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Hey friend, welcome to my channel, Karina Lude, where we deep dive and break down the most iconic stars in history. If you're not yet subscribed, please be sure to do so and turn your notifications on so you never miss an upload. Now, let's get into this video. Jackie O became the face of a country in shock and grief after her husband was killed in a shocking event.
Even now, when people hear her name, they can't help but picture her in that pink Chanel suit that was covered in blood. But Jackie O went on to live a long and interesting life that isn't nearly as wellknown, which we're going to get into. We're going to talk about her relationship with her sister, her very strange relationship with her sister.
But in a world of politics, wealth, money, power, and mobs, there's always going to be its fair share of scandals, right? So Jackie became an expert at shutting out unwanted attention in public. She completely ignored all the staires. The late artist Andy Warhol noticed, saying she existed in her own little vacuum.
I guess she had to or she'd go crazy. Now, we're gonna get into her fashion and diet and all of those things first. That's light-hearted before we get into the more intense topic because she was known as the style icon and is still known today as one of the most well-dressed first ladies ever in American history. During her husband's presidency, Jaclyn Kennedy became a fashion icon all over the world.
After the election in 1960, she asked Oleg Cassini, a French-born American fashion designer in front of the Kennedy family to make her a new outfit for a public appearance as first lady. Kennedy preferred French couture, particularly the work of Chanel, Balenciaga, and Givveni, but was aware that in her role as first lady, she would be expected to wear American designers work.
When she saw that her taste in Paris fashion was being criticized in the press, she wrote to fashion editor Diana Veland to ask for suggestions of good American designers, especially those who could make the Paris look. Her fashion choices were heavily imitated by the fashion industry and a sizable portion of young women. Kennedy was named to the international best dressless hall of fame in 1965.
During her time in the White House and afterwards, Kennedy cared a lot about how she looked and how she was perceived. Even though the former first lady smoked and loved Newports, she never let anyone take a picture of her smoking. Firstladies.org says that she told her staff not to take pictures of her smoking.
Now, as far as her diet, did you guys know she once fired one of her chefs because the chef went and sold recipes to Weight Watchers. She didn't like sweet things. She said, "I eat an apple once in a while when I have lunch with the kids." Her daily diet consisted of two boiled eggs and Hollywood toast with honey, tea, and skim milk.
Lunch was boiled beef, cottage cheese, or something of the like, and skim milk. Dinner was meat and water crest, salad, or whatever vegetables there is. Now, let's get into her childhood. Jacquellyn Lee Bouvier was born on July 28th, 1929 at Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York to Wall Street stock broker John Veru, black J III, and socialite Janet Norton Lee.
Her mother was of Irish descent and her father had French, Scottish, and English ancestry. Jaclyn Bouvier grew up in Manhattan and at Lada. She looked up to her father who favored her over her sister, referring to his elder daughter as the most beautiful daughter a man ever had. Jacqueline was an enthusiastic equestrian who competed in the sport from a young age and horseback riding remained a lifelong passion for her.
She studied ballet, was a ferocious reader, and excelled at learning foreign languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian. She was an intelligent student who misbehaved frequently. One of her teachers described her as a darling child, the prettiest little girl, very clever, very artistic, and full of the devil." End quote.
Her mother explained that her behavior as a result of her finishing her assignments ahead of her classmates and then acting out in boredom. Her behavior improved after the head mistress warned her that if she did not behave, none of her positive qualities would matter. The Bouvier's marriage was strained by the father's alcoholism and extrammarital affairs, and they struggled financially after the 1929 Wall Street crash.
The press published intimate details of their split in 1936 and 1940. According to her cousin John H. Davis, Jacine's parents' divorce caused her to withdraw into her own world. The Bouvier sisters missed their mother's wedding to standard oil hair due to World War II travel restrictions. Jaclyn Bouvier maintained contact with her biological father, but she also looked up to her stepfather.
He provided her with a safe home and the privileged upbringing she never would have had without him. While adjusting to her mother's remarage, she experiencedfeelings of isolation with the new life and the new social circles of her stepfather. She put these feelings down to the fact that she was Catholic and the product of a divorce.
Jaclyn Lee Bouvier, her mother, Janet, was a champion horsewoman who taught little Jackie to ride and did everything else she possibly could to turn her girl into a lady. Janet insisted that at dinner all the children speak only French. >> Little Jackie Bouvier was daddy's girl. Jack Bouvier could be as reckless as his wife was prim and proper.
