Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis, née Bouvier was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and First Lady of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Mother of Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr.. She married Aristotle Onassis, one of the world's richest and most famous men, in 1968. Following her second husband's death in 1975, she had a career as a book editor for the final two decades of her life.