Jackie

 Jacqueline (Jackie) Lee Bouvier was born on July 28, 1929 in Southampton, New York.  Her family resided in Manhattan.

Jackie attended grades 1-7 at the Chapin School in Manhattan.  One of her teachers described her as "a darling child, the prettiest little girl, very clever, very artistic, and full of the devil."

For 8th and 9th grades, Jackie attended the Holton-Arms School in Washington, D.C.  She finished high school at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, CT.

Jackie started her college career at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.  After spending her Junior year studying in France, she transferred to George Washington University in Washington, D.C. earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in French literature.

Washington Times-Herald editor Frank Waldrop hired Jackie as a part-time receptionist.  A week later she requested more challenging work, and Waldrop sent her to city editor Sidney Epstein, who hired her as an "Inquiring Camera Girl" despite her inexperience, paying her $25 a week.

Epstein recalled, "I remember her as this very attractive, cute-as-hell girl, and all the guys in the newsroom giving her a good look."  The position required Jackie to pose witty questions to individuals chosen at random on the street and take their pictures for publication in the newspaper alongside selected quotations from their responses.

In addition to the random "man on the street" vignettes, Jackie sometimes sought interviews with people of interest, such as six-year-old Tricia Nixon. She interviewed Tricia a few days after her father Richard Nixon was elected vice president of the United States in 1952.  Eight years later, Jackie would be married to the man who would defeat Nixon for the presidency of the United States.  

Jackie was briefly engaged to a young stockbroker named John Husted. After only a month of dating, the couple published the announcement in The New York Times in January 1952.  After three months, she called off the engagement because she had found him "immature and boring" once she got to know him better.

In December 1993, Jackie developed symptoms, including a stomach ache and swollen lymph nodes in her neck, and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.  By the following March the cancer had spread to her spinal cord, brain and liver and by May it was deemed terminal.  Jackie died May 19, 1994 (30 years ago) in her sleep in her Manhattan apartment at age 64.