Patrick Bouvier Kennedy by Michael S. Ryan

'She's been quite wonderful to my wife, to my daughter and to all of us,' Mr.

Onassis over the last several days and had been getting regular updates on her condition. President Clinton said he and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, spoke with Mrs. Kennedy's office issued a statement saying: 'Jackie was part of our family and part of our hearts for 40 wonderful and unforgettable years, and she will never really leave us.' Onassis was surrounded by friends and family since she returned home from the hospital on Wednesday. Kennedy, his Presidency or their marriage. She almost never granted interviews on her past - the last was nearly 30 years ago - and for decades she had not spoken publicly about Mr. Onassis had lived quietly but not in seclusion, working at Doubleday joining efforts to preserve historic New York buildings spending time with her son, daughter and grandchildren jogging in Central Park getting away to her estates in New Jersey, at Hyannis, Mass., and on Martha's Vineyard, and going about town with Maurice Tempelsman, a financier who had become her closest companion. Onassis entered the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center for the last time on Monday but returned to her Fifth Avenue apartment on Wednesday after her doctors said there was no more they could do.

Onassis, who had enjoyed robust good health nearly all her life, began being treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in early January and had been undergoing chemotherapy and other treatments in recent months while continuing her work as a book editor and her social, family and other personal routines.īut the disease, which attacks the lymph nodes, an important component of the body's immune system, grew progressively worse. Kennedy and of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, died of a form of cancer of the lymphatic system yesterday at her apartment in New York City. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the widow of President John F.

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy by Michael S. Ryan