John F. Kennedy Jr.

"John Kennedy Jr." redirects here. For other people named John Kennedy Jr., see John Kennedy (disambiguation).

American attorney and magazine publisher (1960–1999)

John F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy in 1997

Born|

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.

(1960-11-25)November 25, 1960

Washington, D.C., U.S.

Died| July 16, 1999(1999-07-16) (aged 38)

Atlantic Ocean, near Martha's Vineyard, U.S.

Cause of death| Plane crash
Alma mater|

* Brown University (BA)
* New York University (JD)

Occupations|

* Attorney
* journalist
* magazine publisher

Political party| Democratic
Spouse|

Carolyn Bessette

(m. 1996)​

Parents|

* John F. Kennedy
* Jacqueline Kennedy

Family| Kennedy family
Bouvier family

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John-John or JFK Jr., was an American socialite, attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was a son of 35th United States 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, Kennedy 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 New York City. In 1995, he launched the magazine George, using his political and celebrity status to promote it. Kennedy was a popular social figure in Manhattan and the subject of intense media attention throughout his life, and his death in a plane crash in 1999 at age 38 was highly publicized.

## Early life

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Kennedy at age two with his father in the White House

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born at Georgetown University Hospital on November 25, 1960.[1] His father, Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy, had been elected president less than three weeks earlier[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]

Kennedy rendering a final salute to his father's casket on the latter's state funeral, during the former's third birthday

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.[5] The photo was called "the most impressive...shot in the history of television" by NBC News vice president Julian Goodman.[6] Several photographers captured the moment, including United Press International photographer Stan Stearns (who became chief White House photographer during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration)[7] and Dan Farrell for the New York Daily News.[8] Lyndon B. Johnson wrote his first letter as president to Kennedy and told him that he "can always be proud" of his father.[9]

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.[10] 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.[11]

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."[12] 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 "a joke".[13] Onassis died in 1975 and left his widow $250,000 a year,[14] 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.[15]

### Education

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Kennedy attended private schools in Manhattan, starting at Saint David's School and moving to Collegiate School, which he attended from third through tenth grade.[11] Kennedy completed his education at Phillips Academy, a preparatory boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts. After graduating, he accompanied his mother on a trip to Africa. Kennedy's group got lost for two days without food or water while on a pioneering course and he rescued them, winning points for leadership.[16]

Kennedy's ninth grade Collegiate School yearbook photo, 1975

In 1976, Kennedy and his cousin visited an earthquake disaster zone at Rabinal in Guatemala, helping with heavy building work and distributing food. The local priest said that they "ate what the people of Rabinal ate and dressed in Guatemalan clothes and slept in tents like most of the earthquake victims," adding that the two "did more for their country's image" in Guatemala "than a roomful of ambassadors."[17] On his 16th birthday, Kennedy's Secret Service protection ended[18] and he spent the summer of 1978 working as a wrangler in Wyoming.[19] In 1979, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was dedicated and Kennedy made his first major speech, reciting Stephen Spender's poem "I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great."[20]

Kennedy attended Brown University, where he majored in American studies.[21] Kennedy co-founded a student discussion group that focused on contemporary issues such as apartheid in South Africa, gun control, and civil rights. He was appalled by apartheid when visiting South Africa on a summer break and arranged for U.N. ambassador Andrew Young to speak about the topic at Brown.[22] By his junior year at Brown, Kennedy had moved off campus to live with several other students in a shared house[23] and spent time at Xenon, a club owned by Howard Stein. Kennedy was initiated into Phi Psi, a local social fraternity that had been the Rhode Island Alpha chapter of national Phi Kappa Psi fraternity until 1978.[24]

In January 1983, Kennedy's Massachusetts driver's license was suspended when he received more than three speeding summonses in 12 months and failed to appear at a hearing.[25][26] The family's lawyer explained that Kennedy most likely "became immersed in exams and just forgot the date of the hearing."[27] That same year, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in American studies and took a break, traveling to India and spending some time at the University of Delhi, where Kennedy did his post-graduate work and met Mother Teresa.[28]

## Career

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After the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, Kennedy returned to New York to earn $20,000 a year at the Office of Business Development, where his boss said that he worked "in the same crummy cubbyhole as everybody else. I heaped on the work and was always pleased."[29] Kennedy continued there as deputy director of the 42nd Street Development Corporation in 1986,[30] conducting negotiations with developers and city agencies.

