“We had a very nice dinner,” Martha continued, “and at the end of the dinner I said, ‘What are you doing this weekend?’ And he said, ‘We’re going to a wedding on Martha’s Vineyard and I’m taking my wife and her sister.'”
Of course, Martha had no way of knowing that then-38-year-old’s single-engine plane would crash into the Atlantic soon after takeoff, killing him, Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette. But she had a bad feeling about the trip, nonetheless.
“I said, ‘Who’s flying?’ He said, ‘I’m flying,'” Martha recounted. “I said, ‘You have a copilot, right?’ He said, ‘No, I don’t need a copilot.'”