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President-elect John F. Kennedy wheels his wife

Jacqueline from the hospital several days after she gave birth to a 6-pound, 3-ounce

boy on Nov. 25, 1960.

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The Kennedys stand by at the christening of John Jr., during the ceremony with his godparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bartlett.

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Caroline Kennedy, 3, kisses her new baby brother.

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President Kennedy claps as Caroline and John Jr. dance around the Oval Office in

1962.

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John Jr. shares a moment outside the West Wing with

his father, the youngest man ever elected to the White

House.The president's son in his father's rocking chair, Oct.

14, 1963.

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John Jr. does a little extra work around the office with secretary Evelyn Lincoln as his father talks on the

phone.

President Kennedy secretly arranged for Look photographer A. Stanley

Tretic to take photos of the children playing in the White House when his

wife was away. Later Jacqueline Kennedy delighted in the photos,

especially this one of John John under the desk now used by President

Clinton.

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President Kennedy and John Jr. play in a rowboat on a beach in Newport, R.I.

John Jr. at the wheel of a speedboat in the summer

of 1963.

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President Kennedy leads the way for Caroline and John Jr. as they go to visit their mother in the hospital after the premature birth of their brother, Patrick Bouvier

Kennedy, in August 1963. Patrick died two days later.

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John Jr. plays with his mother's string of pearls.

Jacqueline Kennedy attends Mass with her son in 1963.

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Nov. 25, 1963, JFK Jr.'s third birthday.Wrote Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.: "... He was more than a prince, more than the inheritor of a legacy, more than a little

boy who saluted a casket and moved a nation to tears."

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Jacqueline Kennedy leads Caroline and John Jr. from the Capitol for a service honoring the slain president. The children's uncle,

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, follows.

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Caroline and John Jr. leave their father's funeral Mass at St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church in

Washington.

Edward M. Kennedy and his nephew in Stowe, Vt., during an Easter skiing vacation in 1964, four months after the assassination of the boy's

father.

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At the 1969 dedication of the Washington sports stadium

named for his slain uncle, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

At his uncle's grave, near their father's memorial in

Arlington National Cemetery, Kennedy kneels with his

mother and sister.

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Kennedy and his mother attend a memorial Mass marking the first anniversary of Robert Kennedy's

death.

Kennedy and sister Caroline attend the 1975 funeral of

stepfather Aristotle Onassis on his private island in Greece.

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Kennedy arrives for his freshman year at Brown

University in 1979.

Kennedy, with his mother, graduated from Brown in 1983

with a BA in history.

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John F. Kennedy Jr. attended the 1999 commencement at Washington College in

Chestertown, Md. Colleagues say he took to heart an adage invoked by his grandmother Rose

Fitzgerald Kennedy: "Of everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required."

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By 1989, a year after he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, at the

Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, John

Jr. begins to display his father's charisma.

Walking a Hyannis Port beach alone the morning after his

grandmother Rose died in 1995. Said a family friend to Newsweek: "John had great self-confidence in his ability to come through these

things. He had the sense that 'there is nothing I can't cope with

myself'."

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At the September 1995 launch of George, a

magazine that mixes politics, culture and

celebrity. Wrote longtime friend Douglas Brinkley: "To

John, journalism was an intoxicating profession."

The president and editor of George poses with an enlarged magazine cover of actor Sean Penn. Considered a hands-on

editor, in recent months Kennedy concentrated on

wooing investors.

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Kennedy, vacationing near his family home in Hyannis Port, Mass., was once named the "Sexiest

Man Alive" by People magazine.

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At a 1997 panel discussion at the Harvard University school of government named for his

father. JFK Jr. once said being the son of a legend "makes for a rich and complicated life."

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Interviewing the Dalai Lama in 1997. In recent years, "Kennedy became the oddest of postmodern

creatures: a supercelebrity and journalist rolled into one," friend Douglas Brinkley wrote.

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And the interviewee: Kennedy answered questions in 1996 with TV host Oprah

Winfrey.

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The Kennedys have grieved publicly many times. In January 1998, John Jr., right, embraced his cousin Douglas

before the funeral of Michael Kennedy, who died in a skiing accident.

Kennedy and older sister Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg grew up in the public eye. In 1998, they

presented the annual Profile in Courage award, which took its name from a book by their father.

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John F. Kennedy Jr. and President Clinton share the stage following a viewing of "From the Earth to the

Moon" at the White House March 5, 1998.

John and Carolyn Kennedy are hosted at the White House by Bill Clinton, the nation's 42nd president, who points out the

official portrait of the 35th president, John F. Kennedy.

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The relationship between Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her children was

close; they delighted in time spent together, with simple pleasures such as celebrating Mom's birthday with a

cake.

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The Kennedys long endured the spotlight. Here, at a 1992 ceremony: Sen. Edward

Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John F. Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

and Edwin Schlossberg.

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Wherever Kennedy went, so did reporters, including a pack outside his mother's New York apartment May

20, 1994, shortly after she died of cancer.

Kennedy Jr. and older sister Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

navigate a crowd on a New York City street after their

mother's death.

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Kennedy was an avid adventurer who tried

paragliding, scuba diving, in-line skating, skiing, ocean kayaking and

Outward Bound — as well as bicycling through New York City's streets in early

1999.

John F. Kennedy Jr. and actress Darryl Hannah skate on New York

streets, May 22, 1994, the day before his mother's funeral.

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JFK Jr. was linked frequently with celebrities, including

singer Madonna.John F. Kennedy Jr. and Daryl Hannah have fame, fortune,

fabulous bone structure—and each other

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The September 1996 Kennedy-Bessette wedding was a private affair on Cumberland Island, Ga. Said a family friend: "John and Carolyn were true soul mates."

From the moment they stepped out of a small chapel on Cumberland Island, Georgia, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy were destined to inherit the spotlight that shone on

J.F.K. and Jackie. As these pictures attest, the young Kennedy couple proved to be every bit as striking as

their forebears.

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Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn, a former Calvin Klein

publicist, often strolled through their TriBeCa neighbourhood.

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Kennedy and his wife, Carolyn Bessette, in Rome in August

1998.

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John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife Carolyn get cozy at the Vanity Fair party following the White

House Correspondents Dinner in May 1999.

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The worst part of being sidelined after a May

paragliding accident, Kennedy said, was being unable to pilot

his plane. The day after the cast came off, July 16, he took

to the air for his cousin's wedding, with his wife and her

sister

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, accompanied

by their beloved dog Friday, calls across an

airport runway in September 1998, as her husband tries to elude

photographers by moving his plane.

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My current reading material

                                                                                                                

William Noonan was JFK, Jr.'s best friend and

decided that it was time to portray him in a true

manner, which the tabloids

not managed to report.

have  

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We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,

Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,Learned his great language, caught his

clear accents,Made him our pattern to live and to die!

From “The Lost Leader” by Robert Browning

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Carolyn Bessette Kennedy1966-1999

Avoiding the Spotlight:

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy tried to

keep a low profile in the face of the

media scrutiny and expectations that accompanied her marriage into the Kennedy family.

John F. Kennedy Jr.1960-1999

Heir to Camelot:John F. Kennedy Jr. grew up in the shadow of the

Kennedy myth and became a sex symbol, a

publisher and crown prince of America's most

famouspolitical dynasty.

Lauren Bessette1964-1999

While Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy made

headlines at the center of an American

fairytale,her sister, Lauren Bessette, found

success on Wallstreet.

     

In Memory of . . .

Trinity