Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with RetroPod, a show about the past, rediscovered.

Jacqueline Bouvier-Kennedy was the world's most beloved widow.

Stoic, beautiful, heartbroken.

Her husband, President John F. Kennedy, bled onto her pink Chanel suit after he was shot on

that awful November day in Dallas.

The world mourned his loss.

Five years later, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was gone too.

The New York Times declared that their reaction was anger, shock, and dismay.

A German newspaper announced,

America has lost a saint.

But Mrs. Kennedy hadn't died.

She had become Mrs. Onassis.

Fifty years ago this week, the former First Lady stunned her adoring public by deciding

to remarry.

She donned a wedding dress, entered a candlelit chapel, and pronounced,

I do to Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipping tycoon.

From that moment on, she would forever be Jackie O.

The series of events that brought Jackie back to the altar began long before a shot was fired in Dallas.

While the Kennedys were in the White House, Onassis was already one of the richest and most successful businessmen in the world.

He owned an airline, had amassed a shipping empire, and was a prominent player in the oil, gold,

and real estate industries. He was also known for his philandering, including an affair with a famous

opera singer, and, for a time, a rumored trist with Jackie's younger sister, Lee.

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