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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,000 They escaped 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000 famine and death in Ireland 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 to begin a new life in Boston, Massachusetts. 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:21,000 A life of wealth, privilege, and power. 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 My fellow citizens of the world... 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,000 From Irish peasantry 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 to American royalty... 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,000 These are the Kennedys. 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Their relationships with each other 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,000 have impacted both america and the world. 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 With triumph and glory 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 comes scandal... 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,000 And tragedy. 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Something has happened here. 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 From one generation to the next - 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,000 the Kennedys are more than a family. 17 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,000 They are the great American dynasty. 18 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 America's new ambassador to britain, 19 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Joseph p. Kennedy, 20 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 faces a battery of cameras and cameramen 21 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,000 as he's about to depart for St. James' court. 22 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 When president Roosevelt 23 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 sends Joseph p. Kennedy in 1938 across the Atlantic 24 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 to be the ambassador to the United Kingdom, 25 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 he was a star, a celebrity. 26 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 He had run a studio in Hollywood, 27 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 and he was already a success in business and politics. 28 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 He was among the top twenty richest men in america. 29 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,000 It was big news. 30 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 The rise of Joseph Kennedy 31 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 is as remarkable 32 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 as it is seemingly unstoppable. 33 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Joe Kennedy came from an Irish family 34 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,000 and they worked their way from the bottom to the top. 35 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 They were outsiders. 36 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 His grandparents came 37 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 during the great potato famine of the 1840s to Boston. 38 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 So, the family is just two generations removed 39 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 from the peasantry of Ireland. 40 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Mr. Joseph Kennedy, 41 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,000 the American ambassador, 42 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 left for Buckingham Palace 43 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,000 to present his credentials to the king. 44 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Having an Irish catholic 45 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 in that job 46 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 it was just like the perfect victory 47 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 in the struggle of my grandfather 48 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 to feel accepted. 49 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 And as for me, I'm delighted to be here. 50 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 You cannot underestimate 51 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Joseph Kennedy's ambition in 1938. 52 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 My grandfather had 53 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,000 ambitions, right, to be president himself. 54 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 And what do you think 55 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 he finds all england interested in? 56 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 What about the family Mr. Kennedy? 57 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Joseph and Rose Kennedy 58 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 have nine children. 59 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,000 From the oldest, Joseph junior... 60 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 To the youngest, Ted. 61 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,000 The Kennedys 62 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 aren't just any family - 63 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 they're a family on a mission. 64 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Kennedys to the left of him, 65 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Kennedys to the right of him 66 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,000 so england's cameramen work overtime 67 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,000 to picture america's new ambassador to britain 68 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 with his nine children. 69 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 They lined up 70 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 before the newsreel cameras... 71 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,000 With him come Joseph Jr. 72 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Aged 22, and John aged 21. 73 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Smiled... 74 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Everybody had something to say. 75 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 This is my first trip to Europe and I'm very excited. 76 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 I couldn't even sleep last night. 77 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 There's all these quotes 78 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 from newspapers saying 79 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,000 'got eleven ambassadors 80 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 for the price of one' or something. 81 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Pets corner at the London zoo 82 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000 is opened by the masters Kennedy 83 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000 who quickly get on sympathetic terms 84 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,000 with the animals. 85 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,000 So, the whole family 86 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 was accepted with a lot of buzz. 87 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 The Kennedys understand 88 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 before any other American family 89 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,000 the role of glamor. 90 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 And until now, glamor is something 91 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 that's really the province of Hollywood. 92 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,000 The Kennedys pull it over 93 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:51,000 into the province of politics 94 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 really for the first time in a modern way 95 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 and as a result 96 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 everybody is in love with this family. 97 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,000 The Kennedy family 98 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 really represented america on the rise. 99 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 An immigrant country, 100 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 where anybody could get ahead 101 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,000 if they were smart enough, 102 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,000 if they were ambitious enough - 103 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 people would look at the Kennedys 104 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 and they would see the American dream. 105 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 There's a moment 106 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,000 when Joe and Rose, his beautiful wife, 107 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 are at windsor castle with the king and queen 108 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 and Joe says 109 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 'Rose, we've come a hell of a long way from east Boston'. 