k City and was a landmark preservationist.At 10:15 P.M., May 19, 1994, a little more than two months before her sixty-fifth birthday, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis met her untimely death, with her family surrounding her bedside because of her aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.The next morning, John F. Kennedy Jr., in one of the finest moments of his young life, stood at the door of his mother's home and in a firm voice said: "Last night, at around ten fifteen, my mother passed on. She was surrounded by her friends and her family and her books and the people and things that she loved. And she did it in her own way and in her own terms, and we all feel lucky for that, and now she's in God's hands. There has been an enormous outpouring of good wishes from everyone, both in New York and beyond. And I speak for all of my family when we say we're extremely grateful. Everyone's been very generous. And I hope that, you know, we can just have these next couple of days in relative peace."...
