedy years: ...
Kennedy when she married John F. Kennedy, then a young senator from Massachusetts. The couple had four children, two of whom survived into adulthood - Caroline and John Jr. As First Lady, her time in the White House was tragically cut short by her husband's assassination in 1963, a ...
2016’s “Jackie” examined the role Jackie Kennedy played in the aftermath of her husband’s assassination, and “Spencer” took a measured approach to the life of Diana Spencer before her official divorce from the future King Charles of England. To say that “Maria” is the least all-...
Whatever else died with JFK’s assassination, Jackie’s Americanized Chanel suit survived, a piece of evidence from a split second in history. Decades after President Kennedy’s death, the stained pink suit stands as a symbol of Jackie’s loyalty to her husband and fortitude in the face of ...
Exterior view of Jackie Kennedy's former home. (Sean Shanahan / Fox News) One of Jackie Kennedy’s former homes has officially hit the market. The Washington, D.C. mansion is one of the properties where the former first lady stayed following the 1963 assassination of her husband, Pre...