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“how wide his curiosities were”: Sasha Issenberg, interview by author, October 26, 2018.
“thirty-eight-year-old white guy”: Martel, interview.
“You will be contacted later today”: For a full account of the trip, see Inigo Thomas, “JFK Jr, Castro and Me” (LRB blog), London Review of Books, November 22, 2013, www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2013/november/jfk-jr-castro-and-me.
“you are a Kennedy”: Noonan with Huber, Forever Young, 189.
“Giáp was senile and infirm”: Robert Curran, interview by author, December 14, 2018.
“stability in Southeast Asia”: “Vietnam’s Legendary Giap Wants to be ‘General of Peace,’” Agence France-Presse, October 21, 1998; Curran, interview.
“famously libidinous president”: Blow, American Son, 178–79.
a private matter: Ibid., 190.
“fools as kings”: John to “Mr. T” (Mike Tyson), July 9, 1997, private.
Tyson deserved a second chance: Manuel Perez-Rivas and Martin Well, “JFK Jr. Sees Tyson in Jailhouse Visit,” The Washington Post, March 12, 1999.
“a three-year-old”: Martel, interview; Peter Madaus to Roger Berg et al., February 13, 1998, John F. Kennedy Jr. Files, box 13, WJCPL.
“It’s making people really reflect”: Blow, American Son, 178–80, 188–91.
“it’s worth understanding”: Mitchell, interview.
1,931 minutes: Michael Gartner, “How the Monica Story Played in Mid-America,” Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 1999, 34.
Washington press corps: David Friend, “Before Trump Was President, Online Sex Videos, Bill Clinton and the Naughty ’90s Changed America,” Newsweek, September 15, 2017.
“The digital age does not respect contemplation”: John Merline and Claude Marx, “So What Is ‘Journalism’ Today?,” Investor’s Business Daily, January 29, 1998.
CHAPTER 11: “THE ONLY PLACE THAT I WANT TO BE IS WITH ANTHONY”
“a fiery phone call”: Keith J. Kelly, “John Jr. Searching for New No. 2,” New York Post, January 6, 1999; Swanson, “George Magazine Loses a ‘Yes’ Woman as Hachette Steps In.”
did not bode well for the future: Keith J. Kelly, “JFK Jr. Talking About Taking Title to TV,” New York Post, April 28, 1999.
“There’s not a chance”: Mitchell, interview. The discussion that follows is from the same interview.
Anthony was going to die: Radziwill, What Remains, 225.
“He was having difficulty dealing with it”: Carole Radziwill, interview.
“these big trips”: Ibid.
“No, I don’t”: Carole Radziwill, interview; Radziwill, What Remains, 226.
“determined to live”: Carole Radziwill, interview.
“I just hurt my leg”: Sasha Chermayeff, interview; Phineas Chermayeff, interview by author, September 20, 2018.
“two rocking chairs”: Sasha Chermayeff, interview.
“ominous foreshadowing”: Carole Radziwill, interview; Radziwill, What Remains, 221–22.
“denial and stoicism”: Carole Radziwill, interview.
became her next target: Ibid.
John could not be humored: Terenzio, Fairy Tale Interrupted, 192.
relying on cocaine: Radziwill, What Remains, 218.
“What do you think?”: Noonan with Huber, Forever Young, 204–6.
“Like her life is so hard”: Terenzio, interview.
occasional weekend refuge: Noonan with Huber, Forever Young, 206–8.
“he is going to be fine”: Sasha Chermayeff, interview.
“drove each other crazy”: Carole Radziwill, interview.
“laughs and good food”: Ibid.
“I suppose it was resignation”: Ibid.
“The window was open”: Keith Stein, interview by author, November 16, 2018.
“noticeably grayer”: Littell, Men We Became, 8–9.
“I will not go . . . a success”: Blow, American Son, 254–55; Terenzio, interview.
Martha’s Vineyard on July 16: Voss, interview; Cheryl Stieffel and Peter Leifer, interview by author, November 15, 2018.