In 1988, Kennedy became a summer associate at Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Phillips, a Los Angeles law firm with strong connections to the Democratic Party, working for his uncle Ted Kennedy's law school roommate and former Democratic National Committee chairman Charles Manatt.[29] Later that year, Kennedy was named by People Magazine as 1988's “Sexiest Man Alive”.

From 1989, Kennedy headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group which provided educational and other opportunities for workers who helped people with disabilities. William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always concerned with the working poor, and his family always had an interest in helping them."[31]

Kennedy earned a Juris Doctor degree from the New York University School of Law in 1989.[32] He then failed the New York bar exam twice before passing on his third try in July 1990.[33] After failing the exam for a second time, Kennedy vowed that he would continue to take it until he was 95 years old or passed.[34] If Kennedy had failed a third time, he would have been ineligible to serve as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan DA's Office, where Kennedy worked for the next four years;[35][36] handling such matters as consumer fraud and landlord-tenant disputes.[37] On August 29, 1991, Kennedy won his first case as a prosecutor.[38]

In the summer of 1992, Kennedy worked as a journalist and was commissioned by The New York Times to write an article about his kayaking expedition to the Åland Archipelago, where he saved one of his friends when a kayak capsized.[39] Kennedy then considered creating a magazine with his friend, public-relations magnate Michael J. Berman, a plan which his mother thought too risky. In his 2000 book The Day John Died, Christopher Andersen wrote that Jacqueline had worried that her son would die in a plane crash and asked her longtime companion Maurice Tempelsman "to do whatever it took to keep John from becoming a pilot".[40]

### Acting

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Kennedy had appeared in many plays while at Brown and had done a bit of acting afterwards. He expressed interest in acting as a career but his mother strongly disapproved, considering it an unsuitable profession.[41] Kennedy made his New York acting debut on August 4, 1985 in front of an invitation-only audience at the Irish Theater on Manhattan's West Side. The executive director of the Irish Arts Center, Nye Heron, said that Kennedy was "one of the best young actors I've seen in years".[30] Kennedy's director, Robin Saex, stated, "He has an earnestness that just shines through." Kennedy's largest acting role was playing a fictionalized version of himself in the eighth-season episode of the sitcom Murphy Brown called "Altered States", in which he visits Brown's office to promote a magazine he is publishing.

### George magazine

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In 1995, Kennedy and Michael Berman founded George, a glossy, politics-as-lifestyle and fashion monthly, with Kennedy controlling 50 percent of the shares.[41] Kennedy officially launched the magazine at a news conference in Manhattan on September 8 and joked that he had not seen so many reporters in one place since he failed his first bar exam.[42]

Each issue of the magazine contained an editor's column and interviews written by Kennedy,[43] who believed they could make politics "accessible by covering it in an entertaining and compelling way", allowing "popular interest and involvement" to follow.[44] Kennedy did interviews with Louis Farrakhan, Billy Graham, Garth Brooks, and others.[44]

The first issue was criticized for its image of Cindy Crawford posing as George Washington in a powdered wig and ruffled shirt. In defense of the cover Kennedy stated that "political magazines should look like Mirabella."[45]

In July 1997, Vanity Fair published a profile of New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, claiming that he was sleeping with his press secretary (which both parties denied). Kennedy was tempted to follow up on this story but decided against it.[46] That same month, he wrote about meeting Mother Teresa, declaring that the "three days I spent in her presence was the strongest evidence this struggling Catholic has ever had that God exists."[43]

Kennedy in 1998

The September 1997 issue of George centered on temptation and featured two of Kennedy's cousins, Michael LeMoyne Kennedy and Joseph P. Kennedy II. Michael, a Boston attorney,[47] had been accused of having an affair with his children's underage babysitter,[48] while Joseph, a Massachusetts congressman,[49] had been accused by his ex-wife of having bullied her. John said that both his cousins had become "poster boys for bad behavior", and that he was trying to show that press coverage of the pair was unfair because they were Kennedys.[50] Joseph paraphrased John's father by stating, "Ask not what you can do for your cousin, but what you can do for his magazine."[51]

#### Decline

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By early 1997, Kennedy and Berman were locked in a power struggle, which led to screaming matches, slammed doors, and even a physical altercation. Berman sold his share of the company and Kennedy took on Berman's responsibilities. Berman's departure was followed by a rapid drop in sales for the already declining magazine.[52]

Hachette Filipacchi Magazines were partners in George. CEO David Pecker said the decline was due to Kennedy's refusal to "take risks as an editor, despite the fact that he was an extraordinary risk taker in other areas of his life." Pecker also said, "He understood that the target audience for George was the eighteen-to-thirty-four-year-old demographic, yet he would routinely turn down interviews that would appeal to this age group, like Princess Diana or John Gotti Jr., to interview subjects like Dan Rostenkowski or Võ Nguyên Giáp."[52] Shortly before his death, Kennedy had been planning a series of online chats with the 2000 presidential candidates. Microsoft was to provide the technology and pay for it while receiving advertising in George.[53] After his death, the magazine was bought out by Hachette,[54] but it folded in early 2001.[55]

## Later life

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### Family activity

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Kennedy (right) and his mother, Jacqueline, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, October 1993

Kennedy addressed the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, introducing his uncle Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. He invoked his father's inaugural address, calling "a generation to public service", and received a two-minute standing ovation.[56] Republican consultant Richard Viguerie said he did not remember a word of the speech, but remembered "a good delivery" and added, "I think it was a plus for the Democrats and the boy. He is strikingly handsome."[57][58]

Kennedy participated in his cousin Patrick J. Kennedy's campaign for a seat in the Rhode Island House of Representatives by visiting the district.[59] He sat outside the polling booth and had his picture taken with "would-be" voters. The polaroid ploy worked so well in the campaign that Patrick J. Kennedy used it again in 1994.

Kennedy also campaigned in Boston for his uncle's re-election to the U.S. Senate against challenger Mitt Romney in 1994. "He always created a stir when he arrived in Massachusetts", remarked Senator Kennedy.[60]

### Relationships

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While attending Brown University Kennedy met Sally Munro. They dated for six years, and visited India together in 1983. While at Brown, he also met model and actress Brooke Shields,[61] with whom Kennedy was later linked.

Kennedy dated models Cindy Crawford and Julie Baker and actress Sarah Jessica Parker,[62] who said that she enjoyed dating Kennedy but realized he "was a public domain kind of a guy." Parker said she had no idea what "real fame" was until dating Kennedy and felt that she should "apologize for dating him" since it became the "defining factor in the person" she was.[63]

Kennedy had known actress Daryl Hannah since their two families had vacationed together in Saint Martin in the early 1980s. After meeting again at the wedding of his aunt Lee Radziwill in 1988, they dated for five and a half years, though their relationship was complicated by her feelings for singer Jackson Browne, with whom she had lived for a time.[64]

From 1985 to 1990, Kennedy dated Christina Haag. They had known each other as children, and she also attended Brown University.[65]

### Marriage

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After his relationship with Daryl Hannah ended, Kennedy lived with Carolyn Bessette, who worked in the fashion industry. They were engaged for a year, though Kennedy consistently denied reports of this. On September 21, 1996, they were married in a private ceremony on Cumberland Island, Georgia,[66] where his sister, Caroline, was matron of honor and his cousin Anthony Radziwill was best man.[67] His nieces Rose Kennedy Schlossberg and Tatiana Kennedy Schlossberg served as the flower girls, and nephew Jack Kennedy Schlossberg served as the ring bearer.[68]

The next day, Kennedy's cousin Patrick revealed that the pair had married. When they returned to their Manhattan home a mass of reporters was on the doorstep. One of them asked Kennedy if he had enjoyed his honeymoon, to which he responded: "Very much." Kennedy added, "Getting married is a big adjustment for us, and for a private citizen like Carolyn even more so. I ask you to give her all the privacy and room you can."[69]

Bessette was disoriented by the constant attention of the paparazzi. The couple were permanently on show, both at fashionable Manhattan events and on their travels to visit celebrities such as Mariuccia Mandelli and Gianni Versace.[70] She complained to her friend, journalist Jonathan Soroff, that she could not get a job without being accused of exploiting her fame.[71] The couple began seeing a marriage counselor in March 1999 and sought counseling from Cardinal John O'Connor in the summer of 1999.[72][73]

## Death

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Main article: 1999 Martha's Vineyard plane crash

Kennedy wanted to become a pilot since he was a child. Kennedy took flying lessons at the Flight Safety Academy in Vero Beach, Florida,[50] and received his pilot's license in April 1998.[42] The death of his cousin Michael in a skiing accident[74] had prompted John to take a hiatus from his piloting lessons for three months. Kennedy's sister, Caroline, hoped this would be permanent but when he resumed, she did little to stop Kennedy.[75]

