I was going to discuss briefly the marriage of Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis, and the controversy; also, am being overtaken by a Neil Diamond mood, so there's another song down at the bottom of this post, for you to enjoy.
Famous people are idolized by some people and criticized by others ... one would think that getting married would be a person's own business, but there was a lot in the papers and other media, at the time, about people disapproving of Jackie's second marriage.
I remember that information leaking into my mind somehow - I didn't really read the paper except for comics, sometimes - I was in fourth grade. But news and controversy kind of envelope you and you soak it in. It's in the air.
Like Cardinal Cushing, I thought she should probably marry whomever she wanted to.
After JFK's younger brother Bobby was assassinated in the spring of 1968, Jackie said - "They're killing Kennedys; for my children's sake I want to get out of this country."
Onassis had been courting her for a while.
She saw him as someone who could provide reliable security for her children. He already employed security people: he was very wealthy. And they could go far away, to the Greek island of Skorpios.
That was theory; in practice, John and Jackie Kennedy's children, Caroline and John Jr., went to boarding schools in New York and Massachusetts. (John Jr. was at Brown University in Rhode Island at the same time I was at Boston University - for a couple of years our time overlapped. I somehow knew that, even though I wasn't seeking info about him. Another case of news stories seeping into your consciousness uninvited.)
Jackie kept her Fifth Avenue apartment in New York City, and went back and forth between there, and Greece, or Paris - wherever her husband was - or wasn't ... he could be unpleasant sometimes, so she would periodically spend time apart from him.
Mrs. Kennedy and Mr. Onassis married in October, 1968; in March of 1975 he died, so Jackie was widowed for a second time, after six years and five months of marriage.
Six months after Onassis's passing, in September 1975, Mrs. Onassis began working as a consulting editor at Viking Press in New York City.
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On You Tube, video titled
Neil Diamond - Soolaimon (Audio)
uploader / channel: Neil Diamond
...and have a listen.
(See what I mean, how his songs are like hymns? - the drama, and passion....fasten your seatbelt!)
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