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In 1988, Ted Kennedy asked John to introduce him at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. John was apprehensive but could not say no, so Michael Berman enlisted a media coach named Michael Sheehan to train John for his briet speech. Sheehan recalled seeing John enter the media training room escorted by Teddy, and he was stunned by how handsome John was.
Sheehan described John as cooperative and eager to learn but not especially happy to be present. “It was like he had to ski down a very dangerous hill,” Sheehan reflected. “He did not want to be there, but he did not want to disappoint his uncle.”
On the day of his speech, John was pacing around backstage with Andrew Cuomo, the thirty-year-old son of the governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, and his friend Jeffrey Sachs. Both were helping him with his delivery. John was supposed to cut his long hair before appearing on national television, but he was so nervous that he and Cuomo went running on the roof of the convention center in hundred-degree heat. By the time he returned, no time remained for him to get his hair cut.
📹: John practicing for his 1988 Democratic National Convention speech.
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Sheehan described John as cooperative and eager to learn but not especially happy to be present. “It was like he had to ski down a very dangerous hill,” Sheehan reflected. “He did not want to be there, but he did not want to disappoint his uncle.”
On the day of his speech, John was pacing around backstage with Andrew Cuomo, the thirty-year-old son of the governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, and his friend Jeffrey Sachs. Both were helping him with his delivery. John was supposed to cut his long hair before appearing on national television, but he was so nervous that he and Cuomo went running on the roof of the convention center in hundred-degree heat. By the time he returned, no time remained for him to get his hair cut.
📹: John practicing for his 1988 Democratic National Convention speech.
#jfkjr #johnfkennedyjr #johnkennedyjr #democraticnationalconvention #speech
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