110 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Joseph Kennedy grew up in a Boston 111 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 in which protestant patricians 112 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 looked down on the Irish. 113 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000 So, he was constantly 114 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 fighting those prejudices, aware of those prejudices. 115 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Our family were immigrants, 116 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 and my grandmother used to tell stories 117 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 about how she would pass signs as a little girl, 118 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 saying, 'no Irish need apply.' 119 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:54,000 and you should never underestimate 120 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 the 'I'll show you' motive in history. 121 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Joe Kennedy's insecurity 122 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,000 about being an Irish catholic 123 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 fed his drive and his ambition, 124 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 and he was going to prove to people 125 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 that he was as good as they thought that he wasn't. 126 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Joe was 127 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 a marvelous, a master businessman, 128 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 dealmaker, stock manipulator. 129 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 My mother, in honor of his birthday, 130 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 made this wonderful flag of a bear, 131 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 because he was the bear of wall street. 132 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 He shorted wall street, you know. 133 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 He was such a force. 134 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 He's a rogue, he's a little dodgy. 135 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Cut! 136 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 He's a bit of a bad boy 137 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 and he's terrifically successful. 138 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Cut! 139 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Joseph Kennedy tells his children, 140 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 and tells Rose, over and over, and over again, 141 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 'i am making all this money, 142 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,000 'so my children don't have to, 143 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,000 so, my boys and my girls can go into public service.' 144 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 thank you very much for asking me to speak. 145 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy 146 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,000 is an astute matriarch 147 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 and equally as ambitious for her children. 148 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Rose Kennedy 149 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,000 had an extraordinarily-refined political mind, 150 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 which is not surprising. 151 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 She came from a political family 152 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 and her father was the mayor of Boston. 153 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 You want me to talk? 154 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Where do I... I talk in here? 155 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 The dinner table 156 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 was always as much about current events 157 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,000 as it was about food. 158 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 They had to be able to explain 159 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 what was going on in the world 160 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 and they had to be able to do it in an articulate way. 161 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 I kid you not, 162 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 my grandmother Rose would have famous quotations 163 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 pinned to her sweaters, 164 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 and if the conversation ever lagged, 165 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,000 she'd start memorizing her famous quotations 166 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 because she said, "you never know. 167 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 "Somebody might ask to give you a speech, 168 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,000 and you'd have to say something appropriate." 169 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Rose Kennedy is deeply religious, 170 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 they are one of the most prominent catholic families, 171 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 they go to the pope's coronation, 172 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 most of that is coming from Rose. 173 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 She trained her children 174 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 how to be good catholics 175 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,000 and she trained her sons to be leaders, 176 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,000 her daughters to raise lots of catholic children. 177 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Joe Kennedy was phenomenally ambitious 178 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,000 to be rich. 179 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 He'd achieved that. 180 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 He has a beautiful family. 181 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 And he's america's representative 182 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 to the court of St. James. 183 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 But he wanted to be president of the United States. 184 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 As war clouds gather over Europe, 185 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 a shadow is cast 186 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,000 over Joseph p. Kennedy's dreams. 187 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 What's clear, 188 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000 is that Joseph p. Kennedy 189 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,000 ends up on the wrong side of history, 190 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 in a dramatic way... 191 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,000 I've been asked 192 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 by the newspapermen this afternoon 193 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,000 what the chances were of appeasement. 194 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 I said I didn't know what they were. 195 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,000 But they certainly were worth trying. 196 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,000 As america's ambassador in London, 197 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Joseph Kennedy is desperate to prevent war 198 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,000 between Great Britain and Nazi Germany. 199 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 He's concerned that if the British go to war 200 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 the United States will go to war. 201 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:35,000 He believes that war is ruinous to a country's finances. 202 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Joe Kennedy talked about 203 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 how the best role for america was to remain neutral 204 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 and the best role in terms of the Nazis 205 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 was to appease them, work with them 206 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 and somehow not have to go to war against them. 207 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 He believed 208 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 that he could make a deal with Hitler 209 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,000 and that Hitler was a rational politician 210 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 and statesman. 211 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 And in this he was very, very, very wrong. 212 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 He never saw 213 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,000 the moral challenge that Hitler posed. 