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- We want Bobby!
- We want Bobby! We want Bobby!

We're here
at the Ambassador Hotel,

Los Angeles, California,
awaiting the arrival

of Senator Robert Kennedy

who, we were told,
will shortly address

his triumphant supporters
here in the ballroom.

- We want Bobby!
- We want Bobby!

We want Bobby! We want Bobby!

Bringing back
memories of the glory

that became known as Camelot,
Senator Kennedy tonight has won

the California primary.
A giant step

toward becoming
the Democratic Party's nominee

for president of the United
States. As in the past,

this was a campaign in which
almost the entire Kennedy family

took part, crisscrossing the
Golden State to insure victory.

- Senator Robert
Kennedy's brother

is here with his wife Joan.
Junior senator

from Massachusetts:
Edward M. Kennedy!

- Yes, of course.

Mrs. Kennedy,
I have Mrs. Kennedy.

- Grab yourself
a drink, Mary Jo.

Jackie, you've been watching?
David, put your sister down!

You're gonna
knock something over.

- Ethel, I'm so thrilled.

May I say hello to Bobby?

- We're going all the way,
kiddo. Nothing's gonna stop us.

- It'll be wonderful when
we're back in the White House.

- What do you mean, "we"?
It's our turn now.

- We are a great country
and a selfless country

and a compassionate country,
and I intend to make that

my basis for running over the
period of the next few months.

So it's my thanks
to all of you.

And now it's onto Chicago
and let's win there.

- State senator.

- We want Bobby!
- We want...

- Congratulations, Senator!

: Bobby!

- Someone, get that!

Bobby? Bobby?

I don't know! Oh, God!

Somebody, get a doctor!

Get a doctor!

- As long as we're here,

we should go to Hawaii
for a couple of days.

- I have nothing
to wear.

- Good.

- Senator, Bobby's been shot.

Here we are now.

This is the ballroom
in the Ambassador Hotel,

in Los Angeles, California.
Four doctors

- are working over him now.
- Blood on the floor.

There's blood
on the floor.

- Bobby!

Oh, God!

Prior to
the start of emergency surgery,

a spokesman here at
Good Samaritan Hospital said...

- Please turn that off.
- ...the senator's condition

is extremely serious.

- I don't want Caroline or John
to leave the apartment.

Please keep
the shades drawn.

Make sure they don't see
any newspapers or watch TV.

It's OK.

- Mommy.

- Hey.

- Are we going to
the aquarium tomorrow?

You promised.
- I'm sorry.

I have to go see
Uncle Bobby.

- Can you tell him
that I said hi, please?

- Kennedy residence.

It's Mr. Onassis.

- Ari...

it's so horrible.

- This can't be happening again.

- I'm... I'm about to get on

the flight to Los Angeles.

- Of course. Of course. Yes.

- The family will be
relying on you.

But please, Jackie,
rely on me.

- You're so good to me.

- We're praying for him

and for you,
my dear.

- Thank you, Ari.

- Very sorry for your loss.

- There were people here.

- What? Where?

- On the property.
Photographers.

I'm sorry. It's so late.

Thank you
for coming over.

- How are
the children doing?

- They're much more
resilient than we are.

Caroline loves
her new school.

I have a parents' night
next week.

That will be awkward.

- Jackie, I can
go with you if you...

need someone there.
It's no trouble.

- Bobby, I'm so grateful,

for everything.

- It's fine.

- No.

You have a family.

- You're my family.

We were gone last night

and then today. If you have
anything, you might...

- He's gonna be alright.

- What?

The doctors say
it'll never be more than this.

- No. If we pray hard enough...

- He'll never regain
consciousness.

- Then I'll
take him home.

- Ethel--
- I'll take him home!

I'll take care of him.

- You think that's what he'd
want? To be taken care of?

We both know
what needs to be done here.

- I won't give
the doctors permission

to turn off the machines.
- This is no life!

- I won't do it, Teddy.
If God wants to call him, then--

- We're standing in God's way!
- Then you do it!

- Fine.

- Yeah. There gonna be
some expenses...

- Let's just
wait for Jackie.

- I don't want her near him.

- Turn this way, please.
- Tell us if he's gonna make it.

- Jackie.

- I know. I know.

- Now I know
how you felt.

How do I do this?

I can't lose him, Jackie.

- You just lean on me.

Just like I leaned on you.

- No, you didn't.

