John F. Kennedy Jr.: Child of a Dream

• Documentary

Episode overview

In the aftermath of his father’s assassination, he was fixed in our collective memory as the small boy bravely saluting the final act of Camelot’s brief glory. Later, he became the ultimate eligible bachelor and high-profile torch-bearer of the “Kennedy mystique.” But when John F. Kennedy, Jr. lost his life in yet another of the Kennedy family’s front-page tragedies, many knew him only as the handsome jet-setting scion of America’s most famous political dynasty. Now, go beyond the headlines for exclusive interviews with long-time friends, reporters and other insiders to meet the man behind the alluring image. Through numerous film clips and rarely seen Kennedy family photographs, follow “John-John” from his White House boyhood to his marriage to the beautiful and accomplished Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. In this truly fascinating biography, gain a surprising new perspective on the private life of the man regarded around the world as “America’s Prince.”

60 minutes