25 years ago tonight, JFK Jr's plane went down in the water off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. He was flying in with his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette to attend the wedding of his cousin Rory Kennedy to Mark Bailey the next day in Hyannisport, MA ( their wedding would be postponed to August of that year). The world was stunned to wake up to the news the next morning.
25 years ago tonight JFK Jr's plane went down
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 5, 2024 2:27 PM |
He was gorgeous.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 17, 2024 12:27 AM |
R1, the girls weren't exactly chopped liver either.
I wonder if the political landscape would be any different had the plane not crashed - or if they'd just be another irritable upper-class couple fuming on the sidelines.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 17, 2024 12:32 AM |
Most of the Kennedy guys were great looking in their early to middle ages of adulthood (including RFK Jr). Once they hit their fifties, they started with the bloated look and aged quickly (especially with their Irish skin).
The Kennedy girls, on the other hand, were never 'attractive' - ever. Starting with Caroline, and this woman Rory (her cousin). They all look like horses, and as they age they look worse.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 17, 2024 12:40 AM |
John-John's death was the second saddest of a generation.
Diana, Princess of Wales was the saddest.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 17, 2024 12:41 AM |
R4 Funny, his father's and Uncle's deaths were the saddest of my generation
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 17, 2024 12:56 AM |
I was shocked and then I got pissed off. He was in his prime.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 17, 2024 12:56 AM |
The day the beauty died.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 17, 2024 12:57 AM |
Well, at least I got him to sign off on my deed ownership of mom’s Vineyard pad first—whew!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 17, 2024 1:12 AM |
That wedding should’ve been postponed to 1 year later, and with all guests and wedding party members wearing ash cloths in black!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 17, 2024 1:15 AM |
I woke up to my mother screaming “John John’s planes missing, John John’s planes missing!”
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 17, 2024 1:28 AM |
I swam out and retrieved the bodies.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 17, 2024 1:42 AM |
As I was then, I am now- in Palm Springs. The only other time other than right now that I was here in July.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 17, 2024 1:47 AM |
R13. Go grab a Robek Juice. My favorite Palm Springs in July pasttime.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 17, 2024 2:02 AM |
Fascinating, R13!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 17, 2024 2:04 AM |
A very dim bulb with a death wish and to bring others down with him. That night he flew dangerously close to an airliner with 100s of people aboard. Using a plane he bought too advanced for his experience and taking off at dusk when he needed visibility. I saw him twice and he glowed. I didn't realize there was such stupidity verging on evil within.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 17, 2024 2:11 AM |
R12 No, Teddy, I swam out and retrieved the bodies !
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 17, 2024 2:12 AM |
R16 holy shit I wasn't aware that he flew close to a plane. That's horrifying.
Many who knew him have commented that he wasn't bright.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 17, 2024 2:18 AM |
Rare clip of Carolyn speaking.
Barbara Walters once told her never to give an interview to keep her mysterious to the public.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 21, 2024 9:42 AM |
R5 Robert Kennedys death was not sadder than MLK Jr.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 21, 2024 11:28 AM |
The gay death ghouls who pine over the loss of JFK Jr, Jon Erik Hexum, Princess Diana, etc. are the worst.
How do they manage to carry on living against such deep sorrow?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 21, 2024 11:54 AM |
Toothy Kennedy scum too dumb to be a pilot.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 21, 2024 1:32 PM |
His mother knew that. She also told him George was a very bad idea and could never work. Once she died much too young that was it for him.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 24, 2024 10:31 AM |
R22 Check out Rory Kennedy. She literally looks like a hare.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 24, 2024 11:59 AM |
"How do they manage to carry on living against such deep sorrow?"
we are cheered by your thread R21
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 24, 2024 1:00 PM |
Probably the most glamourous couple of their time.
Yeah, he was stupid and she was a bitch.
They're dead, Jim.
Allow them their entry into the Valhalla of Unattainable Threesomes.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 5, 2024 6:13 AM |
They were the Harry and Meghan of their generation!!! So beautiful, talented, and servants of the people!!!
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 5, 2024 6:56 AM |
He was never properly condemned for his stupidity in taking his wife and his sister to their deaths like this. Can you imagine their horror?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 5, 2024 10:38 AM |
Weren't they disoriented and they thought they were flying straight ahead? But they had to have felt the gravity pulling their bodies down.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 5, 2024 2:27 PM |