59 “God loves the Kennedys”: Kennedy.
60 Taylor Swift: Rebecca Macatee, “Taylor Swift’s Boyfriend: Five Things to Know about Conor Kennedy,” eonline.com, April 22, 2012.
61 Braison Cyrus: Helen Regan, “Miley Cyrus and Patrick Schwarzenegger’s Siblings Are Also Dating,” Time.com, January 15, 2015.
62 Katherine Schwarzenegger marries actor Chris Pratt: Lauren Hubbard, “A Definitive Timeline of Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger’s Relationship,” TownandCountrymag.com, June 9, 2019.
63“case of triumph and tragedy”: Bosman, Taylor, and Bogel-Burroughs, “The Kennedy Grandchildren.”
64 “back to the Kennedys”: Michael Levenson, “For Kennedy Grandchildren, Family Name Is a Burden and a Blessing,” Boston Globe, August 2, 2019.
65 “federal elective office”: Emilia Petrarca, “A Guide to the Very Large, Very Beautiful, and Very Connected Kennedy Family,” W Magazine, November 25, 2018.
66 “all eyes have been on Joe”: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 539.
67 “not easy psychologically”: Darrell M. West, “The End of the Kennedy Dynasty?” Brookings, February 16, 2010.
68 “faint of heart”: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 547.
PART EIGHT
The Prince: John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
Chapter 53
1 “Jackie has been rushed”: W. H. Lawrence, “Kennedy Alters Schedule to Stay Close to New Son, New York Times, November 25, 1960.
2 “never there when she needs me”: Thurston Clarke, “A Death in the First Family,” Vanity Fair, July 1, 2013.
3 Captain Dick Cramer: Lawrence, “Kennedy Alters Schedule.”
4 “really something”: Merriman Smith, “President Elect Proud of Son to be Named John F. Kennedy Jr.,” United Press International, November 25, 1969.
5 “asked the name of his son”: Smith, “President Elect Proud of Son.”
6 “named him”: Evan Thomas, “Living with the Myth,” Newsweek, July 25, 1999.
7 “life more challenging”: Liz McNeil, “Revealing the Real (and Very Complicated) John F. Kennedy Jr. 20 Years After His Death: ‘He Was Two People,’” People, July 2, 2019.
8 “Isn’t he sweet, Jack?”: “Kennedy’s Son Baptized in Hospital Chapel,” special to the New York Times, December 9, 1960.
9 “Gift for Kennedy Baby”: “Gift for Kennedy Baby,” special to the New York Times, June 1, 1961.
10 “still has a cold”: “John Jr. to Miss Party; Kennedy’s Son Still Has Cold—Condition Not Serious,” New York Times, November 25, 1961.
11 “Fauntleroy” hairstyle: Martha Brant, “Coming of Age,” Newsweek, August 13, 1995.
12 “children tumbling”: “Jackie O’s Antiquated Views Horrified Grandkids,” Associated Press, September 14, 2011.
13 “It was John’s treat”: Mark Mooney, “Jacqueline Kennedy’s Audio Tapes: ‘John John’ Says ‘He’s Gone to Heaven,’” ABCNews.com, September 13, 2011.
14 “didn’t like to read books to them”: Jacqueline Kennedy, “In Her Voice, Jacqueline Kennedy, the White House Years,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
15 “President and Caroline were sailing with Franklin Roosevelt”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (New York: Greenwich House; distributed by Crown, 1983), 668.
16 “oblique pun”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 311.
17 “part of the yacht”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys.
18 “stories about other Presidents”: Jacqueline Kennedy, “In Her Voice, Jacqueline Kennedy, The White House Years.”
19 “Jackie wanted her kids”: Christopher Anderson, These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie (New York: Gallery Books, 2013), 147.
20 “nurses and Secret Service men”: Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 146.
21 First airplane ride: Martha Sherrill, “He Speaks,” Washington Post, September 7, 1995.
22 “put on the pilot’s helmet”: Maud Shaw, White House Nannie: My Years with Caroline and John Kennedy, Jr. (New York: New American Library, 1966), 146.
23 “one wonderful memory” Shaw, White House Nannie.
24 “He adored airplanes”: Rita Dallas with Jeanira Ratcliffe, The Kennedy Case (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973), 230.
25 “bought them by the gross”: Dallas, The Kennedy Case, 230.
