Remembering Carolyn Bessette on What Would Have Been Her 55th Birthday: 'Clever, Naughty, Warm & Funny'
Carolyn Bessettewould have turned 55 on Thursday. Instead, it’s been more than 20 years since she and husbandJohn F. Kennedy Jr.were killed in a plane crash while heading to a Kennedy family wedding. Bessette’s fame was irreversible after her 1996 wedding to former PresidentJohn F. Kennedy‘s son, beginning a highly publicized marriage at the center of a spotlight whose glare she sometimes worried was too bright. At the same time that her iconic minimalist ’90s fashion and her personal life, with its tumult and passion, were making headlines, friends remember a life-sized person whom the public did not always perceive....