You leaned on him.

He was the one you called
in the middle of the night.

He left his own children
to be with yours!

So don't say
that you leaned on me!

We had a talk
about you and him.

- Did you believe it?

- I trust him.

- And you have
every reason to.

But you have
to let him go.

- I can't.

- Out of love for him,

Ethel, you have
to let him go.

- Will you do it for me?

- Yes, of course.

Hail, Mary, full of grace.

The Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou
among women

And blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary,
mother of God,

pray for us sinners now

and at the hour
of our death.

- Amen. ♪♪♪

He's in heaven now.

He's happy.

Thank you, God,

for relieving him
of his earthly burdens...

...for receiving you.

And for all the other blessings
he bestowed upon us.

- "Thank you, God"?

Look what he's done.

How can any of this
be a blessing?

- Jackie.

- If there is a God,
he's a cruel God.

- My brother
need not be idealized

or enlarged in death

more than he was in life

to be remembered
simply as a good

and decent man

who saw wrong
and tried to right it,

saw suffering
and tried to heal it,

saw war and tried to stop it.

As he said many times,

in many part...

in many parts
of this nation

to those he touched

and those who sought
to touch him,

"Some men see things

"the way they are
and say, 'Why?'

"I dream things
that never were..."

...and say, 'Why not?'"

- Mommy? Mommy?

I'm hungry!

- Don't cry.
- Could we have breakfast?

- Just leave me alone.

- Come on.
We'll make it ourselves.

You mean
you didn't watch cartoons?!

- Well, we read them
in the papers.

When I was your age,
there was no television.

- How old are you?!

- Shhh!

I'll be right there.

Thank you
for seeing him every week.

He looks so forward to it.

- You're doing
an excellent job.

- Father...

...it's me
who needs the help.

It's all too much.

Is it wrong
to pray to die?

- If it's what
you really want...

- If it means
I'll be with Jack.

And Bobby.

But then I'd miss
my children growing up.

And they need me.

Oh, but I'm not
much use to them

in this condition.

- You can change your condition

with time, with faith!

- I'm not strong enough.

- You held your family together
when Jack died.

You held the country together.

You are strong enough.

- "President Nixon."

Hope you like the sound of it

'cause that's what
we're looking at come November,

Republicans in the White House,

if you don't pick up
what Bobby left off.

I run Chicago.
The convention's in my town.

I can make it happen.

Tell him, honey.
All he's gotta do

is snap his fingers
and the nomination's his.

- Mayor Daley, I--
- Picture it.

Ticker-tape parade
on State Street.
- They don't want me.

- 100 000 people
in Soldier Field!

- I may be up there,
but they'll be seeing Bobby.

- They'll take
what they can get.

Look, I know
it's tough,

but think
of the big picture.

You're the hope
of the party

and the country.

It's what Jack
would have wanted.

And Bobby and your dad.

It's what Kennedys do.

- Don't tell me
what we do.

- It's not right.

It's cruel of him
to even ask.

You're not ready.
You may never be ready.

But certainly not now.

Bobby's only been dead
two weeks.

Teddy!

Talk to me!

When do I get included
in all this?

- Daley says I'm the only hope
for the party.

We've already
got California,

and he says he can bring in
Illinois and Ohio.

We'll have New York
and the Northeast.

I can bring in
the unions,

the negroes
and the Jews,

everyone who would
have voted for Bobby.

- No.

I don't want you to run.

- But I have to.

Daley says I'm the only one who
can pull the country together.

- We owe the country nothing.
This is about the family.

- We're not like other families.

You and Dad always said
we had an obligation--

- Bobby fulfilled it.

And Jack.

Let it stay
buried with them.

- And I agree
with your mother.

- Oh! So it's
Bobby or no one?

- My God, Ted.
After what we've just

been through.

- You don't think
I can do it.

- That's not the point.

- Sure it is.
You don't like

the idea of anybody
replacing the saint!

- Least of all, ME!
- Teddy!

What I hate is
the idea of some idiot

with a gun killing
the last brother.

- Jack and Bobby's children

have no father.
Right now,

your obligation is to them
and to your own children.

It's the only obligation
that matters.

(crickets chirping)

- I got it. I got it.

Hi.

Where is everyone?

- Tonight is for us, alone.

- Where should we sit?
- Choose.

You have done
more grieving

than anyone
could bear.

Life is for living.

