Love Story': John Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, or when headlines ruin everything that could, for once, be real

"They only meant to take a small plane to Cape Cod to attend a cousin's wedding. Nothing should have gone wrong. But it did. An experienced pilot—as experienced as an amateur pilot can be—John (Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.) didn't want to wait for the instructor that July afternoon. He didn't need to. He had argued with Carolyn (Bessette), his wife, before boarding the Piper Saratoga that would end up at the bottom of the Atlantic."

"John and Carolyn had been married for three years. She was 33; John, 38. Also on the plane was Carolyn's sister, Lauren, 34. The sky didn't seem to foretell any storm. But once they took off, things got complicated. The plane disappeared 7.5 miles from its destination. Their bodies were found three days later on the ocean floor."

"From there, it jumps back to the beginning of their relationship, when she, a former Calvin Klein sales associate in Boston, had just been promoted to public relations director in New York."

Love Story, the first installment of Ryan Murphy's new anthology franchise on Disney+, centers on the ill-fated romance between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. The series opens with the tragic plane crash of July 16, 1999, when JFK Jr., an amateur pilot, took a Piper Saratoga to Cape Cod with his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren. The plane disappeared 7.5 miles from its destination, and all three bodies were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean floor three days later. The narrative then flashes back to explore how their relationship began, when Bessette was a Calvin Klein sales associate in Boston before her promotion to public relations director in New York. The series features Connor Hines as Kennedy Jr. and Sarah Pidgeon as Bessette Kennedy.

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