Jackie

This is the story of a woman, deeply withdrawn, possessing a sharp, strong intellect, who created a legacy out of grief and shaped history by living it. This is the story of love, a complicated marriage, and the destruction of a personality after unimaginable violence.

When Jackie meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy in Georgetown, she is twenty-one years old and dreams of France. She has won an internship at Vogue. Kennedy, she thinks, is not the type she needs: "Too American. Too handsome. Too much of a boy." And yet she is drawn to his mind, his humor, his assertiveness. A spark ignites between them. During their years in the White House, the love between two independent people deepens. Then the motorcade in Dallas: "Three and a half seconds – that’s all it took: the moment between the first bullet that whizzed by and the second that hit…"