Fifty years ago today, on February 3, 1971, former First Lady and widow of President John F. Kennedy, by then remarried, made her first and only visit back to the White House. After the trauma of her first husband’s assassination… Read More ›
The Kennedys
Liz Taylor Meets Jackie Kennedy: Tabloid Fantasy to Chance Encounter & The Only Photos of Them Together, Part I
Take a time machine to the Jet Age, that sweet thin spot in the 60s and two brunettes stare you down from every corner newsstand or grocery checkout line. For every Khrushchev, or John Glenn, Ringo, George, Paul… Read More ›
Liz Taylor Meets Jackie Kennedy: Tabloid Fantasy to Chance Encounter & The Only Photos of Them Together, Part II
Just in case Photoplay’s dismissive March 1964 headline about Liz and Dick had suggested the wedding was a dull afterthought, the tab’s April cover made up for it, featuring the couple kissing with the lure of exclusive photos. The affirmation of… Read More ›
To Know Mrs. Onassis: Why Jackie Kennedy’s Life as Art Endures
Her full name was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, but from the start she was always just “Jackie” to both those who genuinely knew her as a real person, and to those who felt they truly knew her, so closely… Read More ›
The Gifts That Jackie Gave: The Artful Gift-Giving of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Ebook)
THE GIFTS THAT JACKIE GAVE: THE ARTFUL GIFT-GIVING OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS From childhood to the end of her life, the world’s most famous woman would rather paint, draw, compose, search out something utterly unique – even regift to her… Read More ›
Melania Trump Won’t Move to White House: Not Unprecedented
Melania Trump, the president-elect’s spouse and their 10-year old son Baron will remain at their New York apartment through at least the end of the spring 2017 school year, it was announced earlier this week. The decision does not necessarily… Read More ›
Nancy Reagan & Jackie Kennedy Onassis: Their Untold Story
“What about Jackie?” The first person Nancy Reagan asked me about was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. I’d never flown in a helicopter before, let alone the presidential one, but there I was in the sky, whirring through the lower stratosphere above… Read More ›
On 1981 Tape, Jackie Kennedy Recalls Life as Fifties Housewife: With Sixty Newlywed Images
In photographs and a television interview from the fall of 1953 and the spring of 1954, the 24-year old newlywed Mrs. John F. Kennedy seemed to be the quintessentially submissive and serene Fifties Housewife. In 1981, by the time she… Read More ›
Jackie Kennedy Onassis in Cartoon & Caricature: A First-Time Collection
From the time she stepped onto the world stage as the spouse of the Democratic presidential candidate in 1960, the public persona of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy immediately began to solidify, the finer details planed away as she was shaped by… Read More ›
Private Pools of the Presidents: A Photo Essay
Not every President has a private estate where they beat the heat of Washington by taking a running jump into a cool pool. But they do have the White House and Camp David. Both the primary presidential residence and the… Read More ›
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