Let me give you
a new one.

Let me take you
to Skorpios.

I love you.

Marry me on my island.

I know you want
to say yes.

Great men know
what women want.

It's a gift from God.

Say yes.

Then I'll say it for you
in Greek.Nai.

Nai. Nai.

I love it
when you laugh.

I want to hear your laughter
in every room, in every house.

- What about the children?
- They will have

everything they need.
- What about your children?

- Hmm, they will come
around to the idea.

But the most important thing
is that your children

will have a mother
who is happy.

- Is it crowded in here?

: ♪♪ Let it be me ♪

♪ Who comes to hold you ♪

♪ When the world outside ♪

♪ Has been cold to you ♪

♪ Who set you free ♪

♪ Let it be me ♪

♪ Ooooh ♪

♪ I can make you smile ♪

♪ Yes, I understand you ♪

♪ I will comfort you ♪♪
- Can I wear 'em to school?

It will drive the nuns crazy.
- Hmm.

Here.

Margaret?

- man:

- Who is this?

- Who is this?

: Caroline, wait up!

- Don't go too far.
- Let them have fun.

- I want my children to be safe.
They're a target.

- But I'll take care of you.
I'll protect you all.

- New York is
my children's home.

- You have two homes.

Skorpios will be a paradise
for them and for you.

- And I've already lived
in a gilded cage.

I can't do it again.
- "Cage"?

What cage?

Sit with me.

You'll be free.
Free from fear.

I believe in the power of faith.

Faith brought us together,

and it's up to you to decide
if we stay that way.

Say yes.

You want to ask me something.

- Will you come to Hyannisport
and meet the Kennedys?

- To kiss rings, or asses?

- Both.

- If it's important to you,

I'll win them over.
I know they don't like me,

but I've dealt with presidents
and prime ministers and kings.

- But you've never
dealt with Rose.

- I'm gonna run, Dad.

I'll make you proud.

I'll get it
all back for us.

♪♪♪I'll get us back

to the White House.

I've decided not to run.

Actually, that decision
got made for me.

Nah, it's for the best.

But look at it this way, Annie:

we'll have
a lot more time together.

I'll, uh, see you soon.

I'm, uh...

not gonna run.

- Awww...

No White House for Teddy Bear.

Why don't you invite
Annie over for dinner.

We can all sit around the table.
- You're drunk.

- And you're a bastard.

- Hi, Rose.

- Hello, dear.

- This is Ari.

- I'm glad you could join us.

- Delighted.

A Greek bearing gifts.

- "Beware of Greeks
bearing gifts,"

Mr. Onassis.

- May I?
- Oh, this is quite unnecessary.

- But I insist.

- Quite unnecessary.

- Hut!

Oh no, no, no, no!

Here, go long!

- Ohh!

- Mustard...
A bit of ketchup on it.

You don't need
her approval.

You don't need it
from any of us.

- But I want it.

My family.

♪♪♪- Why do you care?

- I, uh, understand

you've been divorced.

We're Catholic;

divorce is not acceptable
in the Church.

Are you, uh,

close to your children?

- They are my life.

Of course, we have
our disagreements.

- Of course.

♪♪♪- You know why I'm here.

- You plan to marry our Jackie.

- There will
always be a place

in her heart
for your son.

That place is sacred.

I love her more
because of it.

And...

I'm willing to share.

- I don't remember

seeing her laugh like that
since Jack died.

- It's hard though.

- Would be harder if he were
young and handsome like Jack.

If Ari is
the one she wants,

then we have to,
all of us,

make him
feel welcome.

: I haven't seen Ethel.

- Oh, uh...

She, uh...
she has a migraine.

♪♪♪- So...

what is your answer?

Yes or no?

Nai i ochi?

If I have to wait
any longer,

you'll be too old!

- I like making you wait.

- I don't like waiting.

- Yes.
- Yes!

-Nai! Nai! Nai!
- laughing):Nai.

You would enjoy
sailing on my yacht.

I named her Christina
after my daughter.

- Oh, that would be
wonderful, but, um,

what would I do there
all by myself?

- I would be
with you, my dear!

- Ari.

- Careful, Mother.

- Hiya, kiddo.

- Glad you're
feeling better.

- I'm Ethel,
Bobby's wife.

- Ari.

- Who wants dessert, mhm?

- He's the man I'm going
to marry. For that alone,
he deserves your respect.

