John F. Kennedy Jr. was an American lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher, who died in a plane crash on July 16, 1999. Kennedy was flying his Piper Saratoga aircraft with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette from New Jersey to Massachusetts when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. All three occupants of the aircraft were killed in the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that the cause of the c

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Had he lived, John F. Kennedy Jr. would have turned 65 today—a milestone that feels impossible for a man the world still remembers in motion: sailing across Nantucket Sound, jogging through Central Park, laughing with reporters outside the offices of George magazine. What many don’t know is how deeply he wrestled with the weight of history while quietly shaping a life that was entirely his own. Born three months after his father’s assassination, John Jr. grew up protected but never untouched by