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Some of these tragedies came unbidden, like the assassinations and the plane crashes. Some were partly self-inflicted, like the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, which happened 30 years almost to the day that J.F.K. Jr.'s plane went down in waters not far from there. Taken together, they make a chain of mishaps that has shadowed the Kennedy name for more than a half-century. But when John and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, their death seemed, if nothing else, at least commensurate with the drama and weight of their public life. When their children die prematurely...
...skipper of PT-109, the father sent the press clippings to Joe Jr., then a 29-year-old naval air lieutenant, to provoke him into getting started on his own heroic legend. It worked all too well. In the summer of 1944, Joe Jr. volunteered to fly a plane loaded with explosives into a Nazi missile site. The plan was for him to bail out before the plane struck its target. Instead he was killed when the plane exploded prematurely over the English Channel. It was later discovered that the missile sites Joe Jr. was supposed to destroy had been...
...disabled. Kennedy biographers still argue over how serious her disabilities were. But in 1941, without consulting his wife Rose, Joe decided to subject Rosemary to a prefrontal lobotomy that left her deeply retarded. Rosemary, now 80, has been institutionalized ever since. In 1948 another daughter, Kathleen, died in a plane crash over France after her companion urged their pilot to fly through bad weather...
...yesterday) that in the spring of 1932, after the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped, a tipster told the family that the child would be found, alive, on a boat off Gay Head. Our friend watched from this shore as Charles Lindbergh flew relentlessly back and forth in his small plane over exactly these waters, searching for that boat. Our friend mimes Lindbergh's fierce, focused anguish, peering at the waves: "Where's that baby? Where's that baby...
...TIME party, when he asked if he could bring his cousin Rory as his date. He said she would enjoy the event and understand what he wanted to say. She looked so proud of him that night, and must have so looked forward to him landing his new plane and arriving at her wedding...