World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-07-17

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[0:02] On World News Tonight this Saturday,

[0:04] John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife and his

[0:07] sister-in-law are missing and presumed

[0:10] to be dead. A search continues for his

[0:13] plane that disappeared last night into

[0:15] the sea off the island of Martha's

[0:18] Vineyard in the Atlantic Ocean. It was

[0:20] meant to be a day of celebration for the

[0:21] Kennedys gathered at the family compound

[0:23] in Hyannisport, Massachusetts for a

[0:26] wedding. It has turned into a vigil of

[0:28] deepest concern and prayer

[0:35] from ABC. This is World News Tonight

[0:40] Saturday. Good evening everybody. I'm

[0:42] Peter Jennings. As part of our

[0:43] continuing coverage of the Kennedy

[0:46] disaster today, tonight members of the

[0:48] Kennedy family are keeping vigil in

[0:50] Hyannisport as rescue team search for

[0:52] John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn

[0:55] bet and her sister. When they left a New

[0:58] Jersey airport last night in Kennedy's

[1:00] plane, they were headed for Martha's

[1:02] Vineyard where they were going to make a

[1:04] stop. Their final destination was

[1:05] intended to be Hyannesport just to the

[1:07] north. Tonight, hopes are certainly

[1:10] waning. The search does continue as

[1:12] everybody prays for what the Coast Guard

[1:14] commander called a miraculous

[1:16] development. We're going to begin with

[1:18] ABC's Bob Jameson.

[1:21] The Piper Saratoga, a plane like this

[1:23] one, took off from Essex County Airport

[1:25] in northern New Jersey at about 8:45

[1:27] last night. It headed for Vineyard Haven

[1:30] Airport. A family friend said John F.

[1:32] Kennedy Jr.'s wife, Carolyn Basset, and

[1:35] her sister, Lauren Betett, were on board

[1:37] with him. Kennedy has had his private

[1:39] pilot's license for a little more than a

[1:41] year. Pilot Kyle Bailey says Kennedy is

[1:44] a regular at the Fairfield, New Jersey

[1:46] airirstrip.

[1:47] >> I could not see who was flying the

[1:48] airplane. All I know is I saw uh John M.

[1:51] Caroline get in the airplane. I do not

[1:53] know if there was anybody else on board.

[1:54] >> ABC News has learned that radar shows

[1:56] the plane dropping suddenly from 2200 ft

[2:00] to,300 ft about 19 m from the island

[2:03] airport. It disappeared off the radar

[2:06] screen after that. And tonight the

[2:08] search has narrowed to Martha's

[2:10] Vineyard. The sweeping search involving

[2:12] up to a half dozen agencies. The Air

[2:14] Force, the Air National Guard, the Civil

[2:16] Air Patrol, the FAA, and the Coast

[2:19] Guard.

[2:19] >> We have found debris. We have found

[2:21] luggage approximately 100 yards off of

[2:24] Gayhead Beach, and we're still pursuing

[2:27] an active search and rescue mission.

[2:30] >> Indications are that the luggage

[2:32] belonged to Kennedy's sister-in-law.

[2:34] Also, a headrest, carpet, a wheel from

[2:36] the craft, and a sneaker were reported

[2:38] found on the island's western beaches.

[2:41] >> There is always hope, but unfortunately,

[2:44] when you find certain uh pieces of

[2:47] evidence, um you know, you have to be

[2:51] prepared for anything that happens.

[2:53] >> At the family compound in Hyannis,

[2:55] prayers for the passengers at a mass

[2:57] said this morning as the family so

[2:59] familiar with tragedy waits. Bob

[3:02] Jameson, ABC News, New York.

[3:04] >> It's that wreckage, that debris that

[3:06] they're coming upon that is the clue to

[3:08] the disaster. Some of the wreckage was

[3:09] found off the southwest corner of

[3:11] Martha's Vineyard. Planes would fly over

[3:13] this particular part of the sea on their

[3:15] way to the local airport as President

[3:18] Kennedy's son was intending to do just

[3:20] before 10:00 last night. ABC's Bill

[3:23] Blakemore is at Martha's Vineyard

[3:25] tonight.

