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INTRODUOTION PRIVATE MOMENTS An American original Exclusive photos reveal a Jackie who thrived SCENES FROM A LIFE 10 among friends and family The most photographed woman in the world never adjusted to the public's relentless gaze. THE ONASSIS YEARS But how could we turn away? Jackie was the trophy wife of the century YOUNG JACKIE INCOMPARABLE STYLE 19 Jackie created a look admired worldwide A willful child develop into the Deb of the Year—then into aWas gton working girl ON AN EVEN KEEL 75 SISTERS After Ati, Jackie settled into editing, ciarity 24 work and a stable life with Maurice Tempelsman Jackie and sister Lee grew closer with time and tragedy FIRST MOTHER 80 MARRYING JACK 28 Above all else, America's reigning royal cared Landing Washington's most eligible bachelor, about her children Jackie took on the role of political wife REMEMBERING JACKIE 90 FORMIDABLE KENNEDYS 35 Gail Cameron Wescott recnlls sitting out a Jackie fought for a place among rowdy in-laws 1960 hurricane with the young Mrs. Kennedy THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS 42 REFLECTIONS 92 The First Lady brought beauty, enthusiasm and In exclusive excerpts from rare interviews a heck of a wardrobe to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and letters, Jackie speaks candidly PROFILE IN COURAGE 50 FAREWELL 94 Jackie stood strong in November 1963 Jackie rests eternally beside JFK Cover photograph by Jacques Lowe/Woodfin Camp

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Alison Sawyer, Kann Grunt (Los Angeles), Jerene Jones (Landon) ail Cameron Wes- Sarah Rozen pored over some ART DEPARTMENT Hlilie Prizes (Deputy Director), Phil Simone (Special Protects D(reace), Angela itritaire (Fasisiall01102/00.TIIIM Mon, Mary M. Hew* cott first met Jac- 2,000 photos. (DesViets). Sal Argenziono, Mori Ir7RR, BOW Fay. &KPH) Randazzo Corr DESK Nancy (ChM), Dovld Smitten, Pahlota R. Ka ntor° queline Kennedy in Meanwhile, 39 correspondents (Deputes). WIG Beaker, Jab I., Rasa Kaplan (Copy Coordinators), WIlltarn DOGES. Amallo Duarte, Ben Harm, Aron Luna, Mary C. Radian, Mired C 1960. Gail was a and reporters, directed by senior Rosenblum. Sheryl F. Stern (Copy EdNors), LII tan Mot, Debate n Robe. Patricia young New York editor El i7abeth Sporkin, talked to Rommeney, Joancnn Sean (Assert:Ms) EDITORIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Sarah Brady City reporter with a friends of Jackie's who until now OPERATIONS Alan Anisfueyeaz (Mencger)., Anmany he lams (Deputy). Michael G. Aponte. Sahel Asoyeshi, Cain Bilk4, Doran Chong. Denise M. knack for getting had guarded her privacy. Washing- Damn, George W. Hill. Key Matto, Min Ruhlowska Ellen Shapira Larry Whrheord TECHNOLOGY Torn Klein @InlicloD,i.Jeinie Greene, Cede Wham, James people to open up; ton bureau chief Garry Clifford MItl Sioptionle WIND° PRODUCTION Geri Flanagan, Thomas C. culaalco. Robert Brenzo, Paul Jackie was a U.S. senator's wife not spoke to Joseph Heiberger, who Umtata, Pour Minsk: {Managers), Cathatne Barran, Karen Donaldson, Karen yetG press-shy. Wescott, now a spe- taught her to use a camera as an in- Wag r ret. !Low J. Water, Anthony WI WI IMAGING Betsy Castillo (Mariam). Paul Dayelr, Robed Fagan, Francis cial correspondent for PEOPLE in At- quiring photographer. New York Alzgerala, Panda Fitzgaroal Gordon. Henry Groslensky. Jargon M. USD. Brian Luckey, Anthony G Moore. {odd Pansy, Joanne Recco, Jaquith-is Shurribowskl, lanta, shares her intimate moments City correspondent Maria Efti- Randal Swa. Warren Thompson, Peter fetus PUBLIC AFFAIRS Elkin Rubin (Director), Dionne Janes with the former First Lady on page miades learned details of her deal- EDITORIAL BUSINESS MANAGER Marla Rica. Orpha Davis (Deputy) ADMINISTRATION Susan Baldwin, Itarronl Acquaye. Isobel Alves, Oavid Cruz 90 of this commemorative issue. ings with Michael Jackson on his Anon Orexel, Nancy FIN, Jay Fordyce. Deirdre Sallogner, Jean Reveilles, Pauline Shipman, Shirley Oln kitten, Ranclall Vest. Mato While, Maureen S Wescott's reminiscence is one book, Moonwalk. Fallon (LattorsiSyndicatIon Manager) way we have tried to bring you des- NEWS BUREAU Marilyn Salami renermly Chret), Elizabeth F. McNeil, William This issue passed through many Brzorowski. Bonnie J Smllh, Where G6 Williams ert° the womanwhose combination hands—fact checkers, copy edi- NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT Lois Armstrong DOMESTIC BUREAUS scarce, S. Avery Brawn; caricxao. Gloyannu Breu (Chia), of high style and high character was tors, page coders, imaging spe- Urchin,: Fisher. Julie Greenwalt. item Mortrialer: Kamm, Pone Molar: Los ogees. T.orki Gad (Deputy enter), Lorenzo herein Karen Brallsiord. Thomas her defining quality. Few of us had cialists—and almost all felt a con- Carnet Kristina Johnson, Nancy Malwmale, Vicki SherriCahon, Crag Tornasnalt. Lynda WIN, Parente Nishlda, Monica Rizzo, Kerman!). Baker: met Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis nection with the woman on the surer. Mail GinnL mew nes Morin EThrniodes; yosiorarce. Gorey CIrtlord (Chid), Undo Kromer. Peter Meyer. Margie Bonneli Seillager, Sarah Skolnik, VarnIda —she was certainly the most fam- cover. We hope these pages ex- Sung, Angelo waters ous person 1 had never met— press that bond—and the one felt EUROPEAN BUREAU Frea Haupt:bra (Cnia), Terry Smith (Deputy) SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS muffle, Gall Wescato examone, Tarn Nugent, though all of us at PEOPLE felt her by our readers—for the remark- maw Barna EMIL amorda. Ken Myers: PPM. stickle Bane Noutapous, BIT Snaw; axiom. Morgan% Wright, ups AlPELFS, Dons Herron. Johnny Dodd, Leak presence, both on the streets of the able woman who was Jacqueline Felon Mitchell, Mitchell Flak, Jahn Winter, keen G. Atka/Ica, LynaonStambter, Joyce Wagner: marteshustivair. Jana Sanderson: awe CindyiWrir. Don city we shared and in our pages, be- Kennedy Onassis. Sider: IOXIONXIS. Margaret Nelson: 1104,ACO, Joei Simko-McClure: Halt Dolby Nolan. PliRdal,PHiA. Andrea Fine; KUL Logan Benitey:7R km, Mira Avrech ginning in 1974 with the first of 12 wisseresroN, Jane Sens Parleslo CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Keel Dablarel covers on which she appeared. (Thefamily of Jacqueline Kenne- CONTRIBUTING PHOTOeitAnferd Marianne Barcellona, Harry Belson, Ian Lank. Tony Cosa, Mimi Colter. PMEd Elseasiaea, Stephan Ellison, EsMyn Rorer, Just hours after Jackie's death, dy Onassis 'requests that dona- kW RIM, Sieve Kagan. Crlstoptier Liitle. Jim McHugh. Robin Plaza, Neal executive editor Susan Toepfer as- tionsin her memory be sent to the Preston, Dr Rerilmeml a, Steve Schapiro. Mark Senret Polar Serling, Barry Stever, Stanley Theft*, Dare Wiener, lam Yomasala sembled a team to plan this news- New York Hospital Cancer Re- TIME INC. EDITORIAL OPERATIONS Fleecier Stied:In Uncork EDITORIAL SE WADES, Christiana Wallas' (Dtrechn Hanns :Kahl (Photo Lab), stand-only tribute. "Given the search Fund, 525 East 68th St., Larry W. megarum (linavy). Bern lienciro Zamora (Finds Collectool Dennis Crinet (Edit PRA Tecn no logy) strong reaction to the Audrey Hep- New York, N.Y 10021.) PRESIDENT ArinS Moue burn issue published by PEOPLE last DIRECTOR OF CONSUMER MARKETING AND DEVELOPMENT Jeremy B. Koch GENERAL MANAGER Ann W J(.102,711 year, we knew our readers would BUSINESS MANAGER Paharr D Jurgen PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Tracy T VvInartmi want a special on Jackie," says PUBLISHER Nora McAral Toepfer. Deputy art director Hillie ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER James J. DOrt.grItie Pitzer worked through the weekend ASSISTANT ADVERTISING SALES DIRECTOR John J Gallagher MARKETING DIRECTOR Vanessa Teed on designs, while photo editor Managing Editor tion how to mourn. And mourn we do, for when Jacqueline

