Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

This paper examines the early influences that helped develop the personality and character of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The combined luxury and emotional stresses of her early life worked to create an individual who had a powerful effect on public taste and perceptions, both in her role as First Lady and in her later years as a Kennedy widow, wife of a multimillionaire shipping magnate, and a kind of societal elder statesperson. Her complex personality and very public life made a source of constant fascination, especially since her early experiences influenced her to remain a deeply private individual.

In 1996, John H. Davis, her first cousin, focuses his biography of his cousin, Jacqueline Bouvier: An Intimate Memoir, on the early part of her life. He (1996) argues, "These first thirty years helped form the salient qualities of her personality" (p. xii). In fact, some of the most formative events of her life had had their impact by the time she was 10.

Jacqueline Bouvier was the first child "of a rather unlikely, and, as it turned out, unstable marriage" (Davis, 1996, p. 21). Her mother, Janet Lee Bouvier, was

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