in the stock market crash, but she continued to summer with her grandfather bouvier, she called "grampyack," and he was the one who introduced her to reading and literature at such a young age. and she loved him dearly. and they would write poetry and memorize poetry together. her mother was a pretty strict disciplinarian, but both sisters, lee and jackie grew up in a broken home. their parents separate when jackie's only seven, and then they divorce when she's 12, and it's a very bitter, acrimonious divorce, because her father was a womanizer, and somewhat of an alcoholic. swain: his nickname was black jack? beschloss: black jack. also the name of the horse in the funeral, coincidentally enough, november of 1963. she had this insecure childhood, and the interesting thing is that if you looked at her and didn't know any of this, you would've thought that she had just the most perfect early years and probably an heiress. her father was so short on money that when she was at farmington, in high school, she later said that sometimes she would worry that he would not be able to pay the tuit