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What You Never Knew About Jackie And John F. Kennedy's Marriage
ByLauren Cahn
John F. Kennedy was a year-old newly elected senator from Massachusetts when he met Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, a year-old socialite from New York who was working as the Inquiring Camera Girl for the Washington Times-Herald (per Library of Congress). The occasion was a Washington, D.C. dinner party thrown by journalist Charles Bartlett on May 8, , according to Politico. After Kennedy asked Bouvier for a date, the courtship proceeded on a long-distance basis, accompanied by photo shoots involving golf, tennis, and relaxing barefoot at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, per Town & Country.
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The couple announced their engagement on June 24, (via Politico). Their wedding, which took place at a church in Newport, Rhode Island on September 12 of that same year, was to have been a small affair, as Jackie told the Boston Globe, via Biography. But the