- FILE PHOTO AUGUST 1962 - John Kennedy Jr. plays with his mother Jacqueline Kennedy's string of false pearls in this 1962 White House handout file photo. [A small plane carrying Kennedy, son of the assassinated president, has gone missing off the coast of Long Island and the U.S. Coast Guard has begun a search, television broadcaster MSNBC and CBS radio reported. Kennedy was on the private plane with at least three friends on his way to a wedding in Massachusetts. ] (B&W ONLY) REUTERS/ White House Photo by Cecil Stoughton/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum/Handout via Reuters