Jackie Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis in 1968 - NY Daily News Jackie Kennedy marries Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis in 1968 Jackie Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis in 1968 NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Aristotle Onassis stands with his new wife Jacqueline Kennedy after their marriage in the tiny chapel on the Island of Scorpios in Greece on Oct. 20, 1968. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, October 19, 2015, 12:00 PM (Originally published by the Daily News on October 21, 1968. This story was written by Peter Jonas) SKORPIOS, GREECE, Oct. 20 - In a tiny, rain-drenched chapel here today a Greek Orthodox priest untied ribbons binding together the hands of the bridal couple standing before him - and at that instant Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy became Mrs. Aristotle Socrates Onassis. The ceremony here on Onassis' private island took place at 11 a.m. New York time (5 p.m. in Greece), a month before the fifth anniversary of the assassination of President John Kennedy.

Jackie and Telis, her nickname for her hugely wealthy new husband, wore crowns of orange blossoms for the Greek Orthodox ceremony. She wore the ivory miniskirted gown designed for her by Valentino of Rome. With Onassis, in a dark suit, she stood before an altar decorated with antique Byzantine icons purchased by the bridegroom from collectors, while a trio of Byzantine choristers sang. Aiding in the ancient ceremony were Jackie's children, Caroline, 10, and John Jr. 7. They carried the two six-foot-tall candles traditionally held by pages at a Greek wedding. Onassis' children by his divorced wife, Alexander, 20, and Christina, 18, watched from a corner of the tiny chapel. The four children saw their parents exchange golden rings as the marriage ritual was recited by 31-year-old Father Polykarpos Athanassiou of Athens, a close friend of Onassis. Throughout the 45-minute ceremony, Jackie and Onassis stood silent. At the end of the rites, they walked together around the altar three times, and finally marked their new marriage with a kiss.

Lee Radziwill acted in the role of matron of honor while her husband was accepted as best man - a function that does not really exist in Greek Orthodox rites. But he was allowed to stand in the sidelines. Best man in fact was a woman, Onassis' sister, Artemis Grarafoulias - officially designated the "coumbara." The coumbara at a Greek wedding or christening establishes a blood relationship. Athanassiou's last words of the ceremony were spoken in Greek and then in English as the choir chanted psalms of David. He said: "Servant of God Aristotle is wedlocked to the servant of God Jacqueline, in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost, amen." The guests pelted the happy couple with rice and sugared almonds - rice for fertility, almonds for happiness. Cover of the New York Daily News on October 21, 1968. (New York Daily News) Article on Jackie Kennedy's wedding in 1968. (New York Daily News) After the ceremony, Onassis, sipping champagne, signed documents pledging that any children of the marriage would be brought up in the Greek Orthodox faith. Jackie signed no documents at all.

"We are very happy," Jackie told the pool reporters who were allowed at the last minute to witness the marriage with about 40 relatives and close friends of the couple. Onassis beamed but said nothing to the reporters. Jackie reached the chapel, called Panayitas - the Little Virgin - with her children by launch. They left the Christina, Onassis' palatial yacht, with the bridegroom, but he was driven to the chapel to await their arrival. Despite the rain, clouds and chilly winds, Jackie was radiant in her long-sleeved georgette lace dress. The softly pleated skirt ended four inches above her knees. She Wears a Scarf She wore a light nylon scarf to protect her chestnut hair as she walked 200 yards up a winding path to the chapel, with her stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss, of Washington, at her side. After the ceremony, the newlyweds waited for the guests to weds with good luck, prosperity and fertility. The Greeks also had a word for those critical of the age span between 39-year-old Jackie and 62-year-old Onassis. "Ripe olives are the best," is how the Greeks describe the advantage of age over youth.

