When Jackie Bouvier met John F. Kennedy, she was about to marry another man, but she did not hesitate to end her relationship to begin a new romance with the man who would become the thirty-fifth president of the United States.
It has been said that there was no love between the couple and that he married Jackie because the only thing he needed to fulfill her presidential aspirations was a wife, so she was the “lucky one.” They married in 1953 and became one of the most popular and admired couples in the United States.
John was not used to public displays of affection and Jackie was aware of her constant infidelities, so her marriage was far from a fairy tale. Even so, to continue keeping up appearances they decided to complete the family and become parents. In 1955 Jackie Kennedy became pregnant for the first time, but she had a miscarriage. This caused her deep pain, but she longed for a family, so she tried again. Mrs. Kennedy had four more pregnancies, but of them, only one of her daughters survives.
Who were the children of Jackie and John F. Kennedy?
Arabella Kennedy
A year after Jackie Kennedy's abortion, she became pregnant again. That girl would be named Arabella, but on August 23, 1956, various complications occurred during childbirth and the little girl did not survive. The baby was stillborn, a tragedy that John found out about until three days later, since according to a European newspaper, the young politician was on board a cruise ship accompanied by several young women.
Caroline Kennedy
This woman is 62 years old and is the only living daughter of Jackie and John F. Kennedy. She was born on November 27, 1957, in New York. On the day of her birth, her father was present at the hospital during the birth and with a huge bouquet of flowers for Jackie.
In 1961 her father was elected president, so the family moved to the White House. In 1963, five days before her 6th birthday, her father was murdered in Dallas. Caroline is an attorney and has studied at Columbia University, Radcliffe College, and Harvard Law School.
On October 23, 1975, while she was in London to take an art course, she was almost the victim of an IRA terrorist attack.
Since 1989, Caroline has been married to the artist and designer Edwin Schlossberg, with whom she has three children: Rose, Tatiana and John.
Although it seemed that she would lead a life away from politics, in 2008 Caroline announced her interest in Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. She never took this position because of the open criticism she received from her. They made them withdraw from it. In 2009 she opted to be the United States ambassador to the Holy See, but she did not succeed either. On November 12, 2013 she was appointed United States Ambassador to Japan, a position she completed in 2017.
John F. Kennedy Jr.
He was the third child of the famous marriage. He was born on November 25, 1960. John turned three years old on the same day his father was buried. He graduated in History from Brown University and in Law from New York University.
John became the most desired man in the United States; He was handsome, charismatic, with two degrees and a historic last name. One magazine even named him “the most attractive man in the world.”
In 1995 he decided to try his luck in politics, but it was through George magazine, which he founded and in which he served as editor and reporter, that he interviewed George Wallace and even Fidel Castro. He also gained fame by dating women like Brooke Shields, Madonna and Sarah Jessica Parker, but the woman who stole his heart was Carolyn Bassette. The couple married in 1996, in a private ceremony in Georgia.
John loved adventure sports and had a pilot's license. On July 16, 1999, he boarded his small private plane, a Piper Saratoga, accompanied by Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette. They were going to Massachusetts, to the wedding of his cousin Rory, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy. An hour after taking off, they crashed seven miles from Martha's Vineyard. When maritime authorities found the plane, they found the three bodies in their seats, restrained by seat belts. On July 23, their ashes were scattered at the place where they lost their lives.
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
On August 7, 1963, a few months before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Patrick, the second son of the family, came into the world, but he only lived 48 hours, because he suffered from respiratory distress syndrome, a disease for which there was no cure. After this tragedy, John changed radically and the gestures of love towards his wife became noticeable; it could be said that the death of his son united them.