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YOUNG JACKIE DADDY'S GIRL A defining childhood of gentility—and doubt

he was not so much raised as groomed. Her mother, of A "Black Jack" Bouvier common Irish immigrant stock, placed a premium on (with his wife and daugh- appearances, calling her family the Maryland Lees; her ter at a Southampton paternal grandfather trumped up his lineage, trans- horse show) was "abso- forming his French forebears from shopkeepers into lutely lethal," said a friend noblemen. When a Bouvier orator spoke at the dedica- who remembered his con- tion of the George Washington Bridge, the family for- vertible "disappearing in a ever after referred to it as "our bridge." hue of champagne and M she was growing up in New York City society, her world re- dust." volvedS around her father, John "Black Jack" Bouvier, a hard-drink-

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ing charmer who taught his two daughters to dress well and to cre• ate for LhemselveH an minter mystery. florn on July 28, 192P, and raised in New York, Jacqueline (she pronounced It the French way, Zhock-LREW) became a class hel- lion at all the right schoo is: Miss CI ui pi n'is, Holton-Arms and, at 15, Miss Porter's, where, she once said. "all my friends adored limy father' and used to line up to be taken out to dinner when he came to see roe." Four years earlier she had been dev- astated when his indiscretions led her mother to divorce him and marry (for security, if not love—another lesson to learn) the wealthy invest- Jackie !with her mai her. above I was 'a ment hanker Hugh Au ch Mel oss. darialave Iwisubock rides who holieved in hard wed and sellieliarce," B pie re- t 14, in a poem, Jackie eels- At 10. she rode hat horse Oncseuse showed at least a glim- at a Southampton horse show. mer of wanderlust: "I love the feeling down inside me/That Asays to run away/To come and be a gypsy/And laugh the gypsy way." Yet a prescribed adolescence was spent fox-trotting through subscription dances at the Plaza, where her glister her was considered the pretty one and Jackie the brain. "She was so much smarter than most of the people around her that she suhilli- il mated it," recalled an escort, ; "When I'd take her to the Yale Howl, i she'd say to me, 9h, why are they kicking the ball?' I'd say, *Come on, - i Jackie, none of that.' -

