some things you might not know about Jackie Kennedy Onasis she was born as Jaclyn Lee bouier on July 28th 1929 in New York to a wealthy family her father worked as a Wall Street stock broker and her mother was a socialite she was a skilled equestrian winning National competitions by the age of 11 she worked as a journalist for the Washington Times Herald in 1951 she was briefly engaged to Wall Street Banker John husted in January 1952 before marrying John F Kennedy she soon had doubts about becoming a housewife and broke off the engagement later that year she met and began dating John F Kennedy who she married in 1953 after JFK's assassination Jackie refused to change out of her bloodstained pink Chanel suit which has now become a lasting symbol of the tragic event in 1968 following JFK's assassination she married Aristotle Onasis a wealthy Greek shipping Tycoon 23 years her senior many saw her remarriage as controversial and the paparazzi gave her the nickname Jackie O she worked as a book editor for almost 20 years after the death of her second husband