26 Photo of John Jr. dated January 21, 1963: “John F. Kennedy, Jr. (JFK, Jr.), in the President’s Secretary’s Office, Cecil Stoughton, White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
27 “usual pacified”: Dallas, The Kennedy Case, 230.
28 “when I grow up”: Dallas, 230.
29 “when he’s old enough”: Paul Bentley, “Nobody’s Going to Shoot Me: How JFK Tried to Get the Secret Service to Back off,” Daily Mail (UK), November 20, 2013.
30 “the poor Secret Service”: Bentley, “Nobody’s Going to Shoot.”
31 AP photo dated October 3, 1963: AP wire photo (f513000tf-HWG), 1963.
32 “racing across the lawn”: “Ted Kennedy Pays Tribute to His Nephew,” CNN.com, July 23, 1999.
33 “Good night, Daddy”: Barbara Leaming, “The Winter of Her Despair,” Vanity Fair, September 18, 2014.
Chapter 54
1 “yacht of a Greek oil millionaire”: “Jackie Kennedy: One of the World’s Most Expensive Women,” India Today, November 30, 1977.
2 “number one targets”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 367.
3 “very lonely”: Jessica Contrera, “‘How Could You?’ The Day Jackie Kennedy Became Jackie Onassis,” Washington Post, October 20, 2018.
4 “comes as a surprise”: Hilary Weaver, “The Marriage Proposal Jackie Turned Down,” Vanity Fair, February 9, 2017.
5 “wise and kind”: Weaver, “The Marriage Proposal.”
6 “now that Bobby was gone”: Contrera, “‘How Could You?’”
7 “We are very happy”: Peter Jonas, “Jackie Kennedy Marries Greek Billionaire in 1968,” New York Daily News, November 21, 1968.
8 “Who wouldn’t be”: Barbara A. Perry, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch. (New York: Norton, 2013), 302.
9 “business transaction”: “Jackie Kennedy: One of the World’s.”
10 “Jackie’s glance kept turning”: “Jackie Kennedy: One of the World’s.”
11 “the fabled vessel”: Peter Mikelbank, “All About the Luxury Yacht Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz Will Charter for Their Wedding Celebration,” People, August 2, 2019.
12 “Jackie, How Could You?”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 367.
13 “fifty years ago”: Contrera, “How Could You?”
14 “engulfed in shadows”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 203.
15 “good father to John and Caroline”: Contrera, “How Could You?”
16 “widow and mother”: Dallas, The Kennedy Case, 328.
17 “profound perhaps disturbing”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 75.
18 Christina’s death: GCT, “November 19, 1988, Christina Onassis Sadly Passes Away Aged 37,” Greek City Times.
19 “happy man before I married”: Taraborrelli, After Camelot, 195.
Chapter 55
1 “bleeding inside”: Barbara Leaming, “The Winter of Her Despair,” Vanity Fair, September 18, 2014.
2 “Nobody can do for them”: Leaming, “Winter of Her Despair.”
3 “controlling and domineering mother”: Maureen Callahan, “Inside Ethel Kennedy’s Cruel Neglect of Her Troubled Kids,” New York Post, September 13, 2015.
4 “moods could swing drastically”: Callahan, “Inside Ethel Kennedy’s Cruel Neglect.”
5 “Jackie on a budget?”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 253.
6 “If anything happens to John”: Liz Cantrell, “John F. Kennedy Jr.’s Close Friend Sheds Light on the Former First Son’s Final Days in New Biography,” Town & Country, July 14, 2019.
7 “allowed to experience life”: Katherine Q. Seelye, “John F. Kennedy Jr., Heir to a Formidable Dynasty,” New York Times, July 19, 1999.
8 “Me too”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation—A Legacy of Tragedy and Triumph (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 318.
9 “cannot tempt fate:” Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 319.
10 “never let my children fly”: Taraborrelli, 319.
11 “jumping all over the place”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 415.
12 “good for her son”: Evan Thomas, “Living with the Myth.” Newsweek, July 25, 1999.
13 “happy-go-lucky”: Bethany Bray, “PA Teacher Remembers Life with JFK Jr.,” Andover Townsman, December 4, 2008.
14 “incredible pressure”: Michael Powell, “JFK Jr.: As Child and Man, America’s Crown Prince,” Washington Post, July 18, 1999.
15 “great boarding school mother”: Bray, “PA Teacher Remembers Life with JFK Jr.”
16 “push the disciplinary envelope”: Evan Thomas, “An Unsettling Portrait of Four Privileged Classmates Who Met Untimely Deaths,” Washington Post, July 25, 2019.
17 John Jr.’s undergraduate application: Emily Smith and Tashara Jones, “Jackie Worked Hard to Keep JFK from Flunking.” New York Post, October 9, 2017.
18 “special consideration for my children”: Eileen Reslen, “JFK Jr.’s College Application and Jackie Kennedy’s Letters to His Professors Are for Sale,” Harper’s Bazaar, October 9, 2017.
19 “bad habits of borrowing money”: Thomas, “An Unsettling Portrait.”
20 “borrow a quarter every night”: Martha Brant, “Coming of Age,” Newsweek, August 13, 1995.
21 Off-off Broadway debut: “Acting Up Off-Off-Broadway, John Kennedy Jr. Auditions a New Stage for Himself,” People, August 26, 1985.
22 “best young actors”: “Acting Up Off-Off-Broadway.”
23 “John’s problem as an actor”: Brant, “Coming of Age.”
24 “only a hobby”: Brant.
25 “not a legal genius.” Bob Greene, “‘The Hunk Flunks’ and We Are Shamed,” Chicago Tribune, May 7, 1990.
26 “difficulties for any defense”: Ronald Sullivan, “Prosecutor Kennedy Wins First Trial Easily,” New York Times, August 30, 1991.
27 “Winning is better than losing”: Sullivan, “Prosecutor Kennedy Wins First Trial Easily.”
Chapter 56
1 “steal your soul”: Evan Thomas, “Living with the Myth,” Newsweek, July 25, 1999.
2 “skating down West Broadway”: Frank DiGiacomo, “John Kennedy, New Yorker,” Observer, July 26, 1999.
3 “I was blown away”: DiGiacomo, “John Kennedy, New Yorker.”
4 “you’re a Kennedy”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 312.
5 “hated his hair”: “What JFK Jr. Thought of His Hair, ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ Title & Having Kids: His Assistant Tells All,” Extra.com, July 29, 2016.
6 “best-dressed lists”: Thomas, “Living with the Myth.”
7 “magicians are only as good”: Elizabeth Mehren, “Crisis Crosses Camelot’s Moat in Massachusetts,” Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1997.
8 “‘I’m JFK’”: Martha Brant, “Coming of Age,” Newsweek, August 13, 1995.
9 “interesting to be you”: Liz McNeil, “Revealing the Real (and Very Complicated) John F. Kennedy Jr. Twenty Years after His Death (He Was Two People),” People, July 2, 2019.
10 “legacy or a mystique,” Katherine Q. Seelye, “John F. Kennedy Jr., Heir to a Formidable Dynasty, New York Times, July 19, 1999.
11 “obviously very close”: “John F. Kennedy Jr.’s Life in the Spotlight,” Oprah.com.
12 “more of a brother”: Stephanie Nolasco, “John F. Kennedy Was ’Emotionally Devastated’ by His Cousin Anthony Radziwill’s Cancer Diagnosis, Says Pal,” Fox News, July 16, 2019.
13 “Anthony had his back”: Julie Miller, “Carolyn Bessette’s Fraught Final Summer,” Vanity Fair, July 16, 2019.
14 “loved John, hated John”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs—John, Caroline, and the Third Generation: A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 240.
15 “raised to be President”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 346.
16 “remarkable experiment in eugenics”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 355–56.
17 “the most Kennedy”: Barbara Matusow, “Bobby’s Children Showed the Best, Worst of Family,” Sun-Sentinel, November 17, 1988.
18 “You’re not Kennedys, you’re only Shrivers”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 341.
19 “endure as a Kennedy”: William D. Cohan, “You Don’t Just Wallow in Death. You Move on. You Hold it Inside”: The Struggle of John F. Kennedy Jr, American Prince,” Vanity Fair, July 7, 2019.
20 “her two miracles”: R. W. Apple Jr., “Death of a First Lady: The Overview; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Is Buried. New York Times, May 24, 1994.
21 “Ultimate Beautiful Person”: Cohan, “You Don’t Just Wallow in Death.”
22 “ordinary person”: Cohan.
