14 “engulfed in shadows”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 203.
15 “good father to John and Caroline”: Contrera, “How Could You?”
16 “widow and mother”: Dallas, The Kennedy Case, 328.
18 Christina’s death: GCT, “November 19, 1988, Christina Onassis Sadly Passes Away Aged 37,” Greek City Times.
19 “happy man before I married”: Taraborrelli, After Camelot, 195.
Chapter 55
1 “bleeding inside”: Barbara Leaming, “The Winter of Her Despair,” Vanity Fair, September 18, 2014.
2 “Nobody can do for them”: Leaming, “Winter of Her Despair.”
3 “controlling and domineering mother”: Maureen Callahan, “Inside Ethel Kennedy’s Cruel Neglect of Her Troubled Kids,” New York Post, September 13, 2015.
5 “Jackie on a budget?”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 253.
6 “If anything happens to John”: Liz Cantrell, “John F. Kennedy Jr.’s Close Friend Sheds Light on the Former First Son’s Final Days in New Biography,” Town & Country, July 14, 2019.
7 “allowed to experience life”: Katherine Q. Seelye, “John F. Kennedy Jr., Heir to a Formidable Dynasty,” New York Times, July 19, 1999.
8 “Me too”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation—A Legacy of Tragedy and Triumph (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 318.
9 “cannot tempt fate:” Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 319.
10 “never let my children fly”: Taraborrelli, 319.
11 “jumping all over the place”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 415.
12 “good for her son”: Evan Thomas, “Living with the Myth.” Newsweek, July 25, 1999.
13 “happy-go-lucky”: Bethany Bray, “PA Teacher Remembers Life with JFK Jr.,” Andover Townsman, December 4, 2008.
14 “incredible pressure”: Michael Powell, “JFK Jr.: As Child and Man, America’s Crown Prince,” Washington Post, July 18, 1999.
15 “great boarding school mother”: Bray, “PA Teacher Remembers Life with JFK Jr.”
16 “push the disciplinary envelope”: Evan Thomas, “An Unsettling Portrait of Four Privileged Classmates Who Met Untimely Deaths,” Washington Post, July 25, 2019.
17 John Jr.’s undergraduate application: Emily Smith and Tashara Jones, “Jackie Worked Hard to Keep JFK from Flunking.” New York Post, October 9, 2017.
18 “special consideration for my children”: Eileen Reslen, “JFK Jr.’s College Application and Jackie Kennedy’s Letters to His Professors Are for Sale,” Harper’s Bazaar, October 9, 2017.
19 “bad habits of borrowing money”: Thomas, “An Unsettling Portrait.”
20 “borrow a quarter every night”: Martha Brant, “Coming of Age,” Newsweek, August 13, 1995.
21 Off-off Broadway debut: “Acting Up Off-Off-Broadway, John Kennedy Jr. Auditions a New Stage for Himself,” People, August 26, 1985.
22 “best young actors”: “Acting Up Off-Off-Broadway.”
23 “John’s problem as an actor”: Brant, “Coming of Age.”
24 “only a hobby”: Brant.
25 “not a legal genius.” Bob Greene, “‘The Hunk Flunks’ and We Are Shamed,” Chicago Tribune, May 7, 1990.
26 “difficulties for any defense”: Ronald Sullivan, “Prosecutor Kennedy Wins First Trial Easily,” New York Times, August 30, 1991.
27 “Winning is better than losing”: Sullivan, “Prosecutor Kennedy Wins First Trial Easily.”
Chapter 56
1 “steal your soul”: Evan Thomas, “Living with the Myth,” Newsweek, July 25, 1999.
2 “skating down West Broadway”: Frank DiGiacomo, “John Kennedy, New Yorker,” Observer, July 26, 1999.
3 “I was blown away”: DiGiacomo, “John Kennedy, New Yorker.”
4 “you’re a Kennedy”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 312.
5 “hated his hair”: “What JFK Jr. Thought of His Hair, ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ Title & Having Kids: His Assistant Tells All,” Extra, July 29, 2016.
6 “best-dressed lists”: Thomas, “Living with the Myth.”
7 “magicians are only as good”: Elizabeth Mehren, “Crisis Crosses Camelot’s Moat in Massachusetts,” Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1997.
8 “‘I’m JFK’”: Martha Brant, “Coming of Age,” Newsweek, August 13, 1995.
9 “interesting to be you”: Liz McNeil, “Revealing the Real (and Very Complicated) John F. Kennedy Jr. Twenty Years after His Death (He Was Two People),” People, July 2, 2019.
10 “legacy or a mystique,” Katherine Q. Seelye, “John F. Kennedy Jr., Heir to a Formidable Dynasty, New York Times, July 19, 1999.
11 “obviously very close”: “John F. Kennedy Jr.’s Life in the Spotlight,” Oprah.
12 “more of a brother”: Stephanie Nolasco, “John F. Kennedy Was ’Emotionally Devastated’ by His Cousin Anthony Radziwill’s Cancer Diagnosis, Says Pal,” Fox News, July 16, 2019.
13 “Anthony had his back”: Julie Miller, “Carolyn Bessette’s Fraught Final Summer,” Vanity Fair, July 16, 2019.