Jackiie berg gigantic color dallas11/11/2023 On the day the United States welcomes a new first lady – with Trumpian unpredictability it is as yet unclear if this is to be Melania or Ivanka or some combination of the two – the spirit of the first among first ladies, Jackie Kennedy, arrives on our cinema screens in the form of Natalie Portman in Jackie, a film whose central action takes place with the protagonist wearing a bloodied pink skirt suit. Photograph: Allstar/Fox Searchlight Pictures Peter Sarsgaard as Bobby Kennedy and Natalie Portman in the title role in Jackie. And rebellion is already planned, in the form of the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday 21 January 2017. In the absence of A-list talent, police marching bands are expected to be high profile, which will lend the event a militaristic tone. The president-elect is fresh from a bruising, lurid run-in with the political establishment. An inauguration ceremony is designed to oil the wheels of change, yet this one feels more like a revolution. The world awaits an inauguration on 20 January 2017 that feels more like a moment of political disruption than the smooth transfer of power. In this debased, violated state, the suit is the most visceral of relics. Afterward, the suit, along with her navy shoes and bloodied stockings were folded and stored without cleaning. “Let them see what they have done,” she is reported to have said, before exiting the plane in Washington hand-in-hand with her brother-in-law. Famously, Jackie Kennedy refused to change into a new outfit in the aftermath of the assassination. The pink suit that the first lady wore that fateful day in Dallas is still stained with the blood of a president, the dying husband she cradled in her lap in an open-top car, an image of lurid public horror.
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