This story is a collaboration with PopularMechanics.com.Almost 27 years ago, the United States mourned the tragic death of John F. Kennedy Jr., who died with his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, in a plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1999. The accident is still a subject of morbid curiosity, as the new Ryan Murphy-produced FX series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette examines the titular couple’s romance and the events preceding their deaths. Although he chose to focus on a career in publishing instead of following directly in the footsteps of his father, President John F. Kennedy, and his uncles, Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, many Americans still saw JFK Jr. as a future political leader and considered him “the closest thing to homegrown royalty.” In the aftermath of the plane crash, people flocked to conspiracy theories to explain JFK Jr.’s untimely death.…