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Jackie Kennedy: Wedding
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Ms. Kennedy's schooling started at a boarding school called "Miss Porter's" in Farmington, Connecticut. Ms. Kennedy enrolled at Vassar from the fall of 1947 to the spring of 1949. She studied her junior year abroad in Paris, France. She later transferred to George Washington University and graduated from there in 1952.
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If Janet hadn't married Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr. – or a man like him – she never would have had the resources to raise Jackie as she wished. The expensive ceremonies, the debut, and the wedding reception at Hammersmith Farm were not so important to Jackie in themselves but were the pillars that supported the life she was brought up to lead. And if Janet hadn't raised Jackie to speak French fluently (it was the language spoken every night at dinner), enabling her to study at the Sorbonne and live abroad; if Janet hadn't nurtured in Jackie the strength and discipline it takes to become an excellent rider (Janet was a top-notch equestrian herself, winning the hunter championship three times at the National Horse Show); and if Janet hadn't encouraged Jackie to develop her writing, her drawing, her love of literature and the arts (even if Janet herself was not artistic or intellectual, she admired those traits in others) – then Jackie would not have caught the eye of a canny Joe Kennedy, who vetted the marital candidates for the son he had such ambitions for.
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Initially, Mrs. Kennedy enlisted Dorothy Mae "Sister" Parish to do some redecorating. Together, they redid several of the family bedrooms and a few others. But this was only the first step. Mrs. Kennedy ... converted the former Prince of Wales suite into a Private Dining Room and Family Kitchen for the first family.
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Jackie was pregnant again, but their second baby, in 1956, was a stillborn baby. This was a great disappointment to them both. Another disappointment came on August third, 1957. Jackie’s father, Jack Bouvier, went into a coma. Jackie and Jack flew in to be with him, but he had died an hour before they arrived. He died from cancer of the liver.
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When Mrs. Bouvier thought about her daughter's talents , she wondered if Jackie might one day be a writer. When Jackie was ten years old she wrote a poem, which she titled, ‘Sea Joy’:
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After the assassination, Kennedy would not change her blood-spattered clothes. “Keeping that clothing on was completely consistent with her realization that clothing is a medium of expression, and she wanted to say something to the world.”
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