- What kind of respect
are you showing Jack?

- Jack wouldn't want me
to be alone.

I hope the same from you.
- I'm not the one who's leaving.

You said you'd always be here.

- I'm not leaving, Ethel;
I'm living!

I'm doing
what I have to do

for myself, for my children.
- You mean, what you want to do.

- Yeah! What I want to do.

I deserve it,
Ethel.

After everything I've been
through, you don't think
I deserve it?

- Then marry the Greek.
I hope it works out,

but you will never be
part of us anymore.

- Hi, Teddy.

- I'm sorry about Ethel.

- Ethel is just
being Ethel.

Teddy...

can I ask you
something?

- Anything.

- Ari wants to

give me a dowry, and...

I don't want to talk
to him about money.

Will you speak
to him for me?

Thank you.

- I just have
one question.

Do you love her?

- Of course.

But that's not
your question,

Teddy. Your question is

why would a man like me

who can have any woman
in the world,

why do I want her?

To the rest of the world,
she's unattainable,

out of reach,

but to me...

...there's no such thing.

- You'll never have
to worry again.

- Thank you, Teddy.

Why don't I make you
some coffee.

So will you go back
to the Senate this fall?

- What else would I do?

- Take some time

for you and Joan.

I think
she's in trouble.

- I've tried to get her
to stop drinking.

- But she gets
worse every day.

She feels alone.

She needs you.

- She told you that?

- Please help her.

- Please help her.

Nice shot!

- Thank you for bringing him
to see us.

I appreciate
the gesture.

I hope this doesn't mean
we'll be losing you.

- You're a part
of who I am,

and you always will be.

- Camelot.

This, uh,

opera singer

he has been involved
with, uh, Maria...

- Callas.

- Have you talked
to him about her?

- Don't worry.

It will all be OK.

Come visit.

- I will.

- Jackie!

Some suntan lotion
for Greece.

It'll keep you
looking young.

- Opaaa!

- Come on! Come on! Come on here
and dance. Come in here.

Come in here.

- She's evil.
He'll regret this.

- You hate Maria.
You hate Jackie.

- Her spirit's cursed
the Kennedys.

Sooner or later,
we'll suffer like they did.

Opa!

- Opa!
- Opa!

- Hey, it is my wedding today.

- The Christine.
Do you have a yacht?

No? It's so beautiful.

- What's this?
- Thought you'd be

over it by now.

The morning sickness.

- Teddy.
- Oh! There's gonna be a party.

A little thank you
for people who worked

on Bobby's campaign.
- Where?

- Chappaquiddic!

Paul and Joe set it up.

It's just burgers and beers
for a bunch of kids.

- Kids?
- It's nothing.

- You mean girls.

- What are you getting
so upset about?

- Well, I'll go with you then..

In your condition,
you need to rest.

- Ted...

You know what?

Just go.

- ♪♪ And love
Will steer the stars ♪

♪ This is the dawning
of the Age of Aquarius ♪

♪ Age of Aquarius ♪

- I should be getting back
to Edgartown.

- ♪ Aquarius ♪

- That's where you're staying?
- ♪ Aquarius ♪

- That's where I'm staying.

- ♪ Harmony and understanding ♪

♪ Sympathy and trust abounding ♪

- Ferry stops
running at midnight.

- ♪ Golden living dreams
of visions ♪

- ♪ Mystic crystal revelation ♪

- ♪ And the mind's
true liberation ♪♪

♪♪ I meddled with my heart ♪

♪ There's no one else ♪

♪ 'Cause my baby loves me ♪

- Do you know
where you're going?

- ♪ Oh yeah, oh yeah ♪
- Mhm.

- ♪ My baby loves me ♪
- Slow down,

there might be cops around.
- Oh, forget about

the cops!

- ♪ Is something wrong
with me ♪

♪ Who'd ever think
that she would ever leave ♪

- What are you doing
all the way over there?

Come here.
- ♪ My baby loves me, yeah ♪

♪ Yeah! My baby loves me ♪♪

- Mary Jo?

Mary Jo?

- Excuse me.
- Oh!

- Hey!

- Yeah?
- Is that all we got?

- These girls drink
more than we do.

- Well, we're gonna
need more!

- It's midnight.
Store's closed.

Teddy?
- What the hell happened?

: No!

- Left the girl
in the car?

- The currents.
There were currents.

