Today, the US is remembering John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr, who died in a plane crash in 1999 at the age of just 38.
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette, along with JFK Jr. were flying near Martha’s Vineyard on their way to a wedding when their single-engine plane crashed into the Atlantic.
Kennedy Jr. was born on November 25, 1960, and was named after his father, President John F Kennedy. Following his father’s assassination, a three-year-old Kennedy Jr. captured the hearts of the world when he saluted his father’s coffin.
Let’s take a look back at the life JFK Jr. which was cut too short.
John F. Kennedy, Jr. playing with his mother’s necklace at the White House in 1962. The simulated Pearl Necklace worn by Jacqueline Kennedy while in residence at the White House sold for USD 190,000 during the Sotheby’s auction of the estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 25 April 1996 in New York.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, with his wife Jacqueline and their children Caroline and John Jnr on Easter Sunday at Palm Beach, Miami, Florida, 14th April 1963.
Jacqueline Kennedy stands with her two children Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr at the President’s funeral in 1963.
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A young JFK Jr. in 1980.
The handsome JFK Jnr.
John during a press conference for new Magazine ‘George’ in 1995.
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John F. Kennedy Jr. during ‘Newman’s Own’ George Awards at U.S. Customs House in New York City in 1999.
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John F. Kennedy, Jr. and his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy arrive at the annual John F. Kennedy Library Foundation dinner in May 1999.
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JFK Jr kisses his wife, Carolyn.
