{"id":120832,"date":"2020-11-25T21:29:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T18:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jfk-jr-wouldve-been-60-today-a-look-back-on-his-life\/"},"modified":"2020-11-25T21:29:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T18:29:24","slug":"jfk-jr-wouldve-been-60-today-a-look-back-on-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jfk-jr-wouldve-been-60-today-a-look-back-on-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"#JFK Jr. would’ve been 60 today — a look back on his life"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#JFK Jr. would’ve been 60 today — a look back on his life<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n \u201cJohn-John\u201d Fitzgerald Kennedy should\u2019ve turned 60 this week.<\/p>\n

The handsome son of former President John F. Kennedy died more than two decades ago, but his legacy lives on, with friends and colleagues honoring his would-be birthday by recalling his cut-short life.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis legacy was really about who he would\u2019ve become,\u201d former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Brian Steel, who worked with Kennedy, told Today<\/a> this week. \u201cBut I just think America and maybe the world would have been a better place\u201d if he had lived longer.<\/p>\n

In his 38 years, JFK Jr. became a trained lawyer, launched a magazine and managed a media<\/a> spotlight perpetually focused on him since childhood. His life came to an abrupt end when, on July 16, 1999, he died alongside his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, after the private plane he was piloting plummeted into the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf John knew he would be gone at 38 years old, I don\u2019t think John would have wanted to be forgotten,\u201d former magazine executive assistant Rosemarie Terenzio told Today.<\/p>\n

On what would\u2019ve been his 60th birthday, some highlights from a life curtailed.<\/p>\n

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JFK Jr. was born Nov. 25, 1960, just two weeks after his father was elected president. The nickname \u201cJohn-John,\u201d developed after a reporter misheard JFK<\/a> refer to John, and became a popular diminutive for him in the media \u2014 although his family didn\u2019t adopt it.<\/p>\n

John Jr. grew up at the White House until his father\u2019s 1963 assassination. On his third birthday, in a moment which was captured in an iconic photograph which would become representative of the decade, he rendered a final salute during his father\u2019s state funeral procession.<\/p>\n

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Following Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s 1968 assassination <\/a>, Jackie Kennedy took John and his older sister Caroline out of the US, fearing for their lives. That same year she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, and the family proceeded to live on his private island, Skorpios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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JFK Jr. spent most of his elementary, middle and high school years at elite Manhattan private schools. After graduation, he travel<\/a>ed widely and volunteered before attending Brown University, where he continued to be politically involved in helping the causes he was most moved by, including civil rights and gun control.<\/p>\n

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In his short adult life, John managed to become a lawyer, worked in the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s office as a prosecutor, for the New York Times as a journalist<\/a>, as an actor<\/a> at Manhattan\u2019s Irish Arts Center and, in 1995, co-founded the political lifestyle magazine George, which folded in 2001.<\/p>\n

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On July 16, 1999, JFK Jr.\u2019s plane was reported missing while en route to Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Massachusetts. A search commenced, but within days a Coast Guard admiral admitted to the family that there was no hope <\/a>of finding John, Carolyn or Lauren alive.<\/p>\n

Fragments of the plane were discovered on July 19, and on July 21 all three of the passengers\u2019 bodies were recovered<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hundreds came to pay their respects at the July 23 funeral at Manhattan\u2019s St. Thomas More Church.<\/p>\n

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Mourners outside the Church of St. Thomas More after a private memorial mass for John F. Kennedy Jr., and his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy on July 23, 1999 in New York.<\/span>AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Sen. Edward Kennedy\u2019s eulogy of his nephew at the service, he noted that JFK Jr. had not even lived long enough to comb a gray hair.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that was probably the line that took us all out,\u201d Terenzio told Today. \u201cNow you look back, and you think of what might have been.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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