A rich Wall Street broker who lived in the fast lane. >> Her father was a hopeless womanizer, a irresponsible man about town whom Jackie adored. Jackie loved to be with her father so much and she just bathed in his compliments and Janet would notice that and it would drive her up the wall. Things got so bad between Jackie's parents that one day in 1936 a news photographer got quite a picture.
Jack holding hands with another woman while Janet was standing right there. And in 1940 when Jackie was 11, they divorced. Jackie went off with her little sister Lee to live with mom. As mom planned a radical change in her own life, >> dad was determined to marry a very rich man, extremely rich man, Hudenclaus, who had a vast mansion in Newport.
Aenclaus had money and status and all the horses that Janet and Jackie could ride. Jackie went to the prestigious Holton Arms School in Washington where she became an A student in Latin, French, and history. >> She was alone a lot. She read a lot, and when she wasn't reading, she was on the back of a horse riding.
In 1944, when Jackie was 15, Janet sent her off to Miss Porter School in Farmington, Connecticut to get some more training for high society. Jackie was praised for her wit, her accomplishments as a horsewoman, and her unwillingness to become a housewife. In her high school yearbook, she later hired Nancy Tucker, a friend from the early years to be her social secretary in the White House.
When she graduated, she was one of the top students in her class and the recipient of the Maria McKenna Memorial Award for Excellence in Literature. Before starting college, she made her debut in New York social scenes and quickly became a regular fixture. She was named deput of the year by Hurst columnist Igor Cassini.
She participated in the Smith College study abroad program in France during her junior year, attending both the University of Grenobyl and the Sabboom. Shortly after returning to the United States, she enrolled at George Washington University and Washington DC, where she earned a BA in French literature in 1951. While attending George Washington, Jacine Bouvier won a 12-month junior editorship at Vogue magazine.
She had been selected over several hundred other women nationwide. She signed on as a photographer and reporter at the Washington Times Herald, but then they eventually sent her, in fact, to England to cover the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. >> On her first day at Vogue, the managing editor advised her to quit and go back to Washington.
According to biographer Barbara Leming, the editor was concerned about Bouvier's marriage prospects. She was 22 years of age and was considered too old to be single in her social circles. She followed the advice, left a job, and returned to Washington after only one day of work. After a dinner party in May of 1952, Jackie Bouvier and US Representative John F.
Kennedy were introduced by a mutual friend, journalist Charles Charles L. Bartlett. She found herself drawn to Kennedy because of his charm, intelligence, and fortune. Catholicism, a love of writing and reading, and international travel experience were additional points of connection between the two. Jackie also wasn't sure that JFK was the one for her.
She said mean things about the president in her diary. For example, she wrote, "He has a funny body. He is skinny and has toothpick legs." It sounds like Joe Kennedy, JFK's father, was very picky about who his son would marry. At the end of the day, this wasn't just about love. It was also a big step in his career. JFK needed a very special kind of woman by his side if he wanted to be president.
And Jackie was excellent for the job. According to Joe Kennedy senior, she came from a good family, went to a good school, and had good sense of style. Some people say that he's the one that pressured JFK to marry her. block. Kennedy was busy campaigning for Massachusetts US Senate seat. Their relationship started to blossom and by November, he had popped the question.
Their engagement was officially announced on June 25th, 1953. She was only 24 years old and he was 36 at the time. Jackie and JFK were married in a mass celebration by Archbishop Richard Kushing of Boston in September 12, 1953 at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. As a social event of the season, the wedding attracted approximately 1,200 guests to the reception that followed at Hammersmith Farm.
Though influential, the image ofJackie that many people were emulating was just that, an image. Even her voice wasn't real, y'all. Jackie's voice was not even real. >> The first lady's presence was magic. Almost otherworldly, especially that very tantalizing voice. >> I appreciate that more than I can say. Well, the whispery voice was something of an affectation that I think women of a certain era and a certain social standing adopted.
But in private, Jackie didn't talk that way at all. When you were alone with Jackie, as I was frequently, that whispery voice went by the boards and she had a very resonant alto. >> John F. Kennedy's father, Joseph Kennedy Senior, believed a presidential candidate needed a wife to appear stable and like a family man.
and Jackie fit the profile perfectly. The marriage helped counter any rumors that might damage his political aspirations. Jackie's grace, sophistication, and upper class background made her an ideal first lady consort, bringing elegance and charm to the Kennedy image that voters appreciated. Jacine was Catholic, which was important in a time when JFK was the first serious Catholic presidential candidate since Al Smith in 1928.
They had genuine feelings for each other, but prospective groom had continued to see other women during their courtship. And being engaged didn't change him. Jackie had been warned about her husband to be philandering, cheating ways, you know, while Jon wasn't all that sure about being married, like married life. I never saw a man more depressed than on the day he told me he was getting married, a friend later said.
