[Leica] Fwd: Own Jackie Kennedy's Leicaflex

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

I don’t think the money was optional. It may have been superfluous, but not optional. It was affirmation of her ability to contribute value. I believe that Jackie was fiercely independent and wanted to land, keep, perform, and be paid for a job on her own merits, one in which she could be productive and independent – particularly in what was largely a male-dominated field. No doubt the desire to be perceived as being of consequence and not just ornamentation and/or a gold digger was part of what led her to become a book editor in middle age after Onassis and continue as one for 20 years. The other part was a true desire to DO something rather than remain among the idle rich globetrotters. 

She recalled: “I remember a taxi driver who said, ‘Lady, you work and you don’t have to?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He turned around and said, ‘I think that’s great!’ ”

I’d like to believe that I’d feel/do the same if I were an idle-rich globetrotter!

—howard



> On Jul 22, 2016, at 12:12 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
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> According to the Fox article, she earned $42.50 in 1949.  I did not know she actually ever had a commercial job.
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> With the family fortune, you'd have thought the money was optional.....
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> I bet HER photographs do not garner a $7 stock sale, with $2 going to the photographer.......
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> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
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