A person might wonder, "Why would Jackie Kennedy's wedding to Aristotle Onassis be one of the main things that people might remember about the year 1968?"
Her getting remarried was a big problem for a lot of people. She was the widow of our slain president. What we were left with was Jackie, and the two children, and many people kind of projected onto them intense emotions and feelings of loyalty and grief.
One headline said, Jackie, How Could You?
Some commentators got downright bitchy about it.
Cardinal Cushing finally came out in support of Jackie: "Why can't she marry whomever she wants to marry? Why should she be condemned?"
Then that caused controversy: Catholic church officials and some of the public were mad at him.
(Aristotle Onassis was divorced - that was the church's problem with the marriage. People in general who disapproved just - saw it as some kind of insult to President Kennedy, I guess.
Jackie wed Onassis in 1968. Pres. Kennedy was killed in 1963, so it had been five years.)
In the decades that followed, each time there was an accident, a scandal, or a tragedy involving a member of the Kennedy family, some people and media headlines would refer to "the Kennedy curse."
Many of us don't believe in curses - bad things happen sometimes, and we just hope they don't, or deal with them if they do. It's part of life.
I thought about this when I watched a 2025 film called Song Sung Blue on Netflix. A string of bad things happen to these people in the movie - and it's based on a true story.
The main characters are a Neil Diamond tribute band. The Neil Diamond songs are my favorite part of the movie.
He's a powerful songwriter.
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