The Tragic Rift Between Jackie Kennedy and Her Sister | A Tale of Two Sisters | Real History

foreign [Music] Kennedy Onassis is an icon of U.S cultural and political history defined by her impeccable style as well as the men she married but there was more to this New Yorker than the outfits and husbands [Music] I think Jackie will be remembered as one of the Great American first ladies and it was not an accident it didn't just happen she's almost like two people merged together you have the Jackie Kennedy and the Jackie O and how she reconciled these different phases of her life to me has always been really interesting I think history will remember her just like they remember Cleopatra yes Cleopatra was beautiful but Chloe Cleopatra was one smart chick and so was Jackie Jackie's Manor's first lady jettisoned her into an A-list celebrity she regularly appeared on the front of leading magazines and images of her were sought after globally she was big with all the magazines and they were always hungry for pictures of Jackie and I supplied them I was obsessed with her with all the success however came suffering that was a very difficult time but Jackie had a laser-like focus and she knew that she had a mission to take care of the legacy of Jack Kennedy private she couldn't sleep she wept but during the day she did a fantastic job of keeping the Dignity of the presidency going she was personally devastated in what is even more tragic is that just a few years later she had to go through it again with Bobby Kennedy but Jackie was seldom alone her younger sister Lee was always there Lee was a supportive presence for Jackie as first lady she was always there for her the people in the White House said they were always happy when Lee came because Jackie was always happy and they could relax and hang out and you know smoke and drink and Whisper and gossip from the beginning their lives were intertwined and it is impossible to understand one without the other it is a tale of rivalry and resentment love and loss [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] Bouvier was born on the 28th of July 1929. her sister Lee arrived four years later [Music] Lee and Jackie were born into what was upper class America and they grew up in New York City on the Upper East Side and summered in the Hamptons and it was full of a lot of horses and ballet and reading lots of books it was almost like an English 18th century kind of an upbringing they grew up in an apartment on Park Avenue that their grandfather had built he was a real estate developer so it was you know one of the finest buildings in the city it was beautiful and they had lots of money and two parents who didn't really like each other very much so that was the source of much anxiety for the both of them foreign [Music] competition between the girls was fierce each sister judged themselves against the other and more often than not it was Lee who found herself overshadowed whether it was their school grades or piano recycles horse riding or even the affection of their father Blackjack Bouvier was Jack Bouvier he was one of the few people who managed at the height of the rush in the 1920s to lose money on Wall Street he was unlike Joseph P Kennedy he was really a man about town beautifully dressed I think he had two different chauffeurs on call at all times always impeccably tailored a member of a whole bunch of clubs in New York he was a club man his relationship with his daughters was very very close in fact he spoiled and rotten and he was always singing their praises to the other members of the family so much so they got a little irritated about it he would take them shopping and it was from Jack Bouvier that he they got their sense of style he gave him a sense of what fashion could be all about and he told him clothes may make the man but they also make the woman and they both learned those lessons well he was very much an indulgent father and I think that at least for Jackie he was very much of the role model for the type of husband she would want to have the marriage of their parents was a troubled one Jack's business deals veered from the lucrative to the disastrous after years of Relentless arguments Janet their mother sued for divorce in the summer of 1940. she would go on to marry Hugh organ Kloss a wealthy American stockbroker the young Jackie and Lee were now members of one of the richest families in the United States but life at the Orkin class estate in Virginia was far from straightforward their mother's second husband already had three children from previous marriages the Bouvier sisters were newcomers and Outsiders I think they were very bonded by the fact that their mother got divorced which in those days was simply unacceptable and and it was all over the newspapers and I think they were almost like these two Little Orphan girls and they just stick together during that time not a lot of people were getting a divorce and they were teased in school and then accounts of it appeared in the newspaper it was a very hard time for both of them as Jackie and Lee approached their twenties the question of marriage came to dominate their lives [Music] that they grew up in they had to get educated certainly but but it was really to make a good marriage to marry a man who was in a certain position in society who was well off they weren't in American terms of those days socially ground America was incredibly snobbish and clownish in these days and if you are Irish or Jewish blood you will look down on and of course they had Irish blood on both sides they were expected to marry well Janet drove that into them to marry a man with real money because her husband who supposedly did have money at one time lost it all Janet had terrific social Ambitions for these girls and she was determined to get them into the highest level of society first Jackie and then Lee made