The 40th birthday of Jackie Kennedy Onassis on July 28, 1969 was celebrated at a raucous all-night bash in an Athens nightclub, hosted by her husband. It lasted until seven the next morning. Emerging into the daylight not only with… Read More ›
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Ari & Jackie Onassis: Their “Blended” Family Adapts in Rare Photos (Part 3)
As much as she was able to control his schedule, Jackie Onassis resisted inviting too many guests for too long a time to Skorpios, and usually did so only when she knew her husband would be away from her for… Read More ›
Ari & Jackie Onassis: New Photos of Their Private Rooms (Part 2)
“To Have a Home Here…” In June of 1961, following her famous visit to Paris with President Kennedy and further itinerary to Vienna and London, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and her sister Lee Radziwill made their first visit to the… Read More ›
Ari & Jackie Onassis: Wedding, Yacht, Island, Bedroom & the End in Photos (Part 1)
First, the island. Now, the yacht. Three months ago, the private Greek island Skorpios, home to shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and his wife, former American First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was sold for $TK by his 28 year old granddaughter… Read More ›
What Helen Thomas Really Thought of First Ladies she Covered
For nearly an entire half a century, United Press International reporter Helen Thomas, who died yesterday at age 92, covered the White House. To those outside of the Washington political and social scene she was best known as the “dean’… Read More ›
Speculating on Presidential Sexuality & the first Lesbian First Lady
As early as 1802, when journalist James Callendar first published snide suggestions that President Thomas Jefferson was conducting something of a romance and sexual relationship with African-American Sally Hemings, who was enslaved by him, there has been no hesitation by… Read More ›
Frank’s First Ladies: Sinatra & Jackie, Nancy, & Eleanor
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Jackie Kennedy’s Dogged Influence on JFK Jr. & Canine-Themed Homes
While yesterday’s article, The Dogs of Jackie O: Jackie Kennedy’s Lifetime of Canine Companions, detailed the First Lady’s life alongside a series of pooches during almost fifty of her sixty-four years, even after there were no longer four-legged friends in… Read More ›
The Dogs of Jackie O: Thirty Pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy’s Lifetime of Canine Companions
From her earliest childhood days on Long Island, through her youth in New York, Newport, Rhode Island and McLean, Virginia, to her public period as the wife of a U.S. Senator in Washington and in the White House as First… Read More ›
Obama’s Girls, Teddy’s Boys, Jackie Kennedy’s Kindergarten: School Tales of White House Kids
Three weeks ago, national media coverage of President Obama’s upcoming Inauguration was briefly distracted when the National Rifle Association referenced the fact that his daughters are protected by Secret Service agents in its 35-second online ad opposing his plan for… Read More ›
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