Until today, the weather had been flawless, and the Ionian Sea had been a calm and brilliant blue around Skorpios and the Christina. Jacqueline Onassis leaves the chapel with her new husband, Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, after their wedding on the Greek Island of Scorpios, Oct. 20, 1968. (JIM PRINGLE/Associated Press) Today, however, there were overcast skies, then a downpour, and the water was choppy. The temperature dropped from a pleasant 75 to a dull, gray chill. The officiating priest was to have been taken by helicopter to Skorpios, after flying to Aktion nearby. Because of the bad weather, he was taken by boat instead, and crewmen reported it was a rough crossing. Newsmen, who finally were allowed to form a pool to cover the ceremony, probably because they had threatened to invade in masse otherwise, also went by boat to Skorpios. Pool Coverage Ioannis (John) Giorgiakis, general manager of the Onassis' owned Olympic Airways, reportedly arranged for the pool coverage.

For three days he has been on the receiving end of protests and arguments from the representatives of the world press who had been barred from the prewedding activities by tight security measures. The security continued today with Greek government helicopters and coast guard boats supplementing Onassis' own patrol of speedboats and armed guards. Onassis spent the night before the wedding in his villa on the island, while Jackie stayed on the yacht with her children and most of the guests, including her mother, her sister, Princes Lee Radziwill, and her two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Peter Lawford and Mrs. Stephen Smith. Submits Document The wedding license had been obtained by the multimillionaire bridegroom at Levkas, from the bishopric of the diocese that governs his private 500-acre island on ecclesiastical matters. To get it, Onassis had to submit a document showing that he had obtained his divorce in the diocese from his former wife, Tina. He also had to submit a statement from the U.S. consulate at Athens that Jackie was a widow and free to marry.

The Greek Archdiocese in New York said that Onassis and Tina also obtained an ecclesiastical divorce in New York on April 19, 1961. This apparently was done so that she could marry her present husband, the Marquess of Blandford. One of the wedding gifts received by the couple was an acre and a half of the most beautiful woodland on the neighboring island of Levkas. Tags: Jackie Kennedy's wedding island has been sold for £100million Idyllic Greek island where Jackie Kennedy wed Aristotles is sold for £100million April 11, 2013 by hellomagazine.com Jackie Onassis: The idyllic Greek island where Jackie Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis has reportedly been sold by his sole surviving heir for £100million The idyllic Greek island where Jackie Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis has reportedly been sold by his sole surviving heir for £100million. According to Greek media, Aristotle's granddaughter Athina Onassis Roussel agreed to sell the island of Skorpios, in the Ionian Sea, to a Russian billionaire.

The jewel in the Ionian Sea off the western coast of Greece was bought by the Greek shipping mogul in 1962, when it was said to have cost just 3.5million drachmas, the equivalent of about £10,000. CLICK ON PHOTOS FOR FULL GALLERY In 1968 the paradise island played host to quite the wedding party when Aristotle married Jackie Kennedy – the widow of the late President John F Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963. In an intimate Greek Orthodox ceremony – which was the second marriage for both bride and groom – Jackie wore a lace-covered beige bridal gown by Italian couturier Valentino . Among the guests were the bride's mother and her husband, two of President Kennedy's sisters and Jackie's children. As a result of the marriage, the much loved former First Lady was given a new name in the media – one by which she arguably became best known – Jackie O. Following the nuptials, the newlyweds made their way to Aristotle's famous yacht, named Cristina, where they celebrated with their friends and family. As Mrs Onassis, Jacqueline divided her time between the Skorpios Island and her husband's home in Paris with her children.

The forested island, heavily wooded with trees that Aristotle had planted, is largely untouched, apart from luxury details such as tennis courts, lush gardens, the Pink House villa originally built for Jackie O, a helicopter landing pad and a boat quay. The late tycoon also shipped in sand from a nearby island to create an artificial beach. Jackie also had a small and beautiful Cyclades-style cottage built in a quiet cove on the private island to embrace the breathtaking views and tranquility. Their marriage lasted six years until Aristotle died aged 69, when Jackie returned to New York and Skorpios passed to the Greek shipping tycoon's daughter Christina, who died of a heart attack aged 37 in 1988, and then to her daughter Athina. Aristotles was buried on the paradise island. His daughter and his son, Alexander, who sadly died in a plane crash in 1973, are also buried there. According to Greek press contracts for the purchase of the private island are being drawn up by law firms in Athens and Geneva. Giorgio Armani, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, and Madonna have all reportedly been interested in buying the tiny island.

