PEOPLE JFK Jr.

By The Editors of PEOPLE

The editors of PEOPLE Magazine present PEOPLE JFK Jr.

• Language: English
• Publisher: People
• Release date: Jun 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781547848881

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1963.

A Life in Pictures

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THE SON OF A PRESIDENT, HEIR TO THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS WOMAN AND MARRIED TO THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. SEEMED DESTINED FOR GREAT THINGS

IRRESISTIBLE John had an engaging spirit that could fill the room and captivate everyone in it, said Ted Kennedy of his nephew (at a fund-raiser in 1984). He was a pied piper who brought us all along.

FIRST SON In 1963, with Jackie out of town, JFK invited a photographer to the White House for a series of photos with John Jr., taken a month before his assassination.

ADVENTURE SEEKER John Jr. explored a gun barrel at the Tower of London during a visit to the U.K. with his mother and sister in 1965.

MOTHER’S LOVE Jackie (with John Jr. in 1964) worried more about John than Caroline, who matured quickly and was influenced by her father, says Jackie’s stepbrother Hugh Auchincloss Jr.

GROWING UP John makes friends with everybody. Immediately, Jackie Kennedy said of her young son (in Peapack, N.J., in