December 31, 1951 – 10:00 PM Apartment of Jacqueline Bouvier, Georgetown – Washington D.C., USA

She just landed her dream job. She just accepted a diamond ring. She can't have both — and tonight, that's about to catch up with her.

In this episode, we step away from Havana and into the glittering, freezing streets of Cold War Washington, where twenty-two-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier is getting ready for a New Year's Eve party with a secret hidden in her jewelry box. Freshly engaged to the steady, devoted John Husted, Jackie should be radiant. Instead, she's fighting a rising panic — her hard-won job as the Washington Times-Herald's "Inquiring Camera Girl" came with an explicit warning from her editor: show up engaged, and you're out.

But the ring isn't the only thing weighing on her. Beneath the s ...