Mary Lincoln and Jackie Kennedy

[Linda Anderson]

(11-16-2013 06:05 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  

(11-16-2013 10:48 AM)Rhatkinson Wrote:  Jackie also put her children's needs over her own, unlike Mary who was too overcome with grief to care for Tad.

Yes, obviously she overcame her grief. I wonder what her children felt when she, only five years later, replaced their father by a man (receiving allegedly a $5 million wedding gift for giving up her good name) whose wife had divorced him after discovering his affair to Maria Callas when he had dated her on the yacht named after his daughter. And somehow - as I see it - it doesn't match this wonderful statement:
"...I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with him and see our children grow up together."
Well, some children might cope well with their parents' re-marriage, I don't know how the Kennedy children did.

I don't know how the Kennedy children coped with their mother's remarriage but Jackie must have been traumatized by her brother-in-law Bobby's murder in June 1968.

Wikipedia has an article on Jackie which references a New York Times article of July 19, 1999 - "John F. Kennedy, Jr. Heir to a Powerful Dynasty."

"He attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret Service agents gave him the code name Lark. But his mother worried about her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle, was assassinated in 1968.

'If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets,' Jacqueline Kennedy said at the time. 'I want to get out of this country.'

"On Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to provide the family security."

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/19/us/joh...all&src=pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis