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CNN’s new documentation on John F. Kennedy Jr.. premiere on Saturday and told the story of the famous first son to John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Through interviews with family friends and political historians, as well as rare archive films and photographs.
American Prince: JFK Jr. Is a three -part series, and the first episode, “The Boy Who Be King”, starts in the beginning. As historian Steve Gillon notes, John “was the biggest celebrity in America when he was intended”, which made the front for every major newspaper on the day of his birth, November 25, 1960, just weeks after his father was elected president.
He spent his early years as the prince of “Camelot”, creeps under JFK’s desk on Oval Office. But the good times would be short -lived,
On November 22, 1963, just a few days before John became three and his older sister, Caroline, became six, A killer ball In Dallas, Texas, not only changed the history of the world, but the track in the president’s heir.
“John not only became a young son of a murdered president, but John became almost like a nephew or a younger cousin, or even a son of the millions of people watching,” says psychologist Dr. Joseph G. Ponterotto, author of A Psychobiography by John F. Kennedy Jr.: Understand his inner life, achievements, struggles and courage.
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He was also a time just a little boy. In a never -heard sound clip in the doctor, young John is asked by an interviewer, “What happened to your father?”
After fumbled a little, his little voice answers, “he goes to heaven.”
“Do you remember him?” Asks the interviewer. When John answers the affirmative, he asks, “What do you remember?”
On a real child, with a smile in his voice, John exclaims, “I don’t remember anything!”
The pressure to continue his father’s inheritance was immediately in certain ways. Experts at DOC explain how JFK’s increase to popularity at the same time as the advent of television gave the Americans a connection to celebrity that they had never had before. Kennedys-Snygg, RIK, Successful-Be a perfect goal for their affections.
“Kennedys, I think, is the symbol of the American dream, but they are also the symbol of everything we have in ambition: politics, wealth, mystery. And then, in a moment, it is cut,” notes CNN subsidiary Leah Wright Rigueur.
“So now, we don’t know what the opportunity is, but when we see his 3-year-old son, John, greets the coffin, the American public immediately throws all these ambitions, all these myths, all these understandings about John F. Kennedy and his unfinished heritage, on his son. And so we see, I believe, a type of height and focus on John.
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In some ways it was as simple as his name. It was practically impossible for John to distance himself from his father’s legacy when he was literally his “junior”. The press called him “John-John” though Carole Radziwill -Kennedy-Adjuft through his marriage to Jackie Kennedy’s nephew, Anthony Radziwill-Säger in the doctor that no one in the family ever called him it.
From childhood, the section Details, John’s existence always included a “lifelong struggle for not being crushed by the burdens placed on him.”
“In many ways his mother raised these expectations,” Gillon says of the widow first lady. “She was so determined to preserve the legacy of her husband that she created the myth of Camelot. That myth continued, and when people saw John they saw him as the one who would bring Camelot alive again. And I think it became a burden for him.”
A friend, Gary Ginsberg, explains family expectations clearly in an anecdote and reminds that a young John once told his uncle, Bobby KennedyThat when he was growing up maybe he wants to be a chef.
“Bobby is like,” are you out of your F ——- the mind? “” Ginsburg tells with a laugh.
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Subsequent section of American Prince: JFK Jr. Will explore how John grew up and tried to be more of a “free spirit” in his famous family, cycle around New York City and flutter unique fashion during excursions with his famous girlfriends and eventually, his wife, Carolyn Bessette.
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The couple’s mountain and coaster -romance hit a tragic end in July 1999, when John and Carolyn died in a flight accident When John flew his wife and her sister, Lauren, from New Jersey on their way to Martha’s vineyard. They had been married for less than three years and had no children.
American Prince: JFK Jr. Section 2 premieres Saturday August 16 at 21 et/PT on CNN.