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Remembering John F. Kennedy Jr.: ‘He Probably Would Have Run for President’


Twenty-five years after the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., his good friend tells Closer how the political scion 'probably would have run for president' in 2008.

Twenty-five years after the plane crash that ended John’s story at age 38 — and claimed the lives of his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and her sister, Lauren — it’s hard not to wonder what might have been. “I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly,” said John, who dabbled in acting as an undergrad at Brown University but graduated with an American studies major. “He had spent the day in Harlem skating with a bunch of underprivileged, minority students,” recalls Gillon, to whom John confided his aspirations over dinner.

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