Dates

• Existence: 1929 - 1994

Biography

Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Kennedy Onassis, nee Bouvier, was born in Southampton, New York, in 1929. She attended Vassar College in 1947 and then studied abroad through Smith College at the University of Grenoble and at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, from 1949 to 1950. She completed her undergraduate studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., earning as bachelor of arts in French literature in 1951. She and John F. Kennedy were married in 1953. She was the first lady of the United States from 1961 until Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. In 1968, she an Aristotle Onassis were married. After Aristotle Onassis died in 1975, she worked as book editor for Viking and Doubleday. She died in 1994.

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