A clarification of some tags:
Childhood - Dates from the persons' birth until around the marriage of their first spouse. It tends to end in the mid 40's to the mid 50's.
Pre-Camelot - Implies a period between any of the persons' in the pictures marriage date and officially ends on Election Day of 1960.
Quotes - Rather than a 'standard' quote from a Kennedy, it's usually a story of an incident often in their words.
Authors misc - My own personal notes that may or may not relate to the subject matter at hand.
_____ Family - It branches off to a specific thread of the Kennedy clan not immediately the children of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald.
1st Generation - Refers to the likes of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and other parents of that generation or even earlier, like Jack's grandfather, John Fitzgerald.
Former first lady Jackie Kennedy (whose husband President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in 1963) and Coretta Scott King at Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 funeral. /Moneta Sleet Jr/Ebony Collection
Wow. There is SO MUCH in this photo. Two women who’s husbands were viciously ripped from their lives by hatred’s bullet. This moment is heavy…raw…honest…
Watching the lift-off of the first American in space on May 5th, 1961. From left to right, Vice President Johnson, Arthur Schlesinger, Adm. Arliegh Burke, President Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy.
Later on the day of November 21st, 1963, the entourage consisting of the President, First Lady, Vice-President with his wife Lady Bird Johnson attended a LULAC function at the Rice Hotel before heading to a dinner honoring U.S. Rep. Albert Thomas at the Sam Houston Coliseum.
Beaming at the spectacle, Jacqueline Kennedy told the group in Spanish: “I’m very happy to be in the great state of Texas.” Here are otherexamples of Jackie using her multilingualism (she was also fluent in French) to reach out to a more broad audience of voters for her husband.
Democratic & Republican presidential candidates Jack Kennedy (L) & Dick Nixon exchanging smile, standing under glaring lights prior to beginning the first ever televised Presidential debates.
During the 1972 presidential campaign, President Nixon tried to use the Secret Service to gather political intelligence on Edward Kennedy in the hope that “we just might get lucky and catch this son-of-a-bitch and ruin him for ‘76.”
Nixon and John Ehrlichman discuss having the IRS investigate Kennedy; Ehrlichman reveals that they already have a man spying on Kennedy in Hawaii and Hyannisport; Ehrlichman talks about visiting Chappaquiddick.
Nixon asks for increased use of wiretapping on leading Democratic figures. Haldeman updates Nixon on the status of their surveillance of Kennedy and Edmund Muskie.
A 1960 Campaign interview with Myrna Loy and Jacqueline Kennedy.
Myrna: All women want to know the answer to this question: does your husband want a boy or a girl? Jackie: Well, he’s wonderful about it. He never says he wanted either, even in Caroline’s case, and I think he wants a boy even less as he’s so delighted with this girl, I think he wants another. Myrna: In California, Senator Kennedy was saying it was going to be a boy. What does Mrs. Kennedy have to say about that? Jackie: [Laughs, looking visibly embarrassed] Well, maybe he’s right. Myrna: Mrs. Kennedy was asked about what she thought about living in the White House, did she think the First Lady influenced the life of the White House, or vice versa? Had she thought about that? Jackie: Yes, ah, well I don’t think the White House can ever completely belong to one person, it belongs to the people of America. I think whoever lives in it, as the First Lady, she should preserve its conditions, and enhance it, and leave something or herself there. But she shouldn’t leave it an empty museum.
Vice President Lyndon John, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and President Kennedy attend a breakfast in their honor in Fort Worth before heading out to the parade celebrating their presence in Dealey Plaza. (November 22nd, 1963)
Posing backstage with Mikhail Baryshnikov (right) following the Russian ballet dancers first public performance in the United States his recent defection of the Soviet Union are, from the left, Caroline Kennedy, Natalia Makarova, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Baryshnikov. Mrs. Onassis and her daughter congratulated Baryshnikov after his Saturday night performance in New York with Miss Makarova in ‘Giselle’. (July 28th, 1974)
