18-01-2013, 08:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 18-01-2013, 08:44 AM by Adele Edisen.)
Magda Hassan Wrote:I often wondered about Jacky and Ari. All that happened after the RFK assassination didn't it? He could give some protection. Powerful man with his own intelligence network and out of the US even his own island. It can't be for his looks. Maybe he was charming. Maria Callas loved him.
Yes, Magda, Jackie did marry Aristotle Onassis after the death of Robert Kennedy, Sr. One comment I recall that she made was that "they are killing the Kennedys" and for that reason she wanted to leave the United States to protect herself and her children. And yes, Ari did provide protection and even had investigators examine the John Kennedy assassination. I did read somewhere that she received a copy of their report and wanted to give it to someone, possibly LBJ? but was threateningly warned against doing so. Whether this was true of not, I have no idea, but it seems plausible, and this is what I recall from that time. You may know that she, having been in such a truly horrific event, did experience post-traumatic effects and sought psychiatric treatment for herself. Onassis was a rather crude and rude person, even towards Jackie, joking with his friends about her, and in her presence. His wealth, perhaps, made him more attractive, or at least tolerable. She liked fine clothes, jewelry, and arty things, and she wanted to give her children good educations, so having no major means of her own at the time, marriage into wealth was a solution. After Onassis died, she worked as an editor at two publishing houses, Viking and Doubleday.
Adele