20 Iconic Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Pictures

Sailing photographs from the 1980s show Jacqueline Onassis far from podiums and Manhattan sidewalks, wearing a headscarf, dark sunglasses, and practical clothes on the water near Martha’s Vineyard. The ocean had long offered the Kennedy family recreation and retreat. In these quieter frames, she appears relaxed but still guarded, protected behind signature eyewear. The pictures suggest a life increasingly organized around family, work, familiar landscapes, and carefully chosen escapes from constant public observation whenever possible.