1961-1963
She was, indeed, the First Lady. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy personified glamour, elegance, grace and quiet dignity during her three years as the spouse of the President of the United States. Hers was a life of magnificent spectacle, tremendous sadness and incomparable composure that captivated the American public and transformed a young woman into a citizen of the world.
After her year in France, Jackie said “Ilearnednot to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge” She was a child of privilege, born to John Vernou Bouvier III and Janet Lee Bouvier in Southampton, Long Island, New York, on 28 July 1929. Her father, a wealthy Wall Street stockbroker, was nicknamed ‘Black Jack’ in reference to his perpetual tan and ostentatious lifestyle. Her maternal grandfather, James Thomas Aloysius Lee, was…