The wedding of Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis, October 20, 1968 - YouTube The wedding of Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis, October 20, 1968 Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Apr 25, 2009 OCTOBER 20, 1968 - NEWLY-WED MR. AND MRS. ARISTOTLE ONASSIS ENTERTAINED CLOSEFRIENDS AND RELATIVES WITH A CHAMPAGNE WEDDING BREAKFAST LASTINGUNTIL DAWN TODAY ABOARD THE GREEK MILLIONAIRE'S LUXURYYACHT, "CHRISTINA", ANCHORED NEAR HIS PRIVATE ISLAND, SKORPIOS, INTHE IONIAN SEA. MRS. ONASSIS WAS, UNTIL HER WEDDING ON SKORPIOS YESTERDAY, MRS.

JACQUELINE KENNEDY, WIDOW OF PRESIDENT JOHN F.KENNEDY, WHO WAS ASSASSINATED NEARLY SIX YEARS AGO. UNINVITED NEWSMEN SCUFFLED WITH POLICE OUTSIDE THE TINY CHAPEL OFTHE LITTLE HOLY VIRGIN ON SKORPIOS YESTERDAY AS, WITHIN,WINE-DRINKING AND RITUAL DANCING MARKED THE COUPLE'S MARRIAGE. MRS.KENNEDY, A DEVOUT ROMAN CATHOLIC, WAS MARRIED ACCORDING TO GREEKORTHODOX RITES. HELICOPTERS, ARMED GUARDS, HARBOUR POLICE ANDGENDARMES IN BOATS PATROLLED AROUND THE ISLAND TO MAKE SURE THEWEDDING REMAINED PRIVATE. IN SPITE OF THE PRECAUTIONS, SCORES OF NEWSMEN "GATECRASHED" THEWEDDING. ONLY 15 REPORTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS HAD BEEN OFFICIALLYFLOWN FROM ATHENS BY THE GREEK PRESS MINISTRY TO BE PRESENT AT THECEREMONY.

ABOUT 50 UNINVITED NEWSMEN ARRIVED FROM A NEARBY ISLAND IN ROWING BOATS AND WADED ASHORE, BRUSHING ASIDE POLICEMEN WHOTRIED TO STOP THEM. THEY WERE FINALLY ALLOWED TO GATHER SHIVERINGIN THE RAIN-SOAKED COURTYARD OF THE CHAPEL. THE RAIN WAS TAKEN AS A GOOD OMEN OF RICHES AND FERTILITY BY LOCALGREEKS. MRS. KENNEDY WORE A SOFT BEIGE TWO-PIECE WITH PLEATED SKIRTBUT CARRIED NO BOUQUET, HER DARK HAIR IN A SINGLE HEAVY BRAIDSECURED BY A WHITE RIBBON. MR. ONASSIS WORE A DARK BLUE SUIT WITHA RED TIE AND A SPRIG OF LEMON BLOSSOM IN HIS BUTTONHOLE. THE 30GUESTS INCLUDED PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S CHILDREN, JOHN AND CAROLINE. AFTER THE CEREMONY, THE 62-YEAR-OLD MR.

ONASSIS SIGNED A DOCUMENTPLEDGING THAT ANY CHILDREN BORN OF THE UNION WITH HIS 39-YEAR-OLDBRIDE WOULD BE BROUGHT UP IN THE GREEK ORTHODOX FAITH - IN DIRECTCONFLICT WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF MRS. ONASSIS' FAITH THAT CHILDRENOF "MIXED MARRIAGES" BE BROUGHT UP AS ROMAN CATHOLICS. THE COUPLETHEN DROVE TO THE SHELTERED BAY WHERE THE "CHRISTINA" LAY TOANCHOR. ON BOARD, 13 MAIDENS FROM THE NEIGHBOURING ISLAND OF LEFKAS, INNATIONAL COSTUME, SANG AND DANCED FOR THE WEDDING PARTY. FINALLY,MOST OF THE GUESTS LEFT AND A SHALL PRIVATE PARTY WAS HELD UNTILTHE EARLY HOURS OF THIS MORNING. Category 1968: Jacqueline Kennedy Marries Aristotle Onassis | History.info 1968: Jacqueline Kennedy Marries Aristotle Onassis Photo Credit To Story Highlights historical event: Jackie was born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.