A "She was alwave Tem years at Vassar were followed set apart dusty by a.lii trier year in Paris at the Sor- recalls a bonne, where "I have to write Mum- Vassar classmate. my a ream each week," she told her In 1041 colthrmsst stepbrother Hugh, "or she gets hys- Igor Cassini (brother or mar- of dui lents Olai) terical and thinks I'm dead named her bet at ried Lean Italian." On her return to the Year. the Stales, said a male friend, "she was no longer the round little girl who lived neat dour." She trans- ferred to George Washington Uni- versity In Washington end, after ,7 Aa Mqusing pea graduating, took a 342.50-a-week tograptiet in 1952. Jul) athe Washington Tintex,fier. she sometimes used aid as an Inquiring photographer. her uSumn as an "We used to tease her," recalls aiterrliss-geeing retired planographerJoe Heiherger, flirtation device to use 5nrsAls isavocative who taught her how a Speed Weslisnl -Mies Graphic camera. "We'd say, 'Jackie, Your idea of ths pa- And yourself a rich one while you're -3 fact meter out there: She wouldjuidandle." •

21 AO" SISTERS THE BEST OF FRIENDS hey grew up m a Chic and world where there were no uncertain- ties: Bound by tradi- cultivated, tion and defined by social ritual, Lt was the same New York the well-bred that Edith Wharton had known. Jacqueline and Caroline TLee Bouvier spent winters on Park Bouvier sisters Avenue and surruners in East Hamp- ton; as delis they waltzed through cotillions and dreamed of Europe. became close In the beginning, Jackie played the role of bossy big sister to the confidantes; dainty Lee, who was J V, years her junior. After their parents divorced in 1940, however, they became at. until the end, ketionaie allies. True, a hint of ri- valry Lingered—the First Lady was ruffled when desimiers declared in they stood 1982 that Lee was better dressed —but as adults they shared both in umph and tragedy An unofficial together lady-in-wailing, Lee accompanied Jackie on lier 1982 tour of India and Pakistan; dad In sheaths and high through joy heels, the two rode a camel in Kara- chi. Thrice wed herself (to publish- and sorrow ing heir Michael Cann ekl; to Prince Sutnislas Radziwill, father of Antho- ny, 34, and Anna, 33; and, since 1988, to director Herb Ross), Lee Y On the ben-dressed list many comforted Jackie during rocky times, both Biliildar 5.3i91,11111 15191 spots in her marriage to JFK; in were olloulusaly chic. limy steed e fondness Id European desiernes, and IMEl, aItrJuitted the First Lady (who it was Mutilated that Las 'who was had just lost son Patrick) on all Ae- the awns rheas sire) nit in lit di' gean cruise on Aristotle 0 nassis's yenchy fdhrrps for 1111/ First Lady, yacht. She slept with herbs the Ken- alio quietly c ommi ssin led clothes n edys' White House bedroom after hem the Pais IlaNiama Jack was shot and later encouraged Jacek' and Ude sister Lilt it 1933) Jackie to buy an apartment near pap. Shirred an &IOW runty Mild M sonars Elution Fifth Avenue. "Nothing owurdreminounth Istridinenetoys and Oush could ever come between us," Jack- animals tram KA.O. Schwan With molten ie once said of Lee. And, until May ■ Juno, a pudgy Lea and rehisti.eldilli 19, 1994, nothing did. I- stepped out in East tionipton 1111337. 24 SISTERS

A Passionate about the arts, Jackie and Lee befriended per- formers including Ru- dolf Nureyev, who joined them for a stroll in England in November 196B. When Lee threw a party for her wid- owed sister in Man- hattan in 1965, the guest list included Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski, Maurice Chevalier and Sammy Davis Jr.

Yo- Lee {with son An- thony, Jackie and Caroline at Hyannis Port in 1961) shared her sister's grief when newborn son Patrick died in Au- gust 1963; while Jackie recuperated at the hospital at Otis Air Force Base Massachusetts, Lee slept in an adjoining room.

MARRYING JACK As bride of the most ambitious Kennedy, Jaelde embarked on the often lonely life SENATOR'S WIFE of a political helpmate t was more than just meeting someone," she later said of her Washington dinner-party introduction in 1951 to the dashing congressman from Mas- sachusetts. "ft started the wheels turning." Both Sete of wheels, apparently "I made all his dates with all his girlfriends," recalls Jack Kennedy's longtime personal secretary, Evelyn UnC0111, "And when Jackie came along, he didn't ask me to make the dates. I knew that It was serious." IThey were In different countries when she received his proposal, but the announcement of their engagement had to be delayed until after publication of a Saturday Eve- ning Phs4 article on "The Senate's Gay Young Bachelor." Arid when the much-ballyhooed society wedding of the sea- son did take place, on Sept. 12, 1953, it was with a poi- grunt piece of artifice: Her stepfather was the one who walked her down the aisle while her adored—and increas- ingly aleoholio—father, John "Black Jack" Bouvier ill, lay passed out In his nearby hotel room. Jackie had wanted a simple, elegant wedding gown. it was her fiancé who pushed her into a confection that one critic derided as "an atrocious mass of tissue silk taffeta, with excessive orna- mentation of ruffles, tucks, stitchings and flowers." It would not be the last time she suffered to accommo- date hint. "We never had a home for five years," she recalled of his burgeoning career. "Polities was sort of my enemy as far as seeing Jack was concerned." By their third anniversary, the rift was pronounced. "I was alone almost every weekend while Jack traveled the country making speeches," she said, calling their marriage "all wrong." There was also the matter of his infidelity, which became a quietly accepted fact of their lives. "I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives," site once said. "Men are such a combination of good and evil" SUE, there was no truth to the story that old Joe Kennedy offered her $1 million to stay in the marriage. "Why not $10 million?" she later snapped about the rumors. itwould be their children who would cement the marriage, but first Jac.kle sulk red a miscarriage, then a stillbirth; when she could no longer face the decorated, sunlit nurseryln their Virginia home at Hickory Hill, Jack sold the house to his brother Bobby and wife Ethel. Finally, Caroline was born in 1967, and John•John followed In 1980. By the time of her first official press conference, Jack- le's priorities were obvious. "I have nn desire in influence fashions. That teat the bottom of any list," she told reporters. And what, they asked, was at the top? "Jack." a i.

