Funeral for former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis held 20 years ago this hour (May 23 1994)


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(Monday, May 23, 1994, 2:30 p.m. EDT) — Eulogized by President Clinton as a “remarkable woman whose life will forever glow in the lives of her fellow Americans,” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was buried this afternoon on an Arlington hillside next to her martyred first husband, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States.

Burial followed a 10:15 a.m. funeral Mass at St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church in New York City, where Sen. Edward Kennedy recalled that Mrs. Onassis had once said that “if you bungle raising your children, nothing else much matters in life.”

Kennedy, 64, had died May 19, 1994, of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer.