In 1996, John F. Kennedy Jr. was the closest thing America had ever had to a prince. The only son of assassinated President JFK, he'd been named People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, dated half of Hollywood, and was widely expected to follow his father into the White House. When he married Calvin Klein PR powerhouse Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on a remote Georgia island, they became without question the most famous couple in the world. But less than three years later, John and Carolyn were dead - with their bodies, and the body of Carolyn’s sister Lauren, found strapped to their seats in JFK Jr.'s private plane on the ocean floor off Martha's Vineyard. This is Just The Gist of JFK Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, the Kennedy Curse, and the plane crash that ended Camelot.

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Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Public and Private Life of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

The Kennedy Curse by Edward Klein

JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy wedding footage

JFK Jr. Newsnight interview footage

The West Wing S04E04 'The Red Mass' — graveyard spiral scene (39:45)

JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy paparazzi footage

Candace Bushnell's 'Spoiled in the City' column featuring CBK (1998)

'Settlement reported in JFK Jr. crash lawsuit' — Cape Cod Times (2001)

'A mother grieves in private' — Cape Cod Times (2000)

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