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Kennedy memorial: 'Every gift but length of years' [7/24/99]
Eulogy text [7/24/99]
A Final Farewell: JFK Jr. 1960-1999 [7/23/99]
Catholic Church does not encourage scattering of ashes [7/23/99]
Bodies retrieved as services are set [7/22/99]
Flight school's newsletter mentioned training Kennedy [7/22/99]
Simulators re-create crash on desktop [7/22/99]
Sea burial is ancient ritual with modern popularity [7/22/99]
Divers brave hazards to bring closure [7/22/99]
Pilots often face the perils JFK did [7/21/99]
Despite big searches, wreckage of some planes is never found [7/21/99]
JFK Jr. plane plunged out of control [7/20/99]
'Get-there-itis' can be fatal for pilots [7/20/99]
Possibility of Kennedy's burial at Arlington is explored [7/20/99]
Statements from the families [7/20/99]
Search ends for survivors [7/19/99]
JFK Jr. pushed safety limits, pilots say [7/19/99]
Bessette Kennedy was private but style symbol [7/19/99]
JFK Jr. was touched by charisma and curse [7/19/99]
Haze limited experience likely problems [7/18/99]
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The Kennedy Curse
- Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. died in 1944 when his U.S. Army bomber heavily laden with explosives blew up over the English Channel.
- Kathleen Kennedy died in a plane crash in 1948. (Her husband, William John Robert Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, was killed in World War II.
- Patrick Kennedy, son of the president, was born prematurely in 1963 and died two days later.
- President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963, three months after the death of Patrick.
- Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York, former U.S. attorney general, was assassinated immediately after winning the California Democratic presidential primary in 1968.
- David Kennedy, son of RFK, died of a drug overdose in 1984.
- Michael Kennedy, another of RFK's sons, died in a 1997 skiing accident in Aspen, Colo.
- In July 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. dies when his Piper Saratoga aircraft crashed in the ocean near Martha's Vineyard. Also killed in the crash are his wife and sister-in-law.
- The family has also suffered two serious automobile accidents: Edward Kennedy's 1969 Chappaquiddick accident, and a 1973 accident involving RFK's son Joseph that left a female passenger paralyzed for life.
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