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Happy birthday to this lovely lady
May God comfort Ethel and her family during this time ♀️
Jacqueline Kennedy started her first job in 1951 as the “Inquiring Camera Girl” for the Washington Times-Herald newspaper. As she roved around the city, she took pictures of people she encountered, asked them questions on the issues of the day, and wove their answers into her newspaper column. Among those she interviewed for her column was Richard Nixon. She also covered the first inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
During this time, Jacqueline met John F. Kennedy, who was a congressman and soon-to-be-elected senator from Massachusetts. They married in September, 1953. This clip of the couple with Ethel Kennedy is from a home movie taken by JFK’s close friend from WWII, Paul Fay.
-from the JFK Library. Our #JFK100 theme this month is Arts, Culture, and Jacqueline Kennedy. Join us for more about Jackie all month!
It’s just all so unfair, Ethel said to Jackie holding both of her hands.
It was November 1973, ten years since the assassination of President Kennedy. To commemorate the sad anniversary, Ethel hosted a memorial Mass in the large pool house at Hickory Hill.
Ethel and Jackie usually didn’t spend a lot of time commiserating about their sadness. However, gatherings for the anniversaries of Jack and Bobby’s deaths couldn’t help but bring to the fore the widows’ mutual anguish.
Just look at us, Ethel said, weeping. We’re all wrecks, Jackie, and we’ll never get over it.
Oh God, Jackie exclaimed now swept away by emotions and also crying. Nothing could be worse than this, could it? Could it get any worse? Ethel agreed. It didn’t have to happen, Jackie. It just didn’t have to happen.
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‘Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shown with his wife Ethel boarding plane on Nov. 4, 1964 in New York City at LaGuardia Airport for flight to Glens Falls, N.Y.’
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May 27, 1971 - Joan Kennedy, Peter Duchin (pianist) and Ethel Kennedy during Sighting at The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts at John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts in Washington D.C., United States.
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