 That all said, moving on, and then finally on this date in 99, very sad day, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette died when their single-engine plane piloted by Kennedy plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. And I still remember that night very clearly, and I've told this story before. I was on vacation with my family, so I would have been 19, so I would have been in college,