Re: OT: This Day In History

On 2024-07-21 13:47:04 +0000, Norbert said:

In 1999, Navy divers found and recovered the bodies of JFK Junior, his
wife, Carolyn, and her sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage
of Kennedy's plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vinyard.
 -- I was happy to be reminded of this, because I live in a part of
Massachusetts where the public schools are so bad and the dope
dispensaries so numerous that I can barely go a day without encountering
shuffling-stepped, glazed-eyed freaks murmuring in monotones about JFK
Jr's supposed imminent return and endorsement of Trump.
 For one thing, JFK Jr. wasn't a politician; he was a failing magazine
publisher.  For another thing, he's been dead for 25 years.

The magazine -- along with several others -- was hemorrhaging readers with the advent of the internet but it's respected to this day for content that no other political magazine had at the time or has today.
He would've probably gotten into politics, and probably sooner than later until fate stepped in.
He wasn't that great of an athelete despite often being photographed shirtless and once being named People magazine's "Sexiest Man of the Year."
I learned all this by watching a two-hour CW network documentary about him, "I Am JFK Jr.," last week.
Mercifully they didn't delve into the Trump thing at all.