Do you think
she came back here?

- Come on! ♪♪♪

- Mother of God,

pray for us sinners.

- Don't move!

Nothing!

- It's too murky. ♪♪♪

- Paul! Can't see a thing!

- Joey, did you... find her?

- It's pitch black, Teddy.

- Well, she got out,
didn't she?

I mean,
she could have gotten out.

- We would have seen her
on the road.

If she's in there,
she's dead.

- The windows
are closed.

Doors won't budge.
How did you get out?

- I don't know.
I don't know.

- Now, now, listen, listen.

You gotta go to the police
and file a report.

- What am I gonna do?

- I'm with you, kid.
Been through a lot of scrapes.

But you gotta
pull yourself together.

United States senator
for Christ's sake.

- When we get to Edgartown,
I'll go with him and make

the report.
You're his cousin.

If you're part of it, it'll look
like we're stacking the deck.

Go back to the cottage;
get rid of the girls.

After Teddy makes
the report--

- We can say
Mary Jo was driving.

She was driving,
and I fell asleep.

- Ted, for Christ's sake!

- She didn't know the roads,
and there were no lights!

- You're out
of your mind.

- Or we could say
she was alone!

- I was never near the car!
- I saw the two of you drive off, Ted!

- Well, here's a good idea:
don't tell anyone that!

- If they depose me,
I'm not gonna perjure myself.

- Well then, we'll tell them
you were driving the car.

You lost control--
- Not taking the rap for you!

- You owe us!
- I owe you?

- Who took in poor Joey
when your mother died?

And you wouldn't be a lawyer
if my father hadn't paid for it!

- You let go of me!
- Knock it off, will ya?

Knock it off!
That's all we need!

- Stop the car.
- What?

- Why?
- Stop the car!

- Teddy! Where are you going?

What the hell
are you doing, Teddy?

- Let him go!

Let's get back to the cottage;
we'll call it in.

- Nah.

What if our story
doesn't jibe with his?

We look guilty and run the risk
of getting disbarred?

Been covering for him
since we were kids.

He's on his own.

- Yes. Is this the front desk?

This is Senator Kennedy
from room 5.

Some idiot's been blasting
their radio down the hall

for the last three hours.

The Beatles, I don't know.

I've just been just lying here
trying to sleep

since 10 p.m.

Do something about it.

- Hello?

- Mrs. Kopechne?

- This is Senator Ted Kennedy.

I'm afraid I have bad news.

- No.

No!

- Mary Jo's... dead?
- What is it?

- She drowned.

She's afraid of it.

- She was...

- ...in a car
that drove over a bridge.

- She didn't have
a car up there.

- That's all the information

I have right now.
I'm terribly sorry.

- I've been watching TV
since dawn;

there's been nothing
on the radio or the newspapers.

What did you
tell the police?

You didn't go.
Ted, it's been nine hours!

Are you crazy?! You mo--
- Alright. Alright. OK. Alright.

- Who are you?

- It's me. It's...
it's Dun Gifford.

- What does he want?!
- Tell him.

- Paul called me.
I'm here to help.

We'll get coffee.
You'll tell Paul

exactly what happened.
He'll write it down,

and then we'll take it
to the police.

- Christina.
-Babas.

- Speak English
in front of my wife.

- Don't worry.

I won't spend
all of his money.

At least not today.

- Christina!

- I didn't get
the last part.

- She...

♪♪♪I think you are amazing.

Never mind!

Spanish?

- Mm-hmm.
- French?

And now you're
learning my language?

You're so much
smarter than me!

- Oh, Ari.

I wanted to surprise you
for your birthday.

: Mom!

- But after what she said,
I couldn't wait.

- I apologize
for my daughter.

I'm sorry.

: Look at me!

- Wow!

Good job!

Good job!

- Did you see that?
- I'll get you!

Come in the water
with me!

- I know you'll
recognize the writing.

It came
from Maria Callas.

She sent it
on our wedding day.

"One heart. One soul."

- You waited this long
to show me?

She has her life, in Paris.

We have ours, here.

- You have
given me so much,

and you've made me
want to live again,

but, Ari...

...I love you and respect you...

...but you don't have
the power to hurt me.

Jack did,

and he's the last man
who will.

- I understand.

: I got it!

- Watch her head.

- I got her there.

- Easy. Easy.

- Chief Arena.

DMV says the car is registered
to Senator Kennedy.

