Editing John F. Kennedy Jr. (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Two JFKs.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Kennedy at age two with [[John F. Kennedy|his father]] in the [[White House]]]]
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born at [[Georgetown University Hospital]] on November 25, 1960.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1960/11/25/President-elect-proud-of-son-to-be-named-John-F-Kennedy-Jr/3284415034805/ |title=President-elect proud of son to be named John F. Kennedy Jr. |first=Merriman |last=Smith |date=November 25, 1960 |publisher=[[United Press International]] |access-date=November 23, 2022}}</ref> His father, [[Massachusetts]] senator [[John F. Kennedy]], had been [[1960 United States presidential election|elected president]] less than three weeks earlier<ref>{{cite web |title=John F. Kennedy, Jr. |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-F-Kennedy-Jr |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 May 2024}}</ref> and was [[Inauguration of John F. Kennedy|inaugurated]] two months after his son's birth. Kennedy had an older sister, [[Caroline Kennedy|Caroline]], who was born three years earlier. His parents had a stillborn daughter, Arabella, in 1956 and later had an infant son, [[Patrick Bouvier Kennedy|Patrick]], who died two days after his premature birth in 1963.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 6, 2022 |title=The tragic death of Patrick, JFK and Jackie's newborn son in 1963 |url=http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/tragic-death-of-patrick-kennedy-jfks-son |access-date=December 4, 2022 |website=IrishCentral.com}}</ref> His putative nickname, "John-John", came from a reporter who misheard his father calling him "John" twice in quick succession; the name was not used by his family.<ref name="CNN">[http://www.cnn.com/interactive/specials/9912/yearinreview.passages/content/politics/kennedy.html 1999 Year in Review] (December 1999) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513233029/http://www.cnn.com/interactive/specials/9912/yearinreview.passages/content/politics/kennedy.html |date=May 13, 2006 }} [[CNN]].</ref>

[[File:Kennedy salute.gif|thumb|upright=0.8|Kennedy rendering a final salute to his father's casket on the latter's [[State funeral of John F. Kennedy|state funeral]], during the former's third birthday]]
Kennedy lived in the [[White House]] during the first three years of his life and remained in the public spotlight as a young adult. His father was [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassinated]] on November 22, 1963 and the [[State funeral of John F. Kennedy|state funeral]] was held three days later, on Kennedy's third birthday. In a famous moment, Kennedy stepped forward and rendered a final salute as his father's flag-draped casket was carried out from [[Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle (Washington, D.C.)|St. Matthew's Cathedral]].<ref name="FamousPictures">{{cite web |date=July 22, 2007|url = http://www.famouspictures.org/jfk-jr-salutes-jfk/|title = Famous Pictures Magazine – JFK Jr salutes JFK|publisher = Famous Pictures Magazine|access-date = May 21, 2013 |last=Lucas|first=Dean}}</ref> The photo was called "the most impressive...shot in the history of television" by [[NBC News]] vice president [[Julian Goodman]].<ref>{{YouTube|id=vPDALK1pEDU|title=NBC Executive Julian Goodman on NBC's coverage of President Kennedy's funeral-EMMYTVLEGENDS}}</ref> Several photographers captured the moment, including [[United Press International]] photographer [[Stan Stearns]] (who became chief White House photographer during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration)<ref>{{cite news|last=Flegenheimer|first=Matt|title=Stan Stearns, 76; Captured a Famous Salute|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 5, 2012|page=B10|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/us/stan-stearns-who-caught-jfk-jrs-salute-on-film-dies-at-76.html}}</ref> and Dan Farrell for the ''[[New York Daily News]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/daily-news-photo-jfk-jr-s-salute-dad-haunts-article-1.1520240|title=Daily News' iconic photo of JFK Jr.'s salute to dad's coffin still haunts|date=November 17, 2013|newspaper=New York Daily News}}</ref> [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] wrote his first letter as president to Kennedy and told him that he "can always be proud" of his father.<ref>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Merle|title=Lyndon: An Oral Biography|location=New York|publisher=Putnam|year=1980|author-link=Merle Miller|page=323}}</ref>

Following the assassination, the family continued with their plans for a birthday party to demonstrate that they would go on despite the death of the president.<ref>Leamer, p. 1.</ref> They moved to the [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown]] area of Washington, D.C. for a short time, and then to a luxury apartment on the [[Upper East Side]] of [[Manhattan]] in New York City, where Kennedy grew up. In 1967, his mother took him and Caroline on a six-week "sentimental journey" to Ireland, where they met President [[Éamon de Valera]] and visited the Kennedy ancestral home in Dunganstown.<ref name=Heymann145146>Heymann, pp. 145–146.</ref>

After Kennedy's uncle [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy|Robert was assassinated]] in 1968, Jackie took Caroline and Kennedy out of the United States, saying: "If they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets&nbsp;... I want to get out of this country."<ref name="NYT obit1">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/19/us/john-f-kennedy-jr-heir-to-a-formidable-dynasty.html|title=John F. Kennedy Jr., Heir to a Formidable Dynasty| author = Seely, Katherine|date=July 19, 1999|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| access-date=November 8, 2009}}</ref> She married Greek shipping tycoon [[Aristotle Onassis]] that year, and the family moved to his private island of [[Skorpios]]. Kennedy is said to have considered his stepfather "a joke".<ref>Davis, p. 690.</ref> Onassis died in 1975 and left his widow $250,000 a year,<ref name="NYT obit2">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/08/archives/will-gives-mrs-onassis-250000-a-year-250000-a-year-to-mrs-onassis.html|title=Will Gives Mrs. Onassis $250,000 a Year|newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 8, 1975 }}</ref> although she later settled with Christina Onassis for $25 million in exchange for not contesting the will.

