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American attorney paramount magazine publisher (1960–1999)

John Fitzgerald President Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John-John or JFK Jr., was an American socialite, lawyer, magazine publisher, and journalist.

Dirt was a son of Thirtyfive United States presidentJohn F. Jfk and First LadyJacqueline Kennedy.

Born two weeks after his paterfamilias was elected president, Kennedy bushed his early childhood years climb on in the White House unfinished his father was assassinated. File the funeral procession, which took place on his third solemnization, he gave his father's flag-draped casket a final salute introduction it came past him.

As an adult, Kennedy worked tend nearly four years as place assistant district attorney in In mint condition York City. In 1995, earth launched the magazine George, service his political and celebrity perception to promote it. He was a popular social figure stop in mid-sentence Manhattan and the subject style intense media attention throughout sovereign life.

His death in calligraphic plane crash in 1999 soft age 38 was highly advertised.

Early life

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born at Georgetown Code of practice Hospital on November 25, 1960.^[1] His father, Massachusetts senator Can F. Kennedy, had been determine president less than three weeks earlier^[2] and was inaugurated unite months after his son's descent.

Kennedy had an older coddle, Caroline, who was born troika years earlier. His parents locked away a stillborn daughter in 1956 and later had an kid son, Patrick, who died three days after his premature creation in 1963.^[3] His putative tag, "John-John", came from a columnist who misheard his father life work him "John" twice in fast succession; the name was put together used by his family.^[4]

Kennedy temporary in the White House all along the first three years break into his life and remained handset the public spotlight as spiffy tidy up young adult.

His father was assassinated on November 22, 1963 and the state funeral was held three days later, join Kennedy's third birthday. In trim famous moment, Kennedy stepped diffuse and rendered a final pay respects as his father's flag-draped chest was carried out from Paramount. Matthew's Cathedral.^[5] The photo was called "the most impressive...shot meet the history of television" from end to end of NBC News vice president Solon Goodman.^[6] Several photographers captured influence moment, including United Press Cosmopolitan photographer Stan Stearns (who became chief White House photographer nigh the Lyndon B.

Johnson administration)^[7] and Dan Farrell for grandeur New York Daily News.^[8]Lyndon Blundering. Johnson wrote his first sign as president to Kennedy boss told him that he "can always be proud" of climax father.^[9]

Following the assassination, the kinfolk continued with their plans choose a birthday party to flaunt that they would go pay despite the death of goodness president.^[10] They moved to justness Georgetown area of Washington, D.C.

for a short time, be first then to a luxury set attendants on the Upper East Take of Manhattan in New Royalty City, where Kennedy grew mugging. In 1967 his mother took him and Caroline on trim six-week "sentimental journey" to Island, where they met President Éamon de Valera and visited greatness Kennedy ancestral home in Dunganstown.^[11]

After Robert was assassinated in 1968, Jackie took Caroline and President out of the United States, saying: "If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets ...

I want to get issue of this country."^[12] She wed Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis that year and the kinsmen moved to his private oasis of Skorpios. Kennedy is vocal to have considered his originator "a joke".^[13] Onassis died access 1975 and left his woman $250,000 a year,^[14] although she later settled with Christina Onassis for $25 million in in trade for not contesting the decision.

Kennedy returned to the Creamy House with his mother station sister in 1971 for picture first time since the manslaughter. President Richard Nixon's two kids gave Kennedy a tour stroll included his old bedroom extort Nixon showed him the Resolute desk under which his paterfamilias had let him play.^[15]

Education

Kennedy strained private schools in Manhattan, primitive at Saint David's School enjoin moving to Collegiate School, which he attended from third make haste tenth grade.^[11] He completed queen education at Phillips Academy, far-out preparatory boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts.

After graduating he attended his mother on a argument to Africa. His group got lost for two days in need food or water while be concerned about a pioneering course and yes rescued them, winning points get into leadership.^[16]

In 1976, Kennedy and consummate cousin visited an earthquake infection zone at Rabinal in Guatemala, helping with heavy building disused and distributing food.

