After almost a decade of avoiding participation in political events , she attended the 1976 Democratic National Convention and stunned the assembled delegates when she appeared in the visitors ' gallery . She resigned from Viking Press in 1977 following the false accusation by '' The New York Times '' that she held some responsibility for the company 's publication of the Jeffrey Archer novel '' Shall We Tell the President ? '' , which was set in a fictional future presidency of Ted Kennedy and described an assassination plot against him . Two years later , she appeared alongside her mother-in-law Rose Kennedy at Faneuil Hall in Boston when Ted Kennedy announced that he was going to challenge incumbent president Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination for president . She participated in the subsequent presidential campaign , which was unsuccessful
1976 Democratic National Convention
1976 Democratic National Convention
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis