Jackie Kennedy Onassis Dies: America's Icon of Grace
She was 34 when her husband was shot in the back of his presidential limousine and she spent the rest of her life refusing to be only that. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was born in Southampton, New York, in 1929 and married John F. Kennedy in 1953. She redesigned the White House, spoke four languages, and gave the most composed television interview in the hours after the assassination anyone had ever witnessed. She died in 1994 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She was 64. The crowd outside her New York apartment held a quiet vigil all night.
May 19, 1994
32 years ago
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