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America's First Ladies —from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

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Jacqueline Kennedy

First Lady: 1961 - 1963

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Jacqueline Kennedy program
Oral History on Life in the White House
Thanking the Nation of Condolences on January 14, 1964
NBC Interview with Arlene Francis in 1957
Passion for Writing
NBC Interview with Sander Vanocur
Visiting Pakistan in March 1962
Style Icon
Oral History on Lyndon B. Johnson
1960 Campaign Speech Collaboration
Phone Conversation with President Lyndon Johnson on December 2, 1963
Show Introduction
Arranging President Kennedy's Funeral
In the Press
Her Family Life
Her Image
In the White House
As an Editor
Life After the White House
Role as First Lady
Family Life
TV White House Tour
Image
The Kennedy Presidency
As First Lady
Graveside Ceremony
In the White House
President Kennedy's Funeral
Cokie Roberts on Jackie Kennedy
Book Discussion on Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
White House Decorative Arts Exhibit, part 1
Book Discussion on Letters to Jackie
Book Discussion on As We Remember Her
Book Discussion on Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier
First Ladies' Influence

Biography

Jacqueline Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

So many people hit the White House with their Dictaphone running...I never even kept a journal. I thought, ‘I want to live my life, not record it.’

Born - July 28, 1929 in Southampton, New York

Parents - John Vernou “Jack” Bouvier III & Janet Norton Lee Bouvier

Married - September 12, 1953 to John Fitzgerald Kennedy (widowed in 1963, second marriage to Aristotle Socrates Onassis in 1968, widowed in 1975)

Children - Daughter (stillborn) in 1956,
Caroline Bouvier (1957 – present),
John Fitzgerald, Jr. (1960 – 1999),
Patrick Bouvier (1963)

Education - Bachelor of Arts degree at George Washington University in 1951

Occupation - Book editor

Post White House residence - New York City

Causes - White House Historical Association, planned the first guidebook of the White House for visitors, and gave the first TV tour of the White House

Died - May 19, 1994 in New York, New York

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Did You Know...

Mrs. Kennedy studied aboard in Europe during her time at George Washington University.

Mrs. Kennedy took a job as an “inquiring photographer” for a local newspaper in Washington after graduating college. She interviewed her husband before he was president.

Mrs. Kennedy was the second presidential widow to remarry.