JACKIE & JACK

Jackie left to spend a week in Paris.  While she was there she bought gifts, such as political books for Jack.  When she arrived home, Jack was waiting there for her. No one is exactly sure when they became engaged, but her close family knew of it when she arrived home from Paris.  She didn’t want anyone to know because The Saturday Evening Post was printing a story on Jack being a Bachelor (3).  They soon began planning for their wedding.  Over a thousand wedding invitations were sent out, and from then on everything involving them was photographed and recorded by the press (5).  They were married September 12, 1953 at St. Mary’s church in Rhode Island (4).   Jack was 36 and Jackie was 24 years old (3).   At their wedding there were about three thousand onlookers that “nearly crushed the bride” (5).  Jackie was fairly upset about all the reporters at her wedding, but Mr. Kennedy explained that Jack was a public figure so there must be reporters (5).  Despite all the reporters and thousands of people at their wedding, Jackie felt she was the luckiest woman in the world (5).   Jack and Jackie spent their honeymoon in Acapulco, Mexico (5).  Then they spent a week in Beverly Hills, and later headed up to San Francisco.  It was on their honeymoon when Jackie first learned of Jack’s dream to be President (5).  She responded with a poem:

Kennedy was taken back by Jackie’s poetry.  He had not yet been exposed to it.  He attempted to have her publish her poetry, but she would not give her consent (5).   

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