Jackie kennedy biography timeline

Janet and Jack had a troubled marriage, and they were divorced in Jackie lived with her mother, who in remarried Hugh Dubley Auchincloss, Jr. The Auchinclosses were much wealthier than the Bouviers, and Jackie and her sister Lee lived with their mother and her new husband. Jackie's mother's remarriage created conflict in the family. Although Jackie adored her father, she saw less and less of him, especially after her mother and stepfather moved their family to Washington, D.

Jackie was a beautiful and elegant young woman. When she made her social debut, a top newspaper gossip columnist named her Debutante of Jackie began her college education at Vassar, where she seemed embarrassed by the reputation attached to her social success. She was a serious student who worked hard and made the dean's list. She spent two years at Vassar, and then studied for a year in France through a program offered by Smith College.

Jackie kennedy biography timeline

She then took a job at the Washington Times-Herald newspaper as a photographer. The next year Kennedy was elected senator from Massachusetts and moved to Washington. The two continued to see each other, and they became engaged in June On September 12, , Jacqueline Lee Bouvier married Kennedy at an enormous wedding that was the social event of the season.

Jackie Kennedy was a shy, private woman with little experience in politics or Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She worked with him on his public speaking, helping him develop the charismatic or charming style for which he would become so famous. In there was talk that John Kennedy would be the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Many members of the Kennedy family attended the convention, which was an exciting and exhausting one.

Jackie was there to lend her support, despite the fact that she was seven months pregnant. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. He began traveling all around the country and Jacqueline often accompanied him. During the campaign, she learned that she was pregnant and her doctors instructed her to remain at home.

From there, she answered hundreds of campaign letters, taped TV commercials, gave interviews, and wrote a weekly newspaper column, "Campaign Wife," which was distributed across the country. On November 8, , John F. Kennedy beat Republican Richard M. Nixon in a very close race. Two and-a-half weeks later, Mrs. Kennedy gave birth to their second child, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.

At age 31, Jacqueline Kennedy was the first lady. With her gracious personal style and her passion for history and the arts, she worked hard to be worthy of her new role. While she had a deep sense of obligation to her country, her first priorities were to be a good wife to her husband and mother to her children. She told a reporter that "if you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

Kennedy soon set about making the White House into a real home for her family. She turned the sun porch on the third floor into a kindergarten school for Caroline and 12 to 15 other children, who came every morning at There was also a swimming pool, a swing set, and a tree house on the White House lawn for Caroline and John Jr. Kennedy also thought about what the White House represented to its many visitors and to citizens everywhere.

She wanted people to have a greater appreciation of the history of America's most famous residence and its past inhabitants. Her first major project as first lady was to restore and preserve the White House. Gathering outstanding examples of American art and furniture from around the United States including many items that had belonged to former presidents and their families , she restored all the public rooms in the White House.

CBS Television asked Mrs. Kennedy to present a televised tour of the newly restored White House. Eighty million Americans watched the broadcast, and it earned Jacqueline Kennedy an honorary Emmy Award. Promoting the Arts The Kennedys brought a new, youthful spirit to the White House, which they believed should be a place to celebrate American history, culture, and achievement.

In January , John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the U. Although Onassis was pregnant at the time and thus unable to join him on the campaign trail, she campaigned tirelessly from home. She answered letters, gave interviews, taped commercials and wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column called "Campaign Wife. The couple had a third child, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy born prematurely on August 7, , but lost the child two days later.

Onassis's first mission as first lady was to transform the White House into a museum of American history and culture that would inspire patriotism and public service in those who visited. Onassis went to extraordinary lengths to procure art and furniture owned by past presidents—including artifacts owned by George Washington, James Madison and Abraham Lincoln—as well as pieces she considered representative of various periods of American culture.

It must be restored—and that has nothing to do with decoration. That is a question of scholarship. A record 56 million viewers watched her televised special, and Onassis won an honorary Emmy Award for her performance. As first lady, Onassis was also a great patron of the arts. In addition to the officials, diplomats and statesman who typically populated state dinners, Onassis also invited the nation's leading writers, artists, musicians and scientists to mingle with its top politicians.

The great violinist Isaac Stern wrote to Onassis after one such dinner, "It would be difficult to tell you how refreshing, how heartening it is to find such serious attention and respect for the arts in the White House. Auchincloss's first marriage to Maria Chrapovitsky, she had a step-brother, Hugh D. Although the author, playwright and social critic Gore Vidal has often been identified as a stepbrother to Jacqueline Kennedy, they both shared the same stepfather, but through different mothers.

French literature, ; Georgetown University, Washington, D. American history continuing education classes , Occupation before Marriage: 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 , 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. The submission was rigorous, requiring an original theme for an entire issue, illustrations, articles, layout and design, an advertising campaign that could be tied into the issue's content.

Named one of the twelve finalists, she was then interviewed by the magazine editors and out of 1, entries she won the contest. Her mother, however, did not want her to leave the U. Her job was to both photograph and interview local citizens with one question each day; her first interview was with Pat Nixon and others included Vice President Nixon and Senator John F.

Kennedy whom she later married. The questions became increasingly political, including topics like the Soviet Union, the Korean War, and the U. One of her last assignments was to cover Queen Elizabeth's coronation. Marriage: First: , September 12, to John F. Congressman D-Massachusetts , at St. Mary's Church, Newport, Rhode Island. John F.