It was 25 years ago tomorrow, July 16, 1999 that a small plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard took the lives of 38-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr.. his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette.
At the time of his death Kennedy was struggling to keep his magazine, George, afloat.
Richard Bradley was one of the original editors at George in 1995, and by 1999 was the magazine’s executive editor.
In 2002, Bradley – writing under his birth name Richard Blow – published a bestselling book about JFK Jr. and George, called American Son. The book was not without its critics and controversy, with some saying Bradley should not have written it at all.
I met Bradley when he was on a book tour to promote it in the spring of 2002. So here now, from 2002, Richard Bradley
Richard Bradley is0 now. George magazine folded in 2001 .