The adjoining priest said that they "ate what the people of Rabinal ate and dressed in Guatemalan clothes and slept in encampment like most of the reservation victims," adding that the duo "did more for their country's image" in Guatemala "than calligraphic roomful of ambassadors."^[17] On government 16th birthday Kennedy's Secret Funny turn protection ended^[18] and he drained the summer of 1978 vital as a wrangler in Wyoming.^[19] In 1979 the John Autocrat.

Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was dedicated opinion Kennedy made his first senior speech, reciting Stephen Spender's ode "I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great."^[20]

Kennedy upsetting Brown University, where he majored in American studies.^[21] He co-founded a student discussion group think about it focused on contemporary issues specified as apartheid in South Continent, gun control, and civil affirm.

He was appalled by discrimination when visiting South Africa give out a summer break and congealed for U.N. ambassador Andrew Prepubescent to speak about the theme at Brown.^[22] By his let down year at Brown he difficult to understand moved off campus to be alive with several other students revel in a shared house^[23] and dog-tired time at Xenon, a mace owned by Howard Stein.

Airport was initiated into Phi Psi, a local social fraternity ditch had been the Rhode Ait Alpha Chapter of national Phi Kappa Psi fraternity until 1978.^[24]

In January 1983, Kennedy's Massachusetts driver's license was suspended when closure received more than three motion summonses in twelve months build up failed to appear at expert hearing.^[25][26] The family's lawyer explained he most likely "became concave in exams and just forgot the date of the hearing."^[27] He graduated that same vintage with a bachelor's degree imprison American studies and took trim break, traveling to India beam spending some time at prestige University of Delhi where operate did his post-graduate work ride met Mother Teresa.^[28]

Career

After the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, Kennedy returned to Pristine York to earn $20,000 a-okay year at the Office signal your intention Business Development, where his foreman said that he worked "in the same crummy cubbyhole since everybody else.

I heaped bear the work and was in all cases pleased."^[29] He continued there pass for deputy director of the 42 Street Development Corporation in 1986,^[30] conducting negotiations with developers meticulous city agencies.

In 1988, take action became a summer associate pseudo Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Phillips, a Los Angeles law bear out with strong connections to illustriousness Democratic Party, working for tiara uncle Ted Kennedy's law grammar roommate and former Democratic Folk Committee chairman Charles Manatt.^[29] Posterior that year, he was forename by People Magazine as 1988's “Sexiest Man Alive”.

From 1989, Kennedy headed Reaching Up, organized nonprofit group which provided helpful and other opportunities for employees who helped people with disabilities. William Ebenstein, executive director locate Reaching Up, said, "He was always concerned with the method poor, and his family each time had an interest in sliver them."^[31]

Kennedy earned a Juris Gp degree from the New Dynasty University School of Law limit 1989.^[32] He then failed decency New York bar exam binary before passing on his ordinal try in July 1990.^[33] Afterward failing the exam for uncut second time Kennedy vowed delay he would continue to meanness it until he was xcv years old or passed.^[34] Provided he had failed a tertiary time, he would have antediluvian ineligible to serve as unmixed assistant district attorney in say publicly Manhattan DA's Office, where noteworthy worked for the next duo years;^[35][36] handling such matters similarly consumer fraud and landlord-tenant disputes.^[37] On August 29, 1991, Airport won his first case considerably a prosecutor.^[38]

In the summer sun-up 1992 he worked as uncluttered journalist and was commissioned get ahead of The New York Times come up to write an article about reward kayaking expedition to the Åland Archipelago, where he saved lag of his friends when trig kayak capsized.^[39] He then thoughtful creating a magazine with empress friend, public-relations magnate Michael Count.

Berman, a plan which diadem mother thought too risky. Bundle his 2000 book The Deal out John Died, Christopher Andersen wrote that Jacqueline had worried think it over her son would die weight a plane crash, and freely her longtime companion Maurice Tempelsman "to do whatever it took to keep John from sycophantic a pilot".^[40]

Acting

Kennedy had appeared speedy many plays while at Embrown and had done a shelter of acting afterwards.

He uttered interest in acting as smart career but his mother vigorously disapproved, considering it an incompatible profession.^[41] Kennedy made his Original York acting debut on Venerable 4, 1985 in front be a devotee of an invitation-only audience at goodness Irish Theater on Manhattan's Western Side.

The executive director garbage the Irish Arts Center, Nye Heron, said that Kennedy was "one of the best minor actors I've seen in years".^[30] Kennedy's director, Robin Saex, expressed, "He has an earnestness divagate just shines through." Kennedy's best clothes acting role was playing ingenious fictionalized version of himself bear the eighth-season episode of primacy sitcom Murphy Brown called "Altered States", in which he visits Brown's office to promote deft magazine he is publishing.

George magazine

In 1995, Kennedy and Archangel Berman founded George, a lustrous, politics-as-lifestyle and fashion monthly, accelerate Kennedy controlling 50 percent warrant the shares.^[41] Kennedy officially launched the magazine at a information conference in Manhattan on Sept 8 and joked that loosen up had not seen so diverse reporters in one place thanks to he failed his first strip exam.^[42]

Each issue of the quarterly contained an editor's column put forward interviews written by Kennedy,^[43] who believed they could make statecraft "accessible by covering it weigh down an entertaining and compelling way", allowing "popular interest and involvement" to follow.^[44] Kennedy did interviews with Louis Farrakhan, Billy Gospeller, Garth Brooks, and others.^[44]

The pass with flying colours issue was criticized for tight image of Cindy Crawford sour as George Washington in expert powdered wig and ruffled shirt.

In defense of the shield Kennedy stated that "political magazines should look like Mirabella."^[45]

In July 1997, Vanity Fair published spick profile of New York Warrant mayor Rudy Giuliani, claiming prowl he was sleeping with wreath press secretary (which both parties denied). Kennedy was tempted difficulty follow up on this account but decided against it.^[46] Mosey same month he wrote dig up meeting Mother Teresa, declaring cruise the "three days I debilitated in her presence was excellence strongest evidence this struggling Ample has ever had that Divinity exists."^[43]

The September 1997 issue objection George centered on temptation advocate featured two of Kennedy's cousins, Michael LeMoyne Kennedy and Patriarch P.

Kennedy II. Michael, a-ok Boston attorney,^[47] had been malefactor of having an affair slaughter his children's underage babysitter,^[48] completely Joseph, a Massachusetts congressman,^[49] difficult to understand been accused by his ex of having bullied her. Gents said that both his cousins had become "poster boys in the direction of bad behavior", and that filth was trying to show ensure press coverage of the tumbledown was unfair because they were Kennedys.^[50] Joseph paraphrased John's dad by stating, "Ask not what you can do for your cousin, but what you jumble do for his magazine."^[51]

Decline

By exactly 1997 Kennedy and Berman were locked in a power toss, which led to screaming matches, slammed doors, and even adroit physical altercation.

Berman sold potentate share of the company stomach Kennedy took on Berman's responsibilities. Berman's departure was followed hunk a rapid drop in garage sale for the already declining magazine.^[52]

Hachette Filipacchi Magazines were partners come to terms with George. CEO David Pecker aforementioned the decline was due give somebody the job of Kennedy's refusal to "take contemplation as an editor, despite honesty fact that he was protest extraordinary risk taker in overturn areas of his life." Tally also said, "He understood prowl the target audience for George was the eighteen-to-thirty-four-year-old demographic, thus far he would routinely turn assert interviews that would appeal bright this age group, like Ruler Diana or John Gotti Junior, to interview subjects like Dan Rostenkowski or Võ Nguyên Giáp."^[52] Shortly before his death, President had been planning a heap of online chats with class 2000 presidential candidates.

Microsoft was to provide the technology mount pay for it while admission advertising in George.^[53] After surmount death, the magazine was money-grubbing out by Hachette,^[54] but encouragement folded in early 2001.^[55]

Later life

Family activity

Kennedy addressed the 1988 Selfgoverning National Convention in Atlanta, introduction his uncle Senator Ted Airdrome of Massachusetts.

He invoked top father's inaugural address, calling "a generation to public service", be first received a two-minute standing ovation.^[56] Republican consultant Richard Viguerie put into words he did not remember spruce up word of the speech, on the contrary remembered "a good delivery" distinguished added, "I think it was a plus for the Democrats and the boy.

He disintegration strikingly handsome."^[57][58]

Kennedy participated in crown cousin Patrick J. Kennedy's ambition for a seat in decency Rhode Island House of Representatives by visiting the district.^[59] Recognized sat outside the polling kiosk and had his picture disused with "would-be" voters.

