JACKIE LAYS OUT A PINK SUIT & PILLBOX HAT
Fort Worth, Texas (JFK+50) Fifty-four years ago, November 21, 1963, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy departed the Nation's Capital for Texas.
Day one of their tour of the Lone Star State began in San Antonio, where teenagers gathered on the observation deck of the airport screaming 'Jackie,' and ended at the Hotel Texas here in Fort Worth.
Thurston Clarke says the President and First Lady...
"embraced and he said...'You were great today.' She went next door and laid out the pink suit and pillbox hat she would wear the following day."
Mrs. Kennedy's pink outfit was a Chanel knockoff made by the Chez Ninon dress shop located in New York City. It was the President's favorite.
But what happened to the pink suit and hat that Jacqueline Kennedy wore on November 22, 1963? According to Faye Fiore of the Los Angeles Times...
"The pink suit, blood-stained and perfectly preserved in a vault in Maryland, is banned from public display for 100 years. The pillbox hat...is lost, last known to be in the hands of her personal secretary (Mary Gallagher*)."
The LA Times (2011) states...
"(The suit) sits unfolded and shielded from light in an acid-free container in a windowless room."*
*The suit is in custody of the National Archives and Records Administration located at College Park, Maryland.
**Mary Barelli Gallagher worked for the Kennedy family from 1953 to 1964. She wrote "My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy".
SOURCES
"Jacqueline Kennedy's pink hat is a missing piece of history," by Faye Fiore, The Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2011, www.articles.latimes.com/
"JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President," by Thurston Clarke, Penguin Press, 2013.
"Whatever Happened To Jackie Kennedy's Pink Dallas Dress and Hat?", by Eric Aasen, November 15, 2013, Texas Public Radio, www.tpr.org/
JFK and Jackie
Fort Worth, Texas (JFK+50) Fifty-four years ago, November 21, 1963, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy departed the Nation's Capital for Texas.
Day one of their tour of the Lone Star State began in San Antonio, where teenagers gathered on the observation deck of the airport screaming 'Jackie,' and ended at the Hotel Texas here in Fort Worth.
Thurston Clarke says the President and First Lady...
"embraced and he said...'You were great today.' She went next door and laid out the pink suit and pillbox hat she would wear the following day."
Mrs. Kennedy's pink outfit was a Chanel knockoff made by the Chez Ninon dress shop located in New York City. It was the President's favorite.
But what happened to the pink suit and hat that Jacqueline Kennedy wore on November 22, 1963? According to Faye Fiore of the Los Angeles Times...
"The pink suit, blood-stained and perfectly preserved in a vault in Maryland, is banned from public display for 100 years. The pillbox hat...is lost, last known to be in the hands of her personal secretary (Mary Gallagher*)."
The LA Times (2011) states...
"(The suit) sits unfolded and shielded from light in an acid-free container in a windowless room."*
*The suit is in custody of the National Archives and Records Administration located at College Park, Maryland.
**Mary Barelli Gallagher worked for the Kennedy family from 1953 to 1964. She wrote "My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy".
SOURCES
"Jacqueline Kennedy's pink hat is a missing piece of history," by Faye Fiore, The Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2011, www.articles.latimes.com/
"JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President," by Thurston Clarke, Penguin Press, 2013.
"Whatever Happened To Jackie Kennedy's Pink Dallas Dress and Hat?", by Eric Aasen, November 15, 2013, Texas Public Radio, www.tpr.org/
JFK and Jackie
Dallas, Texas
November 22, 1963
Photo by Cecil Stoughton
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