Jacqueline Kennedy was a first lady of elegance, beauty and intelligence. She was the first lady that I remembered as a child. She appeared like a princess to me. I always thought that all President's wives should have that grace and charm of Jacqueline. I was disappointed to learn later that this wasn't always true. I also remember my mother having a Look or Time magazine with her face on the cover, placed on our living room end table. Americans were interested who this first lady was and what she was doing. Later she would remarry and become Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Her birth name was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, she was born on July 28, 1929. Jacqueline ancestors were, Irish, English, Scottish and French. Her parents were John Vernou Bouvier III and Janet Norton Lee Bouvier. Jackie had a younger sister, Caroline Lee. Jacqueline's parents would divorce in 1942. Her father would never marry again, while her mother would remarry. Jackie share her first twelve years of summer with her grandparents in the East Hampton. In those years with her grandparents, she would become an talented equestrienne. She would compete with her much loved horse "Danseuse" in French meaning "Female dancer". She also treasured reading, writing poetry and painting. Jackie had a good loving relationship with her dad.

In 1951, a young Jacqueline Bouvier would be engaged to John Husted, a stockbroker. Jacqueline would break off the engagement a year later, saying she felt that he was immature. On September 12, 1953, Jacqueline Bouvier was wed to John F Kennedy, a U.S senator of Massachusetts. Jacqueline would give birth to four children, but two of her infants would die, Arabella would be still born and Patrick would live a couple of days, before dying from hyaline membrane disease. She was blessed with two children, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Bouvier Kennedy. On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy narrowly won the 1960 presidential election against Richard Milhous Nixon. John Fitzgerald Kennedy would be the next President of the United States and she became the First Lady. Her title of the First lady would only last two years, as a tragedy would happen in Texas, that would silence the nation that day.

On November 22, 1963, Jacqueline would accompany her husband to Dallas, Texas. Where the president would be escorted with a short motorcade to the Trademart, where he had planned to speak. Jackie sat in the backseat of the limousine with her husband President

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