John's Plane

I've had two people send me an email about some pictures I posted some time back and my personal blog.

These pictures were of John's plane. Not just of the outside, but the pictures actually showed the inside of John's plane. One email stated that they loved being able to see what the inside of the planed looked like - the other email asked me why I would even post those pictures.

Here is my reasoning. It wouldn't matter if the pictures were of his plane or another Saratoga - the point is - not many people were able to see what the inside of his plane looked like. Many people have never been around a small plane never mind sitting in one. These pictures weren't disrespectful, I didn't show any pictures of John's plane salvaged from the accident. These were pictures of the inside of a Piper Saratoga.

Let me know how you feel, comment here with a reply. Do you think it was wrong of me to post pictures of the inside of a Piper Saratoga, or was it nice to see what John's plane looked like on the inside not just the outside?

Fiona Apple If I were President

December 1997 issue of GEORGE Magazine


Riding the tidal wave of attention for her debut album, this 20 year old singer and compulsive truth teller writes lyrics that cut straight to the heart, as leader of the free world, her controversial policy would do the same thing.






Name your party:
Individualist

Running mate:
I wouldn't have one

Campaign song:
"If you want to sing out sing out" by Cat Stevens from Harold and Maude

How would you raise campaign money:
Pimp the Spice Girls

Your closest advisers:
George Carline and Dionne Warwick

Fill in the blank, "Newt Gingrich is to Bill Clinton as____ is to Fiona Apple:
I am a victim of the American public school system, and though I was hungry to learn about such controversial characters each school I attended rendered me lost, anonymous, and discouraged. So I was forced to become a traveling musician.

Why should we elect you:
I make a mean evasive segue, and I have a knack for bullshit. (see my previous answer)

Why shouldn't we elect you:
I'm selfish, impulsive, easily distracted,and almost completely ignorant about politics.

What would you wear to the inaugural ball:
A shield

Your role model:
No one.

Name a reason to go to war:
To shame mother earth, devastate civilization,and make ourselves extinct.

Your first act in office:
Replace the animals in product - and medicine- testing labs with second offense child molesters.

What would you fight to change:
The need to have a president.

The greatest problem facing the U.S.
Stupid people

Your administrations scandal:
Secually harassing myself when I'm alone in the Oval Office.

What three objects must you have in the oval office:
A sewing kit, a box radio, and MacGyver

Which of your activities would most challenge the secret service:
I inhale.
How would you unwind from job pressure:
I'd inhale

What do America's teenagers need most, and how would you give it to them:
We'd inhale.


What would you want historians to say about your Presidency:
She was trusted. She let the people tell her how to do her job the best she could for all of them. She had a heart of gold and balls of steel.

2 Old Articles

American Topics - Herald Tribune

By Arthur Higbee

Published: SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1992

In New York, JFK Jr. For the Prosecution

When John F. Kennedy Jr., an assistant district attorney in New York City, conducted his most recent prosecution, the jurors included a New York Times reporter, Charles Strum.Mr. Strum described Mr. Kennedy as "tall, handsome, square-jawed, square-shouldered." He added, "Mr. Kennedy's articulation, in a pleasant but unremarkable baritone, had been a bit halting in jury selection. But his opening statement was clear and his direct examination of three police detectives and a police chemist was to the point."

After seven hours of deliberation the jury brought in a verdict of guilty against one Venard Garvin for peddling heroin. "The district attorney's office was unable to provide a score card of Mr. Kennedy's success rate in his three years on the staff," Mr. Strum reported. "But this victory was at least his second. In the first, the defendant was found asleep in his victim's apartment with her jewelry in his pocket."

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The New York Times

Flim; Bimbo? Sarah Jessica Parker Begs to Differ

By MICHAEL SPECTER

Published: September 20, 1992

Sarah Jessica Parker has a bit of a bimbo problem.

Not that she is one, but the notion certainly has gained some currency lately. And much to her surprise, Ms. Parker, who has been a professional actress for most of her life, finds she gets a kick out of it. Up to a point.

"Look, it's offensive, O.K.," she said, beginning to weave through a rambling five-minute defense of her blooming fame, her professional choices, even her sex life. "I have spent my entire life in the theater, working every day all the time. Without stop. I never used to audition for babe roles, it was such a waste of time. But I have to say if you had ever -- and I mean ever -- told me five years ago the word bimbo would be in a sentence with my name, I would have laughed."

She isn't laughing now. The 28-year-old Ms. Parker is white hot this summer, starring with Nicolas Cage and James Caan as the luscious but well-behaved second-grade teacher who manages to drive both men over the edge in "Honeymoon in Vegas." The actress, best known for her role as a geeky high school nerd in the cultishly acclaimed, short-lived television series "Square Pegs," has just finished filming her first action adventure feature, "Three Rivers," opposite the big screen's ultimate anti-nerd, Bruce Willis.

But it was last year that she won the trifecta, appearing as an assistant district attorney in the ABC series "Equal Justice," winning raves Off Broadway as the sensitive daughter of an intellectually driven Holocaust refugee in Jon Robin Baitz's "Substance of Fire," and pulling off the libidinous star turn of the season as SanDee, the double-jointed store clerk who performs one of modern cinema's most memorable trouser alterations in Steve Martin's "L.A. Story."

For publicity, however, all that paled compared to the event she describes as "the Kennedy fiasco." She had met John F. Kennedy Jr. last year at the theater. And he asked her on a date. More than one, actually. She says she enjoyed them -- and him -- until she realized he "was a public domain kind of a guy."

"We would go places where there wasn't a soul around, and the next day I'd see pictures of us there in the tabloids," she said over lunch near her apartment in Greenwich Village. Although she is now seriously involved with the actor Matthew Broderick, she admits she is still slightly dazed by the Kennedy experience.

"I have been a semi-public person since 'Annie,' " she said of the lead role she played as a child in the Broadway musical. "But I never had any idea what real fame was until I met John. He's a nice man, but for God's sake, I feel like I should apologize for dating him. It has become the defining factor in the person I am.

"It's pathetic," she said, mostly in jest but partly in fear. "When I die, they are going to say, 'Oh, yeah, Sarah once dated John Kennedy.' "

Little Tid-Bits

Some lesser known facts:

• John once hung upside down and kissed the Blarney Stone during a visit to Ireland(not out of the ordinary for most visitors)
• John's reading tastes leaned primarily towards non-fiction
• John learned to speak Greek in the years following his mother's marriage to Aristotle Onassis.
• In 1991 John broke his leg playing football and ended up on crutches for a couple of months.
• John was arrested in Connecticut for driving 81 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone.

More Jfk Jr Photos

Although JfkJrOnline.com has hundreds of photos of John, you can also check out

http://www.newyorknewsservice.com

Paul Adao took many photos of John and you can view them at his website. Here's a sample:

09/97 If I were President George Mag

September 1997 George Magazine "If I were President" Kate Moss


She's Gorgeous and she's naughty. Find out why one more British occupation might not be such a bad idea.


What would be your campaign song?
"Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough" (Chelsea Football Chant)

Who would be your running mate?
My Therapist

Your closest adviser?
My Agent

Why should we elect you?
I'm Hot

What person would you model yourself on as the leader of the free world?
Benny Hill

Who would you draft into your cabinet?
(British Gangster) Ronnie Kray- Secretary of the Treasury

What would be your first act in office?
Martial law

What is the greatest problem facing the nation?
Uptightness

What do you think would be the hardest to change?
Fascism - I mean fashion

Name a reason to go to war.
There isn't one.

What would you veto every time it hit your desk?
The obvious

What would be your favorite Presidential perk?
Air Force One

What feature of British politics would you import into this country?
A national health system

Which one of your activities would present the greatest problem for the secret service?
Indecent Exposure

Who would be at the top of your Lincoln bedroom guest list?
All me mates.

Who would never get an invitation?
The Spice Girls

Now is modeling like politics?
Gossip is power!