Of course, both obviously decided to go through at the wedding. Jackie was also pressured by Jon's father to wear a traditional gown. Jackie preferred French fashions and simpler designs which better suited her figure. But Joe was worried that such a look might alienate potential voters and he exercised so much control over wedding plans that his choice carried the day.
In light of a more modern design, Jackie reluctantly agreed to wear a traditional gown. So you see the father was so involved. Imagine getting married and then your father-in-law is the one that chooses your dress. I can't even imagine. I can't even imagine. But according to biography.com, the whole dress thing is a little disturbing too, which I was It had me looking at Jackie a little sideways.
And Low, who was an African-Amean designer whose talent was appreciated throughout the upper echelons of society, was selected to make Jackie's gown. And unfortunately, a burst pipe destroyed the wedding dress and several bridal attendant pieces just 10 days before the ceremony, right? Forcing Low and her team to work non-stop to recreate the damaged dresses.
Mind you, they had like 20 people that was in their wedding party like bridesmaids, made of honor, etc. Right. So, 10 days before all the dresses was destroyed, and she had to work hard to recreate these dresses. And thanks to Lowe's effort, Jackie ended up with an impressive ivory silk taffida gown made out of 50 yards of fabric that featured a big skirt rows of ruffles and embroidered flowers.
The designer Lo had initially been refused entry at the front of the house when she arrived at the dresses. The designer had insisted she would go through the front door or the dresses wouldn't be delivered at all. Can you imagine? After all of that struggle, she went to deliver the dresses and they was like, "You can't come through the front door.
I couldn't even imagine." Jackie therefore remained disdainful of the style she'd been pressured into. When asked who' made her dress, she was asked who made her dress. She answered, and I quote, "I wanted to go to France, but a colored dress maker did it." End quote. She didn't even give her credit or her name.
Just called her the colored girl. Wow. Jackie later confessed to a friend that she felt like a lampshade in the dark. Can you guys imagine? I was like, "What, girl?" [laughter] But also, she was on tape. These secret tapes she she told her daughter Caroline not to release until 50 years after her death, but Caroline ended up releasing them anyway.
She was on tape caught talking bad about Martin Luther King, too. It really does does offer some searing insights uh certainly on her opinion of some of the key political players of the time on Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader for example. She uh she says that man's terrible. >> Just as stunning are criticisms of the leader of the civil rights movement, Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. The tapes were supposed to be locked in a vault for a century, but Caroline Kennedy decided to release them now, all eight and a half hours, uncensored. She also explained it isn't surprising her mother would have at the time made some statements she might have changed later.
When she first read the transcript shortly after her mother died, they reminded her that her mother felt what made historical figures human was what made them moreinteresting. And indeed, emerging from this oral history is a very different Jaclyn Kennedy. Not the long familiar public figure whose whispery voice guided us through the White House.
It just seemed to me such a shame when we came here to find hardly anything of the past in the house. >> Or the fashion icon whom the president joked he accompanied to Paris. This Jacqueline Kennedy is far more complex with a keen eye for the characters around her husband. So Jackie was very, you know, she didn't like black people like that. She she wasn't a fan.
And if she showed publicly that she did, it was for PR, okay? Cuz she was big into PR. To others, she was a perfect presidential spouse, a personification of what a first lady should be. Well-dressed, willing, and accessible. But where Jackie is concerned, myth often obscures reality. Though Jackie's tenure as first lady is often reduced to her stylish fashions and her redecoration at the White House, this description fails to acknowledge her political activism.
Despite her desire to be left alone, Jackie understood that as first lady, she could not expect to be a completely private person. She knew that as wife to the president of the United States, she would have an official role that demanded a certain amount of grace. Beyond acknowledging the duties and commitment of a first lady, Jackie also believed that president's wives have an obligation to contribute something to that end.
Jackie was supportive of various associations such as the American Association of Maternal and Infant Health, the American Cancer Society, and the Girl Scouts. But perhaps Jackie's most significant contribution and certainly one of her most well-known was the restoration of the White House. Uphoring the term redecoration, the first lady was committed to renovating and restoring the presidential mansion, thus making the White House a living museum of history.
G inventoried its artwork and furnishings and was integral in the campaign to acquire the furniture and paintings that had once graced its rooms. She worked with art experts and government insiders to promote her projects and charmed private collectors into donating period pieces for White House rooms. At the conclusion of the renovation, she proudly displayed the results of her work by guiding Americans on the televised tour of the White House.
Millions watched the hour-long program and thousands flocked to the White House for a personal look. Many tourists chose to remember their visit by purchasing the first historical guide book to the White House, a text written by Jaclyn Kennedy herself. The guide book raised several millions of dollars for the new nonprofit uh White House Historical Association, an organization that purchased items for the White House collection and directed programs educating Americans about the rich past of the presidential mansion.
>> She met John Kennedy and realized now here somebody really interesting. You know, there are these few people in every generation who exude star power. They started dating even though Jackie knew about Kennedy's reputation as a womanizer. On September 12th, 1953, Jacqueline Bouvier and Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy were married.
Large crowds lined the streets to get a glimpse of the rich and famous who would attend. Jackie's mother was in charge of the arrangements, and Janet still hated Jackie's dad so much that she ordered him to stay away. Hugh Aenclaus did indeed escort her down the aisle. But >> Janet decreed that her second husband Hugh Aenclaus would walk Jackie down the aisle instead.
>> When she got near the front door of the church, she looked to the side and there to her absolute astonishment was her father sitting there in the shadows, tears rolling down his eyes, looking remorseful and guiltridden and very, very sad. >> The new Mrs. John F. Kennedy left the church with a heavy heart >> and she wrote a letter to her father that was so tender and so compassionate and her husband's philandering caused her loads of grief.
>> I thought doing my research that this uh this sexual addiction and that's what amount to President Kennedy was a kind of tabloid exaggeration. It wasn't. The succession of women in her husband's bed from bathing session to siesta. Friends of the family, society women, models, actresses, secretaries, and prostitutes.
An unbridled sex life in Puritan America. It was perhaps his dark side. There were so many women in Jack's life. But Jackie didn't say anything about any of these affairs. Instead, Jackie emphasized how discreet her husband was. He'd send her abroad as much as possible so that she could have fun.
Go to Italy with your sister. Go to New York or Greece. While she was vacationing on Capri in June of 1962, Mimi, an intern at the White House, became the president's mistress at the tender age of 19. Mimi recounted that Kennedy repeatedly offered her drugs. He would also offer her to his collaborators as agift.
Jackie said of Jack, "He doesn't ever cheat in anything. She never mentioned how jealous Jack was. It is said that Kennedy even demanded paternity tests for their two children, Caroline and John John. >> You're pretty much in love with them, aren't you? >> Oh, no. >> These are outtakes from an interview with Chad Huntley, but never aired. >> I didn't know, did you? >> Yet, she fit under.
>> When Mrs. Kennedy came in, it was time, which she recognized, uh, for the White House to assume its rightful place among the great houses in the world. Ekki wanted to elevate life at the White House to the level of the splendor of 18th century Versailles. She turned the president's home into a showcase for American arts and culture.
>> Ballet performances, concerts of the great musicians, Isaac Stern, Pablo Sal. >> The first lady's presence was magic, almost otherworldly, especially that very tantalizing voice. >> I appreciate that more than I can say. Well, the whispery voice was something of an affectation that I think women of a certain era and a certain social standing adopted.
But in private, Jackie didn't talk that way at all. When you were alone with Jackie, as I was frequently, that whispery voice went by the boards and she had a very resonant alto. >> She was of French blood. She was a Bouvier. The French thought she was a queen. I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy at the Paris and then I've enjoyed it.
>> She has charm and kindness. Two things that are quite indescribable that made an impression on young women because it it coincided with the start of the women's movement. >> The lady in pink was continually driven by a dual purpose that of molding her own image while managing that of the president.
Because the Kennedys had embarked on constructing a myth. She was a young, fashionable photo reporter in Washington. She sacrificed her ambition by making the choice to become the perfect wife for the 2 years and 9 months of JFK's presidency. She kept her mouth shut, limiting herself to smiling. JFK's victory in the 1960 presidential election owed a lot to Jackie.
Always at her husband's side, she shook thousands of hands. Beauty, elegance, distinction. With the president's blessing, Jackie hired a French interior decorator. Under the Kennedy's rule, the White House was transformed into the court of the Sun King, a setting worthy of Versailles.
She had an office in the White House and saw Jack every day at any moment. She continued to paint a glowing and tender portrait of him, always attentive, always warm, always kindly. Jack was her God. God bless America in God we trust. So she was very integral in what you see the glamour of the White House right now and what you see of it.
Jackie was very influential in that and even having like the garden rose flowers making it warmer and more like a home and more inviting and bringing popularity to it. There was a surge in interest and people young people especially wanting to visit the White House after she renovated it. And she just curated her image.
