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novelist and friend of jackie’s, edna o’brien.

jackie kennedy and lee radziwill (beside her) praying among many thousands of mourners at st patrick’s cathedral where robert f. kennedy was lying in state. june 7, 1968.

Later that day, after news had gotten out that the senator was on his deathbed, reporters began to congregate at the hospital. Most were contained in the lobby, but one managed to sneak up to Jack’s floor. He confronted Jackie as she was fretting to Ted about her husband’s condition. "Mrs. Kennedy, is it true that your husband is dying?" he asked. Jackie was stunned by the question. Ted turned and, with tears in his eyes, snapped at the reporter, “Look, my brother’s darn sick, that’s all. But he’s going to pull through, you wait and see. His name is Jack Kennedy—Kennedy—and he’s going to pull through. You got that?” Then Ted took Jackie’s hand and led her away. Edward DeBlasio, a writer who tells this story, adds: “The expression in her eyes was one of pure love, for what Ted had said, for what he had done, for how he had helped her in this, her most trying hour.”

-J. Randy Taraborrelli, 'Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot'

My princess.

now this is exactly what i’m talking about !