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FORMIDABLE KENNEDYS INTO THE CL Marrying a Kennedy was one thing. Acceptance was another

he Kennedys are the most welcoming fam- large feet, Ethel guffawed: 'What? With those clodhop- ily," she said gushingly in 1953, not long pers?" And yet, after Bobby's death, according to author after her betrothal. "The day you become Jerry Oppenheimer, it was Jackie who paid to replace engaged to one of them is the day they Ethel's leaking Hickory Hill roof. start saying how 'fantastic' you are." The Outnumbered and outflanked, Jackie ultimately held honeymoon didn't last long. By the time her own. Once she was 15 minutes late to lunch, a fatal Ted landed on her during one of the fam- faux pas when Joe was "in one of his Emperor Augustus ily's interminable games of touch football, moods," recalled a friend. "He started to give her the nee- breaking her ankle, Jackie had decided that she had had dle, but she gave it right back." Mindful of his penchant Tenough. Of togetherness with the clan, she stated, "Once for old-fashioned slang, Jackie said, "'You ought to write a week is great. Not every night," a series of grandfather stories for children, like The Duck Her bouts with the sharp-elbowed Ethel were re- with Monde' and 'The Donkey Who Couldn't Fight His Way out of a Telephone Booth.' "At first there was deadly nowned. Once, in an unguarded moment, Jackie confid- ■ ed that she had wanted to study ballet. Eyeing Jackie's silence. "Then old Joe broke into a roar of laughter." )1,-

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38 THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS FIRST LADY Jackie brought aristocratic taste—and an infectious sense of history—to the executive mansion

lie never liked the title First Lady. "It eJwitys reminded me of a sad- dle horse,- Jackie once said. But after she arrived In the White House Miami.. ary 1961, the energet. le eau egoist., took the name over the highesUumps, and we all went along for the ride. Not since Z1-year-old Frances Folsom Cleveland had the country been blessed with such a young FirelLady. Only 31, Jackie had an Elan beyond her years and the grit to use tt. Cournre became her signa- ture. TheJackie look was a global aspiration, reignited on each ocher six trips abroad. She promoted the arts and mixed guests like compos- er Igor Stravinsky or poet Carl Sandburg with the Camelot regulars at White House evenings. But her crowning achievement was restnr- ing the mansion and preserving its Attila was et the history. "Jackie loved being First aannays 35th I Lady. Shewas thrilled by h." says President, Jatkis won intorno-the her former chief of staff, Letitia Hal- ! hesi.tneamwtm drige. "You'd have to be nuts not to I an in iiiswoid be thrilled by making I iistory and not A Jackie attended kw Inataluga twits —bu I was Just to be witnessing IL- 11 u

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Prime Mensiet Nehru comlotted e squeamish decide (with aisle Lae the- me their 1962 India trip) as a cotes attacked a mongoose

sr Jackie. a Roman Catholic, was the first sitting Fest tarty to have an audience with the Pope. She met John XXVI in Rome in 1562.

A Ten days before the asaassina Jackie watched John Jr. parade though the Whits House MINI honor guard's !wedgies

A Frond-is-aura minister Ana,/ Mal. tausse inspires/ Jodie that she hoped to creels e government agency tot outluze in the 11 S

takimStirmLet leader ■1 A Whether on Washington or (es A Jackie (with Australian ambassa- 1111 shamed be Jackie. ham} in Hyannis Port. Jackie dor Sir Howeed Beaten, Newnan, RI., told phatognrptmru in shimmed the shonerftugs., but JFX in 1962)'6[10 have Ma artificiality of 11,7.0ml:her houtiwid relten /mid to snug—with "Buttons" people in that certain world,- ems = pose with Notate end John-John.9 passible !ashen esinur Greco Meabetle,

44 4th THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS

A During Jackie's triumphant 1961 visit to Paris, crowds lined the streets, shouting, -Vim Jacquil Viva Acquit"

