“It didn’t help that John’s birthday, November 25, was so close to the November 22 date of his father’s death. In 1988, the 25th anniversary of the assassination, John told me that he wished his birthday fell somewhere else on the calendar. He made a similar comment in 1993, on the 30th anniversary. We were rollerblading in Battery Park. … John told me that the media coverage of his father was ‘not so easy’ emotionally, and that he’d prefer to just go get a beer. … We stuck to our usual program, playing tough guys in the face of our past.”
--Robert Littell, “The Men We Became”