On the day of JFK 's assassination on November 22 , 1963 , nanny Maud Shaw took Caroline and John Jr. away from the White House to the home of their maternal grandmother , Janet Bouvier Auchincloss , who insisted that Shaw would be the one to tell Caroline about her father 's assassination . That evening , Caroline and John Jr. returned to the White House , and while Caroline was sleeping in her bed , Shaw broke the news to her . Shaw soon found out that Jacqueline had wanted to be the one to tell the two children ; this caused a rift between the nanny and Jacqueline . On December 6 , two weeks after the assassination , Jacqueline , Caroline , and John Jr. moved out of the White House and return to Georgetown . However , their new home soon became a popular tourist attraction . They left Georgetown the following year and later moved to a penthouse apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City
JFK 's assassination
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Caroline Kennedy