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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.”





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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.com, 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.com.

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.

14 “loved John, hated John”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs—John, Caroline, and the Third Generation: A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 240.

15 “raised to be President”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 346.

16 “remarkable experiment in eugenics”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 355–56.

17 “the most Kennedy”: Barbara Matusow, “Bobby’s Children Showed the Best, Worst of Family,” Sun-Sentinel, November 17, 1988.

18 “You’re not Kennedys, you’re only Shrivers”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 341.

19 “endure as a Kennedy”: William D. Cohan, “You Don’t Just Wallow in Death. You Move on. You Hold it Inside”: The Struggle of John F. Kennedy Jr, American Prince,” Vanity Fair, July 7, 2019.

20 “her two miracles”: R. W. Apple Jr., “Death of a First Lady: The Overview; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Is Buried. New York Times, May 24, 1994.

21 “Ultimate Beautiful Person”: Cohan, “You Don’t Just Wallow in Death.”

22 “ordinary person”: Cohan.

23 “Carolyn isn’t everything”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the Third Generation—A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 40.

24 “smoke and mirrors”: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs.

25 “definitely chased her”: Sarah Grossbart, “Inside the Heartbreakingly Tragic Final Days of John F. Kennedy Jr. Family Strife Financial Woes and Talk of Divorce,” E! News, January 4, 2019.

26 “enthralled with her”: Julie Miller, “Carolyn Bessette’s Fraught Final Summer.”

27 “held the proposal off”: Grossbart, “Inside the Heartbreakingly Tragic.”

28 “What’s John been doing”: Thomas, “Living with the Myth.”

29 “called my hotel”: Kate Storey, “The Inside Story of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s George Magazine,” Esquire, April 22, 2019.

30 “rollerblading with John”: Storey, “The Inside Story of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s George Magazine.”

31 “video was terrible”: Glynnis MacNichol, “Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy?” Town & Country, August 3, 2016.

32 Islanders gathered: Margo Harakas, “Preserving a Legacy,” Sun-Sentinel, April 22, 1999.

33 “If Mr. Kennedy wanted privacy”: Kevin Sack, “The Island That Kept a Wedding a Secret,” New York Times, September 26, 1996.

34 “fooled everybody”: Sack, “The Island That Kept a Wedding a Secret.”

35 “more security than wedding guests”: Leah Bourne, “#Throwback Thursday: Carolyn Bessette and John F. Kennedy’s Jr. Truly Timeless Wedding,” StyleCaster.com.

36 “mysterious and female”: Ann Gerhart, “Bessette Tried to Avoid Kennedy Spotlight,” Washington Post, July 18, 1999.

37 “any privacy or room you could give”: MacNicol, “Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy?”

38 “JUST LEAVE HER ALONE”: MacNichol.

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