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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I would say that distinction should go to Patrick.
Decent Kennedy?
My money is on the guy who died in the experimental B17 back in WWII.
I’ll bet a nickel on him!
That’s how much faith I have in the concept of decent Kennedys.
I’ve always suspected that the “plane crash” was really a murder-suicide event. I’ve heard that his wife was seeing another man, junior was probably really ashamed of that, so he decided to make their deaths look like an accident. The sister-in-law was killed because he was unlucky enough to go along for the ride.
I understand he was ready to learn how to fly before that plane crash, too. :-P
What a bunch of stunted misfits that family is. The only thing worse are the sycophants who considered that Irish trash to be some kind of Massachusetts royalty.
He was a low-time non-instrument rated pilot flying over water at dusk. No nefarious conspiracies needed.
It was his wife's sister who was running late.
It would have been easier to just sabotage the plane than some convoluted scenario.
That’s the one.
There were reports that a mysterious Pig In A Pantsuit carrying a tool box was seen walking away from John John’s plane minutes before takeoff. ;)
Patrick the drug addicted alcoholic?
No the baby who died after two days.
After the crash in 1999, El Rushbo played a short video called “You have 178 seconds left to live” about a disoriented pilot’s final moments.
It’s on youtube and it’s chilling.
Ah, you had me scratching my head on that one. :-)
RIGHT-Who cares about those entitled, self-important losers?
I have a favorite memory of another event except that it was also a plane crash in the NYC area.
This was a few months after the JFK Jr. crash, and a small plane ran out of fuel and crashed on its landing approach a few miles west of Teterboro Airport in northern New Jersey. I was driving in the area with a friend of mine and saw a bunch of helicopters hovering nearby in the night sky, so we figured it was a breaking news story. I turned on the radio and got the details of what happened, and we took a small detour to make my way to the scene. We parked a couple of blocks away and walked over to the crash scene.
It was in a residential area, and the place was crawling with dozens of emergency vehicles and probably 100+ firefighters, EMTs, etc. There must have been about 25 news crews there that night from New York and New Jersey newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, etc. It was really interesting to watch the radio guys do their live reports on the air, because the reporters all had familiar names from the big news stations in NYC -- 1010 WINS, WCBS 880, WABC, etc. -- and this was the first time I actually saw what they looked like.
The radio guys were consummate professionals. The TV crews were a whole different story. It was disgraceful to see how rude and obnoxious the TV camera crews were acting. They were all pushing and shoving against each other and getting into loud arguments over who "owned" the space where they wanted to get their live TV camera shots.
They treated the spectators with complete disdain, ordering us around and telling us to get out of their way while they did our jobs. My friend and I told them to go 'eff themselves, and we damn near got into several fights with different TV network crews over the course of an hour. I don't think I've ever dealt with a worse bunch of @ssholes in my life.
Anyway ... After a while there was a flurry of activity and then-Governor Christie Whitman arrived on the scene. She was briefed by the senior police and fire personnel, then her aide came over to the knot of reporters -- actually reporters plus news crews plus two obstinate spectators who refused to move out of their way (LOL) -- and told the group that she would be making a public statement and taking questions in five minutes.
They set up a bank of microphones right there in the street, and all the bright lights went on just as she stepped up to give her update on the situation. Then she said she would take questions from the reporters on the scene.
I don't know where he got the inspiration to do this, but my friend was so pissed off about the behavior of the press on the scene that he was determined to make a mockery of the whole press conference. If you can find an original, unedited copy of a news tape from that event, you can hear his loud voice in the background as he shouted out his question:
"Hey, Governor! Which Kennedy was flying THIS one?!"
LMAO.
Another historian with a love affair for a Democrat.
I thought I knew pretty much all the Clinton scandals, but this is a new one. You always have to give each Clinton potential scandal the good benefit of the doubt because there’s nothing they won’t stoop to.
Anyone in Hillary’s way needs to stay in a safe locked room with no windows and no doors.
The nostalgia for the Kennedy Camelot never seems to die. Sadly the Kennedy spawn never amounted to much. Caroline is a total twit and JFK Jr. was reckless and that recklessness cost him his life.
Hence the Kennedy clan’s long time involvement with the Special Olympics.
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