In December 1993 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. She began treatment in January, but the cancer was aggressive. She died on May 19, 1994, at her New York City apartment. The next morning her son, John F. Kennedy, Jr., spoke to the press, saying that she had been “surrounded by her friends and her family and her books.” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was 64 years old.
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