[3:27] Debris began washing up on the sands

[3:29] here near Gayhead at the southwest

[3:31] corner of Martha's Vineyard. These

[3:33] southern beaches are roughly under a

[3:35] possible approach path of the plane

[3:37] trying to land at Martha's Vineyard

[3:39] Airport. Kennedy's plane was last seen

[3:41] on radar some 10 mi to the west of this

[3:43] point over open water. The last radar

[3:47] contact with Kennedy's plane showed the

[3:49] plane descending from 5 1/2,000 ft to 2

[3:52] 1/2,000 then to 2,200.

[3:55] But by the time the radar had swept

[3:57] around again 12 seconds later, the plane

[4:00] had plunged 900 ft from 2,100 to 1,300.

[4:06] Apparently a precipitous dive, according

[4:08] to aviation experts. 1,300 ft was the

[4:12] last radar contact with the plane. It

[4:14] was also way too low for any approach

[4:16] path to an airport that's 19 m away. The

[4:20] approaches to Martha's Vineyard Airport

[4:22] yesterday evening, according to pilots

[4:24] here, were complicated by misty

[4:26] conditions, though there is no

[4:28] indication yet whether the Kennedy's

[4:30] plane had encountered any adverse

[4:32] conditions. 20 aircraft and at least two

[4:35] boats continued to sweep the search area

[4:37] this evening. Also moving into the area

[4:40] is the Ruby, a ship equipped with

[4:42] special sides scanning sonar, which can

[4:44] produce detailed pictures of objects on

[4:46] the sea floor. The fear as time goes by

[4:50] is that that is where the plane will be

[4:52] found. Nothing remotely like it has been

[4:55] spotted on the surface. Bill Blakemore

[4:57] at Gaye Head Martha's Vineyard. There

[5:00] has been an awful lot of talk about this

[5:02] plane today last April. JFK Jr. bought

[5:05] the plane that rescue workers are

[5:06] searching for so intensely. And as ABC's

[5:09] Lisa Stark reports for us now, it is a

[5:11] small plane with a good record.

[5:16] John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. received his

[5:18] pilot's license in April of last year.

[5:21] He did his training at Flight Safety at

[5:23] Vero Beach Airport in Florida. The

[5:25] restaurant there boasts his autograph.

[5:28] Kennedy owned two planes. The first a

[5:30] single engine Cessna 182. Last night he

[5:34] was flying his Piper Saratoga like this

[5:36] one. The single engine plane was built

[5:38] in June of 1995. JFK Jr. purchased his

[5:42] red and white Saratoga used just two and

[5:45] a half months ago. So presumably he had

[5:48] relatively little experience in the

[5:50] cockpit of this plane. Piper says the

[5:53] plane was equipped with all the modern

[5:54] instruments and had an emergency locator

[5:56] transmitter, but the Coast Guard said

[5:58] they never received a signal from this

[6:01] plane.

[6:01] >> This airplane is a very stable aircraft.

[6:04] Uh it's used in a lot of different

[6:06] operations for flight training. When

[6:08] Kennedy and his passengers took off from

[6:10] Essex Airport, it was dusk. Visibility

[6:13] was 3 to 5 miles. It was hazy. Pilot

[6:16] Kyle Bailey saw the trio board the

[6:18] airplane.

[6:19] >> It looked to me like he had a crutch, if

[6:21] I remember correctly, and he was

[6:22] limping. Uh, that's all I remember. I

[6:25] don't

[6:25] >> And a flight instructor on Martha's

[6:27] Vineyard who had flown with JFK Jr. in

[6:29] the past described him as a diligent

[6:31] pilot who loves to fly. As for

[6:34] conditions on the island last night,

[6:36] >> well, it was probably pretty dark. I

[6:37] don't think there was a moon out. Um,

[6:39] and the visibility, as I say, was pretty

[6:41] low. It's It would have been a

[6:42] challenging um flight for um any VFR

[6:46] pilot.

