Who was the reporter for the Washington Times-Herald that covered the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II?

While working at the Washington Times-Herald newspaper, as the "Inquiring Camera Girl", Jacqueline (Jackie) Bouvier covered the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. It was her job to ask people in the United States in Washington, D.C. interesting questions. The people would then have their pictures taken, and Jackie would follow-up by writing their answers in a newspaper column. She was able to cover the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in England in June 1953. At the time, she earned $42.50 per week as a reporter and photographer. She ended her venture into journalism with her coverage on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Also, while working for the Washington Times-Herald, Jackie met her future husband John (Jack) Fitzgerald Kennedy. They met at a dinner party in May 1952 at the Georgetown home of Charles Bartlett. Bartlett was then the Washington, D.C. news correspondent for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, a daily newspaper published in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jackie became the wife of the future 35th President of the United States, (JFK) in September 1953. After her marriages to Kennedy and Onassis, her full name became Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis.

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Char

I just learned this a while back it gave a whole new picture of her

John W Shreve

Chris Brown, What did the queen say about it?

klmilles

Vincent S., That sad pink suit and pill box hat.

Albeck1994

davenjudyfusi, very true after Onassis died, she went back to journalism.

Chris Brown

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangiwai_disaster

Chris Brown

The year of the first royal visit to Australia and New Zealand was in December, 1953. That same month, during Queen Elisabeth's royal visit to New Zealand, there was a rail accident on the North Island Main Trunk Line at a little place called Tangi Wai, a Maori name which translates as "tears of water". It is a small towship near the Whangehu River in the central North Island and located on the volcanic plateau. In 1945, one of the volcanoes there (Ruapehu) erupted and due to the build up of rock, lava and melted snow, a lahar crashed down the mountainside and into the river causing the onrushing water to crash into the bridge, destroying it just before the overnight train was about to cross. About 150 of 285 passengers and crew died. As the accident occurred on Christmas Eve, most of the passengers would have been on their way home for Christmas.. My father, who was in the NZ Railways at the time, was in charge with his boss in inspecting the accident. I was only 6 at the time. See https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/the-tangiwai-railway-disaster