Video: 'The Passing of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis--NBC News with Tom Brokaw, May 1994'
(Thursday, May 19, 1994, 10:15 p.m. EDT) — Jacqueline Lee (Bouvier) Kennedy Onassis, the widow of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and first lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963, died tonight in her sleep in her Manhattan apartment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer. She was 64. Continue reading Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, 64, dies in her Manhattan apartment 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 19 1994)