Do not be fooled. Jackie curated the image of her and Kennedy. She curated everything down to the tea. Down to the tea and had a lot of say so with him. There were partners in this and she did her job very well. She is a reason why he won that presidency in a sense. Yes, his father had a lot to do with it as well. But once Jackie stepped in, she was all business and her image was very well curated.
to the soft spoken Jackie you guys see on television and documentaries and books, that was a very well-crafted and curated image. Now, let's talk about her religion real quick. Americans have long viewed the Kennedy family as a kind of magical royalty associated with occult notions and conspiracies. But Jackie Kennedy was raised a Roman Catholic and remained a Roman Catholic, a faith she shared with her husband, President John F.
Kennedy, the first Catholic US president. Born to a Catholic mother and raised in the Catholic faith, she was baptized at St. Ignatius Lyola Church. Jackie had interest in the supernatural and a cult, specifically practicing divination methods like using magic runstones and consulting the Iching to try and glimpse the future.
She uses ancient Chinese method of divination by tossing coins or sticks to find answers about her future. notes history collection and national first ladies. She also claimed to feel a strong connection with Abraham Lincoln's ghosts in the White House. And according to Jackie's account, whenever she would sit in the mansion's Lincoln bedroom, she would feel his comforting presence and took it as a protective sign over her and her husband.
However, it's worth noting that Lincoln himself didn't actually sleep there. Though he you he did use the second floor room as an office and meeting space. While not widely publicized during her life, these spiritual practices and beliefs potentially influenced by her mother's interests in seance and astrology show amystical side to the first lady particularly concerning premonitions in the afterlife.
And her mother was uh the one that was into seances, astrology, etc. and they had family members on their side that came out and were like they were actually Jewish and had like connections with like Jewish mysticism and Jewish magic and they kept that part very private and for the most part the other half of the family would deny it and it just disappeared.
But her mother was really deep into that and they're saying that's where Jackie got it from. And you will see later on in this video how when she got with Onasis how he claimed he was she was a witch. her later husband. The children claimed she was a witch and the Kennedy curse came from her and there was just a lot of allegations of that with her.
Was strange that we're going to see when Kennedy passed away, John F. Kennedy passed away, she had everything to do with the funeral, every article that was written, but we're going to see that she even in a sense curated his death after the death, the image, the funeral, all of that.
She just had a heavy hand in things and she made sure that you know Lincoln was heavy in there. The spirit of Abraham Lincoln was heavy in there and you know she used to speak to Lincoln's ghost. Yes. She used to speak to Abraham Lincoln's ghost get advice and comfort and stuff like that. So necromancy basically you know speaking to the dead.
>> American presidents have always proclaimed their faith. Jack had decided to believe out of superstition, she said, but added, "I think that God is unjust. He had the most incredible aura. Jack was a living myth, the idol of youth, the world over." Today, some tend to believe he was a source of comfort that went beyond the merely spiritual.
During her time as first lady from 1961 until 1963, Jaclyn Kennedy was one of the most visible figures in American politics. She was a style icon who gave a tour of the White House that was televised on CBS and she acted as a champion of history and the arts. Kennedy was also reportedly a believer when it came to the paranormal, though she hardly publicized this side of her life.
Nevertheless, she was among the rather select group of people who believed that they experienced an encounter with the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. According to her account, whenever she sat in the Lincoln bedroom, she could feel his comforting presence and took it as a protective sign over her and her husband. However, it's worth noting that Lincoln didn't actually sleep there, though he did use the second floor room as an office and meeting space.
Sometimes Kennedy reportedly took a more direct role in a cult activities, engaging in her own form of divination via the use of runstones and the ancient Chinese text eating. For the latter, this involved posing a question and tossing a collection of objects such as coins or sticks. Looking carefully at the resulting jumble would then supposedly yield an answer.
The couple had a rough go of it in the beginning of their marriage. As a result of Addison's disease and a war injury, John F. Kennedy experienced chronic and sometimes debilitating back pain. And in late 1954, he underwent a nearly fatal spinal operation. Jaclyn Kennedy had a miscarriage in 1955 and gave birth to a stillborn daughter, Arabella, in August 1956.
On November 27th, 1957, Kennedy became a mother for the first time. along with her husband. She appeared on the cover of life on April 21st, 1958, holding their infant daughter as they campaigned for his re-election to the Senate. During the campaign, they took some trips together in effort to lessen the physical separation that marked their first 5 years marriage. John F.
Kennedy began to see the benefit of his wife's involvement in his congressional campaign very quickly. Kenneth O'Donnell recalled that the size of the crowd was twice as big when she accompanied her husband and that she was always cheerful and obliging. However, John's mom, Rose, noted that Jackie was not a natural-born campaigner because she was timid and didn't like the spotlight.
