While Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ' defining relationship was of course with John F. Kennedy , she lived 30 years as a widow, and her second and third acts proved to be fruitful both professionally and romantically.

Prior to her headline-making marriage to JFK, Jackie, who was born in Southampton and raised in New York City, was briefly engaged to John Husted Jr. , a stockbroker she met after attending Vassar College. She reportedly ended things after learning at their 1952 engagement party that he only made $17,000 a year (around $216,000 today).

She met the future president later that year, tying the knot on September 12, 1953, at St. Mary's…

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