“a lot of our problems”: Blow, American Son, 230.
“operations of the company”: Dan Samson, email to author, September 13, 2018.
“game plan”: Ibid.
“They really loved each other”: Ibid.
“add a spouse”: Sasha Chermayeff, interview; Noonan with Huber, Forever Young, 203.
wooden golf clubs: John J. Goldman, “Final Take for Jackie O. Auction Tops $34 Million,” Los Angeles Times, April 27, 1996.
writing a check, not cashing one: Littell, Men We Became, 167.
the project was canceled: Ibid.
“It was going to be tough enough”: Patti Solis Doyle, interview by author, February 12, 2019.
passion for campaigning: Sachs, interview; Rivera, interview.
ambitions on hold: Sachs, interview.
“we’ll have fun”: Andersen, The Day John Died, 10–11.
similar fights with Carolyn: Terenzio, interview.
“John’s birthday celebrations”: Julie Baker, interview by author, March 3, 2019.
“best choices possible”: Ibid.
“first big issue”: Jack Kliger, interview by author, April 24, 2017. The discussion that follows is from this interview.
“cut the cord”: Terenzio, interview; Ginsberg, interview.
“a graceful way out”: Ginsberg, interview.
the important call: Terenzio, interview.
“It’s never about me”: Ibid.
Reluctantly, Carolyn agreed: Terenzio, Fairy Tale Interrupted, 197–98; Terenzio, interview.
hot, muggy nights: Manocchia, interview; Terenzio, Fairy Tale Interrupted, 199–200.
“magazine could survive”: Manocchia, interview.
“‘Don’t go up’”: Much of the account of John’s final hours is from the following sources: Dale Russakoff and Lynne Duke, “JFK Jr.’s Joyful, Fateful Final Hours,” The Washington Post, July 21, 1999; Jeffrey Kluger and Mark Thompson, “The Last Day,” Time, August 1, 1999; Douglas A. Lonnstrom, “10 Mistakes JFK Jr. Made,” Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association online, last modified July 5, 2010, www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2010/july/pilot/10-mistakes-jfk-jr-made; Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, “Instructor Offered to Fly with JFK Jr., Report Says,” Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2000. For the final NTSB report, see: NTSB Identification: NYC99MA178, National Transportation Safety Board online, accessed August 10, 2018.
dinner on Saturday: Radziwill, What Remains, 9.
no evidence to suggest: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Records Management Division, Gillon, No. 17-cv-02529-APM.
“Everything’s fine”: Carole Radziwill, What Remains, 234–35.
“Oh God!”: Terenzio, Fairy Tale Interrupted, 200–201.
EPILOGUE: “YEP, YOU REALLY WERE SPECIAL”
“The words almost wrote themselves”: Robert Shrum, interview by author, July 10, 2018.
“infused with compassion”: Issenberg, interview.
50 percent share: Terenzio, Fairy Tale Interrupted, 223.
owned the magazine outright: Ann Marie Kerwin, “Lalli Steps up to Helm of Troubled ‘George,’” AdAge, December 6, 1999.
Franken’s humor: Kliger, interview.
“on the third try”: Alona Wartofsky and Hannah Allam, “In New York, the Improvisations of Grief,” The Washington Post, July 19, 1999.
over the age of sixty: Donna Petrozzello, “Ratings: Newsmags Do Well in Week of Kennedy Coverage,” New York Daily News, July 28, 1999; Richard Huff, “JFK Jr. Coverage Nearly Par to Di’s,” New York Daily News, August 4, 1999.
“Kennedy curse”: Frank Manciewicz, “‘There Are No Curses,’” The Guardian, July 19, 1999.
“fairy tales”: “Summary of
International Media Coverage,” July 18–22, 1999, FOIA 2017-0713-f, box 5, WJCPL.
an astonishing $1.2 million: White House aide Sean Maloney pointed out that the White House flag was not lowered when John’s mom died. Nor was it lowered for Senator William Fulbright, Dean Rusk, or Mother Teresa. “It’s a difficult decision, but it would be out of proportion to previous episodes of this kind for the president to order the lowering of all US flags.” He suggested that the president could “consider lowering the flag over the White House residence (as opposed to all U.S. Flags) for a period of 24 hours once the fate of Mr. Kennedy and his party is known with more certainty.” Maloney to John Podesta, July 19, 1999, FOIA 2017-0713-f, box 1, WJCPL; “Kennedy Salvage Costs,” July 21, 2017-0713-FCL, box 1, WJCPL.
“bodies of private citizens”: Don and Marlene Dunbar to Senator John Breaux, July 22, 1999. Breaux forwarded the letter to the president. Breaux to Clinton, June 15, 2000, 2017-0713-FCL, box 1, WJCPL; Bernard M. Brady to Congressman Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr., August 1, 1999, 2017-0713-FCL, box 1, WJCPL.
“a national disgrace”: David H. Hackworth, “U.S. Warships Are Not Royal Yachts at Beck and Call,” South Florida Sun Sentinel, August 5, 1999. The article was circulated among White House aides. White House email, August 5, 1999, 2017-0713-FCL, box 6, WJCPL.
“Taps” on the bugle: Anne E. Kornblut, “Expansive Naval Aid Tied to Family’s Service to US,” The Boston Globe, July 23, 1999.
“We owe this to his family and to the country”: President Bill Clinton, interview by John Marks as part of the A&E documentary JFK Jr.: The Final Year, which is based on this book, March 6, 2019.
World War II navy hero: “Kennedy Aircraft Missing Press Guidance,” July 19, 1999, 2017-0713-FCL, box 1, WJCPL; “Kennedy Burial at Sea,” July 26, 1999, 2017-0713-FCL, box 2, WJCPL.
“as far as we’re concerned”: “Transcript of conversation,” n.d., 2017-0713-FCL, box 1, WJCPL.
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INDEX
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Abercrombie & Fitch, 247
Adcraft Club of Detroit, 244–245
Adler, Lou, 227
Alfred E. Stearns House, 125
Ali, Muhammad, 120, 253, 399
Amanpour, Christiane “Kissy,” 152–153, 211, 366–367
American Media Company, 385
Amir, Yigal, 310
Andersen, Christopher, 83, 156, 235
Andrews Air Force Base, 40, 43–44
anti-Catholic sentiment, 14
antiwar movement, 86
Arlington National Cemetery, 42, 59, 93
Armstrong, Joe, 97, 178, 207, 209–210, 218–219, 232, 336
Auchincloss, Hugh, 12, 55
Auchincloss, Jamie, 57
Auchincloss, Janet Jennings, 84
Auchincloss, Janet Lee, 11–12, 50–51, 55
automatic pilot function, 391–392
Awodey, Lou, 139
Baer, Don, 306
Baker, Julie, 208, 235–236, 384–385
Baldrige, Letitia, 19, 21, 22, 34, 37
“The Ballad of the Green Berets” (song), 76–77
Bar Cross (ranch), 123–124
Barkley, Charles, 287–288
Barlow, John Perry, 123–124, 173, 257, 389
Barnhill, Jim, 153
Barrymore, Drew, 307
Beardsley, Mimi, 28
Beatles, the, 75–76
Beatty, Warren, 276–277
Begala, Paul, 268–269, 338
Beiser, Edward, 144, 173
Ben Bella, Ahmed, 41
Bellamy, Samuel “Black Sam,” 169
Benetton, Alessandro, 234
Bentsen, Lloyd, 190
Bergen, Candice, 272
Bergin, Michael, 233, 333–334
Berman, Matt
Carolyn and, 291–292, 364
hired as creative director, 250–251
on night of fateful flight, 394
on office atmosphere, 258–259
struggling with front cover of George, 262–263
Berman, Michael
on Camelot myth, 62–63
Carolyn as threat to, 291–293
early years of, 187–188
forming Random Ventures corporation, 214–215
at George magazine (See George magazine)
Hamptons parties, 193
handling John’s public image, 189, 191–192, 283
on John’s failed bar exams, 202
as John’s informal publicist, 188–189
meeting John at Office of Business Development, 187–188
opening up about relationship with John, 7
post-George, 304–305
on power of John’s appeal, 196–197
Berman, Victoria, 193, 241, 293
Bernstein, Carl, 116
Bessette, Carolyn Jean
arriving at airport for fateful flight, 390
brief romance with John, 233
at Calvin Klein, 235
as campus man-eater, 234–235
Carole Radziwill and, 317–319, 325–328, 331–332, 364
change in personality, 363–364
cocaine use, 328, 383
devising wedding guest list, 297
early years of, 233–234
engagement to John, 266–267
fateful flight, 389–394
feeling trapped, 328–329
flashpoints plaguing marriage, 332–333
generousness of, 331–332
harassing Michael over the phone, 294–295
incidents setting off rage in, 295–296
influence on John, 290–293
John insensitive to, 329–330
John living apart from, 383
John proposing to, 266
losing passion with John, 333–334
marriage problems, 328–329
meeting John, 233
meeting John’s immediate family, 265
memorial service for, 400
Michael Bergin affair, 333–334
moving into John’s Tribeca penthouse, 266
paparazzi and, 298–300, 325–326, 328
paranoia of, 329–331
planning secret wedding, 295–298
priorities in raising a family, 332, 365
public fight in Washington Square Park, 286–287
pushing John’s friends out of his life, 330
reluctance to marry John, 266–267
on Rory’s wedding, 383, 388–389
self-conscious about her appearance, 328
as threat to Michael, 291–293
turning on RoseMarie, 331
wedding ceremony, 298
wedding party gifts, 297–298
Bessette, Lauren, 382, 389, 397
Bessette, William, 233
Bethesda Naval Hospital, 51, 53
Beyer, John, 169
Billings, Lem, 13, 110
Bishop, Jim, 72
Blankley, Tony, 338
Bloodworth-Thomason, Linda, 224
Bloomingdale’s (department store), 193
Blow, Rich, 250–251, 259–260, 265–267, 276, 303–304, 307, 349, 357, 369
Blumstein, Sheila, 133
Bono, Sonny, 277
The Boston Globe, 272
Boston University, 234
Bouvier, John, 11–12
“Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital” (Putnam), 226
Bowman, Patricia, 187
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Bradlee, Ben, 26–27, 50
Brando, Marlon, 137
Brazil, media coverage of John’s disappearance, 404
Breaux, John, 405
Breimer, Bruce, 95–96, 126, 129
Brinkley, Douglas, 405
Brokaw, Tom, 225, 404
Brown, Jerry, 216
The Brown Daily Herald, 153
Brown University
academic career of John at Brown
freshman year registration, 139–140
sophomore year, 152
junior year, 152–153, 158
senior year, 158–159
graduation, 167–169
academic probation of John, 145
academic reputation of university, 133
admissions policy, 134
application materials, 134–136
Brown actively recruiting John, 137
buzz generated by admission of John, 137–138
Charles Neu’s seminar, 144–145
curriculum, 131–134
development strategy, 134
entertaining “Miss Crazy,” 151–152
financial problems, 133–134
four-page essay as part of application to, 135–136
frat house behavior, 147–153
Gillon and John, 1–3, 4, 157–159
graduation, 167–169
Group Independent Study Project, 132
history of, 130
Jackie completing letter of application, 134–135
John’s interest in, 129, 130
living off campus, 152–153
loco parentis rule, 132
pet pig, 148
pledging Phi Psi fraternity, 146–147
record number of applicants at, 137–138
recruitment practices, 137
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), 132
speeding tickets while attending, 148–149
Browne, Jackson, 208
Browner, Michael, 243–244, 245, 248, 313
Brownridge, Kent, 239
Bryant, Traphes L., 19
Buck, Lawrence P., 163
Bundy, George, 39