"On the sun-dappled afternoon of September 21st, 1996, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette were photographed emerging hand in hand from the tiny wooden chapel of the First African Baptist Church on Cumberland Island, Georgia—secluded, sacred, and shrouded in Spanish moss. The ceremony, held just after sunset and illuminated by flickering candlelight, was witnessed by only forty close friends and family, including Caroline Kennedy and John’s uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy. Carolyn wore a pearl-c