The federal government has declined to release the last recorded words of John F. Kennedy Jr., seven years after ABC News requested to hear them.
Citing the privacy concerns of the Kennedy family, the U.S. Department of Transportation informed ABC News in a Jan. 27 letter it would not release the tape, a recording of a radio conversation between an air traffic controller at New Jersey's Essex County Airport and Kennedy.
The agency agreed to release a transcript of the recording, a brief exchange of flight lingo between Kennedy and the airport controller. "Five three november to two two thanks," reads Kennedy's final known transmitted words, confirming the controller's direction to use a particular runway for takeoff.
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Citing the privacy concerns of the Kennedy family, the U.S. Department of Transportation informed ABC News in a Jan. 27 letter it would not release the tape, a recording of a radio conversation between an air traffic controller at New Jersey's Essex County Airport and Kennedy.
The agency agreed to release a transcript of the recording, a brief exchange of flight lingo between Kennedy and the airport controller. "Five three november to two two thanks," reads Kennedy's final known transmitted words, confirming the controller's direction to use a particular runway for takeoff.
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