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Catherine Kennedy Biography

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was born July 28, 1929 in Southampton, NY . She lived a lavish lifestyle with her parents, John Vernou Bouvier, Janet Lee Bouvier and her five siblings, Liz Radziwill, Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd, James Lee Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III, Thomas Gore Auchincloss. She attended the Chapin School for seven years, the Holton Arms school for two years to finish grammar school. She went to highschool for three years at Miss Porter’s school. She learned at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, freshman and sophomore year, University of Grenoble and Sorbonne junior year and then for her senior year she attended the George Washington University. Before being well known as JFK’s wife, she wrote poems and short stories. …show more content…

There were over 1,280 entries and she won. She later denied the prize and worked as Inquiring Girl for the Washington Times-Herald. She in fact interviewed John F. Kennedy. The questions included questions about wars, The Soviet Union, and the United States involvement with Asia. One of her last projects was to cover the story of Queen Elizabeth. In 1953, she married John F. Kennedy. She had 2 children with John, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy, Jr. On August 7, 1963 Jackie gave birth to her third child, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy and he passed within two days. In 1961 she became the 35th First Lady of the White House. In one of her first statements about her receiving this title she exclaimed that her number one priority would still be her kids. She made a huge renovation to the White House, during the first year of living there. She refused to call it redecoration, to her it was restoration. She exclaimed in an interview “Everything in the White House must have a reason for being there.” She made rooms more welcoming, but also more historic. Showing that history

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