As It Happened - the Tragic Death of John Kennedy Jr. - July, 1999 - part 7 of 7.

Like many of you, I lived through the assassination of Pres. John Kennedy in 1963. I was stunned to see his son John Jr. die in July 1999 in a plane crash. I ran over 9 hours of tape that day, from various networks. Here is the first 70 minutes of what I recorded. Especially now that Ted Kennedy is gone too, I feel it's very timely to post this footage. This is part 7 of 7.

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News & Politics

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• John
• Kennedy
• jr.
• Death
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• 1999
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[rfsaldana3]

I always get sad when I think of JFK jr. He was so young to have died and had so much to live for.

[tubulardude44]

There are two types of pilots, old and bold.

[NYKID10014]

He couldn't fly a plane or a magazine

[rockisheaven]

Wow, I remember this; this happened the summer before I started fourth grade. So sad.

[videoaddict2008]

. He had very little experience with IFR. IFR is instrument Flight rule and VFR is visual flight rule. He had no business being behind the controls of the plane.

[blueguitarblue]

@stain22 He was starting to piss off the political world through the Back Door via George. It was known he planned to reopen his father's assassination. There were two extremely critical and inflammatory political articles in George. He wasn't just a pretty face and was becoming bold. Let's face it. Politics was in his blood. If there is one thing nasty crusty politicians hate is an idealistic Kennedy.

[03flhtcui]

@tubulardude44 ...BUT, there are no OLD-BOLD pilots!

[MeanGene79]

@rockbutt123 Oh please, is the truth really that bad you need to resort to conspiracy theories?

[grungedog3]

@Illuminatusi He--no, they--were NOT assassinated. JFK Jr had little experience with his pilot's licsence and unfortunately decided to take a flight that was ultimately too dangerous.

[Bruno53ification]

Well, the guy is dead! Time to move on!

[stain22]

@943kline he was a pilot with 17 years experince talk to the pilots that knew him dont listen the the media and ask the plane company that built the plane you can not dive that plane it had a built in auto pilot in case a pilot had a heart attach or something it would pull out of a dive by its self