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What happened to Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr.?

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her husband, John F. Kennedy, Jr., died in a plane crash near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, along with Bessette Kennedy’s sister Lauren Bessette. Kennedy had been piloting his small plane from a New Jersey airport on the way to a family wedding on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, when he likely became disoriented, and the plane hit the ocean.