Jackie Kennedy: Her Life, Image, and Legacy Virtual Program

CAST Virtual Programs are free and open to the public. No preregistration needed. In a mere thousand days, Jacqueline Kennedy created an entrancing public persona that has lasted six decades. The product of a New York high-society family, Jacqueline Bouvier was a young adolescent when her mother divorced her womanizing father. After undergraduate studies at Vassar, the Sorbonne, and George Washington University, she became a photojournalist and encountered the dashing congressman, John F. Kennedy, at a Washington dinner party. Married to JFK in 1953, Jackie Kennedy, the mother of two young children by 1961, accepted the role of First Lady at age 31. This lecture explores her sparkling contributions to Camelot and how she survived its horrific end, eventually marrying Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and pursuing a successful career as a New York book editor.