23 “Carolyn isn’t everything”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the Third Generation—A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 40.
24 “smoke and mirrors”: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs.
25 “definitely chased her”: Sarah Grossbart, “Inside the Heartbreakingly Tragic Final Days of John F. Kennedy Jr. Family Strife Financial Woes and Talk of Divorce,” E! News, January 4, 2019.
26 “enthralled with her”: Julie Miller, “Carolyn Bessette’s Fraught Final Summer.”
27 “held the proposal off”: Grossbart, “Inside the Heartbreakingly Tragic.”
28 “What’s John been doing”: Thomas, “Living with the Myth.”
29 “called my hotel”: Kate Storey, “The Inside Story of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s George Magazine,” Esquire, April 22, 2019.
30 “rollerblading with John”: Storey, “The Inside Story of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s George Magazine.”
31 “video was terrible”: Glynnis MacNichol, “Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy?” Town & Country, August 3, 2016.
32 Islanders gathered: Margo Harakas, “Preserving a Legacy,” Sun-Sentinel, April 22, 1999.
33 “If Mr. Kennedy wanted privacy”: Kevin Sack, “The Island That Kept a Wedding a Secret,” New York Times, September 26, 1996.
34 “fooled everybody”: Sack, “The Island That Kept a Wedding a Secret.”
35 “more security than wedding guests”: Leah Bourne, “#Throwback Thursday: Carolyn Bessette and John F. Kennedy’s Jr. Truly Timeless Wedding,” StyleCaster.com.
36 “mysterious and female”: Ann Gerhart, “Bessette Tried to Avoid Kennedy Spotlight,” Washington Post, July 18, 1999.
37 “any privacy or room you could give”: MacNicol, “Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy?”
38 “JUST LEAVE HER ALONE”: MacNichol.
39 “We’re used to a certain degree of being watched”: “John F. Kennedy Jr.’s Life in the Spotlight,” Oprah.com.
40 “invited me on your show”: “John F. Kennedy Jr.’s Life in the Spotlight,” Oprah.com.
41 “born famous”: Nolasco, “John F. Kennedy Was ’Emotionally Devastated.’”
42 “see the paparazzi”: Miller, “Carolyn Bessette’s Fraught Final Summer.”
Chapter 57
&nbs
p; 1 US government to pay the Zapruder family: Michael E. Ruane, “As He Filmed Abraham Zapruder Knew Instantly That President Kennedy Was Dead,” Washington Post, November 21, 2013.
2 “John Cole”: Stacey Singer, “Students: Kennedy Took Safety Seriously,” South Florida Sun-Sentinel, July 19, 1999.
3 “Flight Safety Academy”: Edward Klein, The Kennedy Curse: Why America’s First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003), 216.
4 “strict with me”: Singer, “Students: Kennedy Took Safety Seriously.”
5 “He told me his wife didn’t want him to do it”: Singer.
6 Flight training: National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Accident Final Report, July 6, 2000.
7 “The only person”: Evan Thomas, “Living with the Myth,” Newsweek, July 25, 1999.
8 “I don’t trust him”: Thomas, “Living with the Myth.”
9 “exist without John?” Carl Swanson, “George Magazine Loses a ‘Yes’ Woman as Hachette Steps In,” Observer, January 18, 1999.
10 “content and in love”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation—A Legacy of Tragedy and Triumph (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 300.
11 “not the truth”: Julie Miller, “Carolyn Bessette’s Fraught Final Summer,” Vanity Fair, July 16, 2019.
12 “not going to sugarcoat”: Miller, “Carolyn Bessette’s Fraught Final Summer.”
13 “emotionally devastating”: Stephanie Nolasco, “John F. Kennedy Was ’Emotionally Devastated’ by His Cousin Anthony Radziwill’s Cancer Diagnosis, Says Pal,” Fox News, July 16, 2019.
14 “gone too far”: “Not a Lot of Love in Camelot,” Irish News (UK), November 13, 1999.
15 “not a priority”: Sara Stewart, “Carolyn’s Secret Torment,” New York Post, January 19, 2012.
16 “will be fun”: Klein, The Kennedy Curse, 220.
17 “enough to be dangerous”: Dale Russakoff and Lynne Duke, “JFK JR. Gave Up Copilot as Ankle Healed,” Washington Post, July 21, 1999.
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