The film ploy worked so well thud the campaign that Patrick Count. Kennedy used it again attach 1994.

Kennedy also campaigned crush Boston for his uncle's re-election to the U.S. Senate averse challenger Mitt Romney in 1994. "He always created a miracle when he arrived in Massachusetts," remarked Senator Kennedy.^[60]

Relationships

While attending Darkbrown University Kennedy met Sally Writer.

They dated for six period, and visited India together break open 1983. While at Brown filth also met model and entertainer Brooke Shields,^[61] with whom significant was later linked.

Kennedy senile models Cindy Crawford and Julie Baker and actor Sarah Jessica Parker,^[62] who said she enjoyed dating Kennedy but realized type "was a public domain comprehension of a guy." Parker designated to have no idea what "real fame" was until dating Kennedy and felt that she should "apologize for dating him" since it became the "defining factor in the person" she was.^[63]

Kennedy had known actress Daryl Hannah since their two families had vacationed together in Apotheosis Martin in the early Eighties.

After meeting again at justness wedding of his aunt Revel in Radziwill in 1988, they cautious for five and a bisection years, though their relationship was complicated by her feelings represent singer Jackson Browne, with whom she had lived for clean up time.^[64]

From 1985 to 1990, Airport dated Christina Haag. They esoteric known each other as family and she also attended Embrown University.^[65]

Marriage

After his relationship with Daryl Hannah ended, Kennedy lived confident Carolyn Bessette, who worked sediment the fashion industry.

They were engaged for a year, even though Kennedy consistently denied reports prepare this. On September 21, 1996 they married in a confidential ceremony on Cumberland Island, Georgia,^[66] where his sister, Caroline, was matron of honor and sovereign cousin Anthony Radziwill was first man.^[67] His nieces Rose President Schlossberg and Tatiana Kennedy Schlossberg served as flower girls, obtain nephew Jack Kennedy Schlossberg served as ring bearer.^[68]

The next time, Kennedy's cousin Patrick revealed zigzag the pair had married.

As they returned to their Borough home a mass of radio b newspaper people was on the doorstep. Way of being of them asked Kennedy assuming he had enjoyed his honeymoon, to which he responded: "Very much." He added "Getting spliced is a big adjustment affection us, and for a concealed citizen like Carolyn even much so.

I ask you finished give her all the retirement and room you can."^[69]

Bessette was disoriented by the constant publicity of the paparazzi. The span were permanently on show, both at fashionable Manhattan events slab on their travels to look in on celebrities such as Mariuccia Mandelli and Gianni Versace.^[70] She complained to her friend, journalist Jonathan Soroff, that she could arrange get a job without build on accused of exploiting her fame.^[71]

Death

Main article: 1999 Martha's Vineyard outside crash

Kennedy wanted to become unadulterated pilot since he was a- child.

He took flying guide at the Flight Safety Institute in Vero Beach, Florida^[50] standing received his pilot's license skull April 1998.^[42] The death compensation his cousin Michael in top-notch skiing accident^[72] had prompted Trick to take a hiatus implant his piloting lessons for pair months.

His sister Caroline hoped this would be permanent nevertheless when he resumed she blunt little to stop him.^[73]

On July 16, 1999, Kennedy departed pass up Fairfield, New Jersey at honourableness controls of his Piper Saratoga light aircraft. He was move with his wife Carolyn reprove sister-in-law Lauren Bessette.

Lauren was to be dropped off put behind you Martha's Vineyard and Kennedy forward his wife would continue trip to Hyannis Port, Massachusetts inherit attend the wedding of diadem cousin Rory Kennedy. He difficult to understand purchased the plane from Conduit Bound Aviation on April 28.^[74] Carolyn and Lauren were traffic sitting in the second chuck of seats.^[75] Kennedy had epidemic in with the control spire at the Martha's Vineyard Airfield but the plane was in circulation missing after it failed visit arrive on schedule.^[76]

Officials were band hopeful about finding survivors back aircraft debris and a caliginous suitcase belonging to Bessette were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean.^[77] President Bill Clinton gave sovereign support to the Kennedy race during the search for blue blood the gentry three missing passengers.^[77]

On July 18, a Coast Guard admiral proclaimed an end to the come to rescue efforts.^[78] Within the next shine unsteadily days, the fragments of Kennedy's plane were found by Office vessel Rude using side-scan asdic, subsequently prompting Navy divers vertical descend into the 62 °F (17 °C) water.

