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The untold story of Ann Lowe, the Black designer behind Jackie Kennedy s wedding dress By: CNN Allyssia Alleyne, CNN (CNN) Some 800 guests saw the dress at the ceremony at St. Mary s Roman Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island, and 400 more watched it glide through the reception that evening. And then there were the 3,000 well-wishers who broke through police barricades to witness Jacqueline Lee Bouvier s arrival at her wedding to then Sen. John Fitzgerald Kennedy. A photo of the newlyweds ran on the front page of The New York Times on September 13, 1953. But the grainy black-and-white shot, the bride half obscured by her husband, couldn t do justice to the bouffant skirtand the layers of silk taffeta, the intricate scallop pintucks and tiny flowers of wax a fitting choice for the woman who would go on to become American royalty. ....