46 PROFILE IN COURAGE

After JFK was murdered at her he morning of Nov. 22, 1883, started out with laughter. When a crowd outside the gennedys' Port Worth hotel asked where side, she calmly put together Jackie was, the President quipped: "Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself. It takes her a little Longer. But, of course, she funeral that kept the nation looks better than we do when she does it." She was, in fact, getting dressed, put- ting on a pink Chameleon and matching hat that the together. She was only 34 TPresident had picked out for her to wear. After a political breakfast, the couple flew to Dallas for a motorcade through the hot, sunbaked city. As they 1 should havo came through Dealey Plaza at 12:30 p.m., Jackie heard known that limn asking too much to what she thought at first was a motorcycle backfiring. dream that I might Three shots hit her husband. "My God! What are they have grewa old with doing'?" she shouted. "My Cod/ They've killed Jack! him and seen our They've killed my husband! Jack? Jack!" The limo cliildren grow up to- rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital—hut it was ion gether." Jackie wrote late, Before the doctors covered the slain President whh is s briar -memoir a white sheet, Jackie kissed his feet, his lips and his year aim she—and open eyes and placed her wedding ring on his finger. (It the nation—turd bur- was returned to her that night) led her darn hus- She rode with JFIC's casket in .EL rear compartment or band. 'Se now he is o legend alma he Alr Force One back to Waahington, refusing to change weed Itave preferred out of her suit and stockings, which were spattered with 1010 a men." his blood. "I want them to see what they have done to Jack," she said. Once she returned, she began to work through the night, orchestrating every aspect of her husband's funeral. It was to be like Abraham Lincoln's, she decided, down to the muffled drums and the rider- less horse. Her husband would be buried In Arlington National Cemetery—across the Potomac from the Lin- coln Memorial--not In Boston, as the Kennedy family had hoped. No detail was too small For tier sue Lion: the position- ing of the casket in the East Room, the hanging of mourn- ing drapes, the placement of a military honor guard. She went throe& her husband's effects and found a memento to give to each of hL5 friends, along with a perSOrial ante; press secretary Pierre &linger, for example, received an engraved cigar holder. She wrote on-Unstinted ons on how memorial programs would be laid on seats in St- Mat- thew's Cathedral. And rattalde the church, when they played -Hail to the Chief," she cued 3•year-old John Jr. to salute his father's casket—perhaps die most famous rani- well gesture in American history. Two weeks laterahe gave a rare Mus-view to correct-an important omission; site had found a name for the Kenne- dy years. She told writer Theodore White that JFK had played a recording of the musical CaSlehli nearly every night Thell nes he listened for, she said, were: "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for none brief shM i ng moment, that WIL9 known as Camelot." Aztd she added, "It will never be that way again." ■

51 A SEPARATE WORLD

PRIVATE MOMENTS

Off duty and on her own,

Jackie revealed a delicious

wit and a caring

warmth, evoked

in these exclusive photographs by

Benno Graziatul

wry

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A ''She said that lee is Ian prisrioua,- recalled Doubleday's deputy ;Rth sow hill Barry, who asked ..iacklu 1tl writa Our memoirs "[She swill, ii want 10 Sutror rL r dr rather spend my term feeling a galkcpi ng hetseer the mist al rho ocean."' Among the many rIlOroont6. she WOUldn:1111.6.5 MS a poetry leaning with Les and Lee's kids. Christina and Anthony, in Londe[ on New heart be, 19E9 Net wlMihy to ha seen with wet here, Jackie wrapped hor 'wad Istylionly) in a towel.

58 59

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simple, bud magnetic,

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She saw in him a father figure," a friend says of Jackie With Ari in 1971). been wassinated. Noted Lee Riutziwill, after the OcL 20, er, Jackie's brother-in-law, Robert F Kennedy Jr., had year-old groom Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Socra- tes Onassis—the first of many gestures he would make to

offer her the security she craved. Only four months mull-

who can protect her from the curiosity of the world."

was that Jackie had married An for his money, he'd mar-

ried her for her prestige," recalls a Paris journalist. But her friend, Countess Isabelle d'finiano, protests that it

different, but I felt she married him because she loved was an affair oldie heart: "Onassis and Jackie were very ed nn her hedonistic lifestyle, Jackie tumbled of the top of the Gallup Pull's Hsi of most admired women. Free of 1958, ceremony: "My sister needs a man like Onassis,

ry, frantically spending her $30,000 monthly allowance.

the bonds of public life, she reveled In Onassian luxu- to be the First Lady's feekles S

not cut her much slack. When Jackie asked to plan the Soon It was a marriage in pocketbook only. Jackie spent meals for one of their cruises, Art reportedly told an aide,

"Why doesn't she nisi behave herself and do nothing?"

In 1974, diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a disease of

more time in Manhattan; An sought advice about divorce.

Christina, would later pay her a $26 million settlement.) Jackie remembered the hest. "Aristotle Onassis rescued t muscle deterioration, he revised his will, excludingJackle

from any significant share In his estate. Whatever bitterness she felt, on his death in March 1976,

me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shad- little Mt sad,"

newt controversial P- Chcl, guest who attended

couple since lit the wedding of the as Air and JFICkle.,

tan and-lece Virden.- westing a beige chit- cerernomi at Sitar-

Lady John Jr. and

pros's Chapel at Our die Greek Onliedos too, amorgod from Caroline !behind

Jacket attended

The world's euilosity did

Americans, however, were outraged by what they took

Unhappy with his wife's spendthrift ways, Onassis did

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she stud. "1 will be eternally grateful." a

THE ONASSIS YEARS

recalls

been oddly comforting. The helicopters, helicopters overhead. But for the Presi- ile was

Skorpius, were arranged for by her 62-

her wedding vows beneath the clatter of

and an army uf 200 guards deployed around dent's widow, then 39, the din may have

the tiny whitewashed chapel on the Island of

and

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INCOMPARABLE STYLE THE WAY SHE LOOKED he made it look deceptively easy. The Jackie set trends but collarless sheaths, the unadorned A-line dresses, a strand or two of pearls. Understate& Certainly imitable? Never. never followed them, laekie's style was the stunning SUM of parts that ht theory shouldn't have added remaining for three up. She had a tine-honed delicacy, despite lag size-1.0 feet, and a regal bearing, al- though her le*were SO bowed she had earned the nick. decades a model of nameS tiardo Legs in her 20a. -She was not a classic brainy," says Valentino, one of her favorite designers, but she was extremely striking." understated glamor Her glamor was extolled even in her pre-White House dam "She has the look of a beautiful lion," wrote a columnist in July 1900. But it was her appearance at her husband's Inauguration—outfitted in Oleg Gemini's sable-trimmed beige wool coat and pillbox hat—that launched theJarkle look. The other women in attendance, recalls Cassini, -all had big fur coats and looked like hears roaming around. Jackie looked in neat and pretty and young. She became a bombshell tight sway." So what if her style Was expensive? According to Cassini, it was Joe Kennedy who footed the bills. Be- sides, says Letitia Fialdrige, the former White House social secretary, "her pi ibiic molted I ter to dress well. If she had suddenly gone out and shopped at Sears, they would have hated it." Over the years she would help set countless trends: one-shouldered gowns in the %Os, sari-style dresses. in the '70s, clossieslly tailored pantsuits In the 'hos. But her own fashion sense was timeless. "Jackie's style stayed mostly the same," says designer Carolina Her- rera, whose clothes Jackie often wore in recent years, -hut she was always modern, ao she looked as good in the Vas as she had in the '611s." Valentino rays that meeting Jackie -was like touching the sky with your finger." Emulating her style, the rest of us might not have reached that high. Hut we were happier for the trying.. N.

