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Article: JACKIE, WE HARDLY KNEW YE; HER WORK: In New York, Private Citizen And Public Benefactor of the Arts
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- The Washington Post
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- May 21, 1994
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It was 1975; the campaign to save Grand Central Terminal was
reeling after an adverse court decision; the director of the
Municipal Art Society had rather desperately announced the need to
form a national committee to battle on for the beloved building
endangered by developers. And out of the blue, someone was on the
phone saying she was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
"I expressed initial skepticism," says Kent Barwick, now the
society's president, "but I took the call and it was unmistakably
her voice." He knew - all of New York knew - that this was a woman
insistent on guarding her privacy. But within weeks Onassis had
volunteered to cochair the committee, to meet with the mayor, to ...