- Jesus!

- It's a bit on this side.
- Yeah, lift it.

- Ready to go.
- Alright. Nice and steady.

- OK. There,
you can go for it.

I'd like to start
pulling the line a little.

- It's a bit on this side.
- No sign of blunt trauma.

- Chief Arena?

Detective
George Killen.

- This is
a local matter.

- We were notified
an hour ago

as soon as DMV
got your request.

Young lady expires

in a vehicle owned
by the senator himself,

be surprised
how local it isn't.

- Let's take her in. Yeah.

- I came to the surface

and then I dove
back down in an effort

to see if the passenger
was still in the car.

I was unsuccessful.

- How many times?

How many times did you dive down
to see if she was in the car?

- You think I'm lying?

- I'm not saying you're lying;

I'm saying they're gonna
want to know how many times

you dove down to see
if she was in the car.

- Repeatedly!

- How many times
is "repeatedly"?

- Repeatedly is lots
and lots of times!

Many, many,
many times!

- Pardon me, sir. Dun Gifford.
I'm with Senator Kennedy.

It's a terrible tragedy.
Uh, I'm wondering

if you've figured out
cause of death yet.

- I'll be looking on your side.
- Thank you, sir.

- Pull on?
- Yeah, secure.

- Good?
- Yeah.

- I think we're good!

- Yeah. Let's go.

More torque!
That's it, that's it.

Starting to move.
- Some guy and his kid

on their bikes, they're the ones
who found the car.

- Chief Arena, I'm Dun Gifford
on behalf of Senator Kennedy.

It's an awful thing.
- You're his lawyer?

- Friend of the family.
- Detective George Killen,
Massachusetts State Police.

- Hello.
- Where's the senator?

We'll need a statement.
- He's on his way

to your office to deliver it.
- We're gonna need

more than a statement.
Problem with a coroner's autopsy

when there's an unintended death
in questionable circumstances.

- I know what
the Commonwealth requires.

- Circumstances seem
pretty obvious, don't they?

: To you maybe.

- Uh, your coroner,
Dr. Mills, says he believed

she drowned as a result of--
He's wrong.

- What makes you say that, John?
- She's not the first

body I've pulled out
of the water. She didn't drown.

- Can we go now?

- Gotta wait
'til Dun gets back.

And we get the hell out of here,
go back to Hyannisport.

Dun, what is it?

- Mary Jo didn't drown.

- What the hell
are you saying?

- She was alive
when you left.

According to the diver,
she may have been

alive for two hours.

If you'd reported it

when it happened,

she might
still be alive now.

- Oh, my God!

here was
an air pocket in the car.

Once the oxygen was gone,

here was
she asphyxiated.
- I could have saved her.

Where was she?!

- You were in shock.

Anybody would be.
You still are.

- What am I gonna do now?

- Dun, you said the coroner
called it a drowning.

- And signed the certificate.
If everybody goes along,

they could write Ted up
for leaving an accident scene.

But this State detective,
he's all about procedure.

- An autopsy?

- If it proves

she died
from asphyxiation...

...you could go to prison
for involuntary manslaughter.

- I... need
to make a call.

:I don't understand.

What did Teddy say?

- He says he needs me.

- That's all?
And you're running

back to them, even though
you don't know what for?

- They're my family.
- No!

I'm your family!
And I forbid you to go!

- You can't forbid me.
I won't allow it.

- Jackie, you wanted
to be safe!

You can only be safe
here with me!

Why do you want to go?
Whatever's happening

to the Kennedys
is their problem, not ours.

- You're rht.
It's not ours;

it's mine.

- So,

you're choosing them
over me.

- If that's a question,
the answer's no.

If that's a threat,

we have a lot more
to talk about.

- Don't go.

:Late last night,

a car driven
by Senator Edward M. Kennedy

drove off Dike Bridge
on the island of Chappaquiddick.

This morning, the body
of a 28-year-old woman...

...Mary Jo Kopechne, was found

in the vehicle. The body's...
- Hello?

-...been brought to
the Vineyard Haven Funeral Home.

Sources close to Edgartown
Police Chief Dominick Arena

have confirmed
that Senator Kennedy

managed to extricate himself
from the submerged car

and was able to reach shore
despite the swiftly
moving current.

- He's alive.
Teddy is alive.

- That was Joey Gargan.
They will be home soon.

