Jackie Kennedy was America’s first lady, a style muse, a passionate advocate for historic preservation, and a book editor—but she was also a mother and grandmother, roles she prioritized above the rest. In fact, she once told a reporter, “If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
Today, on what would have been Jackie’s 96th birthday, her grandson, Jack Schlossberg, paid tribute, sharing a rare photo and a little-known fact about the icon who was his grandmother.
“Happy 96th birthday grandjackie, who lived by the rule ‘never complain, never explain’ and worked as a book editor for Double Day bet you didn’t know she edited Michael Jackson’s memoir,” he wrote on Instagram, in the caption of a rare photo of Jackie with three children. Presumably one of them is Jack, but he didn’t share any additional details about when or where the picture was taken.
Indeed, after life in the White House, Jackie reinvented herself in the 1970s, becoming an editor of both fiction and non-fiction titles first at Viking Press and then later at Doubleday. The Michael Jackson memoir Schlossberg referenced was one of her more commercially successful titles, selling upwards of 500,000 copies.
Schlossberg’s post about his grandmother comes just one day after he shared a passionate defense of his family’s legacy on his burgeoning YouTube channel. The nearly 12-minute-long video was addressed to Ryan Murphy, the creator of a new series about Schlossberg’s late uncle JFK Jr. (Schlossberg is less-than-pleased about the show, to say the least), but it also details President Trump’s ongoing fascination with the Kennedy family.
“My whole life, I have seen people come up to me, my mom, and say how much President Kennedy and our family means to them all over the world. I really thought most of my life that the Kennedy legacy would become less and less relevant and that people would forget. But boy, am I wrong,” Schlossberg said.
“It seems like it’s never been more relevant than it is now. And that’s in part because President Trump has decided to use the powers of his office to attack everything that my family stood for and my actual family members. He has announced repeatedly used the JFK assassination to just drum people up and whatever, distract people from whatever is going on that he finds inconvenient. He’s trying to rename the Kennedy Center after himself and his wife. And that’s not even to mention all of the legislative accomplishments that he’s undermining, that President Kennedy gave his life in service of. So right now is a particularly charged moment, and people need to know their history now more than ever. So Ryan, I’m not happy. I’m not happy that you’re making your TV show.”
Watch the full video here.
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