May I ax you a question?
Are you sincere?
Posted on 07/16/2019 10:49:43 AM PDT by bitt
Historian Steven M. Gillon recalls his friendship with John F. Kennedy Jr. on the 20th anniversary of his fatal plane crash. The life of the late magazine publisher is being chronicled in a new A&E documentary titled 'Biography: JFK Jr — The Final Year,' as well as a book by Gillon titled 'America's Reluctant Prince.'
Steven M. Gillon can vividly recall when he and his pal John F. Kennedy Jr. were at a bar watching a fight on the big screen and a man pushed him aside and exclaimed “You’re John!” hugging the son of late President John F. Kennedy.
“He said, ‘I loved your father,’” Gillon recalled to Fox News. “That happened a lot. A couple of minutes later, the guy comes out again. He’s dragging his wife behind him and says, ‘Marilyn, I want you to meet my friend, John F. Kennedy Jr.’ John reaches out and he says, ‘Hi, Marilyn. I’ve heard so much about you. I’m glad I finally got to meet you.’ And I looked at him. He had just met this guy 20 minutes ago. And John said, ‘What was wrong with that? I made two people really happy.’
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Possibly, but he needed to recognize the problem sooner. My understanding was he exceeded the maximum airspeed for the air-frame on his decent and at that point it probably didn’t matter what he did. He was either going to hit the water hard, or breakup in mid-air trying to recover and unrecoverable situation.
May I ax you a question?
Are you sincere?
Arkancided X3..................
If he ran for Senate from New York, he would have shut Hillary Clinton out of the race (and likely out of politics).
[He was not instrument rated. He took off in the late afternoon for a destination that would have required him to fly VFR in the dark. That alone was a recipe for disaster.]
yes
I for one am glad that fate intervened as it did. Just look at the 20th-anniversary crapola, which will emphasize the tragedy and assess none of the responsibility (he killed two other people with his recklessness) and imagine if he had entered politics. Yuck. HRC was pretty bad in her interlude as NY Senator, but the media would have had him running for the Presidency in the middle of his first Senate term. Their tongues planted in his posterior.
My favorite memory of the search and rescue phase of the story was a prankster of Howard Stern's following who managed to call into ABC news and convince the morons there that he was a Coast Guard Commander directing the search. He gets patched in to speak with Peter Jennings live and runs on for a while with a sufficiently jargon-laden spiel that even had me thinking he might have been real. Then he indicates that "Capt. Baba Booey is on the scene." and I laughed out loud. Peter Jennings did not catch it and went on talking to the guy for several minutes, then cut to commercials. When he came back he had been clued into the scam. His attitude was so dismissive - of course here we are burying our Prince and this vulgarians dare to make fun....
The best was the O.J. chase. Al Michaels could barely hold back his laughter until he finally clued Peter Jennings in. I remember Al telling Howard Stern that story.
>Nonsense. He was in over his head and made fatal errors. How many times have we heard never to be passenger in a motor vehicle operated by a Kennedy.
I’m sure John John struggled through his upwardly-mobile mind for any trace of information that might have helped him survive that ordeal. In a tiny crevice of his brain, he recalled a time when his Uncle/Godfather Ted gave him some
advice when he was still a young lad.
“Remember, John John....”, the image of Ted would say, “....in a water landing, any nearby bitch will make for a good flotation device”.
Slow news day?
She was getting nails done. Serious.
Two very good posts. Contradictory, but very good.
Though SkyDancer’s final sentence takes the gold.
A car crash and a plane crash probably saved us from two Kennedy Presidents.
Don’t forget Joe jr.
JFK, Jr., was the only decent Kennedy who ever lived.
Right on everything except I recall the weather being relatively clear with good visibility. One of the reasons I took interest in the event was I had lots of hours in the right seat of a Seneca, a two engine version of JFK Jr.’s Saratoga.
It appears God — or the Devil — had other plans.
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