Remembering JFK Jr.

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Remembering JFK Jr.

The son of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in a plane crash 15 years ago, along with his wife Carolyn Jeanne Bessette and her elder sister Lauren on July 16, 1999.

TIME (magazine cover) - Aug. 2, 1999 issue.

President Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy pose at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington Dec. 8, 1960, with their son, John F. Kennedy Jr., following a baptism for the infant. The younger Kennedy was born Nov. 25. A vast aerial search of the sea off Martha's Vineyard resumed Sunday, July 18, 1999, after Coast Guard cutters overnight found no signs of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister. Their plane was reported missing off the shores off the resort island early Saturday.(AP Photo/File)

Jackie Kennedy, the wife of the President-elect John F Kennedy with her son John Kennedy Jr. The Kennedys lost another baby, Patrick, a few months before the assassination. (Keystone/Getty Images)

Caroline Kennedy, 3, kisses her baby brother John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1961 in Palm Beach, Fla. A vast aerial search of the sea off Martha's Vineyard resumed Sunday June 18, 1999 after Coast Guard cutters overnight found no signs of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister. (AP Photo/White House, Richard Avedon)

John F. Kennedy Jr. holds the hand of his mother, Jackie Kennedy, in this April 22, 1962 in Palm Beach, Fla. A vast aerial search of the sea off Martha's Vineyard resumed Sunday June 18, 1999 after Coast Guard cutters overnight found no signs of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and her sister. (AP Photo/file)

President Kennedy and his son, John Jr., stand hand-in-hand at the White House ca. 1963. The Coast Guard was searching Saturday, July 17, 1999 for a missing plane reportedly carrying John Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette. (AP Photo)

President John F. Kennedy and family pose outside the Palm Beach, Fla. home of the president's father after a private Easter Service April 14, 1963. From left are first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, John Jr., 3, President Kennedy, and Caroline, 5. (AP Photo)

President Kennedy, working late at his White House office, wears a slight smile on his face, indicating perhaps he is not completely unaware that his son, John Jr., is exploring under his desk in the Oval Office in the White House in 1963. John Jr. called the spot under the desk 'my house' and was peeking from behind the 'secret door.' A small plane carrying John F. Kennedy Jr. to a wedding in Hyannisport, Mass., was reported missing early Saturday, July 17, 1999, and a search was under way off the coast of New York's Long Island, Coast Guard officials said. (AP Photo/Look Magazine, Stanley Tretick, File)

Jacqueline Kennedy leaves the U.S. Capitol Building with her children John and Caroline after attending a ceremony for her late husband John F. Kennedy. (National Archive/Newsmakers)

In this photo provided by the White House, President John F. Kennedy, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and their children, Caroline, right, and John Jr., seated beside his mother, with the family dogs at their Hyannis Port, Mass., home, Aug. 14, 1963. (AP Photo/White House/Cecil Stoughton)

Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of slain President John F. Kennedy, holds her children's hands outside St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, after funeral Mass for the president, Nov. 25, 1963. In front, from left: Caroline, Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy Jr. Behind them are the president's brothers, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), left, and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. (AP Photo)

Three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father's casket in Washington on Nov. 25, 1963, three days after the president was assassinated in Dallas. Widow Jacqueline Kennedy, center, and daughter Caroline Kennedy are accompanied by the late president's brothers Sen. Edward Kennedy, left, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. (AP Photo)

Jacqueline Kennedy stood with, from left, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, (aged 6), Attorney Gen.l Robert Kennedy and John Kennedy (aged 3, saluting) at her husband's funeral. (Keystone/Getty Images)

Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy is seen entering St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church with her children, Caroline and John, Jr., to attend the funeral mass for her husband John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 25, 1963. Behind them is Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. (AP Photo)

John F. Kennedy, Jr., three years old, carries a religious booklet leaving St. Matthew's Cathedral after the funeral Mass for his slain father in Washington, Nov. 25, 1963. It is his third birthday. His sister Caroline, who will be 6 on November 27, looks up. She clutches her mother's hand. Behind Mrs. Jacquelin Kennedy are Robert P. Fitzgerald, first cousin of the president, Rose Kennedy, mother of the president, and Robert F. Kennedy, his brother, far right. Men at left are unidentified. (AP Photo)

Little 3-year-old John Kennedy Jr., holds fast to his mother as they arrived at the practice ski slopes of Mt. Mansfield, Stowe, Vt., March 28, 1964 for a day of skiing. It was John?s first time at the sport. Caroline Kennedy is at right, back to camera. (AP Photo/J. W. Green)

Jacqueline Kennedy, with her children John Jr.and Caroline, kneels at her husband's grave in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., May 29, 1964. This would have been President Kennedy's 47th birthday. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges)

Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of John F. Kennedy, watches the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, London, with her children John Jr. and Caroline, her sister Princess Lee Radziwill and Lee's children Anthony and Tina. (McCabe/Express/Getty Images)

Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of John F. Kennedy, walking in Green Park, London, with her son John Jr. (bottom, centre) and Anthony, the son of her sister Lee Radziwill. (McCabe/Express/Getty Images)

Jacqueline Kennedy with her children Caroline and John in the living room of the Kennedy ancestral home at Dunganstown, County Wexford, during a family holiday in Ireland. In the family group is Mary Ryan, the late president's cousin, along with relations Maeve Rowe, Josie Grennan (Mrs Ryan's granddaughter), Mrs. John Fenlon, James Kennedy (Mrs. Ryan's brother), Margaret Kirwan (Mrs. Ryan's sister), and Miss Mary Ryan (Mrs. Ryan's daughter). (London Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

On the hallowed fields of Magna Carta, close to the River Thames at Runneymede, Surrey, on May 14, 1965, Queen Elizabeth II, with Mrs Jackie Kennedy at her side, dedicated Britain's memorial to the late American President John F. Kennedy. The seven ton Portland stone memorial and the historic ground around , became American property, in perpetuity, a gift from the British people. Four-year-old John Kennedy, son of the late President, gazes up in wonder as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets his mother Jackie Kennedy before the dedication ceremony. Lord David Harlech, chairman of the Memorial Trustess, stands beside the Queen. Also in the line are seven-year-old Caroline Kennedy, daughter of Jackie and Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, brothers of the late President. (AP Photo/Staff)

Jacqueline Kennedy with her children Caroline and John at Shannon Airport, at the start of a family holiday in Ireland. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Caroline, left, and John Kennedy, Jr., children of the late U.S. president, flank an unidentified friend as they stand on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, Jan. 3, 1969, where they are spending their holiday season. (AP Photo)

John F. Kennedy Jr. and his sister Caroline at the grave of their uncle, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia on June 6, 1970 where a mass was celebrated, on the second anniversary of his assassination. (AP Photo/John Duricka)

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TIME (magazine cover) - Aug. 2, 1999 issue.

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