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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy leaves the White House with son John F. Kennedy Jr., in her arms as a limousine awaits them both outside. (1962)
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damonewilliams:
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…
Both of these women were fantastic.
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Jackie getting used to the close-knit camaraderie of her new family before they cut the wedding cake.
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The back of Jackie’s dress.
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Bobby, Jacqueline, and Jack on September 12, 1953.
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A candid of Jackie on her wedding day.
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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.
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Do I spy Robert McNamara in the background?
Taken in 1954, a year after her wedding to Senator John F. Kennedy. She’s pictured here before going to class at Georgetown University for a LIFE Magazine article updating America on the newlyweds domestic life.
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kennedys:
Leaving Parkland Hospital after the death of the President, Attorney General and brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy right behind her. Several times Jackie was offered a washcloth and a change of clothes, but she said, “No. Let them see what they’ve done to Jack.”
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kennedys:
An equally disturbed Attorney General and brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy escorts Mrs. Kennedy off of the plane and into history - the remnanets of the dream-like post-war era of Camelot halts to an end.
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kennedys:
47 year ago today, President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy flew from Andrews Air Force Base to San Antonio, then visited NASA in Houston and on to Ft. Worth for a Chamber of Commerce breakfast the next day. It was a short flight to Dallas and the motorcade through Dealey Plaza - the next day would be a motorcade through Dallas.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and presidential nominee Sen. Edward Kennedy campaign in St. Louis, Missouri on December 15, 1979.
