Happy Birthday John F. Kennedy, Jr.
November 25, 1960

To a generation, he will always be remembered as "John-John."

John was born at Georgetown University Hospital sixteen days after his father was elected to the presidency.

Caroline thought of her brother as her personal doll.

"Isn't he sweet, Jack?" the baby's mother said. "Look at those eyes."

Secret Service agent, Clint Hill, Jackie holding John, Jr., and the president at Palm Beach International Airport.

Jackie is riding with John at Glen Ora, the country home the Kennedy's rented in Middleburg, Virginia, in the fall of 1962.

Jackie and John, on their way to Easter Mass at St. Edward's Church, Palm Beach, Fl. 1963.

Jackie holds her energetic toddler, Easter Sunday, 1963.

John with a twinkle in his eye. Spring, 1963.

On the beach in front of the Kennedy's North County Road home in Palm Beach, Spring, 1963.

Palm Beach, Spring, 1963, at the time of the announcement of the impending arrival of a third child. Jackie is wearing a Pucci shift.

John and his father, Newport, Rhode Island, 1962.

On May 3, 1963, John, 2, and his sister, Caroline, 5, watch a Rose Garden ceremony honoring the nation's war heroes with nurse, Maud Shaw.

At "Wexford," the Kennedy's retreat on Rattlesnake Mountain, John's mother wonders what kind of a soldier he'll make.

After the funeral mass for the late President Kennedy, a heavily veiled Jacqueline Kennedy leans over to suggest her son salute as his father had taught him.

In the private quarters of the White House on the morning of their departure, John says good-bye to the kitchen staff. December 3, 1963.

John watches as Caroline christens USS "John F. Kennedy," May 27, 1967, Newport News, Virginia.

John shielded from rain at Palm Beach International Airport, April, 1968.

With his cousin, Anthony Radziwill off on a fishing excursion, Palm Beach 1973. Anthony died in August, 1999 of cancer, three weeks after his cousin John. He was 40 years old.

Leaving the church of St. Ingatius Loyola, on Park Avenue, a broken arm hidden. 1968.

John maneuvering his bicycle, Hyannis Port, September, 1975.

John with his sister, mother, and aunt, Lee Radziwill, at Bobby Kennedy's grave, Arlington National Cemetery, June 9, 1968.

John, accompanied by his aunt, Jean Kennedy Smith, sister Caroline, partially hidden, and aunt, Pat Lawford, returns to New York, following the wedding in Greece, of Jacqueline Kennedy to Aristotle Onassis, October, 1968.

Rose Kennedy, with her grandson John at St. Edward's Church, Palm Beach, 1973.

With his mother at Caroline's high school graduation in Concord, Massachusetts, May 1975. Cousin Tina Radziwill is behind Jackie.

The family met at Boston's John Fitzgerald Kennedy library in 1992.

Considered handsome and athletic, John was dubbed "People" magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1988, and was the only person so named who was not a working actor.

Walking with his mother on East Seventy-Ninth Street, Winter, 1994.

With his wife, Carolyn Bessette, at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, spring 1999, four months before their deaths on July 17, 1999.

 

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