[6:48] >> VFR pilot visual flight rules. That's

[6:51] how the flight was operating, not under

[6:52] instrument conditions. JFK Jr. was not

[6:55] rated for instrument conditions. But

[6:57] even with visual flight rules, as pilots

[6:59] have told us, it is very tough to fly a

[7:01] single engine plane in the dark over the

[7:04] ocean, even for the most experienced

[7:06] pilot. Peter,

[7:07] >> thanks very much. Lisa Stark, who's been

[7:09] with us all day on this story. Still

[7:10] ahead on World News Tonight this

[7:12] Saturday, a continuing coverage of the

[7:15] search for John F. Kennedy Jr.'s missing

[7:17] airplane. And we'll go live to the

[7:18] Kennedy compound in Hyannesport.

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[9:03] >> The scene in Hyannasport, Massachusetts,

[9:05] is a familiar one to the nations. We

[9:07] have watched before as the Kennedy

[9:08] family has retreated into its compounds

[9:10] to deal with its tragedies. ABC's

[9:13] Charles Gibson is up there tonight.

[9:14] Charles,

[9:15] >> Peter, as you mentioned at the top of

[9:17] the broadcast, this was to be a day of

[9:18] Kennedy celebration, not a day of

[9:20] Kennedy condolence. The wedding of Rory

[9:23] Kennedy was to be taking place right now

[9:26] as we speak. 275 guests to Mark Bailey,

[9:30] her longtime boyfriend. But after

[9:32] midnight and through the early morning

[9:34] hours, there was a realization by the

[9:36] family that something had gone terribly,

[9:38] terribly wrong.

[9:40] John Jr. and Caroline called their house

[9:43] at the compound last night to say they'd

[9:45] be in a bit after 10:00 to the nearby

[9:47] Barnstable Airport. But when they

[9:50] weren't in by 11:00, people began to

[9:52] worry. And by this morning, there was

[9:54] knowing doubt. The wedding was cancelled

[9:56] early today. Ethel Kennedy, the mother

[9:59] of the bride, realizing early that there

[10:02] could be no celebration on this day. The

[10:05] mood among the gathered wedding guests

[10:07] as they walked the beach this morning,

[10:09] was hopeful. It's just like John to stop

[10:11] somewhere. They said Brian O' Conor, the

[10:14] family spokesman, tried to put the best

[10:16] face on things.

[10:17] >> It's it's somber. There are a lot of

[10:18] children running around. That tends to

[10:20] lighten the the uh the atmosphere. Uh,

[10:23] and as I said, when families come

[10:26] together and greet each other, there's,

[10:28] you know, people are happy to see one

[10:30] another, but obviously there's a great

[10:31] deal of concern with the circumstances.

[10:34] Uh, today flags on the compound stayed

[10:37] at the top of the flag poles. No one was

[10:39] thinking about lowering them and

[10:41] acknowledging tragedy. But with each

[10:44] passing hour, you could see in the faces

[10:46] of those coming in and going out of the

[10:49] compound that hope was waning. The tent

[10:52] inside designed to house the wedding and

[10:55] reception was due also to be the site of

[10:57] a morning mass. Instead, it became a

[11:00] prayer service of hope. John's sister

[11:03] Caroline, the older child of President

[11:06] John F. Kennedy and Jquel and Kennedy,

[11:08] was not here. She had not planned to

[11:09] attend the wedding. Rory, the bride to

[11:12] be, was the youngest child of Robert and

[11:14] Ethel Kennedy, born after her father was

[11:17] assassinated in 1968.

[11:20] She is no stranger to family tragedy. It

[11:23] was she who held her brother Michael as

[11:26] he died after a skiing accident last

[11:28] year. Though the wedding was cancelled

[11:31] early today. Ironically, flowers, party

[11:34] equipment, even wedding tuxedos to be

[11:36] worn by groomsmen kept arriving

[11:39] throughout the day.

[11:41] As much as possible, we are told the

[11:44] Kennedys tried to keep the radios and

[11:45] the televisions turned off. But we do

[11:47] know that word is filtered in about the

[11:50] debris washing ashore on Martha's

[11:52] Vineyard and the family knows all too

[11:54] well what that means. All too well,

[11:57] Peter.

