Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier

Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier bo?o ´ve-a?, bo?ovya ´ [key], 1929â€"94, b. Southampton, N.Y. Of a socially prominent family, she worked (1951â€"53) as a journalist and photographer before marrying (1953) John F. Kennedy . As first lady (1961â€"63), Jacqueline Kennedy planned and conducted the restoration of the White House and had Congress declare the White House a national museum. After the assassination of President Kennedy, she returned to private life and later married (1968) the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis , who died in 1975. From 1978 until her death she was an editor at Doubleday. See Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, interviews with A. M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1964 (2011); biographies by D. Heymann (1989) and D. Spoto (2000); M. B. Gallagher, My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy (1969); M. V. Thayer, Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years (1971). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. See more Encyclopedia articles on: U.S. History: Biographies