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and and

altered the neckline neckline the altered

public, less to be ladylike then to con- to then ladylike be to less public,

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industry with her pillbox hots, which Hebron, Hebron, which hots, pillbox her with industry

chic, made being blond anything but, and and but, anything blond being made chic,

most most

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THE LATER YEARS ON AN EVEN KEEL An interesting job and a doting companion brought stability

Jackie (at Viking) hater Doubleday when Viking published a novel about the assassination of Ted Kennedy.

75 THE LATER YEARS

n the last chapter of her life, Jackie abandoned adven- ture and found stability, reveling in the mundane world of taxis and office buildings as much as in the privileged sphere of horse farms and her vaca- tion compound on Martha's Vine- 1yard. When she returned to New York City in 1975 from the indo- lence of Skorpios, she embraced the energy of Manhattan. With her pri- mary job, the raising of her children, accomplished, Jackie went to work three days a week as an editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday. Often dressed in leggings, she sat in a modest, windowless office, shepherding writers through a doz- en books a year. Those who were in- timidated by her gently smiling presence in the corridors, the kitch- en—even at the copy machine— were wieldy calmed. "Jackie made it easy," says Doubleday president Stephen Rubin. "She was tremen- dously warm and accessible." Her maternal nature was now ap- plied to nurturing authors; but as an editor, she could be tough. After reading the first draft of Michael Jackson's 1988 autobiography, Moomazik, she told the pop star, "Look, we can't go on with this puff," remembers Doubleday designer J.C. SuartNs. "She said, 'We're going to have to fix this up or

< "She made it a struggle in- A "Maurice is a man of great volving people all over the coun• charm, wit and savoir faire. He try," said Municipal Art Society hardly takes second place to head Kent Barwick of Jackie's Jackie in terms of social graces." high-visibility support at a 1978 noted a friend of diamond import- rally to save Grand Central Ter- er Tempelsman (with Jackie in minal, that famous New York 1986), her companion and protec- City landmark. tor for some 15 years.

74; THE LATER YEARS

.4 In the late '70s, before Maurice came on the scene, old friends like artist Bill Walton (accompanied by Eunice Ken- nedy Shriver and her husband, Sargent) squired Jackie to charity events.

Yr ''They were very private," says social-

ite Susan Gutireund

Id Id of Jackie and Tern- , ,

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/ month). "That was l l

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A The Clintons climbed aboard Tempelsman's cabin cruiser on Martha's Vineyard last August to schmoon with Jackie, Caroline and Ed Schlossberg, and Ted and Vicki Kennedy. we're all going to look like fools.' " found her greatest happiness—with On the rare occasions that Jackie Maurice Tempelsman, a Belgian- took up a cause, she attacked it as born financier and diamond mer- she did one of her books. In 1976, chant who parlayed her holdings she joined a crusade to save Grand into an estimated $200 million for- Central Terminal from a plan to tune. Married, though separated feel like the most important person erect a building that would obscure from his wife, Tempelsman, 64, re- in the world." To him, there was nobody more its facade. "By standing up and mained steadfastly by Jackie's side important than Jackie. "He respect- speaking out," said Municipal Art for well over a decade, longer than Society president Kent L. Barwick, JFK or Onassis. Described by a ed her privacy and bandaged the wounds," says a friend. "With Mau- "she made it a success." friend as "very dignified and intel- ■ It was in private, though, that she lectual," Tempelsman "made you rice, she was at peace."

AND JOY JOY AND

Kearns Goodwill, shepherding Caroline and John Into a Imp• Imp• a Into John and Caroline shepherding Goodwill, Kearns

py adulthood was "the best thing I have ever dom. ever have I thing best "the was adulthood py

John.lt 's third, which she refused to cancel despite Its failing failing Its despite cancel to refused she which third, 's John.lt

White House and later into the sanctuary of her New York York New her of sanctuary the into later and House White

normality. As As normality.

on the day ofJFICs funeral. funeral. ofJFICs day the on

children a sense of joy: She gathered their friends into the the into friends their gathered She joy: of sense a children

City apartment; she doted an their birthday parties—even parties—even birthday their an doted she apartment; City 0

but in tine company of children, she was die soul or spontaneity. spontaneity. or soul die was she children, of company tine in but

them, and the tragedy Wad molded their lives, Jackie gave her her gave Jackie lives, their molded Wad tragedy the and them,

PRIDE PRIDE

milracles' milracles'

'are her two two her 'are

her, and John Jr. and Caroline—eulogized Ted Ted Caroline—eulogized and Jr. John and her,

Kennedy—

Motherhood was the thing that most mattered to to mattered most that thing the was Motherhood

And against all odds, she maintained for them a climate of of climate a them for maintained she odds, all against And

Despite Despite

the fame, the power, the the power, the fame, the

she she

n Easter Sundays, Jackie, Caroline and and Caroline Jackie, Sundays, Easter n

may have possessed the poise of a First Lady, Lady, First a of poise the possessed have may ations—a lamp shade tied to her head with a a with head her to tied shade lamp ations—a

ribbon, for instance—were the wittilt. She She wittilt. the instance—were for ribbon,

hats. Invariably, says a pal, Jackie's cre- Jackie's pal, a says Invariably, hats.

and, nwre recently, Cainline's children—were children—were Cainline's recently, nwre and,

farm for an egg Mint and then a parade in funny funny in parade a then and Mint egg an for farm

in the habit of visiting a friend's New Jersey Jersey New friend's a visiting of habit the in

once told Kennedy biographer Doris Doris biographer Kennedy told once

wealth that surrounded surrounded that wealth

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Jackie, an ama- teur painter, encouraged a little dabbling in the arts by Caro- line, going on 3, in her Hyannis Port bedroom. Later, she ex- posed her children to the masters, old and new, in regular visits to New York City museums.

