Providencia Paredes – the woman behind Jackie Kennedy – dies at 90

*From the article: “From 1959 to 1965, Paredes was the woman behind Jackie Kennedy, tracking her engagements and taking her phone calls. She coordinated with designers and chose her clothes. She helped her with her Spanish accent. She was Jackie’s right hand. And she was her friend.” VL

By Lindsey Bever, The Washington Post

Days before the doomed trip to Dallas, President John F. Kennedy gave her a call. He said his first lady needed an outfit appropriate for Texas weather. So Providencia Paredes picked out a pink Chanel suit and matching hat now remembered hauntingly in photographs from his assassination on Nov 22, 1963.

When Jacqueline Kennedy returned to the White House the next morning, Paredes took the suit — stained with the president’s blood — shoved it in a bag and hid it.

“She always trusted me,” Paredes once told Fox News. “We were always together.”

Paredes, the former first lady’s personal assistant, died on March 18 in Washington, her son, Gustavo Paredes, announced on social media. She was 90.

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