On July 16, 1999, Kennedy departed from Fairfield, New Jersey, at the controls of his Piper Saratoga light aircraft. He was traveling with his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette. Lauren was to be dropped off at Martha's Vineyard and Kennedy and his wife would continue on to Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, to attend the wedding of his cousin Rory Kennedy. He had purchased the plane from Air Bound Aviation on April 28.[76] Carolyn and Lauren were passengers sitting in the second row of seats.[77] Kennedy had checked in with the control tower at the Martha's Vineyard Airport but the plane was reported missing after it failed to arrive on schedule.[78]

Officials were not hopeful about finding survivors after aircraft debris and a black suitcase belonging to Bessette were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean.[79] President Bill Clinton gave his support to the Kennedy family during the search for the three missing passengers.[79]

On July 18, a Coast Guard admiral declared an end to the rescue efforts.[80] Within the next two days, the fragments of Kennedy's plane were found by NOAA vessel Rude using side-scan sonar, subsequently prompting Navy divers to descend into the 62 °F (17 °C) water. They found part of the shattered plane strewn over a broad area of seabed 120 feet (37 m) below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.[81] The search ended in the late afternoon of July 21 when high-resolution images of the ocean bottom[82] helped Navy divers recover the three bodies from the ocean floor. The bodies were taken by motorcade to the county medical examiner's office.[83] Divers found Carolyn's and Lauren's bodies near the twisted and broken fuselage while Kennedy's body was still strapped into the pilot's seat.[78] Admiral Richard M. Larrabee of the Coast Guard said that all three bodies were "near and under" the fuselage, still strapped in.[84]

The National Transportation Safety Board determined that pilot error was the probable cause of the crash: "Kennedy's failure to maintain control of the airplane during a descent over water at night, which was a result of spatial disorientation."[85]

Later that evening, the bodies were autopsied at the county medical examiner's office and taken from Hyannis to Duxbury, Massachusetts, where they were cremated in the Mayflower Cemetery crematorium.[86][87] The families announced their plans for memorial services the same day.[83] The autopsy determined that the crash victims had died upon impact. Ted Kennedy favored a public service for John, while Caroline Kennedy insisted on family privacy.[88] On the morning of July 22, their ashes were scattered at sea from the Navy destroyer USS Briscoe off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.[89]

A memorial service was held for Kennedy on July 23, 1999, at the Church of St. Thomas More in New York City, a parish that Kennedy had often attended with his mother and sister. The invitation-only service was attended by hundreds of mourners, including President Bill Clinton, who presented the family with photo albums of John and Carolyn on their visit to the White House from the previous year.[90]

### Will

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Kennedy's last will and testament stipulated that his personal belongings, property, and holdings were to be "evenly distributed" among his sister Caroline’s three children – Rose, Tatiana, and Jack – who were among 14 beneficiaries in his will.[78] A scrimshaw set that belonged to his father, President Kennedy, was left to his nephew Jack.[91]

## Legacy

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A drawing of three-year-old JFK Jr. saluting his father's coffin, placed on a memorial wall for him shortly after his death

In 2000, Reaching Up, the organization which Kennedy founded in 1989, joined with The City University of New York to establish the John F. Kennedy Jr. Institute.[92] In 2003, the ARCO Forum at Harvard Kennedy School was renamed the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum of Public Affairs. Kennedy had been a member of the Senior Advisory Committee of Harvard's Institute of Politics for 15 years and an active participant in Forum events. Ted Kennedy said the renaming symbolically linked Kennedy with his late father; Caroline Kennedy said the renaming reflected his love of discussing politics.[93]

In 2013, on the 50th anniversary of the 1963 presidential assassination, the New York Daily News re-ran the famous photograph of the three-year-old Kennedy saluting his father's coffin during the funeral procession. Photographer Dan Farrell, who took the photo, called it "the saddest thing I've ever seen in my whole life".[94]

## See also

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* Kennedy curse
* America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story

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### Works cited

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* Blow, Richard (2002). American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr. St. Martin's Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0312988999.
* Bly, Nellie (1996). The Kennedy Men: Three Generations of Sex, Scandal and Secrets. Kensington. ISBN 978-1575661063.
* Davis, John H. (1993). The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster. S.P.I. Books. ISBN 978-1561710607.
* Heymann, C. David (2008). American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy. Atria Books. ISBN 978-0743497398.
* Landau, Elaine (2000). John F. Kennedy, Jr. Millbrook Press. ISBN 978-0761318576.
* Leamer, Laurence (2005). Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty. William Morrow Paperbacks. ISBN 0060559020.

