It's fitting that Jackie keeps John Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson) on the film's periphery, a powerful and almost haunting
ghost of a presence who utters almost no words but whose brutal death and its aftermath is graphically displayed, the sudden, jarring explosion of the President's skull determining a sudden new
path for the First Lady, who in the midst of her grief and shock must pack up her belongings and leave the White
House and her former life behind.