John F. Kennedy Jr.

World Reacts to Kennedy Tragedy

Originally posted 02/02/1999 12:00AM

While America sat glued to TV and computer monitors this weekend, hoping against hope that John Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette were still alive, the rest of the world, too, focused its attention on the search for the missing plane, lost off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. In Ireland (the Kennedy family's ancestral home) state TV and radio channel RTE ordered its Washington correspondent to go to Massachusetts to cover what it described as a tragedy for "the Irish-American political dynasty." In Israel Kennedy's disappearance and presumed death was the top story on all radio and TV reports and in the daily newspapers. This morning lengthy obituaries and accounts of the string of tragedies that have befallen America's most famous family ran in newspapers from Britain to Japan, most of the accounts accompanied by photos, including the famous image of the 3-year-old John-John saluting at his father's funeral.

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JFK, Bessettes Buried at Sea

Originally posted 02/01/1999 12:00AM

The ashes of John F. Kennedy Jr. were scattered at sea Thursday morning, along with those of the other two victims of last Friday night's plane crash, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette. The burial at sea, the latest step in a tragedy that has gripped the nation for nearly a week, was handled in the waters off Cape Cod from aboard the USS Briscoe, a 563-foot Navy destroyer.

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JFK Jr.'s Body Located

Originally posted 02/01/1999 12:00AM

The body of John F. Kennedy Jr. has been located in the waters off Martha's Vineyard, authorities announced shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday. He was found along with the fuselage of the doomed plane. His family has decided to bury him at sea on Friday. It is not known whether or not his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy or his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette were found with him.

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D.C.'s Kennedy Farewell

Originally posted 01/29/1999 12:00AM

An estimated 4,500 people from all over the country gathered Sunday at the vast Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in the nation's capital to pay their final respects to John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Kennedy Bessette and Lauren Bessette. The mass honoring the trio killed in an airplane crash July 16 was held in the largest Catholic church in the Western Hemisphere. Kennedy "was a symbol of a generation coming into its own," said the Rev. William E. Lori, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, D.C. "He revered his famous father, shared the life of his famous family, yet carved out a path all his own," Lori said during the homily. "Carolyn and Lauren, while not so completely in the spotlight, were women of accomplishment in their own right."

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JFK Plane: Nothing Technical

Originally posted 01/27/1999 12:00AM