their debuts at Society balls the glittering Affairs where the eligible Children of the wealthy and well-connected could meet at this time it was younger sister Lee who Shone the brightest she matched Jackie's achievement in being crowned queen Deb of the season but she was widely thought the prettier more stylish and more approachable of the sisters in April 1953 age 20 Lee wed Michael Canfield rumored to be the illegitimate son of the Duke of Kent Canfield was tall and handsome privileged and popular he seemed the ideal match there was speculation however that Lee was taken less with her new husband than with the idea of beating her older sister to the altar indeed Lee's wedding only heightened the family's concerns about Jackie the old abuvier sister was taking her time finding a husband an engagement had been made to a young stockbroker in 1952 but Jackie had broken off that relationship after just a few months she had realized she was in love neither with her fiancee nor the life he promised foreign what was expected of them was not just what Jackie expected of herself though Jackie didn't want to be another Society matron in New York city so she had different views for herself than her mother had for her I don't think there were great expectations for either of them in terms of being Professionals in any way but what's interesting about what Jackie did is she did go into a profession she was a photojournalist in Washington she was a very curious person so journalism would have been a fantastic career for her Jackie had this newspaper column and she would interview politicians and celebrities and people on the street and so she always had very interesting questions so she took it very seriously her family however Jackie was at a dangerous age every new debutante season was bringing younger girls onto the marriage Market even Jackie's warring father and mother found rare agreement in their concerns Jackie was being left behind but then Along Came John Fitzgerald Kennedy [Music] I mean he was there he was the bomb I think that he had a way around women that was magnetic and you know here was was Jackie who was interested in politics she saw a man that she'd never be bored with and I also think he saw a woman he'd never be bored with she was not only a woman of Duty but she was also a woman of brains and so it was kind of mutual [Music] Jack really was attracted by her she was very pretty she'd been to the right schools which was important in the Kennedy world and I think that he was also nudged Along by the fact that his father really liked her Kennedy had just announced his Run for the Senate but his growing reputation as a womanizing Playboy was becoming problematic politics dictated that he have a wife his father Joe a former ambassador to Britain and the director of his sons every career move saw Jackie as the perfect Society wife needed Kennedy proposed in June 1953 just two months after Lee's triumphant marriage to Michael Canfield Jackie was now engaged to one of the most eligible men in the country once again she had left her younger sister in the shade the thing of Senator John F Kennedy recalls newport's one-time social Grandeur former Ambassador and Mrs Joseph Kennedy parents of the groom are among the personalities on hand to make this the top Society wedding of the year for the spectators outside the church it's a real storybook wedding a radiant bride the former Jacqueline Bouvier and a handsome groom with a pretty wife and a politically Rising Star the future seems bright for the junior senator from Massachusetts on September the 12th 1953 Jackie Bouvier married John F Kennedy at Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Newport Rhode Island among the hundreds of revelers that day was Jackie's younger sister Lee she was just five months married herself having wed publisher Michael Canfield that April but Lee was increasingly disappointed with her own choice Lee and her husband moved to London where they enjoyed a packed social calendar but the marriage was an unhappy one Lee began an affair with Polish Aristocrats Dash radziwill he had come to London in 1946. she was 19 years his Junior but rad to Will's old world manners his wealth and his aristocratic connections seduced the beautiful young American he was a Polish Prince he wasn't as rich as perhaps she would have liked because he was after all a pole who'd had to be leave his homeland but he didn't know everybody at top level and he really loved her he was an older man he was Dapper and Charming European the funny thing is when Lee's mother met him she said oh my God you're Marrying an older version of your father back home Jackie's marriage to her dashing Senator husband was also troubled in 1955 she suffered a miscarriage in the following August the heartache of a stillbirth her husband however was not allowing these setbacks or his chronic health problems to get in the way of his favorite pastime I think JFK was perhaps a man of his time and of his social circumstances clearly he liked women you know they were diversion they took his mind off things I mean JFK actually had no other vices he drank very sparingly he would nurse a scotch like all day he didn't really smoke and I think you know like his father and his brother it was kind of a male Kennedy thing I don't think that Jack Canada's sex life was that normal having it straight forward but I think even for that time that was an awful lot of it I think she thought a little like most women think I'll change him after marriage but she was well aware of it she sort of took a European view that if he Strays okay but as long as he comes back to me and my children you know like every night that's what matters she knew everything that was going on everywhere and you know part of it was that she was raised in a certain way where a woman was supposed to you know a wife was