[11:58] >> Thank you, Charlie. Charlie Gibson and

[11:59] Hyannis tonight. He'll be with us on an

[12:01] 8:00 special Eastern time this evening.

[12:04] When we come back, we'll look out across

[12:06] the nation to see how the nation has

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[14:31] President Clinton was told about this

[14:33] difficulty at about 7 o'clock this

[14:35] morning. The Clintons and many members

[14:36] of the Kennedy family are friendly, so

[14:38] he called a number of them, including

[14:40] JFK's sister Caroline and his uncle,

[14:43] Senator Ted Kennedy. A reaction to word

[14:46] that the plane was missing was very

[14:48] strong and has been very farreaching.

[14:50] ABC's Guju Chang has more about that.

[14:54] In the trends setting New York

[14:55] neighborhood that the young Kennedys

[14:57] called home, news of his plain's mystery

[15:00] sparked small acts of sympathy.

[15:02] >> Been through so many tragedies, one tra

[15:04] tragedy after another. It's just

[15:06] unbelievable.

[15:08] >> Many who are too young to remember JFK's

[15:10] death are now deeply moved by his son's

[15:13] disappearance.

[15:14] >> I and I hate this that this is going to

[15:16] be something a day that I'll always

[15:17] remember. I I would rather obviously

[15:20] not, but it Yeah, unfortunately I'll

[15:23] probably be telling my own children

[15:24] about this someday.

[15:25] >> At JFK's gravesite, visitors stopped to

[15:28] say prayers for the Kennedys,

[15:30] >> and I pray for him that the Lord will,

[15:32] you know, find him safe.

[15:34] >> In New York's Central Park, where JFK

[15:36] Jr. often exercised and played sports,

[15:38] people talked of what could have been

[15:41] >> if he was to go into politics.

[15:42] Obviously, he had the uh he had the

[15:44] looks and smarts evidently, and you

[15:45] know, who knows what what that could

[15:47] have brought. uh maybe return to

[15:48] Camelot.

[15:49] >> Vice President Gore summed up what many

[15:51] were thinking today when he wisfully

[15:53] called JFK Jr. an extraordinary man at

[15:56] the height of his career. Juju Chang,

[15:58] ABC News, New York.

[16:00] >> There's been a similar reaction in other

[16:01] countries. The story of this missing

[16:03] plane has been the front page and front

[16:05] broadcast news in Great Britain, Russia,

[16:07] Italy, and in Germany. When we come

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[18:23] John John as we knew him then made a

[18:25] tremendous impression on the country

[18:27] when he was a child. He has known more

[18:29] adoration and certainly more sorrow than

[18:32] most. Here's ABC's Kevin Newman.

[18:35] It was on his third birthday that a

[18:37] restless John John, as we knew him then,

[18:39] turned to salute his father's coffin as

[18:41] it went by. He had recently honored his

[18:44] father, too, by giving his first plane,

[18:47] not the one missing, a registration

[18:49] number using his father's initials and

[18:51] birthday. 529 May 29th, JK. There were

[18:56] happy memories, too. He had this desk in

[18:58] the Oval Office which was made which

[19:00] belonged to a sea captain and the uh it

[19:03] was made from a American frigot and I

[19:06] just remember the inside you could climb

[19:08] around in and there were kind of

[19:10] cavernous spaces in it and we used

[19:12] >> remember crawling inside.

[19:13] >> Yeah. And just hanging out there and he

[19:15] used to give us chewing gum cuz my

[19:17] mother uh didn't like us to chew gum so

[19:19] we used to go over the oval office at

[19:20] night and he'd feed us gum under the

[19:22] desk. After the assassination, hoping to

[19:24] give her children as normal an

[19:26] upbringing as possible, Jacqueline

[19:28] Kennedy moved Jon and his older sister

[19:30] Caroline away from Washington to an

[19:32] apartment in New York City. But once

[19:34] again, tragedy followed. The man who had

[19:37] become John Jr.'s surrogate father,

[19:39] Robert Kennedy, was also assassinated

[19:41] just months before John's 8th birthday.

