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What he and showrunner Connor Hines have done with 'Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette' isn't just stupid — it's misogynistic and dangerous.

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JFK Jr severed in half. Carolyn Bessette's unspeakable injury. Why these sealed crash scene details that've never been published must finally now be revealed: MAUREEN CALLAHAN | Daily Mail Online Home US Showbiz TV Sports US Politics Royals News Crime Desk Lifestyle Money U.K. Buyline Games Columnists My Profile Logout Login US Edition Privacy Policy Feedback Thursday, May 21st 2026 7AM 62°F 10AM 61°F 5-Day Forecast Advertisement JFK Jr severed in half. Carolyn Bessette's unspeakable injury. Why these sealed crash scene details that've never been published must finally now be revealed: MAUREEN CALLAHAN By MAUREEN CALLAHAN, US COLUMNIST Published: 19:31 EDT, 27 March 2026 | Updated: 07:24 EDT, 21 May 2026 e-mail 664 shares 1.8k View comments --> --> --> Only Ryan Murphy could take the violent, wholly preventable death of three people and turn it into a sick, romantic fantasy. What he and showrunner Connor Hines have done with 'Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette' isn't just stupid — it's misogynistic and dangerous. The final episode, which aired Thursday night, is a love letter to death, murder and suffering. We open with a pure fiction: Carolyn relaying, in couples therapy with John, that she has a recurring nightmare in which she's in the back of that convertible in Dallas, dressed in Jackie's pink Chanel suit and pillbox hat, and that she recoils as she's suddenly drenched in her husband's blood. Subtle. And a sacrilege to Jackie and all she survived. In case that tastelessness went over most heads, Murphy and Hines get even more disgusting by having the therapist tell John and Carolyn that they're 'white knuckling this marriage into a downward spiral.' John piloted that plane into what's called a 'graveyard spiral' — because once you're in it, there's no getting out. Yet Love Story depicts their final flight as downright romantic, as if we all should aspire to take to the skies with a suicidal, homicidal maniac who didn't know how to use the instruments in his own plane, who cut off all communication with air traffic control, who was allegedly seen drinking on the tarmac (on top of his pain pills), had just had the boot on his broken ankle removed the day before, who refused warnings not to fly from more experienced pilots that night, and who rejected a flight instructor's offer to fly along as back-up. Oh — and who almost slammed into a packed American Airlines jetliner moments before crashing into the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Only Ryan Murphy could take the violent, wholly preventable death of three people and turn it into a sick, romantic fantasy. (Kennedy and Bessette pictured in his plane in 1998) Yet Love Story depicts their final flight as downright romantic, as if we all should aspire to take to the skies with a suicidal, homicidal maniac who didn't know how to use his own plane's instruments. Yet Murphy and Hines have Carolyn perched contentedly in the rear of a plane she doubted her husband could handle, r

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