Glynnis MacNichol
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even from a casual observer age 23 with very little understanding of the intricacies of marriage, that she was paralyzed by the life she had acquired.
And why do you become obsessed with this?
To me, when I landed in New York, I land here just like dazzled by the city.
And in some ways, she's representative of this absolute new way of looking and the chicness.
You can project all of your hopes and assumptions and there's nothing to counter it because she never counters it.
She's literally, you know, a cipher.
I mean, the tragedy of this is so compounded by the fact they were flying to Rory Kennedy, who's Bobby Kennedy's youngest child, who was born after his assassination.
So it's her wedding at the compound.
Carolyn's sister, Lauren, she has two younger sisters who are twins.
Lauren is on the plane with them.
He had just taken a cast off from breaking his foot.
And the real tragedy of it, he had his license, but it was a July night, so it wasn't stormy, it was just hazy.
And he did that thing where he couldn't read the instruments correctly, and he lost sight of the horizon.
Because he was an amateur and maybe didn't have the experience necessary to be flying at this level without the expert in the plane.
And he got confused and flew the plane into the water thinking he was going up.
And by the time you realize where you're flying into, there's no way to pull out of it, which is just a horrific situation.
And there's a lot of people who think he was a daredevil, etc.
But one of the reasons to get your pilot's license is that it was a
enabled the two of them to travel to a certain degree without having to deal with the attention, right?
It was, there was some element of privacy to it.