{"id":279937,"date":"2026-02-04T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279937\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:40:09","slug":"sheila-flynn-on-the-legacy-of-the-kennedys-as-love-story-releases-on-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279937\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila Flynn on the legacy of the Kennedys as Love Story releases on Disney+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAs Ryan Murphy\u2019s \u2018Love Story\u2019 series gets set to mythologise the lives of John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette, we examine the continued fascination with the Irish-American power players\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Actors Paul Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon who star as John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette in Love Story. Photo: Jose Perez\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MGamericanlovestory.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Actors Paul Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon who star as John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette in Love Story. Photo: Jose Perez\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Twenty-five years had passed since the assassination of US President John F Kennedy in 1963 when Wendy Northcross became executive director of the Greater Hyannis Chamber of Commerce on Cape Cod. Her office was within earshot of the front desk of the peninsula\u2019s visitor centre, and she couldn\u2019t believe how many requests came in daily about the Kennedy clan \u2013 whose Hyannis Port compound was just minutes from the office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI asked the front desk staff to keep hashmarks on a piece of paper every time they got a question related to the Kennedys,\u201d she says. \u201cAfter one year, we had over 50,000 hashmarks. In 1989, I was stunned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Ryan Murphy\u2019s \u2018Love Story\u2019 series gets set to mythologise the lives of John F Kennedy Jr and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9618,93,61,60,6361,1868],"class_list":["post-279937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}