He managed to duck the paparazzi when he and Bessette, of a wealthy Greenwich family, wed in 1996, but much of his adult life was spent before photographers. The cameras were back Saturday, giving the nation a live view of Coast Guard crews picking small bits of airplane from the ocean. The drama was followed everywhere from the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., where President Clinton issued a statement of concern, to the grandstands of Yankee Stadium, where the crowd observed a moment of silence. In Hartford's Elizabeth Park, Rufus Brown listened to bulletins on a small radio. That was such a sad day.
Today is another one.
Although many said the younger Kennedy's death would not affect them as much as losing the former president, they believed there was still reason for the country to grieve. I cried for his father because of who he was. It was at Philbin Beach in Aquinnah, near the colorful clay cliffs known as Gay Head, that tourists spotted the first debris, Coast Guard Lt. Craig Jaramillo said. An attached business card bore the name of Lauren Bessette, who had been a resident of New Canaan, Conn., in recent years.