Widowed once again

Accounts differ on whether their marriage was a happy one. They seemed to maintain independent lives: he jetted off on business ventures while she kept up her social engagements in New York and Cape Cod. But when Onassis was home, Jackie’s assistant Kathy McKeon said, they’d sit together in the evenings, sipping cocktails and snacking on Jiffy Pop. In 1973, Onassis’ son died in a plane crash. From then on, his health seemed to rapidly deteriorate, and in 1975, he died of respiratory failure. At 45 years old, Jackie was a widow once again.