John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., 1960-1999: Memorial Tributes in the One Hundred Sixth Congress of the United StatesMemorial tributes given by Senators to John F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of late Pres. John F. Kennedy, after his tragic death, along with his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette, in his private plane when it crashed into the sea near Martha's Vineyard on July 16, 1999. Includes a tribute by Rep. Eliot Engle of NY; Statements by Pres. Clinton and V.P. Gore; Memorial Services, Church of St. Thomas More: Special Tribute by Sen. Ed Kennedy, Readings by Anne Freeman and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, John's sister; Commentary and Tributes from various newspapers and mag., inc. Editor's Letter, George Mag., which John had edited; and Statement of Paul Kirk, Chmn. of the John F. Kennedy Lib. Fdn. |
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... law , John graduated from New York University Law School in 1989 and held a job as Prosecutor in the Manhattan Dis ... sister - in - law Lauren Bessette in his private plane when it crashed into the sea near Martha's Vineyard on July 16 ...
... law , John graduated from New York University Law School in 1989 and held a job as Prosecutor in the Manhattan Dis ... sister - in - law Lauren Bessette in his private plane when it crashed into the sea near Martha's Vineyard on July 16 ...
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... sister - in - law Lauren Bessette have vanished in the summer night in the spring- time of their years , and our hearts go out to the Bessette and the Kennedy families . I am particularly saddened for my good friend , Senator Ted ...
... sister - in - law Lauren Bessette have vanished in the summer night in the spring- time of their years , and our hearts go out to the Bessette and the Kennedy families . I am particularly saddened for my good friend , Senator Ted ...
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... sister - in - law , most of us were quite shocked and deeply saddened by the news . This was a young man whose life had such bright JOHN F. KENNEDY JR . 13.
... sister - in - law , most of us were quite shocked and deeply saddened by the news . This was a young man whose life had such bright JOHN F. KENNEDY JR . 13.
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... sister - in - law , the Kennedys and the Bessettes . We hope his life will inspire us to give whatever we can by way of service to our country , to recognize the advantages we have as citizens of the United States , not to be ...
... sister - in - law , the Kennedys and the Bessettes . We hope his life will inspire us to give whatever we can by way of service to our country , to recognize the advantages we have as citizens of the United States , not to be ...
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... sister - in - law Lauren Bessette . I ask unanimous consent that her reflections be reprinted in the Record in full following my statement . There being no objection , the article ordered to be printed in the Record , as follows ...
... sister - in - law Lauren Bessette . I ask unanimous consent that her reflections be reprinted in the Record in full following my statement . There being no objection , the article ordered to be printed in the Record , as follows ...
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Page 7 - Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
Page 39 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 12 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...
Page 20 - Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!
Page 94 - And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Page 116 - Youth is not a time of life ; it is a state of mind. It is...
Page 39 - Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
Page 39 - Death is nothing at all - I have only slipped away into the next room - I am I and you are you - whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Page 24 - I don't think there's any point in being Irish, if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart eventually.
Page 8 - ... the less comfortably on this account. Mr. Lathrop is able to testify to the fact, by no means a surprising one, that he wrote verses at college, though the few stanzas that the biographer quotes are not such as to make us especially regret, that his rhyming mood was a transient one. " The ocean hath its silent caves, • Deep, quiet and alone. Though there be fury on the waves, Beneath them there is none.