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Jackie Kennedy's pink suit is locked in a vault and will be hidden from public view until 2103. Here are surprising facts about the famous outfit.

  • On the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Jackie Kennedy wore a replica of a pink Chanel suit.
  • Today, the suit is in a vault inside the National Archives building in College Park, Maryland.

Few garments have as much historical relevance as former first lady Jackie Kennedy's pink suit.

On the morning of November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, arrived in Dallas, Texas, for a series of appearances. The president was later fatally shot while riding in a motorcade through the city.

The pink suit that Kennedy was wearing at the time would soon become a symbol of the tragic day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

"If there is a single item that captures both the shame and the violence that erupted that day, and the glamour and artifice that preceded it, it is Jackie Kennedy's bloodstained pink suit, a tantalizing window on fame and fashion, her allure and her steely resolve, the things we know about her and the things we never quite will," New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn wrote in 2013.

Here are six things you might not know about the former first lady's outfit, from its current location to when it will be unveiled to the public for the first time.

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