214 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,000 I have to tell you now; 215 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 this country is at war with Germany. 216 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Once war broke out, 217 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 ambassador Kennedy wailed, 'it's the end of everything!' 218 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Kennedy is convinced 219 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 the Hitler war machine is unstoppable. 220 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,000 England will simply be devoured. 221 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Almost as soon as britain goes to war, 222 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Joe decides 223 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 that he's going to send the children home. 224 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 The US liner Washington brings home 225 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,000 the biggest group of refugees. 226 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Among returning notables 227 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,000 are Mrs. Joseph p. Kennedy and children. 228 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 My wife and I 229 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,000 have given nine hostages to fortune. 230 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Our children and your children 231 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000 are more important 232 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,000 than anything else in the world. 233 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Joseph is called a coward 234 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,000 for his decision to send his family home. 235 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,000 For his opposition to the war, 236 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 he is branded a Nazi sympathizer. 237 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Roosevelt privately called Kennedy a fascist. 238 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Once britain was in war, 239 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:19,000 fighting back 240 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000 and Joe was still trying to appease, 241 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,000 he was too outspoken 242 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,000 and he was called back to Washington. 243 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 President Roosevelt did not want to appease, 244 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Roosevelt wanted to fight. 245 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 And the last thing that fdr needed 246 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 was an appeaser as ambassador to Great Britain. 247 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 I've nothing to say until I've seen the president. 248 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000 So, he was finished. 249 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Joseph Kennedy 250 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 goes from being a legitimate powerbroker 251 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 in the United States, 252 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 and a player in international politics, 253 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 to being a pariah. 254 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000 When he crashed and burned 255 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 as ambassador to Great Britain, 256 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000 that not only cost him his job, 257 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,000 it cost him his notion 258 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 that he could become president 259 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 and almost from the moment he realized 260 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 that he couldn't do it, 261 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 the aspiration was his kids would do it. 262 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Joseph passes his ambitions 263 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 on to Joe junior, 264 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Kathleen - known as kick - 265 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000 and Jack. 266 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,000 He calls them his "golden trio." 267 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,000 His eldest son, Joe junior, 268 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,000 was not only handsome but also athletically gifted, 269 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 he was the heir apparent. 270 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Joe junior's father and mother believed 271 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 that he would be the one 272 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,000 to carry the standard for the family. 273 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000 His younger son Jack 274 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,000 is overshadowed by Joe junior 275 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,000 in his father's mind, 276 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 but I think having a bit lower expectation 277 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 gave Jack a chance to be himself. 278 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 It gave him a kind of freedom to be a kid 279 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000 in a way that I think would have been tougher 280 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 for Joe junior. 281 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Jack and Kathleen were the closest, 282 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 they were both trouble makers. 283 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,000 They were both fun, 284 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,000 mischievous, 285 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,000 and they had each other's backs. 286 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 She was very popular among boys 287 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 and it was because she was vivacious 288 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 and she was charming and she was funny. 289 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,000 She spoke back and she had opinions 290 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 and she did sort of stand out. 291 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 As america enters the war, 292 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Joseph seizes an opportunity 293 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 to restore the Kennedy name. 294 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Once the United States was in war, 295 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 he was smart enough to know there was no stopping them, 296 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000 they were going to go in. 297 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 That was the patriotic thing to do. 298 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Sure enough Joe Kennedy helped them. 299 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Air cadet Joseph p Kennedy junior 300 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 reports for preliminary training... 301 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Joe Kennedy was the oldest son 302 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 and therefore the most beholden to please dad. 303 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 And Joe Kennedy wanted Joe junior 304 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,000 to be president of the United States. 305 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Now it is a front seat 306 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,000 in america's defense for a young man 307 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 who saw what happened over there. 308 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,000 Unlike Joe, Jack was not dutiful, 309 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,000 he had a little bit of a rebellious streak, 310 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 gallivanting around, chasing girls. 311 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 He was also sick a lot. 312 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,000 When Jack is two years old 313 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,000 he contracts Scarlet fever 314 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,000 and he is basically sick for the rest of his life: 315 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Fallen arches, bad knees, chronic colds. 