[19:44] Four months after that, Jacqueline

[19:46] Kennedy married Greek shipping tycoon

[19:48] Aristotle Onasses, and they moved the

[19:50] family to a secluded private island. But

[19:52] she bowed to pressure from the Kennedys,

[19:54] and John and Caroline completed their

[19:56] education in the US. Unlike his father,

[20:00] who went to Harvard, John Kennedy Jr.

[20:02] graduated in ' 83 from Brown University

[20:05] and later from the New York University

[20:07] Law School.

[20:09] >> Good luck today.

[20:11] The spotlight followed him everywhere,

[20:13] even on his first day on the job as an

[20:15] assistant district attorney in New York.

[20:17] >> When I failed the bar exam, that was a,

[20:19] you know, the New York Post had the

[20:20] headline, "The hunk flunk." So, some of

[20:22] that I could actually do without.

[20:23] >> He was always on the move, seeking new

[20:25] adventures. His father had once said, "A

[20:28] man does what he must in spite of

[20:30] personal consequences, in spite of

[20:32] obstacles and dangers and pressures."

[20:35] Well, in spite of the press, John Jr.

[20:36] tried to live as normal a life as

[20:38] possible. Last seen here in public

[20:40] Thursday at a Yankees game.

[20:43] >> Ladies and gentlemen, meet George.

[20:45] >> In 1995, he decided to join the ranks of

[20:48] the popular press by launching a

[20:50] magazine that covers politics. His

[20:52] mother, an accomplished editor, was at

[20:54] first lukewarm to George. I think we

[20:57] showed her in mock cover and she was a

[21:00] little skeptical, but I I think that uh

[21:03] that she had always encouraged both

[21:05] Caroline and I to to make our own way to

[21:08] not be subordinate our own lives to the

[21:11] expectations of what we should do with

[21:14] our lives. And so in that respect um I

[21:16] think she got a kick out of it.

[21:18] >> John Kennedy Jr.'s name came with a

[21:20] heavy burden, but in life he has always

[21:23] chosen to bear it lightly. People come

[21:25] up to you all the time and say, you

[21:26] know, I got into politics because your

[21:28] father brought me in there. Or, you

[21:30] know, I really your uncle Bobby meant an

[21:33] enormous amount to me. I mean,

[21:34] especially being in from New York. And

[21:36] that's a great very warming uh

[21:41] legacy to be a part of and I and I'm and

[21:43] I'm grateful for it.

[21:44] >> He is in the minds of many America's

[21:47] favorite son. Kevin Newman, ABC News,

[21:51] New York.

[21:53] John Kennedy and Carolyn Vet were

[21:55] married almost three years ago and she

[21:57] was thrust into the most glaring

[22:00] spotlight. Here's ABC's Judy Mueller.

[22:03] When Carolyn Vet married John F. Kennedy

[22:06] Jr., a family friend said, "Jackie must

[22:09] be smiling in heaven." Indeed, the six-

[22:12] foot tall Carolyn with her elegantly

[22:14] simple sense of style reminded many

[22:16] people of Jacqueline Kennedy Onasses, a

[22:18] Roman Catholic whose parents are

[22:20] divorced, she grew up in the upscale

[22:22] community of Greenwich, Connecticut.

[22:24] After graduating from Boston University

[22:26] in 1988, she briefly pursued a modeling

[22:29] career, then worked as a public

[22:31] relations executive at Calvin Klein. Her

[22:34] wedding to the crown prince of Camelot

[22:35] on a secluded island off the coast of

[22:37] Georgia was a well-kept secret and left

[22:40] the gossip columnists scrambling for

[22:42] details.

[22:43] >> I think you have to say the world's most

[22:45] eligible man is no longer eligible.

