JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette | Great Expectations | 31

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It seems almost too good to be true. The supernaturally good-looking scion of the Kennedy dynasty meets a smart, ambitious woman and sweeps her off her feet. But behind the scenes, JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s relationship is far from a fairy tale. They’re caught between worlds: the life they were trying to build together and the one John inherited. In this episode, John tries to step out from behind his father’s shadow and shake off his mother’s influence. Easier said than done.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can
0:01.7	convince the newest season of Even the Rich
0:03.3	before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App
0:05.9	or on Apple Podcasts.
0:07.6	This episode contains four letter words.
0:10.6	I think it has longer words than that.
0:12.5	Okay, you know what I mean.
0:14.5	It's
0:28.8	It's July 14th, 1999, and JFK Jr. is hobbling across the lobby of the Stanhope Hotel on New York's Upper East Side. He's been on crutches for six weeks and boy is it cramping his style.
0:36.2	This is a guy who commutes on roller blades, a guy who likes to take his kayak out
0:41.2	and play chicken with a Staten Island Ferry, a guy who once tried to
0:45.0	repel down Mount Rushmore.
0:47.0	All of that sounds exhausting.
0:50.0	I know, right?
0:51.0	He tells his friends he has to stay in motion because if he stopped and thought about everything that's happened to him up until this point in his life, he'd fall apart.
0:58.5	But his friends still love to tease him about his daredevil streak, which often ends in some sort of mishap.
1:04.6	His buddies call him the master of disaster.
1:08.1	Case in point, the paragliding accident that snapped his ankle and forced him into this dumb cast. The worst part is that
1:16.4	it sidelined him from his favorite hobby, flying. He can't take his plane up alone until he can
1:22.2	use his ankle again.
1:23.0	Luckily, that changes tomorrow.
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