Brochure for John F. Kennedy Library fundraising with text by Jacqueline Kennedy
Brochure for traveling exhibit promoting the John F. Kennedy Library, including a note from Jacqueline Kennedy
China, Flatware, etc. used in White House: According to Margaret Klapthor (Official White House China : 1789 to the Present. The Barra Foundation, Inc. in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers: New York, 1999):
The President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy ordered no china for the White House and usually used the Truman China with the Eisenhower service plates for state dinners.
Whenever possible, Mrs. Kennedy, whose love and concern for the historical White House is now history used the old china – Lincoln's purple china, the china designed by Mrs. Harrison and pieces of the Hayes service – to represent the traditions of the past. Her preference for the Harrison china was shown in her selection of pieces from that service to decorate the breakfront which she had placed in the family dining room during the years that she and President Kennedy occupied the mansion.
Mrs. Kennedy did order Franciscan Masterpiece china for use aboard Air Force One, but the china does not appear to have been put in use until the Johnson administration
Confirmation Name: According to the eulogy at her funeral, her confirmation name was Mary.
Confirmed at the Church St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City, 1941.
Editorial work: at Viking, 1975-1978; Doubleday-Random House, 1975-1994.
Funeral: held at the church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City, the same church in which the young Jacqueline Bouvier had been baptized and confirmed. The casket was mahogany covered in ferns and a white cross of lilies-of-the-valley.
Readings and remarks
Hat Size: 7 ½. According to a letter from Mrs. Kennedy's social secretary, Letitia Baldrige, to hatmaker Jean Barthet dated July 14, 1961, Mrs. Kennedy headsize was 23 ½ inches, which translates to this hat size.
Height: 5'7 ½
Quotations
Wedding Details
Wedding Dress: Made by Mrs. Auchincloss's dressmaker, who also made the bridesmaids' dresses, 9/12/53.