Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994), was the wife of President John F. Kennedy. She acted as the First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963. In the 1960s, she was known as Jacky Kennedy, and later as Jackie Onassis.
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born in Southampton, New York. She was the elder daughter of John Vernou Bouvier III (1891-1957) and Janet Norton Lee Bouvier Auchincloss Morris (1907-1989). She had a sister, Caroline Lee Bovier, born in 1933.
Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy married on September 12, 1953, at Newport, Rhode Island.
She had 4 children with John, Arabella(1956, stillborn), Caroline (1957-), John Jr.(1960-1999), and Patrick(1963, died after being born).
In 1968, 5 years after her husband was killed, she married Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipping tycoon who died in 1975.
In 1994, she died of cancer in her apartment, and later buried in Arlington.
In 2007, her name, along with her assassinated husband's, is onboard the SELENE spacecraft.
