'JOHN AND CAROLYN | LOVE, BEAUTY AND LOSS' PREMIERES TUESDAY, FEB. 17, ON ABC AND STREAMS NEXT DAY ON DISNEY+ AND HULU

New Special Chronicles the Real Love Story of the Iconic Couple and Features New Interviews With Stars of FX's "Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette"

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"John and Carolyn | Love, Beauty and Loss" revisits the relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr., the son of the 35th president of the United States, and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and airs Tuesday, Feb. 17 (10:02 - 11:00 p.m. EST) on ABC, streaming next day on Disney+ and Hulu. The new, one-hour special examines how love, ambition and legacy collided under an unrelenting public spotlight throughout JFK Jr. and Carolyn's relationship and tragic deaths in the 1990s.

Drawing on firsthand perspectives as well as rare ABC News archival footage and interviews, "John and Carolyn | Love, Beauty and Loss" traces the couple's courtship, secret wedding, professional ambitions, and the toll of relentless media scrutiny. The special features newly unearthed photographs of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, rare wedding footage, and new interviews with the couple's close friends, contemporaries and journalists, including fashion designer Gordon Henderson, author Steve Gillon, former Editor-in-Chief of People magazine Larry Hackett, editor-at-large of People magazine Liz McNeil, staff writer at The New Yorker Rachel Syme and more.

Coinciding with FX's upcoming scripted series "Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette" from executive producer Ryan Murphy, the special chronicles the real lives of this iconic couple whose love story became a storied chapter of American royalty, and takes viewers behind the scenes of the series' set and features new interviews with the cast and creatives, including stars Paul Anthony Kelly (JFK Jr.) and Sarah Pidgeon (Carolyn Bessette Kennedy), show creator, executive producer and writer Connor Hines, executive producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, costume designer Rudy Mance and production designer Alex DiGerlando.

"John and Carolyn | Love, Beauty and Loss" is produced by ABC News Studios. David Sloan is senior executive producer, and Muriel Pearson is executive producer.

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ABC News Studios is inspired by ABC News' trusted reporting and is an award-winning, premium news and documentary original production house and commissioning partner of series and specials. ABC News Studios champions untold and authentic stories driving the cultural zeitgeist, spanning true crime, investigations, pop culture and news-adjacent stories. ABC News Studios' original titles include critically acclaimed documentaries "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields," "BRATS," "The Lady Bird Diaries," Emmy(R)-winning "Patrice: The Movie," "Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything" and most recently "Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery - The Untold Story." Other popular docuseries, documentaries and specials include "Scamanda," "The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer," "Betrayal: Under His Eye," "Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg?," "Mr. and Mrs. Murder" and "Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari" and "Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey - A Diane Sawyer Special."