Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

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Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (1999)

Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy (born January 7, 1966 in White Plains , New York as Carolyn Jeanne Bessette , † July 16, 1999 near Martha's Vineyard , Massachusetts ) was an American press agent and the wife of John F. Kennedy jr. As such, she was part of the Kennedy clan and often part of media coverage.

Life

Carolyn Bessette was born in New York to William J. Bessette and Ann Messina. She had two older sisters, Lauren and Lisa. When she was 8 years old, her parents divorced. Her mother moved with her daughters to live with her new partner Richard Freemann in Connecticut .

In 1988 she graduated from Boston University . She then worked as a PR consultant for the fashion designer Calvin Klein in New York .

In 1992 she first met her future husband John F. Kennedy Jr., son of US President John F. Kennedy . From 1994 they met regularly. The couple married on September 21, 1996 on Cumberland Island , Georgia .

The US press has often referred to her as a trendsetter, especially in the fashion sector, and has often compared her to her mother-in-law, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis . In addition to the slim, elegant and stylish appearance of both women, other parallels played a role: like Jackie Kennedy, Bessette came from a Roman Catholic family, like the one in her marriage to JFK, Bessette fought bitterly for the protection of her privacy, and like Jacqueline was committed Carolyn Bessette for charity.

On July 16, 1999, she and her husband and sister Lauren were killed in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard Island , when the plane her husband was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. On 22 July 1999 Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was in a ceremony on board the destroyer USS Briscoe between Martha's Vineyard and Hyannis Port buried at sea .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Carolyn Bessette Kennedy - Biography. The Biography Channel website, accessed August 14, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Rita Kohlmaier: America's style icon: Of shine, glamor and cool sex. Spiegel Online, July 28, 1999, accessed August 14, 2013 .
  3. ^ Evgenia Peretz: The Private Princess. Vanity Fair, September 1999, accessed on August 14, 2013 (English, obituary, published in September 1999 of the print edition).
  4. ↑ Amy Waldman: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Private Woman Who Was New to Fame. The New York Times, July 19, 1999, accessed August 14, 2013 (obituary).
  5. ↑ Barton Gellman & Pamela Ferdinand: Kennedy, Bessette's Given Shipboard Rites. The Washington Post, July 23, 1999, accessed August 14, 2013 (page A1 of the print edition).
personal data
SURNAME Bessette-Kennedy, Carolyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bessette, Carolyn Jeanne (maiden name); Bessette-Kennedy, Carolyn Jeanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of the American lawyer and publisher John F. Kennedy Jr.
DATE OF BIRTH 7th January 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH White Plains , New York
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1999
Place of death off the coast of Massachusetts