Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was born July 28 1929 in Southampton, NY. Her mother loved horseback riding, so only a few months after se could walk Jackie got her own pony. Not only was she a wonderful horseback rider, but also she took ballet and piano lessons as a child. In grade school she got good grades, but she was a troublemaker. Her favorite books as a child were Winnie the Pooh, The Wizard of OZ, and Peter Rabbit. When Jackie was ten years old her mother and father got divorced, but when she was fourteen her mother married Hugh D. Auhincloss, a very wealthy man.

After Jackie decided she would like to be a journalist she applied for the Washington Times- Herald. When Jackie was twenty two she met thirty four year old John Kennedy. While they were dating they were known as the popular glamorous couple around town. Jackie Married John on September 12, 1953 in Newport, Rhode Island. The dress she wore was an ivory silk gown with a portrait neckline and pearls. The wedding took place at her stepfather's large country house. Six hundred people attended the wedding of Jackie and John. The honeymoon of this newly married couple was in a pink cottage overlooking the sea in Acapulco, Mexico.

After Jackie had been married for seven years John became the president and Jackie became the third youngest first lady at age thirty one. Jackie first visited the White House when she was eleven. She was very disappointed in the lack of history in the White House. Again when Jackie moved in the White House she was disappointed. That was when she got inspired to restore the White House. Within a month she had formed a committee for the White House. This committee raised money, asked for donations of antiques, and bought furniture that the past presidents had used. Jackie and her committee found George Washington's armchair, china used by Abe Lincoln and many other items. When she gave a guided tour of what she had done fifty six million people watched on television. For that one program Jackie won an Emmy award. Jackie also arranged a loan for the Mona Lisa to be put at The National Gallery of Art. Thousands of school children visited that museum to see it. In 1963 Jackie gave birth to Patrick Bouvier, but Patrick died of heart failure. Later Jackie and John still wanted children so she gave birth to Caroline and John Jr.

When Jackie went to Europe with John she shook hands 8,047 times and her hand got kissed 867 times. Another time when she visited Pakistan the president of that country gave her a thoroughbred stallion, which later became her favorite horse. John died while riding in a parade in downtown Dallas .The man shot him, and he fell on her lap. When Jackie came back to Washington that day someone asked her if she would like to change clothes. She replied, " No; I want the public to see what happened to John." Only four months after he died Jackie married Aristotle Onassis. Two years after Mr. Onassis`s son died, he died too. Jackie thought that Mr. Onassis rescued her when her life was engulfed with shadows.

In 1975 she got a job as an editor for a book publishing company. She began in a small room with no windows, but in 1984 she got promoted to senior editor to a room with windows. To Jackie, watching her children and grandchildren grow up was one of the greatest joys in her life. Jackie died in New York, NY on May 19, 1994 when she was sixty-four years old.