25 years ago tonight JFK Jr's plane went down

He was gorgeous.

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.

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.

John-John's death was the second saddest of a generation.

Diana, Princess of Wales was the saddest.

R4 Funny, his father's and Uncle's deaths were the saddest of my generation

I was shocked and then I got pissed off. He was in his prime.

The day the beauty died.

Well, at least I got him to sign off on my deed ownership of mom’s Vineyard pad first—whew!

That wedding should’ve been postponed to 1 year later, and with all guests and wedding party members wearing ash cloths in black!

I woke up to my mother screaming “John John’s planes missing, John John’s planes missing!”

I swam out and retrieved the bodies.

As I was then, I am now- in Palm Springs. The only other time other than right now that I was here in July.

R13. Go grab a Robek Juice. My favorite Palm Springs in July pasttime.

Fascinating, R13!

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.

R12 No, Teddy, I swam out and retrieved the bodies !

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.

Rare clip of Carolyn speaking.

Barbara Walters once told her never to give an interview to keep her mysterious to the public.

R5 Robert Kennedys death was not sadder than MLK Jr.

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?

Toothy Kennedy scum too dumb to be a pilot.

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.

R22 Check out Rory Kennedy. She literally looks like a hare.

"How do they manage to carry on living against such deep sorrow?"

we are cheered by your thread R21

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.

They were the Harry and Meghan of their generation!!! So beautiful, talented, and servants of the people!!!

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?

Weren't they disoriented and they thought they were flying straight ahead? But they had to have felt the gravity pulling their bodies down.