Kennedy returned to the White House with his mother and sister in 1971 for the first time since his father's assassination. President [[Richard Nixon]]'s two daughters gave Kennedy a tour that included his old bedroom and Nixon showed him the [[Resolute desk|''Resolute'' desk]] under which his father had let Kennedy play.<ref name=BaltimoreSun>{{cite news|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1999/07/18/a-life-lived-in-celebrity-fame-john-f-kennedy-jr-endured-the-spotlight-with-rare-grace-and-humor/|title=A life lived in celebrity|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|first=Scott|last=Shane|date=July 18, 1999}}</ref>

===Education===
Kennedy attended private schools in Manhattan, starting at [[Saint David's School (New York City)|Saint David's School]] and moving to [[Collegiate School (New York)|Collegiate School]], which he attended from third through tenth grade.<ref name=Heymann145146/> Kennedy completed his education at [[Phillips Academy]], a preparatory boarding school in [[Andover, Massachusetts]]. After graduating, he accompanied his mother on a trip to Africa. Kennedy's group got lost for two days without food or water while on a pioneering course and he rescued them, winning points for leadership.<ref>Leigh, p. 235.</ref>

[[File:JFK Jr in the 1975 Collegiate school yearbook.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Kennedy's ninth grade [[Collegiate School (New York City)|Collegiate School]] yearbook photo, 1975]]

In 1976, Kennedy and his cousin visited an earthquake disaster zone at [[Rabinal]] in Guatemala, helping with heavy building work and distributing food. The local priest said that they "ate what the people of Rabinal ate and dressed in Guatemalan clothes and slept in tents like most of the earthquake victims," adding that the two "did more for their country's image" in Guatemala "than a roomful of ambassadors."<ref name=Leigh195>Leigh, pp. 195–196.</ref> On his 16th birthday, Kennedy's Secret Service protection ended<ref name=Leigh137>Leigh, p. 137.</ref> and he spent the summer of 1978 working as a wrangler in Wyoming.<ref>Landau, p. 77.</ref> In 1979, the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum]] in [[Boston]] was dedicated and Kennedy made his first major speech, reciting [[Stephen Spender]]'s poem "I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great."<ref>Leigh, p. 251.</ref>

Kennedy attended [[Brown University]], where he majored in American studies.<ref>Leigh, pp. 236-237.</ref> Kennedy co-founded a student discussion group that focused on contemporary issues such as [[apartheid]] in South Africa, gun control, and civil rights. He was appalled by apartheid when visiting South Africa on a summer break and arranged for U.N. ambassador [[Andrew Young]] to speak about the topic at Brown.<ref>Landau, p. 78.</ref> By his junior year at Brown, Kennedy had moved off campus to live with several other students in a shared house<ref>Landau, p. 82.</ref> and spent time at Xenon, a club owned by [[Howard Stein]]. Kennedy was initiated into Phi Psi, a local social fraternity that had been the Rhode Island Alpha chapter of national [[Phi Kappa Psi]] fraternity until 1978.<ref>Robert T. Littell, ''The Men We Became: My Friendship With John F. Kennedy, Jr.'' (St. Martin's Press 2004), [https://books.google.com/books?id=8lfKFx22v7UC&q=%22Phi+Psi%22&pg=PA4 passim].</ref>

In January 1983, Kennedy's Massachusetts [[driver's license]] was suspended when he received more than three [[Summons#Citation/Claim (legal term)|speeding summonses]] in 12 months and failed to appear at a hearing.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gillon |first1=Steven M. |title=America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr. |date=July 7, 2020 |publisher=Dutton |isbn=978-1524742409 |pages=148–149}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Heymann |first1=C. David |title=American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy |date=July 10, 2007 |publisher=Atria Books |isbn=978-0743497381 |page=218}}</ref> The family's lawyer explained that Kennedy most likely "became immersed in exams and just forgot the date of the hearing."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gillon |first1=Steven M. |title=America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr. |date=July 7, 2020 |publisher=Dutton |isbn=978-1524742409 |page=149}}</ref> That same year, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in American studies and took a break, traveling to India and spending some time at the [[University of Delhi]], where Kennedy did his post-graduate work and met [[Mother Teresa]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Taneja |first1=Kabir |title=When John F. Kennedy Jr. Came to India |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/when-john-f-kennedy-jr-came-to-india/ |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 29, 2013 |access-date=August 20, 2024}}</ref>