supposed to behave in a certain way and she knew what that was and she also wasn't going to bring embarrassment upon his administration by exposing any of that I think she was devastated by it I really do and she was constantly trying to figure out a way to keep things together and just appreciate the special circumstances that she was living in in London Lee left her husband Michael Canfield to begin a new life with Polish Aristocrat stat radziwill she was already pregnant when the couple married on the 19th of March 1959. they moved into a house near Buckingham Palace and Lee immediately began renovating but even as she embarked on this happy new phase in life Jackie and her husband were at the start of something far greater in July 1960 Kennedy won the Democratic nomination for president with Lyndon B Johnson as his running mate Kennedy began his campaign against his Republican opponent the sitting vice president Richard Nixon become the closest presidential race since 1916. by this stage Jackie was pregnant again but that was not the only reason behind her limited role in her husband's campaign gang around JFK and they were they were they were concerned that Jackie was too exotic too European two French two upper class and that the average American woman just wouldn't be able to connect with her so they actually kind of kept her off the stage for a long time but they soon learned that she was his greatest asset because for example when he was speaking in Boston she spoke Italians to the Italians when she went down to Louisiana she got up and started out mesame and finished the the whole speech you know in French and then she also told of her own background you know like I am French my family his French heritage and so on but she knew how to unite with people how real real it was to be the princess in waiting and to give A Touch of Class to what sometimes was pretty kind of sorted boring stuff on the 8th of November 1960 Kennedy won the narrowest of Victories Jackie would be the new first lady of the United States she was just 31 years old Jack was actually frightened of the White House the whole idea of it she didn't like the title first of all first lady everybody knows that she thought that that sounded like a horse she didn't like that so the morning that he won at eight or nine o'clock in the morning they go oh my God he won he got it California she actually put on like an old raincoat and just went for a walk by herself on the beach because she knew she was she knew her history she knew politics and she knew her life would change seventeen days after the election the new first lady went into early labor and gave birth to John F Kennedy Jr a younger brother for sister Caroline who had been born almost three years earlier the new baby had underdeveloped lungs and an incubator was his home for the first weeks of his life Lee too was facing the difficulties brought on by a premature birth her second child had been born three months early which meant Lee was unable to travel to Washington for Kennedy's inauguration as Lee struggled with depression Jackie adapted to her new life as an International Celebrity the Press adored her photogenic Youth and style when she accompanied her husband on his first trip overseas there was as much attention on Jackie as there was on the president newspapers christened her the first lady of fashion [Music] I think Jackie was recognized and loved around the world for the same reasons why America really appreciated having her as first lady she was articulate she was young and energetic she saw a future vision for how America and how the world could be this was a woman who had spent lots of time in Europe and traveling around the world she loved exploring new cultures and and so forth Jackie made it her business to connect with people when she represented the U.S abroad she would not just study the culture of a country she would study how they dress and she would study the colors that they liked so when she went to India she wore pink because one of the big fashion editors down in Freeland explained to her Jackie pink is the navy blue of India so wear a lot of pink [Music] she wore wonderful clothes languages she had tremendous Grace and Brilliance in presenting herself I think she was really what Sinatra called her America's Queen [Music] the spectacular success of the overseas tour must have been difficult for Lee whose Superior sense of style had always distinguished her from Jackie it was now Jackie who was the international style icon Lee's marriage to stash radziwill was souring too they argued constantly amid this unhappiness and insecurity Lee began an affair with Aristotle Socrates onatis a notorious Greek shipping Tycoon unbeknownst to all Onassis would have huge importance in Jackie's life meanwhile Jackie was asked to accompany her husband on a visit to Texas how Jackie performed was to be closely scrutinized despite her success of broad doubts remained about her rapport with a domestic audience it would be this trip to Texas though that would have a devastating impact on Jackie's life the will was at home in London on the 22nd of November 1963. she knew her sister the first lady Jackie Kennedy was in Texas alongside her husband on an important political visit to the southern state it was the early evening when the news from Dallas broke Jackie's husband President John F Kennedy had been assassinated hey Willow rings out the shot the confusion is indescribable the London Governor Connolly a hit while they are rushed to hospitals swarms of police and FBI men search for the Assassin Jackie was next to her husband in an open convertible and his head was rolled off I mean I'm here and he was there the assassination itself was just a horrific tragedy for everyone it's just unfathomable how anyone could live through that I don't think she ever really got over it [Music] is Kennedy and her family bear the assassination wasn't indeed a world event I think most people of my age can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when this happened [Music] horrifying I think it was to talk about post-traumatic stress syndrome whatever doesn't even begin to discuss it and you also have to think about I think she and her husband made so many plans for the future and for bettering the country and moving forward and then it was over it was over like that so it was not only the loss of her husband the White House was over and all the dreams that went with it [Music] Lee flew to Washington at once and was at her sister's side throughout the days to come the funeral took place on the 25th of November 1963 the day before Kennedy's flag draped coffin had Lain in state at the U.S Capitol building thousands had queued to pay their respect a Requiem Mass was held into Matthew's Cathedral then President Kennedy was buried at Darlington National Cemetery Jackie's calm and dignified demeanor throughout won her widespread respect the whole way she conducted herself during the funeral I mean she held the country together I mean everyone was falling apart it was a terrible time for our country and it was a British reporter that said that Jackie Kennedy gave the American people something they never had before Majesty she brought great dignity and sadness to the affair standing at the graveside in a like a marble statue with a black veil and the two children holding her hands the images like that which went round the world she did a fantastic job of keeping the Dignity of the presidency going Jackie became a saint she could do no wrong there was such an innocence to America then and who would have thought that some Mad Men some crazy little guy who weighs like 120 pounds could kill the most powerful Charming charismatic witty our leader to 190 million Americans he was president to these three he was a loving husband a devoted father Jackie was scarred by what she had witnessed she retold her account of the assassination again and again in grim and Vivid detail barely sleeping she became depressed and suicidal even those closest to Jackie found her behavior increasingly difficult her sister Lee was a great support however there was one person who understood better than the rest JFK's younger brother Bobby who became a surrogate Father Figure to Jackie's children he really assumed the mantle of the leader of the Kennedy Brothers he was very close to Jackie and the kids and they really looked at him as a father figure and so forth they could speak to one another about their loss and they didn't have to explain you know he's dead and will never seem again they loved him so much and I think that bound them together while Jackie struggled as the months passed the American people yearned to leave the trauma of Kennedy's death behind Lee too wished to move on with her life she had often felt hemmed in by her unofficial role in the presidential family now she could carve out a life that was her own the writer Truman Capote was a friend of Lee she was one of the group of beautiful and glamorous women he referred to as his swans he pushed Lee into a career in acting for which he had no formal training this would ultimately end in embarrassment Podi was a great admirer lovely I think he admired Lee even more than Jackie there was a time she kind of fashioned herself a photographer and she was taking photographs and then she was on the road with the Rolling Stones hanging out those guys for a while I think she was trying to make a way for herself because I think the old days where a woman could be a great Beauty and marry well and hang out I think those days were ending and you wanted to be a woman who did something Truman Capote would build her up and say oh if you want to be an actress I'll get a play from Tennessee Williams will open in Chicago Kenneth will do your hair is Saint Laurent will do the costumes and it became a whole production whereas Lee couldn't say I'm going to take acting classes I'm going to study with so and so and then maybe I'll try a little role you know Lee's first role she's on television on the first night of her run as the lead in The Philadelphia Story in 1967. Lee was paralyzed with fear she looked the part certainly but couldn't act it the reviews were terrible after one further attempt appearing in a pan TV movie for ABC in early 1968. she left acting for good Jackie meanwhile tried to rebuild her life she had moved away from Washington and bought an apartment in Manhattan at 10 45th Avenue overlooking Central Park with her two children she attempted to settle into a life away from politics however still being very much in the public Consciousness she became Target for photographer Ron galella he was one of the few Paparazzi based in New York they lived in the north Bronx which was about 12 miles from mid Manhattan and I would spend a whole day my routine was I developed the film The Night before and I sell them and the morning was more marketing I would go to these fan magazines they would pick pictures old celebrities not just tacky or at least Taylor Daughter's Day Liza Minnelli Colin Klein all these stars were hot would get a thousand dollars for a cover so it was a big Marketing in the morning then I would go to near Jackie's on Madison Avenue and I would get Jackie shopping she would buy shoes she didn't even know I was there great shots I was obsessed with her obsessed because I had no girlfriend I was not married New York was a great place I spent the whole day from morning to night Ron's pictures would keep Jackie in the spotlight but he would soon become an unwanted nuisance in Jackie's life at this time however he was just another photographer Jackie was still trying to come to terms with the death of JFK but her suffering was to deepen in the summer of 