A Little Kid

This model parent, John, was actually a wealthy stockbroker on walls Street whoever parents received come from France during the early 1800s. The mommy, Janet, got ancestors from Ireland and Great Britain.

Janet Bouvier ended up being an experienced rider, and Jackie was just each year older any time the woman woman 1st place the woman on a horse. By years 11, she had currently obtained numerous nationwide finals. This York Times penned in 1940:

Jacqueline Bouvier, an eleven-year-old equestrienne from distance Hampton, longer area, scored a two fold triumph in horsemanship match. Neglect Bouvier achieved a rare difference. The times become number of if a young rider victories both competitions in the same program.

Jackie in addition liked reading through. Before she begin school, she have read these children’s books on her bookshelves. The woman heroes are Mowgli from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Robin cover, tiny Lord Fauntleroy’s grandpa, Scarlett O’Hara from missing on your Wind, and writer Byron. Mrs. Bouvier questioned if Jackie might one time be a writer.

Planning to School

After kindergarten, Jackie moving fundamental grad at skip Chapin’s class on East End road in New York. Certainly them educators, lose Platt, planning Jackie is “a darling kid, the most beautiful litttle lady, most brilliant, quite creative, and chock-full of the devil.” In some instances she performed acquire mischief and might possibly be mailed to the headmistress, overlook Ethel Stringfellow, that published on her behalf report cards: “Jacqueline was handed a D in kind because their distressing facilitate inside her geography lessons managed to make it required to omit the through the place.”