In the summer of '64, less than a year after the death of JFK, the family's Hyannis Port compound offered a sea- son of abandon—except when it came to a 4-year-old's force- feeding technique. Jackie "controlled the children in a lov- ing, not a dominating way," says Charles Eager, a retired state trooper who helped guard the estate. FIRST MOTHER

-4( John Jr., 10, and A Jackie (with a Caroline, 13, strolled napping Caroline In 1975, the dis- on Manhattan's aboard the Honey persed family— West Side, enjoying Fitz I avoided stress Caroline starting one of MoIll's favor- during her 1963 Harvard, John Jr. ite treats. pregnancy. Tragical- at Andover—gath- ly, baby Patrick lived ered for a Broad- just 39 hours. way opening. FIRST MOTE-1ER

The daughter, A "Caroline [chatting not the mother with her mom last (with Jahn Jr.), August] is one of the spoke at the dedi- most terrific young cation of the Ken- women because nedy Library Jackie inspired it and Museum in Boston allowed it," says last October. longtime friend Rose "I remember Styron, wife of au- watching Jackie's thor William. face," says Good- win. "It was Caro- line's moment, and you could see the pleasure she took in that. It was a sort of passing of the guard." FIRST MOTHER

I > Jackie, who took a day off every week to be a grandmother, looked after Caro- line's daughters, Rose, 5, and Tatiana, 3, on Martha's Vine- yard last summer.

On May 15, four days before her death, Jackie took the air in New York's Central Park with companion Maurice Tempelsman, Caro- line and her newest grandchild, Jack, 16 I months. REMEMBERING JACKIE

In the early days of Camelot,

Gail Wescott had an intimate

glimpse of its queen

BEFORE THE LEGEND

summer shift and sandals, and her skin actually seemed

to glow. "Come in," she said softly. "Let me introduce

first metJacqueline. Kennedy at her house in

Hyannis Port the night her husband was being

nominated for President at the 1960 Democrat- ic Convention in Los Angeles, 3,000 miles

away- Jackie, who had suiscarnerl after the

and determined to stay put to make sure noth-

1956 Convention, was now pregnant with John

ing went wrong. She was wearing a sleeveless

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you to my family." With her were Janet arid Hugh All-

set up an easel nem the television. Site was working chincinas and her half alhilinpliamie and Janet.

large living room filled with antiques mid comfortable

Furniture with flowered slipcovers, Caroline's tiny wa- Back, Mr. Jack." She had gotten to the beach area.

kids and dogs and a banner that read "Welcome on a painting for Jack's homecoming. It showed his ing a glass of rosA wine and smoking cigarettes, and ter fins were abandoned on the white rug. Jackie had

- asperation. "How can I fit them all In?" She was drink- triumphant arrival at the dock and was cluttered with

There are too many Kennedys!" she said In mock ex-

The house was in

•

ordinary-people

disarray. In the

she requested not to be photographed doing either.

If Kennedy would make It on the first ballot. When Wyo-

my anonymity for good. It's a little scary."

She said, "I'm still only SO years old, and I've just keit asked if everyone's glass was full, if anyone was hungry, ming put him over the top, Jackie, ever the hostess,

Elsenstaedt. The air was gray, and a storm was brewing

late August, was at the house recuperating but stayed In that later would become a full-fledged hurricane. Lee shrieking, "No, no, no, that's Daddy's chair and he's Raclziwill, who had given birth to a premature baby in going to get you with a big stick! "—a thought that sent

her room. At lunch I sat down, and Caroline came at me

her into a seizure of wild giggles. Jackie, however, was concerned. "I worry," she said. "All those books on

line's age. I get this terrible feeling that when we leave, books—talk about how things affect children Caro- straight weeks, and Caroline got so used to having Dad- child psychology—and I'm the type who reads all those with her. After the Convention, Jack was here for three she might think that it's because we don't want to tie

dy around the house."

ing and the power abruptly fulled. Jackie and I began to

bop around

whose voice in private lost much of its hushed, little-girl atmosphere of wacky festivity had taken over. Jackie, picture," she said, pulling outs snapshot of an enor-

quality, got out a scrapbook. "I've got to show you this

I responded, "Well, tomorrow's my birthday." It was 51) Late that evening, Senator Kennedy called. When she through the Kennedy fence. "One of our neighbors took mous female rear

it, and it's my favorite pleutre of the campaign so fax" returned to the living room, she said, ''Today's our wed-

ding anniversary, and Jack never mentioned It." Oddly, wine by candlelight. and then sat there till all hours talking and drinking off-the-wall and off the subject that we started laughing back to Washington In November press secretary ff I could have one of the prayer cards thatJackie had written out for publication, her secre-

would have given anything at that moment for a private ing out the envelope. "Thank you," she said, "for think- ing of this." 1was stunned. Every reporter in the world tary called back to say yea. I rushed to the East Wing of exchange with Mrs. Kennedy.1, however, was speech- the White House, and suddenly there was Jackie, hold-

less. I must have looked as stricken as I felt because

Jackie smiled

etched forever In my head, "Oh, Gail—think back on I started to cry. •

where, for the first time during those momentous days,

the good times. Remember the hurricane?"

