MovieChat Forums > Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013) Discussion > Reviewer's comment about Jackie Kennedy

Reviewer's comment about Jackie Kennedy


You say what a joke about Jackie Kennedy being buried next to JFK. Maybe she never specified where she wanted to be buried. Seems to the living make that decision anyway, don't they. Since Onassis was also long dead, it was up to Jr. and Caroline to decide where to bury Jackie. They chose Arlington. It might have been the wish of Jr. to be buried there as well. But, I think that Caroline was very courteous having Jr. buried at sea.

reply

Jackie knew she was sick and that it was terminal. As JFK Jr said, "my mother died on her own terms". She would have been very explicit about where she was buried. We should have no doubt about that. Onassis was not her great love, JFK was.

reply

Well, why should not knowing anything about a subject keep people from talking? At least I lived through the era, lived in Dallas in the 1960's etc. and read a couple of hundred articles on it as in how could I escape it, right? Even gave a 10 minute talk in "speech class" back in High School on JM's tragic decapitation and watched her attempt to play "Password". Since I have since heard she was supposed to have a high IQ she must have been a GREAT actress because she sure convinced us she was dumber than moldy bread. Oh, well..

About the burial. She was buried next to her first husband for a number of reasons. Whether she loved Aristotle Onassis with the same passion as her first husband who can truly know? Whatever the ardor of her toward JFK it may well have been dimmed by his constant popping of movie stars etc. However, he WAS the father of all of her children, POTUSA, and her burial at the spot reserved for her at Arlington National Cemetery was part of the Prenuptial agreement that was negotiated in part by the Kennedy Family and Lawyers. Being married to Ari Onassis who was a BILLIONAIRE allowed her almost complete privacy or at least safety since when not on a private island estate she took to living on one of his fleet of Oil Tankers especially equipped with a swimming pool and luxury living quarters.

Face it. For NEITHER of them was this a first marriage or one that produced children. Special people have different problems than (the) hoi polloi such as ourselves. For him, perhaps she was a bauble or status symbol. He was certainly a very close friend of Maria Callas all his life among others.

reply

Jayne Mansfield wasn't decapitated - that was a rumor based on a photo of the scene of the accident. Her wig was found separate from her body, which fueled a rumor that her head was separated from her body during the accident. Her body was fully intact.

reply

Jayne Mansfield wasn't decapitated - that was a rumor based on a photo of the scene of the accident. Her wig was found separate from her body, which fueled a rumor that her head was separated from her body during the accident. Her body was fully intact.
Have you read the autopsy report? It said, "crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain". "In medicine, an avulsion is an injury in which a body structure is forcibly detached from its normal point of insertion by either trauma or surgery (from the Latin avellere, meaning "to tear off").

IOWs, the top of her head was separated from the rest of her head. It was an instantaneous death, thank goodness and very gory for all three of the front seat occupants. The car went underneath a slowing or stopping semi truck. It really wasn't the paid driver's fault as the semi was slowing because of a mosquito spray truck was moving down the highway at night. If you've ever seen one in action it produces quite a fog and even worse at night if the humidity is high.

I also think it was a poor choice of a title by Thorton in that 3 of her children who are still alive were in the rear seat of the vehicle and that accident must have been very traumatic with all the blood, brain, and tissue matter being all over the place. Luckily they were low enough and only suffered minor injuries.

**************************************************
My favorite: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

reply

Neither were .

"A man that wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough".



reply