Her great-great grandfather was a Frenchman, a contemporary of Napoleon Bonaparte, who had emigrated to the USA. Jackie married John F. Kennedy when she was 23 years old. Five years after John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s death, his widow Jacqueline married the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis.Jackie was born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. Her great-great grandfather was a Frenchman, a contemporary of Napoleon Bonaparte, who emigrated to the USA. Jackie married John F. Kennedy when she was 23 years old. There were 1,200 guests at the wedding. The couple had four children, but only two survived early childhood. Kennedy was killed in 1963, while his brother Robert was killed in 1968. Jackie started to fear for her life and the lives of her children; she wanted to leave the USA. The wealthy Onassis offered her a chance to do just that. They married on this day in 1968, on Onassis’s private island, Skorpios, near the Greek coast. Their marriage lasted until Onassis’s death seven years later.

According to Greek law, she could inherit only a small part of his fortune, which amounted to 26 million dollars. She died in 1994. Facebook Comments Iconic weddings: Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis Iconic weddings: Jacqueline Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis May 21, 2010 How they met As the glamorous wife of President John F Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier – as she was known before her wedding to JFK – remains one of America's most beloved First Ladies. Having established her credentials as a style icon while in the White House, Jackie's courage and dignity following the public assassination of her husband on November 22, 1963, won her admiration and respect across the world. After moving with her children from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue into an apartment on New York's Fifth Avenue, the widow spent a year in mourning before returning to the public eye. During that time she was seen with a number of escorts, including Truman Capote. Then, following the death of Robert F Kennedy in June 1968, Jackie, Edward Kennedy and her children were invited as guests onboard the palatial yacht Christina by its millionaire owner Aristotle Onassis.

The engagement In October 1968 – five years after the death of her first husband – it was revealed that Jackie was engaged to marry wealthy Greek shipping magnate Aristotle. The bride's mother Mrs Hugh Auchincloss announced the news in New York with a brief statement that read: "My daughter, Mrs John F Kennedy, is planning to marry Mr Aristotle Onassis." The betrothal came as a shock to many; the groom was 23 years older than his future wife and both had been married before. Hours after the announcement, Jackie, her children – Caroline, ten, and seven-year-old John Jr – and a party of eight took a plane from New York's Kennedy airport to Greece. To celebrate his pending nuptials, Aristotle bought his bride-to-be an astonishing 40-carat Marquise Lesotho III diamond ring – sold at auction for $2.59 million in 1996. The wedding On October 20, 1968, Jackie married 'Ari' in an intimate Greek Orthodox ceremony on Skorpios in the Ionian Sea – the island was owned by the billionaire shipping magnate.

Among the guests were the bride's mother and her husband, two of President Kennedy's sisters and Jackie's children. As a result of the marriage, the former First Lady lost the Secret Service protection entitled to her as a widow of an American president. She was also given a new name in the media – one by which she is arguably now best known – Jackie O. The dress Since the bride was already an established fashion icon, there was a great deal of interest in her dress. For her second nuptials, Jackie wore a lace-covered beige dress by Italian couturier Valentino. It became the fashion house's most successful couture piece ever. Reception After they were announced as husband and wife, the newlyweds made their way to Aristotle's famous yacht, where they celebrated with their friends and family. Afterwards As Mrs Onassis, Jacqueline divided her time between Skorpios Island and her husband's home in Paris with her children until Aristotle's death on March 15, 1975. Now just 46 years old and a widow for the second time, she returned to New York where she began to work as a book editor.

In 1993, Jackie was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and just two months before her 65th birthday, she sadly passed away in her sleep at home. Speaking of Jacqueline's death, John Kennedy Jr said: "My mother died surrounded by her friends and her family and her books, and the people and things she loved. She did it in her own way, and on her own terms, and we all feel lucky for that." Jackie Kennedy Biography :: National First Ladies' Library Place: Southampton Hospital, Southampton, New York Date: 1929, July 28 Father: John "Jack" Vernou Bouvier, III, born 1891, May 19, East Hampton, New York, stock broker, New York Stock Exchange; died 1957, August 2, New York, New York Mother: Janet Norton Lee, born 1907, December 3, New York, New York; attended Sweetbriar College, Virginia, and Vassar College but did not graduate from either institution; a noted horsewoman and a multiple trophy winner.