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John F. Kennedy

* 35th President of the United States (1961–1963)
* U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1953–1960)
* U.S. Representative for MA–11 (1947–1953)

Presidency
(timeline)|

* Transition
* Inauguration
* Cabinet
* Judicial appointments
* Supreme Court
* Executive Orders
* Presidential Proclamations
* Presidential pardons
* Presidential limousine
* Presidential yacht
* Resolute desk
* Situation Room

| Foreign policy|

* Alliance for Progress
* Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
* Flexible response
* Kennedy Doctrine
* Peace Corps
* Trade Expansion Act
* Migration and Refugee Assistance Act
* USAID
* Vietnam War
* Cuba: Bay of Pigs Invasion
* Cuban Project
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* ExComm
* Soviet Union: Berlin Crisis
* Moscow–Washington hotline
* Vienna summit

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New Frontier|

* Communications Satellite Act
* Community Mental Health Act
* Equal Pay Act
* Executive Order 11110
* Federal affirmative action
* Federal housing segregation ban
* Fifty-mile hikes
* Food for Peace
* Pilot Food Stamp Program
* Presidential Medal of Freedom
* Space policy
* Status of Women (Presidential Commission)
* University of Alabama integration
* Voter Education Project
* All-Channel Receiver Act
* Oil Pollution Act of 1961
* Revenue Act of 1962
* Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961
* Wetlands Loan Act

Presidential
speeches|

* Inaugural address
* American University speech
* "We choose to go to the Moon"
* Report to the American People on Civil Rights
* "Ich bin ein Berliner"
* "A rising tide lifts all boats"
* Remarks at Amherst College on the Arts
* State of the Union Address
* 1961
* 1962
* 1963

Elections|

* U.S. House of Representatives elections: 1946
* 1948
* 1950
* U.S. Senate elections in Massachusetts: 1952
* 1958
* 1960 presidential primaries
* 1960 presidential campaign
* Democratic National Conventions: 1956
* 1960
* U.S. presidential election 1960
* debates

Personal life|

* Birthplace and childhood home
* Kennedy Compound
* Hickory Hill
* La Querida
* Wexford
* Navy service: PT-109
* Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana
* Arthur Evans
* PT-59
* Castle Hot Springs
* Hammersmith Farm
* Coretta Scott King phone call
* "Happy Birthday, Mr. President"
* John F. Kennedy document hoax

Books|

* Why England Slept (1940)
* Profiles in Courage (1956)
* A Nation of Immigrants (1958)

Death|

* Assassination
* timeline
* media coverage
* reactions
* in popular culture
* State funeral
* Riderless horse
* attending dignitaries
* Gravesite and Eternal Flame

Legacy|

* Bibliography
* John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
* Profile in Courage Award
* Twenty-fourth Amendment
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Apollo 11 Moon landing
* Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
* Kennedy Space Center
* Kennedy Round
* U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
* VISTA
* Cultural depictions
* films
* Kennedy half dollar
* U.S. postage stamps
* U.S. five cent stamp
* Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences
* Operation Sail

Memorials,
namesakes|

* Harvard Kennedy School
* Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
* John F. Kennedy Federal Building (Boston)
* John F. Kennedy International Airport
* Boston statue
* Brooklyn bust
* Dallas memorial
* Hyannis memorial
* London bust
* Nashua bust
* Portland memorial
* Runnymede memorial
* John F. Kennedy Arboretum
* John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge
* John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
* John F. Kennedy University (defunct)
* John F. Kennedy Stadium
* Kennedy Expressway
* Mount Kennedy
* MV John F. Kennedy
* USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
* USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)
* Yad Kennedy
* Love Park

Family|

* Jacqueline Bouvier (wife)
* Caroline Kennedy (daughter)
* John F. Kennedy Jr. (son)
* Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (son)
* Rose Schlossberg (granddaughter)
* Tatiana Schlossberg (granddaughter)
* Jack Schlossberg (grandson)
* Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (father)
* Rose Fitzgerald (mother)
* Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (brother)
* Rosemary Kennedy (sister)
* Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (sister)
* Eunice Kennedy Shriver (sister)
* Patricia Kennedy Lawford (sister)
* Robert F. Kennedy (brother)
* Jean Kennedy Smith (sister)
* Ted Kennedy (brother)
* P. J. Kennedy (grandfather)
* John F. Fitzgerald (grandfather)
* Pushinka (dog)
* Billie and Debbie (hamsters)
* Sardar (horse)

