PowerPoint Show by Andrew

September 12, 1953

Long before the rock star-like run for the White House, before “Ich bin ein Berliner,” before the Cuban Missile Crisis, Marilyn’s “Happy birthday, Mr. President,” Camelot and the limo drive through Dallas, John and Jackie Kennedy were a young newlywed couple much like any other newlywed couple — with one notable difference: by the time of their wedding they were, in a sense, already superstars.

Jackie arrives with her father Vernon.

Jackie walks down the aisle with her father.

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy.

Jacqueline Bouvier in gorgeous Battenburg wedding dress with her husband Sen. John Kennedy as they stand in front of church after wedding ceremony.

Line of guests waiting patiently to congratulate the couple extends to the front lawn of bride's mother's 300-acre Hammersmith Farm at Newport.

John and Jackie Kennedy with ushers, bridesmaids and flower girls.

John and Jackie with groomsmen and other guests.

Speaker of the House, Joe Martin of House of Representatives congratulates bride and bridegroom in receiving line. Kennedy served three terms in the House.

Flower girl Janet Auchincloss, half sister of bride, talks to Kennedy while bride looks out window at guests waiting to go through receiving line.

Bride and bridegroom finally sit down to lunch after the long, wearying ordeal of the receiving line. Jacqueline, whose wedding dress contained 50 yards of material, adjusts veil while her senator husband starts right in on fruit cup.

Guests, including Robert Kennedy, watch as newly married John and Jackie Kennedy cut their wedding cake.

Slice of wedding cake is offered to the bridegroom by flower girl Janet at the luncheon.

The Kennedy family with the couple.

John has a word with one of his guests.

Jackie and John have the first dance.

Jackie dances with her new father-in-law, Joseph P. Kennedy.

Jackie throws the bouquet.

Off for honeymoon in Acapulco, Mexico, the bride and bridegroom leave the wedding reception amid a shower of rose-petal confetti and rice.