Jon was elected to a second term in November 1958. And he said Jackie was simply invaluable. He went on to run for president. And while running for office, John F. Kennedy lived up to his reputation as a player. He had a few affairs, but one with a woman named Judith Exner, who worked for the mob, caused a lot of trouble.
Both JFK and Jackie Kennedy had a rough time on the campaign trail. But on November 8th, 1960, they were finally rewarded for all their hard work. John F. Kennedy became the 35th president of the United States of America on that day. Now, rumors about Kennedy's extrammarital affairs persisted throughout their 10-year marriage and continued to circulate today.
Decades after his death, these rumors are still here. In a new article in People magazine, friends of the Kennedys and people who have written extensively about their lives say thatJackie Kennedy may have known about some of her husband's affairs and may have agreed with him about them. An unofficial biography says that Jackie Kennedy wasn't always so understanding of her husband's businesses.
In this book, the author says that Joe Kennedy senior, Jackie's father-in-law, offered Jackie a huge sum of money to put up with her husband's constant cheating. If JFK brought back any diseases, that price would go up to a cool 20 million. JFK and Marilyn Monroe met at dinner in New York.
The relationship that followed was short and mostly took place at Bing Crosby's house in Palm Springs. However, it seems that Monroe had hopes of becoming the first lady. A JFK had his own Bill Clinton scandal going on. As a 19-year-old intern at the White House, Alfred lost her VCard to the her innocence, you can say, to the president and had an affair with him for 18 months.
She lost her VCard on the bed that Jackie Kennedy and John F. Kennedy shared their marital bed. A few years ago, she spoke about their relationship, including the fact that JFK used substances with her for fun. In the Kennedy White House, there were two secretaries whose main job was to go bare without any clothes on, swimming with the president in the enclosed pool.
They were also taken to Berlin, Rome, Ireland, and Costa Rica on business trips. After JFK, and JFK went on to have many more affairs, guys, as we do more of these breakdowns of these starlets, y'all going to see his name pop up a lot, even with Grace Kelly. I just did one for Grace Kelly. So, we all know about the assassination that happened with JFK, and this is just going to get pretty interesting.
After JFK passed away, Jackie O boarded Air Force One where a change of clothes had been laid out. As she explained to Life magazine, she wiped some blood off her face. One second later, I thought, "Why did I wash that blood off? I should have left it there. Let them see what they have done." End quote.
That's why Jackie refused to change into the fresh, clean clothes. By keeping her bloodstained suit on, she intentionally created a powerful and moving image. She even asked to be photographed as she left the plane. >> And then they went to Dallas. It was a magical ride through cheering crowds in an open car until the fatal shots were fired.
>> She was sitting next to him in the backseat of the limousine. She was there holding him as her husband dies as his head is blown away. >> Just after the fatal shots, she climbed onto the hood of the car with Theodore White. She talked about the assassination in a rather delirious manner.
She talked about the beauty of the inside of Jack's skull, which he held in her hands, a beautiful and perfectly formed head that did not deserve this fate. Theodore White's article, carefully edited by Jackie, appeared in Life magazine on December 6th, 1963. It was here that she laid the foundations of the Kennedy myth, A Man Who Died a Hero.
Like King Arthur on the battlefield, sword in hand, the lady in pink was continually driven by a dual purpose, that of molding her own image while managing that of the president. That evening, Jackie stood by as Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as president. Her husband was gone and she was no longer first lady.
Jackie herself couldn't forgive the new president for having pounced at the presidency, being sworn in in Dallas barely 1 hour after Jack's death. And yet, those are the rules. Johnson, he amused Jack, she said. But he was incompetent, crude, and lazy, envious, greedy, only interested in the superficial symbols of power, planes, protocol, the fame.
At Jackie's insistence, the funeral was patterned after that of another American president shot by an assassin, Abraham Lincoln. Kennedy's casket was carried on the very same carriage that had transported Lincoln's remains and a ridless horse walked symbolically nearby. 4 days after the funeral, she told Life magazine that JFK had loved the magical story of a kingdom called Camelot.
>> And so this whole mythic idea of Camelot takes over the imagination. The Warren Commission hearings to investigate the Kennedy assassination had started. She said she didn't want to know who assassinated him. They'd taken her husband, her hero, away from her, and nothing could bring him back. Caroline was 7 years old when her father died.
She remembers the weeks that followed the assassination in Dallas. Caroline told her school teacher about the sadness that reigned in the household. >> There are a lot of theories about what happened. These theories included the CIA, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, the KGB.