[22:47] >> No sooner had they said their ideas than

[22:49] they had to beg the paparazzi, please

[22:51] don't. To the photographers who'd camped

[22:53] on the sidewalk in front of their

[22:55] Manhattan loft, Jon pleaded, please give

[22:57] Carolyn all the privacy and room you

[22:59] can. But despite the new bride's hopes

[23:02] for privacy, she soon learned what it

[23:04] means to be a Kennedy, to be in the

[23:06] public eye, to be part of an American

[23:08] legend. Carolyn has identical twin

[23:11] sisters 18 months older than she. One of

[23:14] them, Lauren, was aboard the plane with

[23:16] her. The last time she'd been with the

[23:18] Kennedy clan was for the funeral of

[23:20] cousin Michael Kennedy, who died in a

[23:22] skiing accident. Carolyn had become very

[23:25] much a part of that family. Judy

[23:28] Mueller, ABC News.

[23:30] Somebody today referred to the Kennedy

[23:32] family history as the Trail of Tears.

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[25:13] as the search for John F. Kennedy Jr.

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[25:17] totheminute coverage. And join Peter

[25:19] Jennings for an ABC News special tonight

[25:21] at 8 Eastern. Coverage continues with

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[25:24] tomorrow morning on this week from ABC

[25:27] News.

[25:29] >> So many times down through the years,

[25:32] the Kennedys have been referred to as

[25:33] America's royalty. Very painful legacy

[25:36] to live with. Here's ABC's Beth Nissen.

[25:40] >> John F. Kennedy Jr. was born into an

[25:42] extended family marked by such extensive

[25:45] tragedy that many see the clan as ill-

[25:47] fated, haunted, even cursed. There has

[25:51] been a thread of tragedy through the

[25:53] Kennedy dynasty that has lasted 70 years

[25:56] or more.

[25:57] >> At the head of that dynasty, Joseph and

[25:59] Rose Kennedy, four of their nine

[26:02] children died tragically. Joseph Kennedy

[26:04] Jr. on a World War II bombing mission.

[26:06] Kathleen Kennedy in a 1948 plane crash.

[26:10] Hundreds of millions of people mourned

[26:11] the death of President John F. Kennedy

[26:13] after he was assassinated in Dallas in

[26:15] 1963.

[26:17] 5 years later, the world watched as

[26:19] Robert F. Kennedy lay dying,

[26:20] assassinated.

[26:22] >> Senator Kennedy has been shot.

[26:24] >> Joseph and Rose's surviving son, Senator

[26:26] Edward Kennedy, was critically injured

[26:27] in a 1964 plane crash. In 1969, he drove

[26:31] a car off a bridge on Massachusetts

[26:33] Chapitic Island. His aid, Mary Joe

[26:35] Capeknney, died. That happened 30 years

[26:38] ago this weekend.

[26:39] >> Edward Kennedy, after the accident of

[26:41] Chapaquitic, gave a national television

[26:44] address in which he wondered aloud

[26:47] whether there was some curse whether

[26:49] some awful curse did actually hang over

[26:53] all the Kennedys.

[26:55] >> That was 30 years ago. A lot worse has

[26:58] happened since then.

[26:59] >> Happened to the next generation of young

[27:01] Kennedys. Robert Kennedy's son David

[27:03] died of a drug overdose in 1984. His son

[27:06] Michael died in a skiing accident in

[27:08] Aspen on New Year's Eve 1997. He was 39.

[27:12] These are all very young people and it

[27:15] just multiplies the quotion of tragedy

[27:18] that you find in this in this family.

[27:20] >> In the wake of JFK's assassination,

[27:22] Jquel and Kennedy Onasus worked hard to

[27:24] keep her children safe. At Jackie's

[27:26] death in 1994, both John Jr. and Carolyn

[27:29] Kennedy seemed blessed with good health

[27:31] and happy families untouched by grave

[27:34] misfortune or accident until today. Beth

[27:38] Nissen, ABC News, New York. That is our

[27:41] report on World News Saturday. Later

[27:43] this evening at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time,

[27:45] a 2-hour ABC News special on the missing

[27:48] Kennedy plane and the country's reaction

[27:50] to it. I'm Peter Jennings. Thank you for

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