Mr & Mrs JFK Jr RIP
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November 25, 1960 - July 16, 1999
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
January 7, 1966 - July 16, 1999
Rest in peace
Living your life under the scrutiny of the public eye must be a difficult matter. Even when that attention consists primarily of adoration there is a need for refuge from the crowds and the photographs and the utter lack of privacy which some crave.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr and Carolyn Besette Kennedy were a couple celebrated widely and darlings of the paparazzi. With that comes a certain surrender of self to a public which is both adoring and fickle as evidenced by the various ends of disucssion which lends credence to the notion observed by some that is better to be out of the limelight.
I was five when JFK Jr was born. I pretty much was abreast of what he and Caroline were doing as it related to the public aspects of their lives. Never in my existence did I ever feel that either of them were particularly fond of that public life and indeed, were I in their places I would shun the media entirely.
All-in-all I wish that John Jr and Carolyn Bessette were still here working on their issues together and coming to some consensus regarding what is right for them. Instead, their earthly time ended on this day in 1999 as the result of an aircraft accident off of Martha's Vineyard — a place I spent a fair amount of time visiting and admiring.
Mrs Kennedy's sister, Lauren Bessette was also lost in that accident. She was not a public figure and probably preferred it that way.