Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

She was the aspirational lifestyle icon of her time, but behind the scenes, her life in Camelot was perhaps not quite as glorious as it has always been marketed to be.

The End.

Let's talk about Jackie Kennedy.

But first let's drop her into history in 1929.

Mother Teresa arrived in Calcutta to begin her India mission, both Buck Rogers and Popeye debuted in the comic strips.

Vatican City became a sovereign nation.

JC Penny became the first department store to have stores in all 48 states.

Black Thursday and Black Tuesday's stock market crashes triggered the Great Depression.

And she shared a birth year with Martin Luther King, Audrey Hepburn, Liz Claiborne, and Frank, Amelda Marcos, Bob Newhart, Arnold Palmer, Barbara Walters, Grace Kelly, June Carter Cash, Barry Gordy, Dick Clark, and Christopher Plummer.

Jacqueline Lee, Boogie was born on July 28, 1929 in Long Island, New York.

And she was the first of the two daughters of John Vernoux, Boogie, the third in Janet, Norton Lee.

She was born in South Hampton, and you think South Hampton is that part of the famous exclusive pricey summer resorting amtens?

Yes, it is.

There's a series of little villages that make up this extremely pricey resort area now, but back then it was just an up and coming summer area that was surrounded by potato farms.

That's very romantic.

I know isn't it?

Sopa Pa, who was always called Jack, and sometimes called Black Jack because of his fabulous tan complexion.

I want you in your mind to think of Ret Butler. This is pre-ret Butler, but he might as well be a twin.

Pa Pa was from a wealthy family, and the money had come from coal and timber originally, but a couple of generations had laundered it through land speculation and the stock market.

So now it's 100 years respectable money.

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