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John F. Kennedy Jr.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John-John or JFK Jr., was an American attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was a son of 35th U.S. president John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
Born two weeks after his father was elected president, Kennedy 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 Manhattan. In 1995, he launched his magazine George by using his political and celebrity status to promote it.
A popular social figure in Manhattan, Kennedy was the subject of intense media coverage throughout his entire life. The constant focus of the paparazzi extended to his personal life, especially his marriage to Carolyn Bessette. He was also involved in nonprofit work and his family's political campaigns. Kennedy died in a highly publicized plane crash in 1999.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. 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. Kennedy had an older sister, Caroline, who was born three years earlier. His parents had a stillborn daughter, Arabella, in 1956 and later had an infant son, Patrick, who died 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.
Kennedy lived in the White House during the first three years of his life and remained in the public spotlight as a young adult. His father was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and the state funeral was held three days later, on Kennedy's third birthday. In a famous moment, Kennedy stepped forward and rendered a final salute as his father's flag-draped casket was carried out from St. Matthew's Cathedral. The photo was called "the most impressive...shot in the history of television" by NBC News vice president Julian Goodman. Several photographers captured the moment, including United Press International photographer Stan Stearns (who became chief White House photographer during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration) and Dan Farrell for the New York Daily News. Lyndon B. Johnson wrote his first letter as president to Kennedy and told him that he "can always be proud" of his father.
Following the assassination, the family continued with their plans for a birthday party to demonstrate that they would go on despite the death of the president. They moved to the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C. for a short time, and then to a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, where Kennedy grew up. In 1967, his mother took him and Caroline on a six-week "sentimental journey" to Ireland, where they met President Éamon de Valera and visited the Kennedy ancestral home in Dunganstown.
After Kennedy's uncle Robert was assassinated in 1968, Jackie took Caroline and Kennedy out of the United States, saying: "If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets ... I want to get out of this country." She married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis that year, and the family moved to his private island of Skorpios. Kennedy is said to have considered his stepfather to be "a joke". Onassis died in 1975 and left his widow $250,000 a year, although she later settled with Christina Onassis for $25 million in exchange for not contesting the will.
Kennedy returned to the White House with his mother and sister in 1971 for the first time since his father's assassination. President Richard Nixon's two daughters gave Kennedy a tour that included his old bedroom and Nixon showed him the Resolute desk under which his father had let Kennedy play.
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John F. Kennedy Jr.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John-John or JFK Jr., was an American attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was a son of 35th U.S. president John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
Born two weeks after his father was elected president, Kennedy 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 Manhattan. In 1995, he launched his magazine George by using his political and celebrity status to promote it.
A popular social figure in Manhattan, Kennedy was the subject of intense media coverage throughout his entire life. The constant focus of the paparazzi extended to his personal life, especially his marriage to Carolyn Bessette. He was also involved in nonprofit work and his family's political campaigns. Kennedy died in a highly publicized plane crash in 1999.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. 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. Kennedy had an older sister, Caroline, who was born three years earlier. His parents had a stillborn daughter, Arabella, in 1956 and later had an infant son, Patrick, who died 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.
Kennedy lived in the White House during the first three years of his life and remained in the public spotlight as a young adult. His father was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and the state funeral was held three days later, on Kennedy's third birthday. In a famous moment, Kennedy stepped forward and rendered a final salute as his father's flag-draped casket was carried out from St. Matthew's Cathedral. The photo was called "the most impressive...shot in the history of television" by NBC News vice president Julian Goodman. Several photographers captured the moment, including United Press International photographer Stan Stearns (who became chief White House photographer during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration) and Dan Farrell for the New York Daily News. Lyndon B. Johnson wrote his first letter as president to Kennedy and told him that he "can always be proud" of his father.
Following the assassination, the family continued with their plans for a birthday party to demonstrate that they would go on despite the death of the president. They moved to the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C. for a short time, and then to a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, where Kennedy grew up. In 1967, his mother took him and Caroline on a six-week "sentimental journey" to Ireland, where they met President Éamon de Valera and visited the Kennedy ancestral home in Dunganstown.
After Kennedy's uncle Robert was assassinated in 1968, Jackie took Caroline and Kennedy out of the United States, saying: "If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets ... I want to get out of this country." She married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis that year, and the family moved to his private island of Skorpios. Kennedy is said to have considered his stepfather to be "a joke". Onassis died in 1975 and left his widow $250,000 a year, although she later settled with Christina Onassis for $25 million in exchange for not contesting the will.
Kennedy returned to the White House with his mother and sister in 1971 for the first time since his father's assassination. President Richard Nixon's two daughters gave Kennedy a tour that included his old bedroom and Nixon showed him the Resolute desk under which his father had let Kennedy play.
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