Historical records matching John F. Kennedy, Jr.
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About John F. Kennedy, Jr.
John F. Kennedy, Jr. often referred to as John-John or JFK Jr., was an American attorney, journalist, and magazine publisher. He was a son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
Kennedy was born two weeks after his father was elected president. He spent his early childhood years living in the White House until his father was assassinated. At the funeral procession, which took place on his third birthday, he gave his father's flag-draped casket a final salute as it came past him.
As an adult, Kennedy worked for nearly four years as an assistant district attorney in New York City. In 1995, he launched the magazine George, using his political and celebrity status to promote it. He was a popular social figure in Manhattan and the subject of intense media scrutiny throughout his life. His death in a plane crash in 1999 was highly publicized.
Family life
Kennedy was born at Georgetown University Hospital on November 25, 1960. His father, Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy, had been elected president less than three weeks earlier and was inaugurated two months after his son's birth. John Jr. had an older sister, Caroline, and a younger brother, Patrick, who died of respiratory distress syndrome two days after his premature birth in 1963. His putative nickname, "John-John", came from a reporter who misheard his father calling him "John" twice in quick succession; the name was not used by his family.
In adulthood, Kennedy met and lived with Carolyn Bessette, who worked in the fashion industry. They were engaged for a year, though Kennedy consistently denied reports of this. On September 21, 1996 they married in a private ceremony on Cumberland Island, Georgia, where his sister, Caroline, was matron of honor and his cousin Anthony Radziwill was best man.
Death
On July 16, 1999, Kennedy departed from Fairfield, New Jersey at the controls of his Piper Saratoga light aircraft. He was traveling with his wife, Carolyn, and his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette. Lauren was to be dropped off at Martha's Vineyard, while Kennedy and his wife would continue on to Hyannis Port, Massachusetts to attend the wedding of his cousin Rory Kennedy. Kennedy had checked in with the control tower at the Martha's Vineyard Airport but the plane was reported missing after it failed to arrive on schedule.
On July 19 fragments of Kennedy's plane were found by the NOAA vessel Rude using side-scan sonar. The next day Navy divers descended into the 62 °F (17 °C) water. They found part of the shattered plane strewn over a broad area of seabed 120 feet (37 m) below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. The search ended in the late afternoon of July 21 when high-resolution images of the ocean bottom helped Navy divers recover the three bodies from the ocean floor. On the morning of July 22 their ashes were scattered at sea from the Navy destroyer USS Briscoe off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sources
- Duke, Lynne. "Bodies of Kennedy, Bessettes Brought to Shore." The Washington Post, published 22 July 1999. < link > Accessed 8 August 2024.
- "John F. Kennedy Jr." Wikipedia, revision of 6 August 2024. < link > Accessed 7 August 2024.
- Parsley, Aaron. "All About JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette's 1996 Secret Wedding." People, published 26 August 2023. < link > Accessed 8 August 2024.
John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Timeline
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November 25, 1960
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Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Road Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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July 16, 1999
Age 38
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in the Atlantic Ocean, 7.5 miles southwest of Philbin Beach, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States
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July 22, 1999
Age 38
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ashes scattered into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States
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