
Queen Elizabeth’s coronation featured reporter who would soon become First Lady Jackie Kennedy
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Queen Elizabeth’s coronation featured reporter who would soon become First Lady Jackie Kennedy. Jacqueline Bouvier covered event for Washington Times-Herald.
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The young journalist, who was paid $42.50 a week (about $470 in 2022 dollars), was called an "Inquiring Camera Girl." She worked for the now-defunct Washington Times-Herald (it shut down in 1954) and her job on a typical day was to travel around America’s capital to ask people questions about topics in the news, take their photos, and write about what they said in her newspaper column.