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...Final Salute: Kennedy family members are joined by crewmen on the deck of the Navy destroyer USS Briscoe in a burial ceremony for John Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette off Martha's Vineyard on Thursday. Their ashes were committed to the sea about three miles from where the bodies were recovered Wednesday...
...nation?s heart at the funeral of his own father was to be buried at sea Thursday, along with his wife and sister-in-law. The bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette were found Wednesday on the ocean floor off Martha?s Vineyard, four days after their small plane crashed on a Friday-night flight to the Massachusetts island. Following a request by the Kennedy family, which the Pentagon granted, the Navy destroyer USS Briscoe was dispatched to the area in anticipation of a burial at sea. The bodies were cremated. A memorial service...
Finally, the questions in the crash of John Kennedy Jr.'s plane may be closer to answers. On Wednesday morning the Associated Press reported that the wreckage of Kennedy's Piper Saratoga had been located, with Kennedy's body still aboard, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. "They've got the fuselage and John Kennedy's in it," a high-level government source said. Still unknown: the locations of Kennedy's wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren -- and the cause of the crash. One possible clue: CNN reported late Tuesday that mechanics had discovered -? and corrected...
...ground. Kennedy was a green pilot, his license a year old, and was rated to fly visually, but not by instruments, which would be required in poor visibility. Perhaps John Jr. was thinking of his waiting family, of his cousin?s wedding, or the ride to Martha?s Vineyard he had promised his sister-in-law. The weather wasn?t that bad. He?d be fine. After all, he was a Kennedy...
...most blessed and accursed family in American politics appears to have lost another of its shining stars. John F. Kennedy Jr. was just being a Kennedy on Friday night, jetting off to Martha's Vineyard in clear weather at the helm of his single-engine Piper Saratoga with his beautiful Carolyn at his side, bound for the wedding of his late uncle's daughter. He never arrived. On Sunday morning the U.S. Coast Guard continued its search for the plane in the waters off Martha's Vineyard, having found only bits of the plane and a piece of luggage bearing...