Circa 1994 in Manhattan’s Tribeca and SoHo, John F. Kennedy Jr. quietly courted Calvin Klein publicist Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, dodging paparazzi lenses that trailed them from Balthazar to Washington Square; their secret September 21, 1996 ceremony at the First African Baptist Church on Cumberland Island stunned even insiders at George magazine, while sister Caroline Kennedy guarded family privacy until tragedy struck near Martha’s Vineyard, July 16, 1999. #jfkjr #carolynbessettekennedy #americ

Circa November 25, 1963, three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. saluted his father’s coffin outside St. Matthew’s Cathedral, an image defining American memory after John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Decades later, from Georgetown childhood to launching George magazine in 1995 Manhattan, friends recalled confetti-filled campaign celebrations and Hyannis Port summers that sustained the enduring Kennedy mystique following the tragic July 16, 1999 Atlantic crash. #JohnFKennedyJr #KennedyLegacy #AmericanH