JACQUELINE BOUVIER BORN IN SOUTHAMPTON NY
Mr. Bouvier, who was known as "Black Jack", was a Wall Street stockbroker and of both French and English descent. Mrs. Janet Norton Lee Bouvier was of Irish descent.*
The Bouviers divorced in 1940 and Jackie's mother remarried two years later. Her second husband was Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr., the heir to the Standard Oil Company fortune.
Jackie attended Vassar, the Sorbonne in France and graduated from George Washington University in 1951 with a BA in French literature. She married JFK two years later & as First Lady promoted American arts and restored the White House.
Southampton, New York (JFK+50) Ninety years ago, July 28, 1929, Mr. and Mrs. John Vernou Bouvier III announced the birth of a baby girl named Jacqueline Bouvier*.
Mr. Bouvier, who was known as "Black Jack", was a Wall Street stockbroker and of both French and English descent. Mrs. Janet Norton Lee Bouvier was of Irish descent.*
The Bouviers divorced in 1940 and Jackie's mother remarried two years later. Her second husband was Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr., the heir to the Standard Oil Company fortune.
Jackie attended Vassar, the Sorbonne in France and graduated from George Washington University in 1951 with a BA in French literature. She married JFK two years later & as First Lady promoted American arts and restored the White House.
After John F. Kennedy's death, the former First Lady said...
"There will be great presidents again, but there will never be another Camelot."
*Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) grew up in Manhattan & on the Bouvier country estate on Long Island. She married JFK in 1953 & they had two children, Caroline (1957) & John Jr. (1960). JBKO served as 1st Lady 1961-1963 & after JFK's death was married to Aristotle Onassis.
Jackie at 6 years old
Photo by David Berne (1935)
JFK Library
