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== Honors and memorials == {{external media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage=[[File:ST49816218NOV1962.jpg|210px]] | video1 = [http://firstladies.c-span.org/FirstLady/37/Jacqueline-Kennedy.aspx Jacqueline Kennedy], First Ladies, Influence and Image, [[C-SPAN]]}} * A high school named [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School for International Careers]], was dedicated by New York City in 1995, the first high school named in her honor. It is located at 120 West 46th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, and was formerly the [[High School of Performing Arts]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School|url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M529|publisher=New York City Department of Education|access-date=August 16, 2020|archive-date=August 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804024655/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M529|url-status=live}}</ref> * Public School 66 in the [[Richmond Hill, Queens|Richmond Hill]] neighborhood of [[Queens]], New York City was renamed in honor of the former First Lady.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ps66q.com/ |title=P.S. 66 Queens β The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School |website=PS66q.com |access-date=October 9, 2018 |archive-date=October 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009052829/http://www.ps66q.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * The main reservoir in [[Central Park]], located in Manhattan near her apartment, was renamed in her honor as the [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Kifner|first=John|title=Central Park Honor for Jacqueline Onassis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/23/nyregion/central-park-honor-for-jacqueline-onassis.html|work=The New York Times|date=July 23, 1994|access-date=August 15, 2012|archive-date=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125114122/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/23/nyregion/central-park-honor-for-jacqueline-onassis.html|url-status=live}}</ref> * The main entry foyer on East 42nd Street, across from Pershing Square, into [[Grand Central Terminal]] in New York City was renamed The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Foyer, in honor of her work in the 1970s of saving the terminal.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=July 2 |last2=Bookmark + |first2=2014 β’ Metro Magazine Staff β’ |title=N.Y. Grand Central Terminal foyer dedicated to Kennedy Onassis |url=https://www.metro-magazine.com/10038127/n-y-grand-central-terminal-foyer-dedicated-to-kennedy-onassis |access-date=December 23, 2022 |website=www.metro-magazine.com |archive-date=December 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221223162042/https://www.metro-magazine.com/10038127/n-y-grand-central-terminal-foyer-dedicated-to-kennedy-onassis |url-status=live }}</ref> * The [[Municipal Art Society]] of New York presents the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal to an individual whose work and deeds have made an outstanding contribution to the city of New York. The medal was named in honor of the former MAS board member in 1994, for her tireless efforts to preserve and protect New York City's great architecture.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mas.org/awards/jkomedal/ |title=Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124022002/http://mas.org/awards/jkomedal/ |archive-date=November 24, 2010 |publisher=[[Municipal Art Society]]}}</ref> She made her last public appearance at the Municipal Art Society two months before her May 1994 death.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/6tYRA7Z6iVQ Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131207061154/http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=6tYRA7Z6iVQ Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tYRA7Z6iVQ |title=The last Public Appearance of Mrs Onassis |publisher=PlanetPR |via=YouTube |date=March 1994 |access-date=August 16, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * [[Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Hall]] at the [[George Washington University]] (her alma mater) in [[Washington, DC]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://living.gwu.edu/jacqueline-bouvier-kennedy-onassis-jbko-hall|title=Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (JBKO) Hall|publisher=George Washington University|access-date=August 16, 2020|archive-date=August 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810105221/https://living.gwu.edu/jacqueline-bouvier-kennedy-onassis-jbko-hall|url-status=dead}}</ref> * The [[White House]]'s East Garden was renamed the [[Jacqueline Kennedy Garden]] in her honor.<ref>Zweifel and Buckland, p. 87</ref> * In 2007, her name and her first husband's were included on the list of people aboard the Japanese ''[[SELENE|Kaguya]]'' mission to the [[Moon]] launched on September 14, as part of [[The Planetary Society]]'s "Wish Upon The Moon" campaign.<ref>{{cite press release | title =Send a New Year's Message to the Moon on Japan's SELENE Mission: Buzz Aldrin, Ray Bradbury and More Have Wished Upon the Moon | publisher =[[The Planetary Society]] | date =January 11, 2007 | url =http://www.planetary.org/about/press/releases/2007/0111_Send_a_New_Years_Message_to_the_Moon.html | access-date =July 14, 2007 | archive-date =February 12, 2012 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120212094535/http://www.planetary.org/about/press/releases/2007/0111_Send_a_New_Years_Message_to_the_Moon.html | url-status =dead }}</ref> In addition, they are included on the list aboard [[NASA]]'s [[Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter]] mission. * A school and an award at the [[American Ballet Theatre]] have been named after her in honor of her childhood study of ballet.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre|url=http://www.abt.org/education/jko_school.asp|publisher=American Ballet Theatre|access-date=August 15, 2012|archive-date=August 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815060204/http://www.abt.org/education/jko_school.asp|url-status=live}}</ref> * The companion book for a series of interviews between mythologist [[Joseph Campbell]] and [[Bill Moyers]], ''[[The Power of Myth]]'', was created under her direction prior to her death. The book's editor, [[Betty Sue Flowers]], writes in the ''Editor's Note'' to ''The Power of Myth'': "I am grateful ... to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, the [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] editor, whose interest in the books of Joseph Campbell was the prime mover in the publication of this book." A year after her death in 1994, Moyers dedicated the companion book for his PBS series, ''The Language of Life'' as follows: "To Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. As you sail on to Ithaka." The reference is to the poem "[[Ithaca (poem)|Ithaka]]" by [[Constantine P. Cavafy|C. P. Cavafy]] that [[Maurice Tempelsman]] read at her funeral.<ref>{{cite book| last=Fitzpatrick|first=Elayne Wareing|title=Traveling Backward|year=2009| publisher=Xlibris, Corp.|isbn=978-1-4363-8242-7|page=71}}</ref><ref name="McFaddentemp">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/24/us/death-of-a-first-lady-the-companion-quietly-at-her-side-public-at-the-end.html|title=Death of a First Lady: the Companion; Quietly at Her Side, Public at the End|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|date=May 24, 1994|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 14, 2014|archive-date=February 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206062959/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/24/us/death-of-a-first-lady-the-companion-quietly-at-her-side-public-at-the-end.html|url-status=live}}</ref> * A white gazebo is dedicated to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on North Madison Street in [[Middleburg, Virginia]]. The First Lady and President Kennedy frequented the small town of Middleburg and intended to retire in the nearby town of Atoka. She also hunted with the Middleburg Hunt numerous times.<ref>Pottker, p.181.</ref>
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