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Fatal Voyage: The Death of JFK Jr.

Chapter Two - The Kennedy Curse

Fatal Voyage: The Death of JFK Jr.

a360media

True Crime

44K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

While the Kennedy’s exuded glamor, sophistication and power, they were not without their curses. Over the years, the family was beset with 16 tragedies and five plane crashes, including the death of JFK’s favored older brother Joe, all detailed here. Not only was JFK assassinated but five years later his younger brother, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy would die at the hand of a lone crazed Muslim gunman. Coincidence? Was history repeating itself?


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0:00.0

Of the many images from the Kennedy assassination, perhaps none touched the hearts of a grieving

0:08.4

nation more than that photograph.

0:10.8

You know the one I'm referring to.

0:12.9

The little boy saluting the flag draped coffin of his dad.

0:17.9

Dan Farrell, the man who took that iconic photograph, says it was, quote, the saddest thing

0:23.8

I've ever seen in my whole life.

0:30.2

Welcome to episode two of Fatal Voyage, John F. Kennedy Jr. case solved.

0:35.7

I'm your host, ex-homicide detective, Column McLaren.

0:39.5

Last time we heard our JFK Jr. had been born into a dynasty that would become known

0:45.2

as Camelot.

0:47.3

In this episode we're going to examine the dark side of that legacy and what has become

0:51.3

known as the Kennedy curse.

0:54.7

So I always have interest in the Kennedy family and the tragedy has it had been, it seems

0:59.4

like one thing I've from the other, they just get infected with generation after generation.

1:03.8

So you could call it the Kennedy curse.

1:07.1

You could also call it the curse of power.

1:10.4

At the sometimes people who are in power, these sort of things happen.

1:14.6

I think there's something psychological about it.

1:18.2

It's almost like the scales have to be balanced.

1:21.9

Life says you've been too blessed, you've had too much, now we're going to take some away

1:26.8

from you.

1:28.8

And how that curse would once again exact a terrible toll on the man who, as a little

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