Husted Jr., who passed away at 72.
Husted returned to Europe as a member of the American Field Service and stayed throughout the Second World War.
When the fighting came to an end, he returned to the U.S. and graduated from Yale in 1950.
Somewhere in there, he met a young stunner by the name of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
The couple got engaged in December 1951 and were ready to tie the knot in June 1952.
Jackie reportedly asked, “How did I not know this?”
to which her mother replied, “You tell me.”
Jackie is said to have ended the engagement by putting the ring in Husted’s pocket.
He described her demeanor at that time, saying, “She was ice cold.
Like we never knew each other.”
Whenever she had to make one of those decisions, it was usually her mother behind it."
He went on to marry and have two children.
They shared two children together and remained married until his untimely death by assassination in 1963, perPeople.
There is a necessary postscript to this story, however.
I went into it too fast and then it seemed very wrong.