curettage appearance n e New rani City parade

-‹ In the fell of 1460, a very poignant Jacks made a me

Everyone begun shouting "Jackie!" wIten it looked as

In Sepieniher I returned with photographer Alfred

By mid-afternoon, hurricane-force wintLs were blow-

A few days after President Kennedy's body was flown

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Lighting candles. By nightfall, an

1983, I

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rcs,„ .1 'Nil IN HER OWN WORDS • ••••_;:,■• .7.4 hefoilawing ptissages franetwo rare and Mrs. Kennedy ever going to feel sorry for tirst sinning hours with first fight was to light for a .4t stead on the path, calling me,' Then she'd put her Jack, but el least 1 had giv- sane life for my babies and interviews and [hers written by to her son. ft wasjust like chin up. She taught me so en him ourJohn, the son he their father" •••••4 Jacqueline Onassis between 1972 Mlle ones when they know much." longed for so much," awd 1982, willappear in afortheam- their mothers are calling. On memories of On the presidential Jack T The Kennedy Women: The Saga Then he started coming On Use lnanwaration -"" ing biography, ,1,14.? up, saying 'Yes, election "Mrs. Eisenhower said to "I think sometimes that as.144 ▪ „ enik " of an American Fhmily, by Laurence Learner. "rr; Mother.' "I had been in my room for me in the car on the way to thee heals things. I r ''' sr, i 14 1...... tt, days, not getting out of the Inauguration that Pres- can't rememberJacies 1..4,...,4, ' .....t-i.„ i..., 4. i Lit, ,, Lic..... Jackie on Rose coming to have lunch with °maltose coping bed. I guess 1 was just in ident Eisenhower looked voice exactly any- Lol..- .-1 "I remember she was so my mother, and we were with tragedy physical and nervous ex- like 'Paddy the Irishman In more. I can't Molt at -,‹ 4.1...r, • 4-44 t..l'').. ...„. '1":". sweet to me, It was my going to the beach. Mrs. 'I've seen her cry twice. haustion, because the pietuees. I tiara have 1- 4.i.,.., -IL I,,t _kr ::: first weekend on the Kennedy was all dressed Once I was in her room al month after Joh n's birth them all around. Lip Lik, A., the Cape, the other was on was justt the opposite of re- 'the house In Hyan- Cape. I was more dressed up in a beautiful, light '''''.-- -r "P • ,- 4,,, up than his sisters, and blue silk dress and a big ( °newts's] ship after Mr, cuperation. 1missed all nis Port is the only r•-, X.. „. Jack teased me about it, in hat- Jack had on some un- Kennedy died. She'd say the gala things. I always house where we • '1 j•L, t 41' '1 .-4-11 4L. j'i an affectionate way He dershirt and a pair of bed- something and her voice wished I could have partici- really lived, k, ',., I. l'"' ur c said something like, room slippers, so she was would break a tine ' pated more In where we had 'Where do you think rather mortified. Anyway bit—then she'd those our children, where 11 'Ls • 1 you're going?' Rose said, it was, I'm sure, one of his grab my hand every little pieldejar I `51•1•4.i 'Oh, don't be uterus, dear, least favorite days, with and say, found in sonic little coun- she books lovely.' 1 biked the two mothers sitting Nobody's try lane on the Cape her enormously This there talking about the brings back memories. `ri .s -L.,::: ...• 44... l'^-,7"..1.1- woman did everything to wedding. So we went Nothing's changed since a ..1, 0 ..,,, .4; 44 ..4, 7,11, put one at ease-" swimming. I came out of we were in it." L 1 kr k7., ' .... the water early. It was ■ si....LA. ,v., r.'"10.1. On JOE and Rose time to go up for On Art 0.11.•ii ''l .a., ''''I• r,..,L "My mother asked Mrs. lunch, "flow WAS the one who en- Kennedy to collie over to couraged me, who said Irak' 'he's a good man' and Newport. Jack was II8 Ir' ,L a 'don't worry, dear.' She's II' 41 at the time and a 'Same people its `m.,k- 7,...,1 lr "'4.,7 . _ senator. His insane tar public hie, been so orimordhiatily mother and Valle arran't-' genenans . Here I was was said Jackie dolt. in married to her eon and I n) :. 19921, who relished have these children ..k 1:14 Li.. fr'.4 1..atf, Fetidly hoes al her and she was the one who dl. easel. Above, a was saying marry Arl." n1, Christman cord she Oat designed in 1063. py On Jackie "The world has no right "I'm solitary I'm rather In- to Jack's private life with his Top Hat.' Then troverted. I'm realty glad me. loitered all these she realized she had my children have a sense rooms with him, not with A prolific note writer. Jackie sant a warm merle a slight gaffe." of humor—I think I'm a bit the Book the Month Club of herb erio In the Nix- Irreverent." readers, and Idon't want cos atter a private On living in the them shopping through diems in 1911. It was White House Oa depression those rooms now." Ile lest iirrie she and "What I wanted to do "I have a tendency to go tier children had been more than anything was to into a downward spiral of On her place in bark In the White keep my family together. I depression or isolation history House and. Jackie didn't want logo down when I'm sad. To go out, "So ntany people ldtthe mole. "before Jahn into coal mines or be a to take a walk, to taken White Housevrith their dic- vv.:watt deep, I could symbol of elegance. [just swim, that's very much whom running, . .1 nev- explain the photo graphs el Jack and wanted to save some nor- what the Kennedys do. er even kept ajournal I him in nit mom .. mal life fur Jack and the It's a salvation, thought, 'I want wave my el tildre n and for me. My life, not record " •

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