Janet Lee married John Bouvier, 1928, July 7, at St. Philomena's Church, East Hampton, New York; died, 1989, July 22, Newport, Rhode Island. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's parents divorced in 1940. Janet Bouvier married a second time on 1942, June 21, to Hugh D. Auchincloss (1897-1972). She married a third time on 1979, October 25, to Bingham Morris. Morris's first wife had been a bridesmaid in the wedding party of his second wife (Janet Lee Bouvier). Ancestry: Irish, English, French, Scottish; Jacqueline Kennedy was half-Irish, her mother being the granddaughter of four immigrants from County Cork, who came to New York during the 1840's potato famine. Jacqueline Kennedy's paternal grandmother Maude Sergeant was the daughter of an immigrant from Kent, England. Despite her maiden name, Jacqueline Kennedy's French ancestry was descent from one great-grandfather, making her only one-eight French.

The first Bouvier to settle in America was carpenter Michel Bouvier, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1815 from Point Saint-Esprit in the Provence region. One source claims the legend of ancestral descent of the Bouviers to include a later descendant of the Van Salees family, Dutch/African merchants that settled in New Amsterdam in the 17th century. Birth Order and Siblings: Eldest of two, she had a younger sister, Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield Radziwill Ross (born 1933, March 3). Through the second marriage of her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy had two half-siblings, Janet Jennings Auchincloss (1945-1985) and James Lee Auchincloss (born 1947); by Hugh D. Auchincloss's first marriage to Maria Chrapovitsky, she had a step-brother, Hugh D. ("Yusha") Auchincloss, Jr. (born 1927?); by Hugh D.

Auchincloss's second marriage to Nina Gore Vidal, she had a step-sister, Nina Auchincloss Steers Straight (born 1935?), and a step-brother Thomas Auchincloss (born 1937?). Although the author, playwright and social critic Gore Vidal has often been identified as a stepbrother to Jacqueline Kennedy, they both shared the same stepfather, but through different mothers. 5'8", brown hair, brown eyes Religious Affiliation: Roman Catholic; Although she married a second time to a divorced man in a ceremony of his Greek Orthodox faith, thus breaking her faith's tenets, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis did not convert and was buried with full rites of the Catholic Church. Education: Chapin School, 1935-1942, New York City (kindergarten and grammar school); Holton Arms School, 1942-1944, Washington, D.C.

(completed grammar school and first year of high school); Miss Porter's School, 1944-1947, Farmington, Connecticut (high school); Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (freshman and sophomore years, college) 1947-1949; University of Grenoble and Sorbonne, Paris, France (junior year abroad program through Smith College), 1949-1950; George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (senior year, college), B.A. French literature, 1950-951; Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (American history continuing education classes), 1954 Occupation before Marriage: At an early age, Jacqueline Kennedy wrote essays and poems which were sometimes published in local newspapers. In her high school newspaper Salmagundi, she penned a cartoon series and won the graduating award for literature. In 1951, she submitted an entry to Vogue magazine's Prix de Paris contest, the prize for which was to spend half a year in New York, and the other half in Paris as a junior editor for the magazine.

The submission was rigorous, requiring an original theme for an entire issue, illustrations, articles, layout and design, an advertising campaign that could be tied into the issue's content. In the requisite essay, "People I Wish I Had Known," she listed playwright Oscar Wilde, poet Charles Baudelaire and ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev. Named one of the twelve finalists, she was then interviewed by the magazine editors and out of 1,280 entries she won the contest. Her mother, however, did not want her to leave the U.S. and made her turn down the prize. After college, she worked for the Washington Times-Herald as its Inquiring Camera Girl, earning $42.50 a week. Her job was to both photograph and interview local citizens with one question each day; her first interview was with Pat Nixon and others included Vice President Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy whom she later married. The questions became increasingly political, including topics like the Soviet Union, the Korean War, and the U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. One of her last assignments was to cover Queen Elizabeth's 1953 coronation.