-Once again, the Kennedys are
at the centre of controversy
and tragedy

leaving many to wonder
if there isn't

some type of curse
that hangs over

the most prominent
political family

in the United States.

- I-I want to talk
to the senator.

He called me--

Don't you tell me
he's unavailable.

My daughter died
in his car!

- We're getting
close to the gate.

- Senator!
- Yes, please move here.

- Senator!

- Get that camera away.

- We're through.

- I'm, uh,

OK, Mother.

I almost drowned,
but I'm OK.

I don't know
what you know,

what you've heard.

I just wanted--
- The Holy Mother lost her son.

I've lost three.

I, uh,

thank God for sparing you.

Why he did,
I don't know,

but he does nothing

without a purpose.

We need to pray to find out
what that purpose is.

- Please forgive me.

- You need his forgiveness

and your wife's.

- The funeral director was set
to embalm her. There was hardly

any water in her lungs. Now,
he's recommending an autopsy.

- And that State detective
is already on the warpath.

- They're gonna crucify Ted.
- Who was that?

- A buddy of mine
from the Associated Press.

- This is bigger than us.
- What do you mean?

- What I mean is we need to call
in Ted Sorensen, Bob McNamara.

- What are they gonna do
that we can't?

- The heaviest hitters we know.
- The point is we need to get

that body shipped and buried.
- This is getting out of hand.

I need to make a statement.
- You already made one

to the police!
- A public statement.

The longer we wait;
the more it looks like I'm
trying to evade responsibility.

- Teddy, you're not
thinking straight. If you make

a mistake now, the press
is gonna eat you alive.

- What's this all about?

- Welcome home, kiddo.
It never ends, does it?

- I probably
should have told you.

This whole thing's been...

I didn't think you'd come
if you knew.

But now you're here,

and everything's
gonna be OK.

We've always
counted on you,

and...

I'm really grateful
that you're here.

- Teddy, Jack would be
so disappointed.

- One question!
- Thank you.

- Get the shot.

The men of Camelot
are together again.

A milestone moment.

Former Defense Secretary
Robert McNamara

and speechwriter Ted Sorensen,

key figures
in President Kennedy's

administration, arriving
at the family compound

in Hyannisport to join
his chief of staff, David Burke,

and advising
Senator Edward Kennedy.

- Wear it
if you go out,

so the photographers see it.

- Anything Ted says
in public;

he's gotta be scripted,
he's still in a daze.

- This Coroner Mills,
what do we know about him?

- He doesn't drink,
gamble or carouse.

A paragon of virtue.
It happens.

- Killen, the State detective?
- Ambitious, political animal.

- Alright, boys.
Ham, turkey or Swiss.

I made it myself.

- How's Rose holding up?
We may need her.

- She's... Rose.

She's unbelievable.

- What about Joan?

Heard it was rocky between her
and Teddy even before this.

- Joanie is a doll,

but she's only sober
20 minutes a day.

You need somebody reliable.

I'll do it.

- Due respect, that'd only
bring up more questions.

And the fewer,
the better.

- We've had
more rain than usual.

More inches this month
than the averages too,

but I... I still

walk along the beach

every day.
Mile up, mile back.

- This must be
so hard for you.

- Jack

and

Bobby...

...brought honour
to the family.

And their brother Joe.

But this is...

What Teddy has done

is indefensible!

That poor girl
and her family.

- I'm just as angry at him
as you are.

- Why is he like this?

He's handsome,

wealthy,

he holds high office,
he has a beautiful wife and

healthy children.

God has given him
a charmed life and...

...he's squandering it.

I can't get him to change.

- I remember
something you told me

when I married Jack.

You said these men
have great gifts

and great flaws.

We can't change them;
all we can do is love them

because they are
who they are.

It's what saw me through.

It still does.

Why don't you
take a rest, hmm?

- If there's anything
this family is known for,

it is standing up
for one another.

And the American people
love your mother.

- Leave her out of it.
- She's the matriarch--

- I'm not getting her
involved in this!

She's been through enough.

There are other
Kennedy women.

- Joansie...

...have you seen Jackie?

- Without her,
you're finished.

- I'll get her
on board.

She's a team player.

I'm yo wife,
and you called Jackie first!

- I... I didn't want you
to find out on the phone!

- You've been home
since yesterday, and you still

haven't told me what happened!
- I wasn't sleeping

with Mary Jo!
- Teddy, you think I care?