Dec. 15, 1995 Article about GEORGE

GEORGE magazine and its editor-in-chief John Kennedy enable readers to send a "SEASONED GREETING" to Washington politicians via the Internet

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 1995--

GEORGE magazine, published by George Publishing Company and managed by Hachette Filipacchi Magazines (HFM), is offering readers and Internet surfers the opportunity to send one of two holiday cyber-greeting cards -- "you've been naughty" or "you've been nice" -- to a selected group of elected and appointed Washington officials.

The holiday cards can be accessed by logging onto the GEORGE magazine website, (www.georgemag.com), which has been available on the World Wide Web since September.

Internationally renowned artist Kenny Scharf, known for the VIP rooms he has decorated for such Manhattan nightclubs as The Palladium and The Tunnel, has designed the pop art greeting cards which include a copy of the latest GEORGE magazine cover featuring Robert DeNiro decked out as George Washington on the cover. Among the collectors of Scharf's paintings are Dennis Hopper, Madonna, model Stephanie Seymour and Yoko Ono.

Those politicians included on the GEORGE "Seasoned Greeting" list range from Bill and Hillary Clinton, Senator Bob Dole, and Newt Gingrich to the Postmaster General and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Users will be able to include their name and a brief greeting explaining why they think the recipient deserves the "naughty" or "nice" card. The editors of GEORGE will then forward the "Seasoned Greetings" to the designated recipients via the Internet if they have an e-mail address, or deliver them the old-fashioned way, if they have yet to enter the digital age.

After the greeting cards are sent, GEORGE web sites visitors can read the latest articles from the magazine, vote in a weekly poll, take a political pop quiz or learn about the latest political goings-on elsewhere in cyberspace.

In addition to GEORGE, Hachette Filipacchi Magazines has produced World Wide Web sites for Car and Driver, www.caranddriver.com, the world's largest automotive monthly, Elle, www.ellemag.com, the world's largest selling fashion monthly, and Premiere, www.premieremag.com, which offers the latest new and information from the film industry.

09/1997 Editors Letter Apple Tree

I've learned a lot about temptation recently. But that doesn't make me desire any less. If anything, to be reminded of the possible perils of succumbing to what's forbidden only makes it more alluring. But while I'm playing Hamlet with my willpower (Should I or shouldn't I?), there's always the distraction of gawking at the travails of those who simply couldn't resist. We can all gather, like urchins at a hanging, to watch those poor souls who took a chance on fantasy and came up empty-handed -- to remind ourselves to keep to the safety of the middle path.

An article I just read gave a name to the kind of temptation I'm talking about. It's not a striking body or a pile of money or a new toy, but something more intangible. It's the inevitable by-product of living a respectable life. The author surmised that the more we live a life governed by conventional norms of proper behavior, and the nicer and more responsible we force ourselves to be, the further we drift from the essence of our true self - one that's ruled by passion and instinct. Give in to your deepest longings (like Mike Tyson and chomp off your tormentor's ear) and become an outcast; conform utterly and endure a potentially dispiriting, suffocating life.

I've seen the cycle up close in the past year. Two members of my family chased an idealized alternative to their life. One left behind an embittered wife, and another, in what looked to be a hedge against mortality, fell in love with youth and surrendered his judgment in the process. Both became poster boys for bad behavior. Perhaps they deserved it. Perhaps they should have known better. To whom much is given, much is expected, right? The interesting thing was the ferocious condemnation of their excursions beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior. Since when does someone need to apologize on television for getting divorced?

But perhaps there was some comfort in watching the necessary order assert itself. The discontents of civilized life look positively benign when compared with the holy terror visited upon the brave and stupid.

Maybe it's a sign of degraded thinking that we wrap our women's issue in an archetypal image of temptation. But who needs another pantload of platitudes about women being the new potent force in American politics. That sounds like campaign sloganeering, and since the airwaves are election free at the moment, I want to keep the peace.

- John Kennedy

Thank you

This blog hasn't been up and running very long at all, but I do appreciate the comments and the emails telling me that you already enjoy it and you hope it stays.

