They were married in Newport, Rhode Island, in a packed church. This was the beginning of a marriage marked by the infidelity of the former president
After the day of his death, November 22, 1963, many were left with the notion that that was the ideal marriage. However, each round anniversary serves to remember that in reality the one between Jacqueline Bouvier and former President John F. Kennedy was anything but that, an old-fashioned marriage marked by his obsession with permanent love affairs, and the capacity for decorum and appearance of her to swallow with the abuse.
This week marks the 65th anniversary of one of the most glamorous weddings in American history and a love episode that still arouses enormous interest among the American public. His passage through the altar marked the union of two great family powers. A year earlier, Kennedy had won a position in the Senate representing the Democratic Party, descended from influential politicians on the East Coast. And she was descended from a top Wall Street executive, in addition to having a millionaire stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss.
The ceremony took place on September 12, 1953 at Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island. According to archives from newspapers such as The Boston Globe and The New York Times, the church was so packed that many of the guests had to stay outside the building due to lack of space.
They missed the blessing sent by Pope Pius
All that staging was not without anecdotes, such as the remarkable diamond and emerald ring that the groom gave to the bride, the work of the Van Cleef & Arpel house, or the fact that Ann Lowe's dress suffered an unforeseen event. a few days before the wedding.
One of the pipes broke in Lowe's studio in New York and that ruined the dress of Jackie and the rest of the members of the bridal party, a misfortune that they had to solve in record time so that the wedding was perfect.
The marriage was, but not so much the ten years after. In total they lost two babies, one due to stillbirth and another just born, a trauma to add to Kennedy's obsession with women, before and during his presidential term. Her affair with Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich and Blaze Starr is well known, part of a long list that Jackie knew very well, almost forced to look the other way.
Several books have given an account of the Massachusetts politician's voracity when it comes to female company. Still, she loved him until the end, desperate to try to save his life after being shot in the head in Dallas.
