On July 18, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took
office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, was nominated
for an unprecedented third term.         

       
Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record
four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than
two terms.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

ROSS SIMPSON

A Piper Saratoga similar to the accident aircraft.

On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. died when the light
aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Kennedy’s wife, Carolyn Bessette, and sister-in-law, Lauren
Bessette, were also on board and died.

The Piper Saratoga departed New Jersey‘s Essex County
Airport; its intended route was along the coastline of
Connecticut and across Rhode Island Sound to Martha’s
Vineyard Airport.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
(November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999

In Los Angeles, California, Senator John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts was nominated for the presidency by the
Democratic Party Convention, defeating Senator Lyndon
B. Johnson of Texas. The next day, Johnson was named
Kennedy’s running mate by a unanimous vote of the
convention.

Four months later, on November 8, JFK won 49.7 percent
of the popular vote in one of the closest presidential
elections in U.S. history, surpassing by a fraction the
49.6 percent received by Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, a Republican.

John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.