JfkJrOnline.com receives many hits per month. Quite remarkable considering the website is in memory of someone, and not your regular fan site. I appreciate that too. I will say though, that even if JfkJrOnline only received two hundred hits a month I would still have this website. To celebrate John, his life, and his friends.

Thank you for telling me that blog is useful, and easy to use (gain info from) and I'll keep it going. Hold out for a super surprise I have coming for Feb. 09


Amber

One Solitary Life 1988

Three "Titles" Bestowed on John

1986 : " One of America's Most Eligible Bachelors" (Manwatchers a 10,000 member Los Angeles- based organization devoted to- well, watching men!)

June 16, 1986: "America's Most Eligible Bachelor" (People)

September 12, 1988: "Sexiest Man Alive" (People)

Places John Vacationed II

Africa:
John spent several days in the forest of Mount Kenya in Africa during a seventy-day survival course in 1979




The Aland Archipelago:

The Aland Archipelago is a chain of islands in the southern stretch of the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden. John's trip to Ahvenanmaa (the main island) in the summer of 1992 afforded him the opportunity to become a professional travel writer. John and three friends kayaked throughout this island chain with John taking the role of navigator and cook. John's menus consisted mostly of spaghetti.

The vistas of this region of the world are breathtaking beyond imagination, and also quite dangerous for the inattentive.





















Antigua:
Jackie took John and Caroline to the Caribbean Island Antigua in 1965 when John was five. They stayed with millionaire Paul Mellon and his family.



















Aspen, Colorado:
John had visited Aspen several times for ski trips including one with his mother and sister following Jackie's appearance at a United Nations Christmas concert in the late sixties. John's uncle Bobby taught him how to ski.













The Berkshires, Massachusetts:
When he was fifteen, John accompanied his uncle Ted and aunt Joan to the Berkshire Mountains for a skiing vacation.





















The Caroline Islands:
The island lie north of New Guinea in the Pacific, to the east of the Philippines. John visited in 1975 with cousin Tim Shriver. They went diving to explore sunken Japanese warships.










Cordoba, Argentina:
In the late Sixties John spent some time here on the cattle ranch of Miguel Carcano, whose daughters were friends of John's uncles. While in Cordoba, John placed a stone on a monument that had been laid there by h is father many years earlier.



















France:
John has visited France often, including trips with his mother in 1975, and a visit in 1996


















Great Britain:
Visited in 1965 John toured the Tower of London and asked countless questions about how executions and beheadings were carried out.

















Greece:
John visited and lived on Skorpios, visited Athens and other Greek isles.



Check back for the third and last post on Where John Vacationed III

The Secret Nude Photos of John

Taken from Jfk Jr. By Stephen Spignesi

I can sense the ladies (and not a few men, I would guess) salivating already; Yes full frontal nude photos of John F. Kennedy Jr. exist, although they have not (yet) been published.

Shortly after his thirtieth birthday in 1990 John vacationed on the island of St. Bart's in the French West Indies where he swam and walked around on the Governor's beach completely naked. A New York travel agent named Shelby Shusteroff who was also vacationing there, recognized him and took his picture. She has reportedly refused huge amounts of money for the nude pictures. Several people have acknowledged being shown the shots in private. Ms. Shusteroff has said that the pictures were not taken for financial gain (apparently just for her own delight).

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Whether or not the nude photographs of John will ever be published remains to be seen. Shusteroff has been steadfast in her refusal to sell them and yet, things happen. Unless she burns the pictures and the negatives, there is always a chance that someday they will appear in print. Since John's nude romp on Governors Beach, no one has reported catching him naked, although he has been shirtless in public many times in the past few years. He has however kept his pants on (at least while in the public eye)

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Alright ladies...let out those sighs now.

Where John Vacationed

Thinking about taking a vacation? Wanting to know where to stay? Would you like to stay somewhere John lodged too? Here's a list.

The Red Lion Inn
Hognaston, England


A traditional seventeenth century, family-run inn nestled in the small village of Hognaston on the edge of the Peak District National park, overlooking Carsington Water, renowned for it's scenic beauty.

The Red Lion is unique, with antiques, superior accommodation with en suite facilities. Our claim to fame is our food, enjoyed and commented upon by Derbyshire Life, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and The Observer. Only the very best produce is used and prepared daily by our chefs.

http://www.redlionhognaston.co.uk/index.htm

CUMBERLAND ISLAND
Where John was married

A LUXURY ROMANTIC HOTEL
ON THE GEORGIA COAST'S GOLDEN ISLES

A grand and graceful mansion located on Georgia's Golden Isles on the state's southernmost coastal island, Cumberland Island. Cumberland Island was the 19th century retreat of Thomas and Lucy Carnegie who, in 1900, built Greyfield for their daughter, Margaret Ricketson. Converted to an inn during 1962 by her daughter, Lucy R. Ferguson, and family - who oversee the daily operation - Greyfield Inn exudes the welcoming atmosphere and charm of a family home.

http://www.greyfieldinn.com/

Ireland:



JFK Jr had two vivid memories of his 1966 trip to Ireland. One was the tune to the ballad Up Went Nelson. The other, says his close friend William 'Billy' Noonan, "was of Irish Government drivers telling him that the only way to catch leprechauns was with pints of Guinness, and if he happened to produce a few pints, they might be able to snag one.



So John secured them a few glasses; the next day he noticed there were empty glasses and no leprechauns. At six years old, he'd had his first taste of blarney."

http://www.shamrock.org/

More vacation spots to be featured on a Vacation Part II

Oct./Nov. 1995 Inaugural Issue

If as some historians suggest Americans renew their passion for politics every 30 years perhaps this reawakening is due less to changes of heart than to changes in how the elected communicate with the electorate. During the 30's radio brought FDR's fireside chats into the homes of a nation frightened and worried by the Depression. in the 1960's the Nixon-Kennedy debates ushered in the television age of politics. Thirty years later during the 1992 election the means by which politicians defined themselves changed yet again.

During the presidential campaign, candidates supplemented their frenetic tours from city to city with satellite feeds that hooked them into the 10 to 15 local markets at a time. When Bill Clinton and Al Gore climbed aboard a bus and rode through towns like Corsicana,Texas and Parrott, Georgia places that hadn't seen a presidential candidate since WWII I watched along with millions of others from across the country as the spectacle was beamed back to us in a microsecond.

Empowered by technology and emboldened by a desire to take their case directly to the people politicians broke all the old rules. Clinton played his sax on Arsenio Hall, George Bush appeared on MTV and Ross Perot shocked us all by announcing his candidacy on Larry King Live.

Over dinner one evening during the early months of the Clinton administration my partner Michael Berman and I noted that friends who had never turned an eye toward things political were suddenly taking notice of the new faces coming to power in Washington. Whether it was because of who they were or how they were covered these new personalities were proving fascinating to a freshly engaged public. Since that time the trend has only accelerated. Political figures are increasingly written about as the personalities and pop icons they have become. Politics has migrated into the realm of popular culture and folks can't turn away.

That's not to say that prospects for a successful political magazine were encouraging when Michael and I started developing the idea for George two years ago. Despite what we perceived as a surge of interest in personalities of politics, the publics cynicism toward government itself was as pervasive as ever. A magazine devoted entirely to covering a system widely regarded as broken was a tough sell.

But voters nevertheless seemed energized by their anger and eager to experiment with alternatives, and perhaps because we were publishing neophytes we stuck with the idea even after the instructor in our two day seminar called "Starting Your Own Magazine" told us "You can successfully launch a magazine in just about anything except for religion and politics." Fortunately one company that knows a thing or two about publishing disagreed. After 14 months of dubiously successful fundraising, we brought our idea to the people at Hachette Filpacchi and from the start they recognized it's viability. Today they are our partners in this venture.