Marriage: First: 1953, September 12, to John F. Kennedy, born 1917, May 29, in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States Senator (D-Massachusetts), former U.S. Congressman (D-Massachusetts), at St. Mary's Church, Newport, Rhode Island. John F. Kennedy died 1963, November 22, Dallas, Texas. Second: 1968, October 20, to Aristotle Socrates Onassis, born 1906, June 15, in Smyrna, Turkey, international shipping magnate, airline owner, at Skorpios Island, Greece. He died 1975, March 15, The American Hospital, Paris, France. His first marriage was to Athina Tina Livanos (1926- 1973), in 1946 in New York City, New York. Children: Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born, 1957, November 27); John F. Kennedy, Jr.

(1960, November 25 - 1999, July 16); Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (1963, August 7 - 1963, August 9) Stepchildren: Alexander Onassis (1948-1973), Christina Onassis (1950-1988) Occupation after Marriage: Although Jacqueline Kennedy remarked at her wedding that she wished to write a novel, her marriage suspended her writing ambitions. Nevertheless, as a Senator's spouse she found an outlet in responding to constituent mail, translating articles, drafting her husband's 1956 endorsement statement of Adlai Stevenson, and acting as something like a coordinating editor for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles In Courage. She made short speeches in Italian, French and Spanish to ethnic constituents during his 1958 re-election campaign.

Presidential Campaign and Inauguration: Since she was pregnant for most of the 1960 presidential campaign, Jacqueline Kennedy played a limited public role in it; she wrote a column "Campaign Wife," mixing personal stories with Democratic Party policy views on the aged and education that was distributed by the national party; she participated in television and newspaper interviews; she taped campaign radio commercials in foreign languages. Privately, she supplied her husband with numerous literary and historical examples and quotations that he used in his speeches. Jacqueline Kennedy influenced her husband to invite numerous artists in all disciplines to his 1961 inaugural ceremony as a symbol of the new Administration's intended support of the arts. Her appearance in a large pillbox hat for the swearing-in ceremony, however, eclipsed this news and began a popular millinery style. 1961, January 20 - 1963, November 22 31 years old Jacqueline Kennedy entered the role of First Lady by declaring that her priorities were her young children and maintaining her family's privacy. Nevertheless, during the weeks before the inauguration, she began her plans to not only redecorate the family quarters of the White House but to historically restore the public rooms.

She created a committee of advisors led by Americana expert Henry Dupont, with sub-committees led by experts on painting, furniture and books. By March 1961, Jacqueline Kennedy was scouring government warehouses in search of displaced White House furnishings, and soliciting the nation to donate important historical and artistic items. As part of this effort, she successfully pressed Senator Clint Anderson and the 87th Congress to pass what became Public Law 87286 that would make such donated items the inalienable property of the White House. Since the restoration project was privately funded, she helped to create a White House Historical Association, an entity which was able to raise funds through the sale to the public of a book she conceived, The White House: An Historic Guide. She also successfully pressed for the creation of the federal position of White House Curator to permanently continue the effort of protecting the historical integrity of the mansion. Her legacy of fostering an national interest in historic preservation extended to her own "neighborhood," when she reversed a previous federal plan to destroy the historic Lafayette Square across from the White House and helped to negotiate not only a restoration of old buildings there, but a reasonable construction of new buildings with modern use.

Jacqueline Kennedy also sought to use the White House to "showcase" the arts. She became the most prominent proponent for the establishment of the National Cultural Center in the nation's capital, eventually to be named for her husband. At the White House she hosted performances of opera, ballet, Shakespeare and modern jazz, all performed by American companies. After her meeting with French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux in May of 1961, he made a loan to the U.S. from France of the Louvre Museum's famous Mona Lisa painting, and Jacqueline Kennedy presided over the unveiling. From Malraux, she developed ideas on the eventual creation of a U.S. Department of the Arts and Humanities, an undertaking she discussed with Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell and one that she anticipated would emerge with the creation of a presidential arts advisor and advisory board in 1961. The eventual creation of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Arts achieved her goal, she later reflected.

