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00:00Women who change the world.
00:30There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world.
00:35Love of books is the best of all.
00:37Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
00:39Jacqueline Leigh Bouvier was born on July 28, 1929,
00:44to Janet Leigh Bouvier and John Vernon Bouvier III.
00:48Jackie was a strong and independent child.
00:51She was initially considered a discipline problem at Miss Chapin's,
00:54the fashionable school on Manhattan's east side that she attended as a young girl.
00:59Janet and Jack had a troubled marriage, and they were divorced in 1940.
01:04Jackie lived with her mother.
01:06Jackie's mother's remarriage created conflict in the family.
01:09Although Jackie adored her father, she saw less and less of him,
01:13especially after her mother and stepfather moved their family to Washington, D.C.
01:18The summers were spent at the Auschenklaas home, known as Hammersmith Farm, in Newport, Rhode Island.
01:24In 1944, Jackie was sent to boarding school at Miss Porter's in Farmington, Connecticut.
01:29Jackie was a beautiful and elegant young woman.
01:32When she made her social debut, a top newspaper gossip columnist named her debutante of 1947.
01:39She spent two years at Vassar, and then studied for a year in France through a program offered by Smith College.
01:45After she returned to the United States, Jackie finished college at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
01:52She then took a job at the Washington Times-Herald newspaper as a photographer.
01:57In May 1952, Jacqueline Bouvier was introduced to John F. Kennedy,
02:02at that time a dashing young member of the House of Representatives, running for the Senate.
02:07He proposed to her in November 1952, and they got married on September 12, 1953.
02:14All was not well in the beginning.
02:16While John Kennedy had to undergo spinal surgery, she had a miscarriage,
02:20later giving birth to a stillborn child named Arabella.
02:23Yet, she encouraged him to write, and later helped to edit his famous book, Profiles in Courage,
02:29first published on January 1, 1956.
02:32In 1957, she gave birth to her eldest surviving child, Caroline,
02:37at the same time helping her husband in his campaign for re-election to the Senate.
02:42Later, John Kennedy acknowledged her contribution to his election.
02:46On January 3, 1960, John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the presidency.
02:52This time, too, Jacqueline joined the nationwide campaign, traveling everywhere with her husband.
02:58On January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the President of the USA.
03:04And with that, Jacqueline became the third youngest First Lady of the country.
03:09By then, she had given birth to their only surviving son, John F. Kennedy, Jr.
03:14Turning it into a museum of American history and culture was her major contribution of this period.
03:20She also invited leading writers, artists, musicians, and scientists to the state dinners,
03:25thus showing her appreciation for the American art and culture.
03:29On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was shot in the head by Lee Harvey Oswald.
03:36With her pink Chanel suit splashed with her husband's blood,
03:40she accompanied him into the operating room at the Parkland Hospital, Dallas.
03:44But the doctors failed to revive the President, and he was pronounced dead.
03:48Thus, Jacqueline became a widow at the age of 34.
03:52Wanting the world to see her husband's blood, she refused to change her clothes
03:56and embarked on Air Force One to return to Washington, D.C.,
04:00standing by Lyndon B. Johnson as he took oath of office as President.
04:05No other widowed First Lady had done this before.
04:08Later, she took an active role in arranging her husband's funeral,
04:12using many details from Abraham Lincoln's funeral almost a century earlier.
04:16Her quiet dignity at the ceremony, as well as the sight of two young children standing beside her, moved everybody.
04:23In December 1993, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and died from it on May 19, 1994, at New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center.
04:34The funeral was held on May 23, 1994, at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, the same Catholic parish where she was baptized years ago.
04:44The Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, located south of the East Colonnade at the White House, continues to carry her legacy.
04:51Women who changed the world.
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