John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr., John Kennedy or John-John, was a journalist, lawyer, pilot, and socialite.

He was the first son of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, and the younger brother of Caroline Kennedy and the older brother of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy. Known as the "American Son" Kennedy was one of the few presidential children to actually be raised in the White House.

He was killed in a plane crash along with his wife and sister-in-law in mid-1999. Born at Georgetown University Hospital sixteen days after his father was elected to the presidency, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was in the public spotlight from his father's inauguration as President of the United States in early 1961 until his death in mid-1999.

For most of the first three years of his life he lived in the White House. His nickname "John-John" came from a reporter mishearing JFK calling him ("John" spoken twice in quick succession). Though he was often referred to publicly as "John-John", members of his family themselves did not use the nickname.

His father was assassinated on November 22, 1963, and three days later, on his third birthday, the funeral procession was held. In a moment that became an emotional and iconic image of the 1960s, young JFK, Jr. stepped forward and rendered a final salute as the flag-draped casket was carried out from St.

Matthew's Cathedral. Following his father's assassination, he grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, and in 1968, his mother married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, whom she had met in the early 1960s. Their marriage lasted eight years until Onassis' death in 1975, when John, Jr.

was fourteen years old.

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