Contrary to the image of "lovely inconsequence" that her friend, historian Arthur Schlesinger characterized her as feigning, Jacqueline Kennedy had an intense interest in the substantive issues faced by the Administration; she kept this covert, however, believing that public knowledge of her views would distract from the uncontroversial historic and arts projects she adopted. Privately, she was known to provide the President with withering assessments of political figures with whom he was negotiating, whether it was Pentagon brass or the Soviet Politburo. After the Bay of Pigs, Jacqueline Kennedy made a speech in Spanish, in Miami, December 1962, to the brigade of Cuban fighters who had landed in Cuba to carry out the ill-considered operation. Throughout the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, she remained at the President's side and he kept her informed of each top-secret move that the U.S. and Soviet Union were making; afterwards, in thanks for the emotional support she provided to him, he presented her with one of the same silver calendars commemorating the crisis that he gave to his military advisors who had helped him.

As the fight for civil rights of African-Americans gained momentum, the First Lady illustrated a subtle support for it; when she created a kindergarten in the White House for her daughter and a few select youngsters, it was racially integrated and photographs of the group were publicly released. Jacqueline Kennedy made more international trips than any of her predecessors, both with the President and on her own: France, Austria, England, Greece, Venezuela and Colombia in 1961, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Italy and Mexico in 1962, Morocco, Italy, Turkey, Greece, France in 1963. On many of these trips, she forged personal friendship with world leaders, including France's Charles DeGaulle, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Pakistan's Ayub Kahn, England's Harold McMillan, subtly furthering the interests of the President and the U.S. In South American nations, for example, she made speeches in Spanish hailing the promise of the Administration's Peace Corps.

Believing that Kennedy's most important accomplishment was his 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, days after his assassination she penned a remarkable letter to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, calling on him to remain committed to nuclear arms reduction and urge smaller nations to do likewise. Often sketching designs for her clothing as First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy fashion immediately drew international attention; more than any other First Ladies her style was copied by commercial manufacturers and a large segment of young women. While she appeared largely in the media in unauthorized wire service photographs and "paparazzi" snapshots, White House photographs were more frequently issued to the press than ever before and the role of the official in-house photographer was instigated as a result of Jacqueline Kennedy's own interest and instruction. She also made several television appearances, the most prominent being A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy, aired on CBS on February 14, 1962. It was the first glimpse into her restoration project and the most sustained exposure the nation had to this youthful and unique First Lady. The television special only further fueled media attention on her and she soon became the first First Lady to find herself on the cover of thousands of popular magazines.

The first First Lady to also have her own press secretary, her visibility would permanently forge the media interest in the activities of the presidential spouses. Post-Presidential Life: As the president's widow in late 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy successfully sought President Lyndon Johnson's support for several measures she considered important to her late husband, including the revitalization of Pennsylvania Avenue. After living in Washington for several months, she moved to New York. Although raising her two young children was her priority, she also focused on the creation of the John F. Kennedy Library and became intricately involved in the architecture and landscaping, as well as the academic direction of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Frequently traveling abroad, she led an effort to halt the potential damage in Venice, Italy posed by rising water levels, and also attempted to broker better diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cambodia. After her remarriage to Aristotle Onassis in 1968, she lived part of each year in Athens or on Skorpios Island, Greece, or in Paris, France, at his homes. She successfully lobbied Athens officials to retain an ancient marketplace.

Following his death, she resumed her career in the writing profession, but as an editor, first at Viking Press, and then Doubleday; she often wrote the introduction to the books she edited and also worked on obtaining and laying out the illustrations. Working with the New York Municipal Arts Society, she led a successful public information campaign to save New York's Grand Central Station, coming to Washington, D.C. to urge the Congress to pass landmark legislation; along these lines, she also lobbied legislators in the New York State capital of Albany, to prevent private organizations from altering or destroying their property if it was deemed historical architecture. Included among the civic activities in which she was further involved were the revitalization of the Broadway theater district, the Central Park Conservancy, the Literary Lions of the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian wing and the Costume Institute, and the American Ballet Theater at Lincoln Center.