All along the way the question we never stopped being asked was, why create a magazine about politics? We believe that if we can make politics accessible by covering it in an entertaining and compelling way popular interest and involvement in the process will follow. But calling George a political magazine isn't entirely accurate, since we aim to be bred apart from traditional political magazines. Our coverage of politics won't be colored by any partisan perspective - not even mine. George is a lifestyle magazine with politics at it's core, illuminating the points where politics converges with business, media, entertainment, fashion, art, and science. Whether its violence in the movies or free speech on the internet culture drives politics. The public arena is not a hot house sealed off from the general climate. It partakes of it, changes it and is changed by it.

Recognizing that interest in "inside Washington" is thin beyong the Beltway, we will define politics extravagantly, from elected officials to media moguls to move stars to ordinary citizens. And we will cover it exuberantly, showing the unexpected, meaningful and whimsical ways that it affects your daily life.

The fact that George is post-partisan doesn't mean that we don't have opinions. It just means we don't believe that party affiliation is the only hook on which to hang ones political identity. With a recent poll showing that nearly forty percent of all Americans no longer have any loyalty to an organized party, we suspect that Americans want to know more about the people who seek to govern and less about the correctness of their politics. When "progressives" find themselves defending the status quo and "conservatives" are advocating wholesale change, labels serve less to define than to obscure. In George, you will hear all the voices in today's political dialogue, because as we learned from last November's midterm elections, today's opposition can become tomorrow's ruling party.

We approach politics as you might- as skeptical consumers, for whom efficacy is at least as important as party loyalty. And if we can do just one thing at George, we hope it's to demystify the political process, to enable you to see politicians not just as ideological symbols, but as lively and engaging men and women who shape public life. As a lifelong spectator of the giant puppet show that can turn public people into barely recognizable symbols of themselves, I hope we can provide something more useful.

For those with more exotic tastes, George will be the first feature magazine to be launched simultaneously on the news stands and on the World Wide Web. Our website (http://www.georgemag.com) will offer readers the opportunity to converse with one another and to discuss the magazine and politics in general, as well as serve as a resource guide for particular issues. As we develop our site, we hope to bring you more elaborate means of engaging in politics, including timely riffs from the campaign trail as the presidential race heats up.

So that's George. We hope enjoy reading it as much as we've enjoyed creating it. It's the first of it's kind, like founding father George Washington, its namesake. We've set out to make a magazine about politics in which the images are as compelling as the prose and where you might find something to feed your enthusiasm, spark your curiosity, or even ease your disaffection.

If we're doing it right or slipping off the mark, please let us know; your input is critical. Our second issue will contain your feedback in our first "Yeas and Nays" letters to the editor section, which you can reach by snail mail (George,1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019) or by e-mail (yeas@georgemag.com). We hope you'll be informed, provoked, and entertained-but mainly, we hope you'll get involved, because as a wise man once said, politics is too important to be left to the politicians.

John Kennedy

GEORGE Magazine

I'll be including all the editor's letters that John wrote for the magazine here at the blog. So let's begin with some basic information about the magazine.

George was a glossy politics-as-lifestyle monthly magazine co- founded by John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Matthew Berman with publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. in New York City in September, 1995. Its tagline was "Not Just Politics as Usual." Image File history File links George_(magazine). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... ISSN, or International Standard Serial Number, is the unique eight-digit number applied to a periodical publication including electronic serials. ... Image File history File links George_(magazine). ... Image File history File links George_(magazine). ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. ... Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Inc. ... NY redirects here. ...

The debut issue featured a cover which received a great deal of attention for its photograph of Cindy Crawford dressed as George Washington. Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966, in Dekalb, Illinois) is an American supermodel, MTV television personality, celebrity endorser, cover girl, and actress. ... George Washington (February 22, 1732–December 14, 1799)[1] led Americas Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and was later elected the first President of the United States. ...

George departed from the format of traditional political publications, whose audience was made up primarily of people in or around the political world. The general template for George was similar to magazines such as Esquire or Vanity Fair. The consistent underlying theme was to marry the themes of celebrity and media with the subject of politics in such a way that the general public would find political news and discourse about politics more interesting to read. Esquire is a magazine for men owned by the Hearst Corporation. ... American actress Demi Moore, on a typical Vanity Fair cover (August, 1991) Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles based on sensational exaggerations, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and lies. ...

