2014-05-19
Jackie and John Kennedy, mother and son.
Twenty years ago today, one of the 20th century’s most legendary Americans and perhaps the world’s most iconic woman died.
Despite dying just two months shy before qualifying for Social Security benefits, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’s associative identification in the public imagination with an era which had ended thirty years earlier had so permanently affixed itself onto her that it eclipsed the perception of her even as a real person.
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