Old School: William Cohan Recalls His Friendship With JFK Jr. | 33

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In the late 1970s, when William Cohan was at boarding school, the administration asked him to show a new kid the ropes. That kid’s name? John F. Kennedy Jr. William later wrote a book about their friendship, and he joins us to talk about John’s penchant for partying, his daredevil streak, and the woman he loved.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. From Wundery, I'm Brooke Sifrin, and I'm Arisha Skidmore Williams.
0:25.0	And this is even the rich.
0:28.0	Arisha, let me ask you something.
0:30.0	Who's the most famous person who went to your high school?
0:33.4	Oh, that's easy. Me.
0:36.4	That's the Sherpa.
0:39.6	Well, I think our guest today has you beat.
0:42.0	His name is William Cohen, and his high school besty was John F Kennedy Jr.
0:46.0	They went to Phillips Academy and over together, and over for short. A lot of people consider it to be the best high school in America.
0:53.2	It's produced Nobel Prize winners, captains of industry, and two US presidents.
0:58.0	And William?
0:59.3	Yeah, he did pretty well for himself.
1:01.1	He spent nearly two decades working in finance
1:03.8	before becoming a full-time writer. Now he's published best-sellers about Wall
1:07.9	Street and contributed to magazines like Vanity Fair and The Atlantic. But we're
1:11.8	talking to him today because he wrote this really moving book called
1:15.2	Four Friends about his friendships with John and three other and over classmates who all died tragically
1:20.4	young. I know I read it. Yeah but the audience hasn't. Well audience you
1:25.8	should get excited. It's not every day you get to hear an interview with a guy who
1:29.2	smoked pot with JFK Jr. and who really got to know him during his formative years.
1:34.4	I'm looking forward to it.
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