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Jacqueline Bouvier Prepares for Her Wedding Reception

Jacqueline Bouvier Prepares for Her Wedding Reception

Socialite Jacqueline Bouvier waits on the landing of a staircase at her childhood home in Newport, R.I., the site of the reception after her 1953 wedding to Senator John F. Kennedy.

In this photo: Jacqueline Bouvier

Photo: Lisa Larsen./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Sep 01, 1953
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