PAR@ ` ZTEXT ` LOnassis, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy1929╨1994socialite, First Lady and editorBorn in Southampton, Long Island, New York, on July 28, 1929, Jacqueline Bouvier was of a wealthy and socially prominent family. She was educated in private schools. From Vassar College, which she entered in 1947, she later transferred to George Washington University, from which she graduated in 1951, having spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. For two years she worked as a photographer and columnist for the Washington Times-Herald, until her marriage in September 1953 to Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. On Kennedy╒s election as president in 1960 she became the focus of national and even international popular interest. As the cultured and sophisticated First Lady, she helped set the social tone for the Kennedy administration; her quiet dignity went far to offset its otherwise often boyish air. Her personal taste in clothes was widely copied. She particularly interested herself in the White House itself and secured a number of important antique pieces for it as part of a plan to restore several of its public rooms to period authenticity. She set up a fine arts commission for the White House and hired a White House curator. In February 1962 she conducted a televised tour of the White House that was widely praised and was named for a Peabody award. On trips abroad with her husband she was warmly received and did much informally to maintain good relations with various nations. The assassination of President Kennedy as they rode together in a Dallas motorcade in November 1963 thrust her even more into the foreground of the national consciousness. After the immediate period of ceremony and mourning she withdrew slowly into the world of international society, becoming a frequent subject of society gossip and the victim of publicity seekers and paparazzi. She was linked romantically with various eligible men, but her marriage in October 1968 to Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis was a shock to her partisans and critics alike. She lived the secluded life of the extremely wealthy before and for a time after Onassis╒s death in 1975. From 1975 to 1977 she was a consulting editor at Viking Press. She moved to Doubleday in 1978 as an associate editor, later becoming a senior editor. She died on May 19, 1994, at her home in New York City. åstyl ` ! ¬ ( 5¬ 2 5¬ T !I ⌡ !I !I link `
