Inside The Secret World Of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Fifty years after Camelot, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis still holds a lock on the public imagination. This week's issue of PEOPLE takes an intimate look at the loves, lifestyles and legacy of the iconic former First Lady, who longed for privacy – yet 17 years after her death, still fascinates. "She let us know what she wanted us to know," says Kenneth Battelle, her longtime hairstylist. "Anything beyond that was hers."

From the moment she stepped onto the world stage in 1960 to the day she died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1994 at age 64, the world could never get enough of America's 35th First Lady. "You just were compelled to watch her," says Jackie's Vassar classmate Susan Wilson. "She wasn't like mere mortals." As Jackie morphed...