However, few people have thought that Jackie Kennedy herself, JFK's wife, could have been the one. Most independent investigators agree that 24year-old former US Marine Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of JFK's, you know, demise, was either an innocent psy. Jackie didn't go to President Lyndon Johnson's inauguration in 1965, eventhough LBJ asked her several times.
A month later, when she didn't show up for the opening of the White House, Rose Garden, she gave Johnson the high hat again. She sent her mother instead, but her mother also didn't want to go because she thought LBJ, Lyndon B. Johnson, was the one that did the deed that took the life of President Kennedy. One day in the mid 1960s, while Jackie was walking in Manhattan with her daughter Caroline, a woman ran at them and grabbed Caroline, saying, "Your mother is a wicked woman who has killed three people." The stranger yelled at
the young girl, "And your father is still alive." End quote. Several authors say that the Chicago mob, also known as the outfit, was to blame for John F. Kennedy's election as president in 1960. This is based on claims made by people who are connected in some way to organized crime in Chicago. You guys look that up, too. That goes real deep.
It is said that before the election, Joseph Kennedy, John Kennedy's father, met with the outfit boss, Sam Jian Connor, and made a deal with him. Jan Kana thought that if he helped Kennedy get elected, Kennedy would lay off organized crime when he was president. So far, as we know, the outfit kept its end of the deal, but the Kennedys broke their side of the deal by putting more pressure on the outfit and the Costa Nostra in general.
In several versions of the story, the outfit took the life of John and Robert Kennedy as a way of getting back at the government. Biographer Christopher Anderson said only one person really understood the pain Jackie went through after JFK was, you know, and by the winter of 1964, he and Jackie were lovers. And Robert F. Kennedy is JFK's brother and that was also Jackie Kennedy's brother-in-law who was married at the time.
During their trips together, she and Robert shared a bedroom. And in 1966, when Bobby was marched in a St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City, she jumped out of the crowd and kissed him. It is said that the affair lasted 3 years. But Kennedy experts all denied these allegations, saying, "It's a new low, and you just wonder how far people are willing to go.
" Lawrence Lemur, author of three books about the Kennedys, told the New York Daily News. Jackie's brother-in-law, Staz Radwell, called her from London at 400 a.m. New York time on June 5th, 1968 to tell her that Robert F. Kennedy had been shot. This is what Jackie said. She said they're killing Kennedys in America. Terrified by the latest tragic twist in the Kennedy family saga and fearing for her children's safety, Jackie needed a new scenery. In 1968, 5 years after John F.
Kennedy's death. Jackie married a Greek shipping magnet named Aristotle Onases. Onases had a relationship with Jackie's sister, Lee, and Lee still liked the Greek businessman. So, Jackie had this younger sister Lee. Remember, the dad favored Jackie over Lee. So, Lee reportedly asked, "How can she do this to me?" when she heard that Jackie was going to marry her old boyfriend.
After this, their already strained relationship never really got better. Jackie not only broke the heart of her own sister, but she also made people dislike her. Jackie stuck with her scandalous new boyfriend no matter what. She got married to Anasis in a surprise ceremony in Greece. From what people have said about the day, it sounds like a real circus.
Poor Lee, her sister, had to witness her older sister marry her own ex-boyfriend. And Onasis married Jackie so he could have them a trophy wife, the most beautiful woman in the world. Jackie married Onasis so she could feel safe and have money to take care of herself. Both of them got something, but it wasn't enough. Jackie always spent more than her allowance, and the two of them were clearly not a good match.
Multiple sources say that they didn't talk much at night, and that over time, Onessa started calling Jackie the witch. Jackie Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onases caused her popularity to decline sharply among an American public who viewed it as a betrayal of JFK. Her lavish lifestyle as Onasa's trophy wife in contrast to the shy, selfless, and sacrificing mother the American public had come to respect as first lady led the press to portray her as a spinthrift and a reckless woman.
The narcissist had all the money in the world. But it is said that Aristotle went back to Maria Callis a month after he and Jackie got married. Still, from the outside, it looked like they were living a jetet life, sunbathing on their yacht and going to the hottest nightclubs until 1973. Alexander, who was Onasa's son, passed away in a plane crash in 1973.
In their grief, the family looked for someone to blame for the strange accident. To no one's surprise, they chose Jackie. Christina Onases said that the plane went down because of the famous Kennedy curse. She told her father that the curse had spread to the Onasis family and that she will kill us all soon. Then in October 1974, Tina, his first wifeand the mother of his children, passed away on a overdose of barbituates.
