Jackie Kennedy Onassis, America's widow

The most beloved first lady in the recent history of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy, an intelligent, cultured and independent woman, met the future president, John F. Kennedy, while working as a journalist. After three years in the White House dotted with marital scandals, in November 1963, after ten years married to him, she collected the fragments of her brain in the official car that transported them both to Dallas, in the most recent assassination. remembered.

Seeking economic security, she married arch-millionaire shipowner Aristotle Onassis in 1968 and went from being the most admired widow to offending the world. On May 19, 1994, cancer took her life. She was only 64 years old.

America’s widow lies next to her first husband, JFK, in Arlington flanked by the graves of her two daughters born shortly after birth.

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