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JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s Relationship Timeline

JFK Jr. and wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy tied the knot in 1996 but the couple died three years later in a tragic plane crash

“Toward the end of their lives, they had managed to reach this kind of rapprochement,” The Day John Died author Christopher Andersen exclusively told Us Weekly in July 2024. Mitchell Gerber/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Bessette-Kennedy and Kennedy Jr. attended their pals Betsy Reisinger and Kenan Siegel ‘s Miami wedding in March 1998. In the 2024 book Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy by E lizabeth Belle, Reisinger recalled the duo looking infatuated with one another at her nuptials.

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