When it first appeared, George attracted great interest, and for a brief period had the largest circulation of any political magazine in the nation, partly due to the celebrity status of Kennedy, but it soon began losing money. Kennedy later complained that the magazine was not taken seriously in the publishing world.

George earned infamy in the conspiracy cyberculture, when an article slated to run in the October 1998 "Conspiracy Issue" on the top conspiracy writers was killed at the last minute by George editors. Titled "Princes of Paranoia," it would have highlighted writers and websites that were popular in the field of conspiracy theory and given their work exposure to a wider audience.

After Kennedy's death in a plane crash in 1999, Frank Lalli become editor-in-chief. In 2001, George was terminated by Hachette Filipacchi due to disappointing advertising revenues.

Critics called George "the political magazine for people who don't understand politics", assailing it for "stripping any and all discussion of political issues from its coverage of politics". In a feature in its final issue, Spy magazine asserted that the magazine's premise was flawed; there was no real convergence of politics and celebrity lifestyles. Spy magazine was founded in 1986 by Kurt Andersen and E. Graydon Carter. ...

On October 11, 2005, Harvard University, via their Kennedy School of Government, held a panel discussion entitled "Not Just Politics as Usual", which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the magazine's launch. The panel was moderated by Tom Brokaw and featured appearances by other journalists. October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... John F. Kennedy School of Government The John F. Kennedy School of Government is a public policy school and one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Thomas John Brokaw (born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota) is a popular American television journalist, presently working on regularly scheduled news documentaries for the NBC television network, and is the former NBC News anchorman and managing editor of the program NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. ...

John's Vehicle Stolen 1996

Published: November 27, 1996



When Detective Arthur Masinski and his partner, Thomas Bellino, gave chase to four men who were fighting with baseball bats on Staten Island last month, neither knew where the case would lead. The men fled in a sport utility vehicle, but were captured a few blocks away. None of them confessed to being the owner of the vehicle, and for good reason: the real owner was John F. Kennedy Jr. Using a hidden vehicle identification number, the police determined that the vehicle, a Typhoon, was reported stolen from Mr. Kennedy's neighborhood, TriBeCa, in March 1993. The man caught driving the vehicle, Mark Capichana, 29, of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, surrendered yesterday and was charged with possession of a stolen property.

Through his personal assistant, RoseMarie Terenzio, Mr. Kennedy, 36, said he had no comment. Richard Asher, a spokesman for Pontiac-GMC division of the General Motors Corporation, said there are only about 4,500 such vehicles nationwide, as the Typhoon model was discontinued after 1993.

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-Sexiest Magazine Editor- November 1998

People Magazine:

Volumn 50 No. 18

He has been officially out of circulation for two years now, the respectably married editor-in-chief of George, the political magazine he founded in 1995. But John F. Kennedy Jr.'s sex appeal is as overpowering as ever. It is also, notes George editor-at-large Tony Blankley, decidedly nonpartisan. When Kennedy once visited former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, Blankley relates, "Female staffers were coming up with the lamest excuses, like 'Just checking the paper-clip supply,' " to get a peek at the scion of America's most illustrious family of Democrats. Well, sure. Who's going to let a little ideology get in the way of that classic face, those perfect teeth? Or that athlete's body, toned by in-line skating, running and the occasional bike ride from the downtown Manhattan loft he shares with wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy to George's midtown offices? (Most days he takes the subway.) Certainly not Cheryl Eastwood, a trainer at Cape Cod's Hyannis Athletic Club, where the 6'1" Kennedy worked out recently while staying at his family's nearby compound. "He looks terrific—really healthy," says Eastwood. "After he left, other women said, 'I can't believe you didn't call me!' " Having traded in his youthful informality for conservative business suits, Kennedy, 37, is now "the definition of a man's man," says Frederic Fekkai, once his haircutter and still a friend. "He's a real good-looking man—he's not a cute man. And he's more than handsome. I think he's just going to look better and better."

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