JFK Jr.'s short life and daring choices: 'Someone who lives in a cage, finding a way to escape'
For five days in July, 1999, America was on the edge of its seat -- and on the fifth day, the nation's heart broke.
On July 16, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette had taken flight from New Jersey in Kennedy's small Piper Saratoga plane en route to Massachusetts for his cousin Rory's wedding -- and seemed to have disappeared into thin air.
On July 21, the worst fears of Americans and Kennedy fans around the globe were realized. The three bodies were retrieved by U.S. Navy divers from the broken plane on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
“It was earth-shattering,” Kennedy's personal assistant and ABC News consultant RoseMarie Terenzio said. “It was unbelievable. It was as [if] the earth had cracked in half somehow. And I could not understand how this could happen. To him of all people.”
The tragic plane crash brought an all-too-soon end to a remarkable public life that began playing out when Kennedy was only a small child.
Three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr.'s heartbreaking and iconic salute to his murdered father, President John F. Kennedy, on Nov. 25, 1963 is seared into the nation's collective memory. From that day forward, Kennedy became something of a living national treasure.
“That is the moment when John Kennedy [Jr.] became who he was,” said Paul Wilmot, who knew him.
The life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Five years later, Kennedy's uncle Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated during his 1968 run for president.
These events deeply shaped Kennedy as a young man and to some degree defined his approach to life as the one of the most famous people in the Kennedy family. - Read More
JFK Jr.'s short life and daring choices
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