JFK’s blood splattered across Jackie’s pink suit, staining more than the fabric.
“One second later, I thought, ‘Why did I wash the blood off?’
It was a long day, followed by many more long and sleepless nights.
The suit survived unwashed and forever stained, but Jackie Kennedy was never the same after JFK died.
But how did Jackie Kennedy end up locking herself in hotel rooms with her married brother-in-law?
It was more than a familiarity with each other or the grieving rebound of a widow.
Bobby understood Jackie’s pain because it was his pain too.
Similar toJackie and John F. Kennedy’s marriage.
But this time, Jackie was fully consenting and took advantage of the terms.
On June 5, 1968, Robbert Kennedy was shot and killed.
Would she end up bytheirdeathbeds staring at yet another bullet wound seeping the life from a person she loved?
It wore on her, filling Jackie with anxiety and fear.
And now John F. Kennedy Jr. was left without a father to guide him.
She wanted them to have more than protection; she wanted them to have a family.
Amid everything, the fear chipped away at her confidence in parenting her children on her own.
Seemingly, her fear for her children made her vulnerable and anxious to find security.
Onassis wasn’t interested in fatherhood; he’d barely given his own children attention.
But as one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, parenting was no worry.
Onassis was used to getting what he wanted, and Jackie was his desire.
To Jackie, Onassis was a rich and powerful man who could ensure her children’s safety.
The pair married in 1968 and she became “Jackie Kennedy Onassis” or “Jackie O.”
Jackie was a strong woman but she also feared for her family without Onassis' protection.
Her husband, Aristotle Onassis, left her twice-widowed at 45.
This time around, Jackie chose control.
Before Jackie was “Jackie O” or even a Kennedy, she was a journalist.
And despite so much tragedy, her love for the arts remained.
She became an editor at Viking Press New York City, now known as Penguin.
The publishing company allowed her to work with authors, making her mark on books before publication.
Without naming Jackie, the use of “herself” intended to call out editor Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
She allegedly had a love affair with Paul Newman
Jackie Kennedy enjoyed a flirtatious life.
Many described her as an attractive force of nature, and as such, she earned many love interests.
Long before John F. Kennedy, there was a line of suitors and past rendezvous.
There was even oneman Jackie Kennedy almost married before JFK.
One of the more enticing affairs was between her and actor Paul Newman.
Everyone saw Newman and Joanne Woodward as one of Hollywood’s strongest couples.
Fortunately, Newman’s marriage endured.
He’d stand outside her home waiting to get a shot of her following her and her kids.
She was under his constant surveillance.
Galella was much worse than the rest of the paparazzi obsessed with Jackie; he made his pursuit personal.
… She liked [it].”
Galella’s hunt lasted most of Jackie’s life after John F. Kennedy died.
Finally, she could relax.
Jackie spent the last 13 years of her life out of the constant watch of her most vigilant stalker.
Nightmares plagued her mind after JFK’s death, according to friends (viaPeople).
She’d imagine ways to save him just to see his death in her mind all over again.
Jackie didn’t think about the aim of the shooter.
It wasn’t a new ideation for Jackie.
So, in the depths of depression, Jackie already knew who to call for the means of escapism.
However, her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill worried she was drinking too much and taking too many pills.
Eventually, Jackie went to therapy and stopped taking drugs altogether.
She just stopped," noted J. Randy Taraborrelli (viaPeople).
“Pretty typical of the way Jackie would do such a thing.
She just made up her mind and then that was the end of it.”
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Whether the friendship was real or fiend, Capote made Radziwill one of his “swans.”
Apparently, all the things people give Jackie Kennedy credit for were actually owed to her sister.
“We’re exceptionally close and always have been.
We’re together very often.
In fact, endlessly.”
But it wasn’t their jobs the magazines contrasted; instead, it was their images.
The media portrayed Jackie as the quintessential good woman, perfectly poised, well-educated, and strong.
The same publications questioned the ability of Elizabeth Taylor to be such a woman.
These comparisons became so rampant the two ended up intrinsically linked.
They’d become day and night.
Sadly the feud wasn’t a fantasy of the media either.
Taylor’s journals revealed Jackie harbored significant resentment against her.
Despite insisting that they never slept together, Jackie was sure Taylor seduced John F. Kennedy.
What was less televised was the private luncheon Jackie held with Hillary Clinton after Bill’s inauguration.
Is it possible the advice included ways to handle a husband’s infidelity?
And if so, did Jackie tell Hillary to stay with a cheating husband?
It seems unlikely, considering the former First Lady’s anguish at the hand of her husband’s infidelities.
“Ever since that day I prefer not to be alone in the same room with Bill.
I fear he’s a man who never gives up.”
The widow moved her children to a Georgetown property in Washington D.C. owned by a friend and retired politician.
It was a temporary move while she figured out how to reassemble the broken pieces of her life.
Jackie was tired of politics.
Her role as First Lady and Washington D.C. held no allure.
Even during her marriage to Aristotle Onassis, she maintained her residence there.
