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The University Daily Kansan
Monday. August 16, 1999
Students, staff recall JFK, Jr.
Many think news coverage is unnecessary
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By Lesley Simmons reporter@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
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The most recent Kennedy tragedy swept the nation this July, but members of older generations felt more tied to the story than KU students who were not alive during President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister Lauren Lesten died on July 16 when the small airplane Kennedy was flying crashed in the ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
Kennedy's father, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963. His uncle Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968.
Mark Joslyn, assistant professor of political science, said he thought the tragedy was more important to older generations of Americans, like the baby boomers, who remembered John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.
"That's why we saw a lot of it on the news." he said.
Younger Americans don't have the same ties to the Kennedy family, he said.
Joslyn said that for older Americans, the Kennedy family represented an idyllic American vision.
"If we had a king and queen, it would be the president and his wife." Joslyn said about John F. Kennedy.
He added that Americans identified with the Kennedys, and in some ways Americans saw their ambitions as a nation manifested in the Kennedy family.
"The built-up hopes and ambitions died with Kennedy," he said.
Kelly Jo Karnes, assistant director for greek programs, said that she was a huge Kennedy fan.
"I love reading about the history of it, and I've been to Dallas," she said. "I stayed glued to the TV a lot, hoping they would find him."
Marcela Granados, San Jose, Costa Rica junior, said that she was not sad at first.
"When I saw all the stuff on TV over and over again, and they showed the pictures and played the music, it made me sad," she said. "The media
made me sad."
Purushothaman, Lawrence graduate student, said that John F. Kennedy Jr. was too young to die.
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Toward the end of July, Purushothaman lost interest.
"It was too much," he said. "They just kept talking about it."
Kevin Fussell, Scott City senior, said that he was moved by the tragedy.
"I was saddened for the family and the nation," he said.
Fussell said he liked the initial media coverage.
Even though she stayed glued to the TV until the end, Karnes said that she didn't approve of all the media coverage.
"I think they were intrusive of the family," she said. "They don't need to spy on the family."
Karnes added that she agreed with the family's decision not to make the memorial service public.
"They should be able to grieve in private like anyone else," she said.
—Edited by Brad Hallier
Wife's lawyers to question Gingrich's 'other woman'
The Associated Press
MARIETTA, Ga. — In a move that may lead to an embarrassing court fight for Newt Gingrich, divorce lawyers for his estranged wife have won permission to
question a woman with whom the former House speaker has been romantically linked.
The 56-year-old former Georgia congressman, who espoused family values during his campaigns, reportedly has been seeing Callista Bisek, 33, an aide to the House Agriculture Committee.
Both The Daily News of New York and The New York Post quoted
Gingrich: reportedly has been seen with an aide to the House Agriculture Committee
sources in Friday's editions who said the pair has been spotted together often in Washington.
Cobb County Superior Court Judge Dorothy Robinson signed an order Thursday that allows attorneys for Marianne Gingrich to take a videotaped deposition from Bisek in Arlington, Va., where she lives.
No date for the deposition has been set and Gingrich's lawyer, John C. Mayou, declined to say what questions he planned to ask.
"I can tell you that she thought that they had a very sound marriage, right up until this unexpected demand for divorce." Mayuea said Friday. "And I can also tell
you that Marianne is prepared to thoroughly investigate Gingrich's personal life as well as his business activities."
Mayue said it's too early to say what financial settlement Gingrich might seek from the former speaker.
Gingrich separated from his wife May 10 and filed for a divorce, July 29.
His attorney, Randolph Evans, said he hadn't seen the judge's order and could not comment on the reports that Gingrich had been seeing Bisek before separating from his wife.
"I don't get into all of that because it just doesn't serve any useful purpose," he said.
Gingrich's personal spokesman, Mike Shields, declined comment. Bisek could not be reached for comment. A message left at her home Friday night was not returned.
The Gingriches were married Aug. 8, 1981. Reports of trouble between the two surfaced in 1989, when the couple told The Washington Post they didn't know if their marriage would last.
It is the second failed marriage for Gingrich, who married his former high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, when he was 18. They had two daughters during their 19-year marriage.
The architect of the Republican revolution in the House, Gingrich served as speaker from 1995 until the end of last year, when he gave up his seat in Congress after the Republicans' disappointing showing in the November election.
In 1994, Gingrich was asked about reports that he'd had extramarital affairs while running for Congress on a family values platform in 1978.
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