https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/john-f-kennedy-jr-george-magazine-stars-share-stories-project-1200375

Nearly two decades after his tragic death, stars, insiders and colleagues — including Cindy Crawford, Robert De Niro, Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter — recall in an oral history the editor's enthusiasm for bipartisan media and the day it all ended: “He truly believed it would have a positive impact."

My first encounter with John: I had handed in a piece for the third issue of the magazine that everyone was talking about while toiling for another in Philadelphia. One day, at my office, a voicemail. "Hi, Lisa? It's John Kennedy. I just read your story and I love it! Please give me a call. I want you to be part of the George family."

I did what anyone would have done. I walked into the hall and shouted, "OK, who's the asshole?" This had to be a prank, right?

Two days later, another message. "Uh, Lisa? It's John Kennedy again. I know you're busy. But can you call me back?" And so began the best job and the best years of my life.

George started with a bang; there were no whimpers at George. I mean, it was John Kennedy's magazine, which also meant — and boy, did he know it — that it had better be good. Until the day he unveiled the first issue, he was seared in the public consciousness as the heartbreaking little boy in a powder blue suit saluting his father's casket. Now here he was, in September 1995, at a podium in Manhattan's Federal Hall, where George Washington took his oath of office, staring down a packed mob of hungry media types to unveil his political magazine. "I haven't seen so many of you in one place since they announced the results of my first bar exam," he began. (He'd failed it twice, to the glee of the tabloids.) Then with a bit of a flourish, the reveal: "Ladies and gentlemen … meet George." On the cover was Cindy Crawford dressed as Washington — if the first president wore midriff tops and had killer abs. No, this wasn't going to be like any other magazine.