Onasis must have thought that his daughter had a good idea. Not long after his son passed away, he began trying to get a divorce from Jackie, but it looked like the Kennedy curse would strike again. Onasis was depressed and his health started to get worse right before he could finally divorce her. In 1975, he passed away of lung disease.
There was rumors that Onasis had filed for divorce and hired a private investigator to find dirt on his wife before he died. But his daughter Christina officially denied it. Even though Jackie battled with his daughter Christina in court for a piece of Onasis estate in which he got 26 million settlement. >> Jackie left the hospital to join her sister Lee and Lee's boyfriend Aristotle Onases on a Mediterranean cruise.
Onasis took one look at Jackie and said, even though she was married to the president of the United States, you know, this woman's for me. >> Aristotle Onases was still in her life and still very interested. He courted the widow of the president and won her over. And in 1968, they started making plans to get married.
Still, she wasn't completely certain she'd marry Onasses until another calamity struck. An event nearly as awful as the murder of President Kennedy. In June of 1968, Bobby Kennedy was gunned down while running for president. On October 20th, 1968, on the Greek island of Scorpios, Jackie Kennedy married Aristotle Onassus, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world.
Over time, Jackie and Aries started drifting apart. Their interests and personalities were just too different. In 1973, Arie's 24year-old son, Alexander Onasses, died in a plane crash. With him went Ari's will to live. Onasis was heartbroken and he blamed his sorrow on his wife after his daughter convinced him that Jackie was cursed.
It was Jackie's presence that sort of put an evil eye on Alexander. >> Nasis made plans to divorce Jackie, but in 1975, he passed away at a hospital in Paris at age 69. Jackie collected millions from his estate and went back home. Also had a new man in her life, a diamond merchant and financier named Maurice Templesman. >> It all started with Joseph P.
Kennedy Senior, the ambitious patriarch whose children seemed destined for greatness but also for tragedy. Joseph's children faced heartbreak from the start. Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest daughter, underwent a labbotomy at 23, leaving her permanently incapacitated. John F. Kennedy, the charismatic president, was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.
His brother, Robert F. Kennedy, was gunned down during his 1968 presidential campaign. Then there's Edward Ted Kennedy, whose promising career was tarnished by the 1969 Chapquitic scandal, where a young woman died in a car accident he was involved in. Katherine Kennedy, the glamorous sister, died in a plane crash in 1948.
And Joseph Kennedy Jr., the oldest son, died in a World War II bombing mission. Even the next generation hasn't been spared. JFK Jr., son of John, died in a plane crash in 1999 with his wife and sister-in-law. Other family members have faced accidents, drug issues, and untimely deaths that seem almost endless.
From assassinations to accidents, illnesses to scandals, the Kennedys are often called America's royal family and also America's cursed family. Generations of ambition, privilege, and heartbreak have intertwined, leaving a legacy that's as fascinating as it is tragic. Following Onass's passing, Jackie relocated back to New York City where she edited for Viking Press and Double Day, cared for her children and grandchildren, and volunteered.
She made peace with the Kennedys, and donated to the John F. Kennedy Library Museum, indicating that this was the case. She fell in love with Maurice Templesmen, a kind and quiet diamond merchant. Everyone says that the couple stayed together for the rest of their lives and was very happy. The only problem with Jackie's new relationship was that she loved a man who was already taken.
The wife of Templesman was very religious and she refused to go through with a divorce. Instead, the couple broke up in a less formal way. This is why Jackie and Templesman never got married even though they were very close. And in 1993, Jackie Kennedy Onas was diagnosed with non-hodkins lymphoma after noticing swollen lymph nodes on her body.
After briefly going into remission, she passed away at the age of 64 in 1994. Very young. Seems like Onasis and his whole family had strong reason to dislike her and not really believe that she was a good person. And every time they were getting close to somewhat of a truth, they would pass away from Onasus himself, the son, the mother of the children, and all that. It's just weird.
It's weird, you know. And um it seems like Christina settled and let her get that 26 million so that maybe she could spare her life according to all these theories, okay? But it's all of coursetheories and it's all alleged and we don't know what the truth is. There will always be conspiracy theories with these type of things.
And I want you guys to comment below your thoughts. The only thing I can truly say that I did not like that she did was what she did to her sister. But I also kind of get it. She was desperate for protection. But then your sister, your sister, I don't know. Comment below your thoughts and who else would you guys like me to do a video on.
If you haven't seen my Grace Kelly video, I suggest you guys go check it out. We get into her affair with JFK in there. Also, I'll link it in the end cards for you, guys. I love you guys so much. Thank you for tuning in. Until next time.