They found part make public the shattered plane strewn write off a broad area of ocean 120 feet (37 m) below loftiness surface of the Atlantic Ocean.^[79] The search ended in decency late afternoon of July 21 when high-resolution images of greatness ocean bottom^[80] helped Navy various recover the three bodies foreigner the ocean floor.

The colonize were taken by motorcade adopt the county medical examiner's office.^[81] Divers found Carolyn's and Lauren's bodies near the twisted limit broken fuselage while Kennedy's target was still strapped into prestige pilot's seat.^[76] Admiral Richard Classification. Larrabee of the Coast Minder said that all three common herd were "near and under" integrity fuselage, still strapped in.^[82]

The Staterun Transportation Safety Board determined ditch pilot error was the shady cause of the crash: "Kennedy's failure to maintain control prescription the airplane during a race over water at night, which was a result of spacial disorientation."^[83]

Later that evening, the folk were autopsied at the province medical examiner's office and expressionless from Hyannis to Duxbury, Colony, where they were cremated occupy the Mayflower Cemetery crematorium.^[84][85] Goodness families announced their plans stingy memorial services the same day.^[81] The autopsy determined that justness crash victims had died come across impact.

Ted Kennedy favored top-hole public service for John, behaviour Caroline Kennedy insisted on brotherhood privacy.^[86] On the morning pale July 22, their ashes were scattered at sea from class Navy destroyerUSS Briscoe off the veer let slide forget of Martha's Vineyard.^[87]

A memorial bravado was held for Kennedy sect July 23, 1999 at honourableness Church of St.

Thomas Hound in New York City, first-class parish that Kennedy had many a time attended with his mother unthinkable sister. The invitation-only service was attended by hundreds of mourners, including President Bill Clinton, who presented the family with snapshot albums of John and Carolyn on their visit to position White House from the past year.^[88]

Will

Kennedy's last will and instrument stipulated that his personal possessions, property, and holdings were form be "evenly distributed" among emperor sister Caroline’s three children – Rose, Tatiana, and Jack – who were among fourteen beneficiaries in his will.^[76] A lady of the press set that belonged to enthrone father, President Kennedy, was assess to his nephew Jack.^[89]

Legacy

In 2000, Reaching Up, the organization which Kennedy founded in 1989, connubial with The City University attain New York to establish magnanimity John F.

Kennedy Jr. Institute.^[90] In 2003, the ARCO Consultation at Harvard Kennedy School was renamed the John F. Airdrome Jr. Forum of Public Commission. Kennedy had been a participant of the Senior Advisory Council of Harvard's Institute of Government policy for fifteen years and barney active participant in Forum handiwork.

Ted Kennedy said the renaming symbolically linked Kennedy with fillet late father; Caroline Kennedy articulated the renaming reflected his passion of discussing politics.^[91]

In 2013, fantasize the fiftieth anniversary of picture 1963 presidential assassination, the New York Daily News re-ran authority famous photograph of the three-year-old Kennedy saluting his father's tomb during the funeral procession.

Artist Dan Farrell, who took justness photo, called it "the saddest thing I've ever seen double up my whole life".^[92]

See also

References

Works cited

• Blow, Richard (2002). American Son: A Portrait of Closet F. Kennedy, Jr. St. Martin's Paperbacks. ISBN .
• Bly, Nellie (1996). The Kennedy Men: Three Generations hostilities Sex, Scandal and Secrets.

  Kensington. ISBN .

• Davis, John H. (1993). The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster. S.P.I. Books. ISBN .
• Heymann, C. David (2008). American Legacy: The Story draw round John and Caroline Kennedy. Atria Books. ISBN .
• Landau, Elaine (2000). John F.

  Kennedy, Jr. Millbrook Measure. ISBN .

• Leamer, Laurence (2005). Sons lecture Camelot: The Fate of chiefly American Dynasty. William Morrow Paperbacks. ISBN .

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