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in a Los Angeles hotel it will be a year of complete social upheaval in the U.S [Music] it's hard for us now to imagine America is on fire using Flames the inner cities were blowing up there were riots in the streets they're I mean Detroit New York Washington DC were flames all this crazy stuff was happening Bobby's assassinated Martin Luther King is assassinated Jackie very understandably was terrified she said if they're if they're killing Kennedy as my children are next if Jackie was seeking an escape from the traumas of 1968 she could hardly have picked a more shocking way out just four months after the assassination of Bobby Kennedy Jackie remarried her new husband was only too familiar to her sister Lee it was the 62 year old Greek shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis Lee's former lover the impending marriage of the former president's wife to the colorful Greek ship owner must have been one of the best kept secrets in years it certainly took most by surprise as the newlyweds headed for their luxury of Christina reports indicated that there was dismay amongst the Kennedy family the Vatican 2 frowned on us Mrs Kennedy said the Vatican official was old enough and intelligent enough to know perfectly well she was breaking Roman Catholic Church law Onassis had been to the White House he was also one of the first visitors to the White House after the assassination and so I think people also believe that Onassis was always looking for an angle with Jackie and you know it wasn't until after Robert Kennedy's assassination that he felt like he had a window and can put the moves on her I definitely loved him but he also opened her life up to much broader Vistas she was no longer beholden to the Kennedys he also had his own private security Force so I mean Onassis could take care of her I think the idea that he owned an island and a yacht where he could just literally sail her away from all of her troubles and take her to this private island a place where she could just be reclusive was incredibly appealing [Music] Onassis offered her the security and privacy she craved however her relationship with Arie would cause a rift in the close bond between Jackie and her sister I think that Lee hoped to marry him her marriage to Prince razoro was winding down I don't think she could have reacted well she was just beside herself with indignation and fury the American people love Jackie I have to say that she was on a pedestal but when she wanted to marry Onassis she was warned do not marry Onassis you'll be taken off that pedestal by the American people and she said it's cold and lonely up there I don't care her new marriage with a nurses would initially change the Public's perception of Jackie however as their relationship went on she would seamlessly go from being Jackie Kennedy grieving Widow of the former president to Jackie O global fashion icon wherever she traveled though sorrow would always seem to find her Jackie had made New York home for herself and her children despite her husband never taking permanent residence there although life in the upper east side of Manhattan offered some privacy she was still prime target for paparazzi knowing full well that pictures with her face covered were less desirable Jackie would often wear oversized dark sunglasses to thwart truculent photographers Ron galella's growing obsession with Jackie would start to become uncomfortably invasive but his dogged persistence would give the world one of the most iconic images of Jackie how I got this picture is there was a model Joy Smith who needed portfolio pictures so I said let's go to the park maybe I meet Jackie and make some money I photographed course Fifth Avenue and there comes Jackie she didn't see us and then I made a brilliant decision hop a cab because if I ran after she would see me put on the glasses I would never get a great picture I rolled down the back one though I got two shots of Jackie but she didn't hear the clicking of the camera or anything because it was close to five o'clock a lot of traffic and then the driver was interested of Jackie and she he blew the horn I didn't even ask him that was luck and she turned and I had my camera in front of my face and she gave me the Mona Lisa smile which I love the Mona Lisa smile is the beginning of the smile not teeth showing and that's the best kind of smile there is I got out of the taxi immediately she recognized me put on our classes and started walking and I got a one more block walking and Jackie was pissed she turned toward me are you pleased yes thank you goodbye for Jackie Ron's constant presence would cause increasing distress she understood that images of her were all part of her celebrity but she craved anonymity for her children always eager for a great picture Ron would photograph Jackie in all areas of her life which meant Caroline and John Junior were often targeted on a number of occasions Jackie had asked her security to Chase Run Away Ron feeling like his livelihood was at risk or maybe just following his Instinct for Grand publicity decided he would kick back the result would be an ongoing dispute which would last for nearly a decade I got pictures of John Jr on a bike and her on a bike and The Pedestrian pass the reason she said smash's camera to the Mr Conley the agent because she's with John Jr and she don't want to publish and she sent two agents to get the film and they took me to police station and they hooked me on harassment of Jackie the judge dismissed the case is I don't know who was harassed both case dismissed there was nothing and I paid my lawyer 450 and I built up my lawyer says bill her and she never paid or answered and now it started the whole business of uh the court business that was a big trial I was the plaintiff sued her for interfering in my livelihood as a fellow journalist and it was a big Court battle 1972 lasted 26 days and it was like a circus it was crazy and I couldn't win this case anyway because the judge over in vancupa was appointed by President Kennedy so I lost [Music] Ron was issued a restraining order which forbade him from photographing Jackie within 25 feet it is not known what kind of pressures the trial had on Jackie but her marriage to Onassis at this time was becoming difficult among other things he had returned to his womanizing ways tragedy 2 seem to follow in Jackie's Footsteps in 1973 Aristotle's son Alexander was killed in a plane crash that was a real pivotal moment after that I think you know it never kind of got back on track it never recovered of course he was absolutely devastated at that and used to sit on board where Christina drinking and drinking and drinking and really not being particularly good to jackets you can imagine then somehow he got it into his head which may have come from his sisters or from his daughter Christina that Jackie was bad luck that she was the Black Widow that it was her fault that his son died Onassis entered a terrible decline by the time of his death just two years later the relationship with Jackie was effectively over nearing middle age by now Lee's marriage to polish Aristocrat stash radziwill had also ended in divorce still she struggled to escape her sister's shadow Lee was not flighty but she just went from thing to thing like okay first she's going to follow the Rolling Stones and be a photojournalist but then she's going to make a documentary but then she's going to be a decorator but then she's gonna be an actress I think it was hard for Lee was really perceived as a socialite in New York somewhat aimless she always had projects that she was interested in doing like a book project or some sort of cause but nothing that ever really caught fire and I think Jackie was just much more in a steady place following the death of her second husband Aristotle Onassis Jackie again faced the task of rebuilding her life this time however would be different now 45 she decided she would no longer rely on others to rescue or protect her she would help herself she would go back to work March of 1975 is an incredible turning point in the life of Jacqueline Onassis because it's the first time in a really long time where she does not need to be defined by being a wife anymore she worked for two different publishing houses a viking and a double day and both of them said she was a brilliant editor she was done being in the public eye she had been through it with JFK's assassination and then with Robert Kennedy's death as well and then you know the whole drama of being married to Aristotle Onassis she really wanted a quiet life and that was what book publishing was offering her he was always known as Jack Bouvier's daughter so JFK's wife this was her own thing this was a woman he did not need the money this was a woman who was searching for meaning in her life and appreciated how having a career made you feel made you feel appreciated made you feel needed made you feel productive and also she just loved the work gradually Jackie found a measure of long sort after peace in the 1980s she began a new relationship with her financial advisor Maurice templesman he was steady and reliable but most importantly put Jackie first quite the opposite of Kennedy in Onassis it was templesman as well who was instrumental in securing Jackie's privacy even though Ron galella had been issued a restraining order in 1972 by 1980 he was clearly flouting it Morris reported him in a second trial ensued this would effectively end Ron's obsession I admitted I was guilty I faced 125 000 fine or seven years in jail so I said I'm going to surrender all of them jacking John Jr and Caroline Kennedy for the rest of their lives Jackie lived and worked in New York for the last 25 years of her life she died of lymphatic cancer on May the 19th 1994 in her home in Manhattan with her family around her [Music] called home saving Grand Central Station from Demolition and bringing the Temple of Denver to the Metropolitan Museum every street and every building seems to have a story of Jackie to tell and even long after her death she lives on in the city never to be forgotten foreign Senator Ted Kennedy her brother-in-law said no one we knew had a better sense of self than Jackie I think people really admired and revered her as a historical figure and obviously a hard worker not just a rich leech and I think she was immensely popular this was a woman of real depth real intelligence but a lot of people couldn't get past her beauty in her jet-setting ways and her dark sunglasses I don't ever think she's been given enough credit for really who she is thank you Lori of Lee radziwill however is still being written a constant in the New York Social Scene she is also carved out a niche for herself as a true Fashion Icon and still can be seen on the front rows of catwalks around the globe if Jackie was America's Queen then Lee is the closest thing to royalty the U.S has and no matter what she does and where she travels Jackie will always be with her I think there's always that thing with sisters you compare lives and so on but they both admired each other it's interesting to think about them as a Sisterhood Legacy they were very much foils of each other I think they're very different individuals they LED very different lives Jackie will always be the sister who was out front Lee will always be the one standing behind in the shadows and I think they were both ultimately comfortable with those positions I think after Jackie's death unfortunately Lee became and still is you know the things she dreaded most she was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sister she is the sister of Jackie O [Music]

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