* ← Dwight D. Eisenhower
* Lyndon B. Johnson →

* Category

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Life events|

* Hammersmith Farm
* Hickory Hill
* Kennedy Compound
* La Querida
* Wexford
* 1040 Fifth Avenue
* First Lady of the United States
* White House restoration
* Televised White House tour
* Tour of India and Pakistan
* White House Historical Association
* White House Curator
* Committee for the Preservation of the White House
* Assassination of John F. Kennedy
* State funeral of John F. Kennedy
* John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
* Eternal Flame and burial site

Fashion|

* Wedding dress
* Apricot dress
* Pink Chanel suit

Honors and
memorials|

* Jacqueline Kennedy Garden
* Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School for International Careers
* Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir
* Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School ballet

Related|

* Cultural depictions
* Jackie O (1997 opera)
* Jackie (2016 film)

Family|

* John F. Kennedy (first husband, presidency)
* Aristotle Onassis (second husband)
* Maurice Tempelsman (partner)
* Caroline Kennedy (daughter)
* John F. Kennedy Jr. (son)
* Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (son)
* Jack Schlossberg (grandson)
* Rose Schlossberg (granddaughter)
* Tatiana Schlossberg (granddaughter)
* John Vernou Bouvier III (father)
* Janet Lee Bouvier (mother)
* Lee Radziwill (sister)
* Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr. (stepfather)
* Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd (half-sister)
* Edith Ewing Bouvier (aunt)
* Edith Bouvier Beale (cousin)
* James T. Lee (grandfather)
* John Vernou Bouvier Jr. (grandfather)
* Pushinka (dog)
* Billie and Debbie (hamsters)
* Sardar (horse)
* Black Jack (horse)

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Kennedy family

I.|

| P. J. Kennedy
(1858–1929)|

* Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (m.) Rose Fitzgerald

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II.|

| Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
(1888–1969)|

* Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
* John F. Kennedy (m.) Jacqueline Bouvier
* Rosemary Kennedy
* Kathleen Kennedy (m.) William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
* Eunice Kennedy (m.) Sargent Shriver
* Patricia Kennedy (m./div.) Peter Lawford
* Robert F. Kennedy (m.) Ethel Skakel
* Jean Kennedy (m.) Stephen Edward Smith
* Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (m./div. 1st) Joan Bennett; (m. 2nd) Victoria Reggie

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III.|

| John F. Kennedy
(1917–1963)|

* Caroline Kennedy (m.) Edwin Schlossberg
* John F. Kennedy Jr. (m.) Carolyn Bessette
* Patrick Bouvier Kennedy

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver
(1921–2009)|

* Bobby Shriver
* Maria Shriver (m./div.) Arnold Schwarzenegger
* Timothy Shriver
* Mark Shriver
* Anthony Shriver

Patricia Kennedy Lawford
(1924–2006)|

* Christopher Lawford

Robert F. Kennedy
(1925–1968)|

* Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
* Joseph P. Kennedy II
* Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (m./sep.) Mary Richardson (m. 3rd) Cheryl Hines
* Michael LeMoyne Kennedy
* Kerry Kennedy (m./div.) Andrew Cuomo
* Christopher G. Kennedy
* Max Kennedy
* Douglas Harriman Kennedy
* Rory Kennedy (m.) Mark Bailey

Jean Kennedy Smith
(1928–2020)|

* William Kennedy Smith

Ted Kennedy
(1932–2009)|

* Kara Kennedy
* Edward M. Kennedy Jr.
* Patrick J. Kennedy (m.) Amy Savell

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* Rose Kennedy Schlossberg
* Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg
* John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg
* Katherine Schwarzenegger (m.) Chris Pratt
* Patrick Schwarzenegger
* Joseph P. Kennedy III
* Maeve Kennedy McKean
* Max Kennedy Jr.

Related|

* Hickory Hill
* Kennedy Compound
* Kennedy curse
* Merchandise Mart
* The Kennedys (museum)
* The Kennedys (miniseries)
* The Kennedys: After Camelot

Category|

Kennedy family

m. = married; div. = divorced; sep. = separated.

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* FAST
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Greece
* Poland

Artists|

* Grammy Awards

People|

* DDB

Other|

* IdRef
* NARA
* SNAC

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