Children of Jacqueline Kennedy: Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:40

Two children of the Kennedys died immediately after birth, and John Fitzgerald Jr., along with his wife, died in a plane crash in July 1999. Only Carolyn Kennedy escaped the curse of the clan. The daughter of the 35th President of the United States continues the work of John, doing law, politics and charity.

Marriage to John F. Kennedy

Jacqueline Kennedy (née Bouvier) met the future US president in 1952. A year later, they exchanged rings, and a year later she earned her first nervous breakdown. Since childhood, Jacqueline dreamed of female happiness, but she had to harmoniously fit into the Kennedy clan and put up with John's love of love.

The first years of marriage were marred by the fact that Jacqueline and John's first daughter was stillborn. Jacqueline suffered this tragedy for a long time.

Children of the Kennedys

By the time John became President of the United States, the couple already had two children. Caroline was born on November 27, 1957. A year earlier, Jacqueline had already given birththe baby, who was named Arabella, but the girl died at birth. John Jr. - the third child of the spouses and the first son - was born on November 25, 1960.

In 1963, on the eve of the election campaign of her husband, who decided to run for another term, Jacqueline became pregnant again. This time a boy was born, but he, like the first girl, did not live long - only three days. Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was born prematurely, the cause of his death was the immaturity of the lungs, the baby could not breathe on his own.

Jacqueline, as after the first birth, was very upset by the loss, but now she was distracted by caring for the children - Caroline and John. Later, she switched to helping her husband prepare a new election campaign. True, tragedy soon struck him. John F. Kennedy was shot dead in 1963.

Carolyn Kennedy

Carolyn spent part of her childhood in the White House, and when her father, the 35th President of the United States, was shot dead in Dallas, she moved to Manhattan with her mother and brother. Carolyn Kennedy graduated from Harvard College and then began working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The girl was fond of philosophy and photography, she even worked as an assistant correspondent at the 1976 Olympics. But still, Caroline's main activities were related to politics, jurisprudence and charity.

She worked in the Department of Education in New York City, participated in the election campaign of Barack Obama, was the US Ambassador to Japan. Currently daughter JacquelineKennedy Carolyn takes over as head of the Kennedy Library.

Carolyn married American designer Edwin (Ed) Schlossberg. Jacqueline was at first against her daughter's relationship with a man who was twelve years her senior, but Caroline insisted. The marriage turned out to be happy. The couple had a son and two daughters.

John F. Kennedy's granddaughter Rose Schlossberg was born in 1988. The girl graduated from Harvard and works as a videographer. Another granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, was born in 1990. She graduated from Yale University and found herself in journalism. The grandson of John and Jacqueline - John Schlossberg - was born in 1993. The young man graduated from Yale. He studied the history and culture of Japan. John is also an active member of the Democratic Party (its youth organization), is involved in charity work.

John F. Kennedy Jr

John F. Kennedy's son was born two weeks after his father became president. All his life, from his birth in the White House until his death, he was under the scrutiny of the press. John Kennedy died when his son was barely three years old. Touching and sad footage then spread around the world: John Jr. salutes his father's coffin.

After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Jr. lived in Manhattan with his mother and sister. The young man graduated from the Phillips Academy and Brown University, although all members of the Kennedy family had previously studied at Harvard. After graduating from university, John F. Kennedy Jr. worked for a time as an assistantprosecutor, he also founded George magazine.

Kennedy Jr. was considered an enviable groom. In 1996 he married Caroline Bisset. John F. Kennedy and Caroline Bisset had no children.

The death of the president's son is often associated with the curse of the family. On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Bisset crashed. The plane, which was personally controlled by John, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. There was mourning in the country over his death.

Jacqueline's later years

After the death of her first husband, Jackie Kennedy did everything to make the children proud that they bear the name of their father. She raised Caroline and John to honor her father. Jacqueline didn't want them to know about John's secret affairs and his infidelities.

Jacqueline became a widow for the second time in 1975. Since the children had already grown up, she decided to get a job, although the content left by Aristotle Onassis to his wife and her children was quite enough for a comfortable existence. From the mid-seventies until her death, Jacqueline worked in the press.

Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier died in 1994 from lymphoma. The First Lady was buried next to loved ones: her beloved husband John, their first daughter Arabella and second son Patrick in Virginia.