Her apartment, New York, New York 1994, May 19 Skorpios: Daughter of Russian billionaire buys idyllic Greek island where Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy | Daily Mail Online Daughter of Russian billionaire buys idyllic Greek island where Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy Ekaterina Rybolovleva, 24, has bought island of Skorpios 'for £100m' Sold by Athina Onassis Roussel, heir to the Greek shipping tycoon Island, off coast of Greece, was bought by Onassis in 1962 for £10,000 comments Billion dollar girl: Ekaterina Rybolovleva has bought Skorpios from the Onassis family The daughter of a Russian billionaire has been unveiled as the buyer of the Greek island where shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy. Ekaterina Rybolovleva, daughter of business magnate Dmitry Rybolovlev, has bought Skorpios, her father's investment office confirmed today.

The 24-year-old purchased the island in the Ionian Sea, west of Greece, from Onassis' sole surviving heir, granddaughter Athina Onassis Roussel, 28, for a reported £100million. ‘Ekaterina is delighted that the trust has negotiated this purchase,’ a representative of Rybolovlev's family investment office said, confirming she also acquired the neighbouring island of Sparti. ‘She regards the acquisition as a long-term financial investment.’ Miss Rybolovleva's father Dmitry, co-founder of the Russian potash producer Uralkali, has a history of snapping up trophy properties and is the owner of the AS Monaco Football Club. The island of Skorpios was bought by Onassis in 1962, believed to have cost just 3.5 million drachmas, the equivalent of about £10,000. Six years later it hosted his wedding to Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of the late President John F Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963. After his death Skorpios passed to his daughter Christina, who died of a heart attack aged 37 in 1988, and then to Athina, the Daily Telegraph reports.

RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share According to Greek press the contracts for the purchase of the private island are being drawn up by law firms in Athens and Geneva. Farhad Vladi, whose company, Vladi Private Islands, has hundreds of islands on its books, told the paper that while he had not heard of the deal, it was possible Ms Onassis Roussel had decided to sell the island. He said: 'These Russian oligarchs have billions, so it may be that one of them came along and said "I will give you 100 million or 200 million euros for it". Anything is possible.' Scroll down for video Island trading: Athina Onassis Roussel, the 28-year-old granddaughter of Aristotle Onassis, right, has sold the Skorpios to fellow equestrian Ekaterina Rybolovleva Sold: The Greek island where Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy has been sold 'for £100million' Jackie Onassis and Aristotle Onassis, on Skorpios, Greece in 1968.

The island, off the western coast of Greece, was bought by Onassis in 1962 Mr Vladi said he was asked by Ms Onassis Roussel to carry out an evaluation of the island eight years ago. It is believed she has little interest in spending time on the island, or in Greece. He said the water comes from a mountain bought by Aristotle Onassis on a nearby island, and that anyone who bought the island would need to buy the mountain also, which he estimated would cost upwards of 100 million euros. The mayor of the nearby island of Meganisi, Efstathios Zavitsanos, said the deal was likely to be a long-term lease since Aristotle Onassis's will stated that Skorpios could not be sold or leave the family. ‘We have lived with the Onassis legend and it will never fade,’ he said. ‘You see, Aristotle was close to the local society, the fishermen and the residents.

He was not just a rich man, he was truly loved.’ Like father, like daughter: Ekaterina, 24, is the daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev who owns AS Monaco Football Club The island hosted many parties during the time of Aristotle Onassis, who is buried there, as is his daughter and his son, Alexander, who died in a plane crash in 1973. It is also home to three residences, a helicopter landing pad and a boat quay. Swiss-educated Ms Onassis Roussel is the only surviving descendant of the shipping magnate. Ms Onassis Roussel was born in France, and is the only child of Christina Onassis and her fourth husband, Thierry Roussel. She is married to Brazilian Olympic show jumper, Alvaro de Miranda Neto, and lives in Sao Paulo. In the past there have been rumours that Giorgio Armani, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, and Madonna were interested in buying the tiny island. Family home: After Aristotle's death Skorpios passed to Onassis' daughter Christina, who died of a heart attack aged 37 in 1988

Question: Who did Jacqueline Kennedy marry on Skorpios in 1968?
Answer: Aristotle Onassis