The sad life of Jackie Onassis
J. Randy Taraborrelli's new book "Jackie: Public, Private, Secret" suggests Jackie O might have been happier if she'd married a plumber instead of a president.
The Daily Mail is, without a doubt, a tabloid. Despite that, I still enjoy reading it. When I went to the DM site today, the headline story was about Jackie Onassis. Apparently, there is a new book about her with some further details about her life.
The book is called Jackie: Public, Private, Secret, and it’s out this week. The book contains a lot of interesting tidbits that I hadn’t known before, and the DM included some of them in their story, with the headline written in the usual DM tabloid fashion of squeezing as much dirt into an article title as possible: “How the Kennedys cynically paid tragic Jackie millions to create the picture-perfect family that JFK needed to get to the White House, while ignoring the serial cheating that rocked their marriage.”
Here are the tidbits from the book included in the DM’s story:
Jackie’s suit she wore in Dallas is in the National Archives and will not be displayed until 2103, 140 years after the assassination.
Her pillbox hat has disappeared; no…
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