Product Details

• Actors: David Janssen
• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: August 19, 1999
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0767022319
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,866 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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People magazine rated him the sexiest man alive in 1988. He failed the bar (twice), founded a political magazine, and was even poked fun at on Seinfeld. It was assumed he would run for office someday, heir to the political throne in a way no other American could ever be. Biography: John F. Kennedy Jr., Child of a Dream takes a look at the little boy who grew up in the limelight, a man who was famous for being famous.

From the marriage of his parents and his school years through his founding of George and his marriage to Caroline Bisset, Biography chronicles the life of John John (a name given him by the press and never used by his family) using home movies, TV clips, and plenty of interviews with biographers, reporters, professors, White House insiders, and even his flight instructor. The best parts of this tribute are the early footage, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, in which we see John Jr. taking golf lessons from his father and marching about in a helmet with a toy gun. The later years are sketchy--we learn of his romances with stars Madonna and Daryl Hannah, but we don't get a glimpse of how they were or why they failed. Both the assassination of his father and his death are covered with tact, without being overly sentimental. Despite the lack of in-depth study, this is a tasteful and considerate portrait of a man who should have had many, many more years. --Jenny Brown

Product Description

In the aftermath of his father’s assassination, he was fixed in our collective memory as the small boy bravely saluting the final act of Camelot’s brief glory. Later, he became the ultimate eligible bachelor and high-profile torchbearer of the "Kennedy mystique". When John F. Kennedy Jr. lost his life in yet another of the Kennedy family’s front page tragedies, many knew him only as the handsome jet-setting scion of America’s most famous political dynasty. Now, go beyond the headlines for exclusive interviews with longtime friends, reporters, and other insiders to meet the man behind the alluring image.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too many talking heads, July 22, 2000

By A Customer

This gives a good summary of JFK, Jr.'s life

However, I was frustrated that the footage of him speaking as an adult was always cut short. This meant that I never got a good feeling for what he sounded like or how he moved as an adult.

The people who were speaking about him were often annoying. They appeared to be trying to tell the viewer what the viewer's opinion of JFK, Jr. is as if the viewer would not be able to figure this out for him or her self.

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth every tear I wept, October 2, 2000

By	Amber McCann "Future Author" (Modesto, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It is hard to believe that John has been gone. It is hard to believe that the little 3 year old saluting his father's corpse, is no longer with us, but with his mother and his father, where he belongs. Perhaps it was that image of John as the darling shy yet full of vivacity, that has stuck into the mind of every American. So perhaps that is why it hurts so bad when I realize that John is dead. It is the little boy we all associate with John, and we ache for that little one. Yes we realize that John was 38, almost 39 when he died...but he was still that little boy. Every woman cried on that day of discovering his body...yes he was very good-looking and charming...but they werent crying because a "hunk" is no longer here...they were crying because our little boy is no longer here. Biography does a lovely job at presenting the life and very tragic death of our beloved John. Although their are some errors (such as his romance with Madonna), this is well-presented...The poignant pictures and video-vignettes of John with his father are very touching. Perhaps it is because we know John had such a short time with his father that afford such bittersweetness and somberness, perhaps because it is us, that knows John will grow up without his father and that we know John himself will succomb to an early death just like his father...I do not know the answer, but what I do know is that if you have ever felt a connection to the Kennedy family, or to John himself, then you will want to have this video in our home library. Now it is time to get the tissues, as I still cant believe he is gone.

5.0 out of 5 stars Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, June 28, 2000

By	Maureen C. Collopy (Methuen, Ma. United States) - See all my reviews

This magnificent man is highly portrayed in this first rate biography. It will make you laugh, cry, but most of all, it will make your heart ache. This video will bring John to life everytime you envision it's beauty.