American Decades
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, Jr. 196O-1999
LAWYER AND PUBLISHER
Another Kennedy Tragedy.
John F. Kennedy jr. was only thirty-eight when he died Friday, 16 July 1999, when the small plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. Killed along with him were his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette. They were on their way to cousin Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy's wedding. When Kennedy did not arrive, a family member contacted the Coast Guard, which launched an intensive search Saturday morning. That afternoon debris from the plane began to wash up on shore. The nation waited in shock as television provided around-the-clock coverage of the search. By Sunday hope was all but gone, and finally the Coast Guard announced that it had changed its search-and-rescue mission to search-and-recover. The bodies, still in the fuselage, were recovered Wednesday; Kennedy was cremated and buried at sea within...
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