* * Parents: John "Black Jack" Bouvier III and Janet Lee Bouvier
* * Siblings: Caroline Lee Bouvier (later Kennedy), born in 1933
* * Grew up: In East Hampton, New York, and Manhattan
* * Education: Attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, followed by Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
* * In 1951, she left Vassar before graduating to work as a photographer’s assistant for the _The Washington Times-Herald_.
* * Later got hired to work full-time as the “Inquiring Camera Girl” by an editor at the paper.