- Joansie, I know I've hurt you.
- Oh, please.

- If apologizing
could erase this--
- We're so far past that.

- I've never needed you
more than I need you now!
Please, don't leave me!

This one last time!
- No! Don't!

- If I louse it up again,
if I hurt you again, you can go.

I'll give you
everything I have.

Please, Joansie.

Joansie, I--
- Stop.

Whatever you do...

don't say that you love me.

I know I've got
a problem.

Everyone thinks
it's Ted

and Scotch,

but it's me.

- I know how you feel.

- Yeah?

You've never had
a weak moment.

- Joan, of course I have.

- Was Ari upset
about you coming here?

- He understood.

- Ted wants me to go
to Mary Jo's funeral.

I'm worried about
the stress and everything.

With the baby.

- You don't owe it to him.

What he's put you through,

he's lucky you're still here.
- Yeah.

- But I think it would look bad
if you didn't go.

Years from now, it'll be
important to your children

to see that you were
there for him.

- Will you go with me?

- Joan, this is the last time
I'll be here.

I'm finished with this.

All of it.

- Stop kidding yourself.

Belonging to this family
is like being an addict.

They've got us, Jackie.

We're hooked

for the rest
of our lives.

- Joan.

- I'll go with you
to the funeral.

- You don't have to.
- I know.

But I--
- I took a terrible situation

and I made it worse.

I embarrassed my family.

I embarrassed you.

Joansie, I'm so sorry.

I'm gonna go on the air
and tell the truth.

I'll resign from the Senate.

I won't ever run
for president.

- No, Ted.

♪♪♪You'll carry on.

- But when Bobby died,

you were the one who told me
not to run for president.

- I know
what I told you then.

But God won't send us

a cross that's heavier
than we can bear.

You will find
his purpose

and you will
fulfill it.

You received
the gift of obligation

from your father,
and you have a memory

of your brothers
to sustain you.

This will not be the end.

I won't allow it.

- They took Mary Jo
back to the coroner's office.

The only reason

they do that is for the autopsy.
- We have to get the Kopechnes

working with us.
- It's risky.

If they think we're trying
to sway them, the whole
thing will backfire.

- If the parents oppose the
autopsy, that'll carry weight
with the coroner. It'll be--

- Ted already talked to them;
it didn't go well.

- Then we'll find somebody else.
- He said he won't involve Rose!

- And if it's not her, who?

- What if she asks me questions?

What if she wants details?

- This is not
the time for details;

this is a condolence call.
Just you and Mrs. Kopechne.

One mother consoling another.

- Hello?

Who is this?

- This is Joan Kennedy,
Ted's wife.

- Oh.

Mrs. Kennedy.

- I just...

I just wanted you
to know how

family...

I have a daughter too.

things we don't
understand about

- We've had tragedy
in our own family.

And as a mother,
I know how you feel.

but we're confused about--

Just know that our hearts
are with you.

Goodbye, Mrs. Kopechne.

- What did she say?

- Not a damn thing.

- Well done.

Thanks, Joansie.

Maybe you should
lie down

and have a little rest.

- That was nauseating.

- Absolutely not!
- Then why did you come here?

- Because... Teddy called.

Because it's what
Jack would have wanted.

But this is a tragedy,

and I'm not going
to make more

of a spectacle out of it
than it already is.

- Where is she going?

Jacks!

- To the airport, Mrs. Kennedy?

- It's Mrs. Onassis.

- Thank you,
Chief Arena.

The coroner refused
to change his mind

about the cause of death
so no autopsy.

- Oh, thank God.
- Mary Jo's body will be

embalmed, casketed and returned
to her parents in Pennsylvania.

- So what now?
- We position Ted

to return to the Senate.
We throw his career

into the hands of the people
in Massachusetts.

We have him
ask them to search

their consciences
as he's searching his.

- You mean, bring them
into the decision?

- Exactly.

- Hello?

Ted, it's Gifford.
He wants to talk to you.

- Hello?

Wait. What?

When?

- Teddy.

- He said the Kopechnes
are demanding an autopsy.

- It's too late.

The body's going to be embalmed.
- No, it isn't.

They had it stopped! They called
the State and had it stopped!

- What?!
- They think we've been lying

the entire time.
My call, Joan's.

They want to know
how their daughter died.

And they'll do
whatever it takes.

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