How ‘Love Story’ Gave Viewers a History Lesson on the Kennedys and ’90s NYC
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The FX show, which dramatizes the relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, has inspired a legion of younger viewers to dig into the couple’s past and 1990s New York City.
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Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT How ‘Love Story’ Gave Viewers a ’90s History Lesson The FX show, which dramatizes the relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, has inspired a legion of younger viewers to dig into the couple’s past and 1990s New York City. Listen · 7:37 min Share full article By Shivani Gonzalez March 27, 2026 Updated 11:35 a.m. ET The new FX series “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette” has prompted an unexpected surge of history lessons on TikTok. Videos about what’s fact and what’s fiction in the show have garnered hundreds of thousands of views and plenty of debate in the comments. Jules Skyler, or @lastinglooks, has been posting throughout the season, which concluded on Thursday, including about the infamous Central Park fight , whether or not Calvin Klein actually introduced the couple and if Carolyn Bessette was unsettled by Princess Diana’s death . These comparisons are part of a larger trend inspired by the show that has TikTokers using the platform to try to educate people on the relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Bessette — especially those who might have been children (or not yet born) when the couple was widely reported on. Many viewers expressed heartbreak to just be finding out that Kennedy and Bessette were killed on July 16, 1999, along with Bessette’s sister Lauren, when a plane that Kennedy was piloting to Martha’s Vineyard crashed, meaning there certainly wouldn’t be a happy ending on the show. “I was a little too young when they were famous to know much about them,” Skyler, 40, said in an interview this week. “But now watching the show, I have become obsessed with reading and watching everything about them. I fully understand the public fascination back then.” Skyler has found that lots of commenters are also interested in helping her dig up interviews or articles that documented the lives of Kennedy (played in “Love Story” by Paul Anthony Kelly) and ...
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