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Glynnis MacNichol

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
399 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

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.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And why do you become obsessed with this?

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

To me, when I landed in New York, I land here just like dazzled by the city.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And in some ways, she's representative of this absolute new way of looking and the chicness.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

You can project all of your hopes and assumptions and there's nothing to counter it because she never counters it.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

She's literally, you know, a cipher.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

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.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

So it's her wedding at the compound.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Carolyn's sister, Lauren, she has two younger sisters who are twins.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Lauren is on the plane with them.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

He had just taken a cast off from breaking his foot.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

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.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And he did that thing where he couldn't read the instruments correctly, and he lost sight of the horizon.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

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.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And he got confused and flew the plane into the water thinking he was going up.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

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.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And there's a lot of people who think he was a daredevil, etc.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

But one of the reasons to get your pilot's license is that it was a

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

enabled the two of them to travel to a certain degree without having to deal with the attention, right?

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

It was, there was some element of privacy to it.