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Article: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: In memory of eternal images
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 21, 1994
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THE deeply etched images are of the elegant, wide-eyed young
woman in a pink suit stained with her husband's blood; of her lunge
across the back of the presidential limousine as the assassin's
bullets struck and, later at the state funeral, of the widow with
her gaunt, black-veiled face and little John Jnr saluting as the
coffin passed.
A host of other images come into focus. She is in the White
House, an exotic female, in an all- male world that came to be
known as Camelot. Poised and glamorous, she is holding celebrity
concerts and glittering galas.
Then another image appears strangely out of place, unwelcomed
really: the mourning widow has become a fairy-tale American
princess in the ...