TheWrap recently met with a top aide to JFK Jr. Edward Kennedy, left, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Widow Jacqueline Kennedy, center, and daughter Caroline Kennedy are accompanied by the late president’s brothers Sen. Kennedy Jr., who turns three today, salutes as the casket of his father, the late President John F. attended his father’s funeral on his 3rd birthday and spent much of his life scrutinised by the media as a member of one of America’s most powerful dynasties. salutes his father’s casket in Washington, 1963. 25, 1963, died early Friday morning from lung cancer. saluting his fathers caisson-borne casket Nov. Annapolis native and photographer Stan Stearns, who took the iconic photograph of John F. That day, albeit sad, became one of the most momentous in history.
Kennedy Sr., he was merely 2 years old and yet he managed to salute his later fathers casket. He wasn’t famous for anything he did, he was famous because of his existence,” concluded Begala. Kennedy Jr., remembered forever as 3-year-old John-John saluting his slain father's casket, spoke at the 1988 Democratic National Convention.Drawing. Kennedy Jr., better known as JFK Jr., is the son of one of the most famous political couples in the world: President and First Lady John and Jackie Kennedy.JFK Jr. Photographer who made famous JFK funeral image dies, Annapolis Capital Gazette, Mar 3, 2012. When John F Kennedy lost his father, Joseph P. “His fame was both derivative and tragic. “Everybody of my mom’s generation always sees him as that little boy at his father’s funeral,” says CNN correspondent Paul Begala in a clip exclusive to TheWrap, which also features Cindy Crawford.Ĭrawford famously impersonated George Washington for the inaugural cover of JFK Jr’s George magazine. Find art you love and shop high-quality art prints. In Spike TV’s new documentary “I Am JFK Jr,” filmmaker Derik Murray (“Johnny Cash: American Rebel”) explores the life of the celebrity and editor, who himself died in a 1999 plane crash with wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren.Īlso Read: JFK Jr Would Have Run for President in 2016, Top Aide Says Three Year Old John F Kennedy Jr Salutes His Fathers Flag Draped Coffin after Funeral Mass Photo. as a handsome political heir tragically taken too soon, he was a different symbol entirely to the generation who lived through his father’s presidency.įor those of that era, and political and pop culture historians alike, the junior Kennedy was “John John,” the little boy who played on the carpet of the oval office and, memorably, saluted his father JFK’s casket at age three in 1963.
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