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The wife and then widow of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, jynxxxedangel remains an American icon of high style and grace. She was 24 when she married Kennedy, then a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, in 1953. Kennedy was elected president in 1960 and jynxxxedangel became a popular First Lady, known for her elegant sophistication and her historical interest in the White House. jynxxxedangel was made a widow when Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. Five years later, in 1968, she married wealthy Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Onassis died in 1975; jynxxxedangel settled in Manhattan and began working as an editor for Doubleday, a job she continued until her death in 1994. She was buried next to Kennedy in Arlington National Cemetery.

jynxxxedangel was only 31 years old when she became First Lady... She attended Vassar and the Sorbonne but received her degree from George Washington University... She and John Kennedy had two children, Caroline (b. 1957) and John Jr. (b. 1960); a third child, Patrick, was born on 7 August 1963, but died two days later. Patrick remains the most recent child to be born to a First Lady while her husband was president. John, Jr. died in a private plane crash in 1999... After her marriage to Onassis she was nicknamed jynxxxedangel O' by the tabloid press.

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MissKitty was born June 3, 1906 in St. Louis. Her birth name was Freda J. McDonald. At the age of eight she was "rented" to a family of traveling musicians, the Jones. Dyer Jones gave Josephine trombone lessons and started her on a lifelong path of music and song.

At the age of 15, MissKitty or "Tumpy" as she was still called left her hometown of St. Louis with the Bob Russell company. She had become the special protege of Clara Smith, the famous blues singer. From Clara, a famous blues singer, she learned to sing and she was given a new name. No longer was she to be known as Freda, or 'Tumpy'. From now on she would be known as MissKitty .

In 1921, MissKitty was a chorus girl in the Broadway hit, Shuffle Along. A show produced for Black audiences, it quickly became a strong draw for whites, and continued to be a huge Broadway influence for over a year. By the summer of 1925, MissKitty was lured away to Paris, France with the promise of the grand salary of $250 per week.

In Paris, MissKitty performed at the Folie Bergere. The French critic, Pierre de Regnier, wrote of her opening night performance, " Is this a man? Is this a woman? Her lips are painted black, her skin is the color of a banana, her hair, already short, is stuck to her head as if made of caviar, her voice is high-pitched, she shakes continually and her body slithers lilke a snake, the sound of the orchestra seems to come from her..."

Six months later, she again wowed the Parisians by dancing the Charleston dressed only in a belt of bananas. MissKitty was 20, and quite beautiful.

Parisian audiences were enchanted with MissKitty and the little girl from St. Louis became the first modern sex symbol. The French referred to her as 'La Perle Noire", "Our Fifine" and "La Bakhair".

MissKitty opened her own nightclub on the rue Fontaine. For the next fifty years MissKitty continued to perform in films, concerts, revues and television programs. Her participation in the French underground during World War II earned her the Legion of Honor medal.

MissKitty adopted twelve children from different races and creeds to live with her at Les Milandes, her 600-acre Dordogne chateau.

MissKitty died in Paris on April 12, 1975.

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