316 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,000 You name it, he had it. 317 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Jack gets an office job 318 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 in the Navy intelligence service 319 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,000 because Jack is disabled 320 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,000 in any number of ways. 321 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,000 It is during that office job 322 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,000 that he takes up with a woman. 323 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,000 She's a Danish journalist 324 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,000 called inga arvad. 325 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 They have this very intense affair 326 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,000 and the problem was that the FBI 327 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,000 were recording some of these romantic sessions. 328 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Inga arvad was a great beauty, 329 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,000 but she was allegedly a German spy 330 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 and that made it a bit awkward. 331 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Jack Kennedy is in naval intelligence. 332 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Is Nazi intelligence trying to take advantage 333 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000 of the Kennedys to learn secrets? 334 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 The FBI decides to let Joseph Kennedy know 335 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,000 what Jack was up to with inga arvad. 336 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 He thought that, 337 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 in his son's best interests 338 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 it was important for him to go to a war zone, 339 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 to wind this thing up. 340 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Realizing Jack's womanizing 341 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,000 could further damage the family name, 342 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Joseph intervenes 343 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 to get him posted to the south pacific. 344 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,000 With Joe junior training as a bomber pilot, 345 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,000 two of his "golden trio" are now in the line of fire. 346 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Joe and Rose raised their children 347 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,000 with the sense that they were superhuman, 348 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 invulnerable, golden children. 349 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 And they felt that nothing was ever 350 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 going to happen to them. 351 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 But the Kennedys 352 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 are harboring a painful family secret. 353 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,000 From a young age, 354 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Rosemary, the eldest Kennedy daughter, 355 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,000 was a bit slow. 356 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,000 She was diagnosed 357 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,000 with a learning disability 358 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 at the age of about six or seven. 359 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000 It's the moment when 360 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 as a debutante she is presented at court, 361 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 and this year that thrill was experienced 362 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,000 by miss Rosemary Kennedy, 363 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,000 daughter of the American ambassador. 364 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Her mother decides 365 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 that she should have time at home with tutors 366 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 to help teach her how try to keep up 367 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 with the other children in a way that's very modern. 368 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,000 The standard practice 369 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 was that they would be sent to an institution. 370 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 And grandpa and grandma said, we're not going to do that, 371 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,000 we're going to keep Rosemary at home, 372 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,000 we're going to raise her with her other siblings. 373 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 As she hit puberty, 374 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Rosemary goes to being somebody 375 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 who is quite uncontrollable, 376 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 there are sexual urges... 377 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,000 And she is found with men. 378 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 She's so vulnerable. 379 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,000 It would be very easy for men to take advantage of her. 380 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Mr Kennedy, in particular, 381 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,000 was afraid she would get pregnant 382 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000 or she'd get a disease 383 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 and what were they to do. 384 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 They had tried together, 385 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 to find every conceivable cure 386 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 for Rosemary. 387 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,000 None of them worked. 388 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Joe Kennedy 389 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,000 read about this brand-new procedure 390 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,000 called the pre-frontal lobotomy. 391 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Only done on people 392 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,000 with the most serious physical and mental conditions. 393 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Never on somebody like Rosemary. 394 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Joe was convinced 395 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Rosemary's lobotomy would somehow fix things 396 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,000 and then miraculously she would become 397 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 a perfect Kennedy like all the other Kennedys. 398 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 In the Kennedy family, 399 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Joe made the serious decisions. 400 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,000 And Rose let him do that. 401 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,000 And so, 402 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 without consulting Rosemary's mother... 403 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Or Rosemary herself, 404 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 he decides that this is the procedure 405 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000 that she should have done. 406 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,000 The surgeon 407 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 gives the patient a local. 408 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:57,000 And then begins to cut into the prefrontal lobe. 409 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,000 The surgeon asks the patient to sing, 410 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,000 and the surgeon continues cutting 411 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 as long as the patient sings. 412 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Rosemary is a very dutiful daughter. 413 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,000 And she sings and she sings and she sings. 414 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 And when she stops singing, 415 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,000 she has the mental age of a five-year-old. 416 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 By the end of the procedure 417 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 she has basically lost the ability to talk 418 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 and it's, it's clear that this has gone terribly wrong. 419 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 And Rosemary is then institutionalized 420 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,000 from 1941 until she passes, in 2005. 421 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,000 I think that experience 422 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000 of having a sister 423 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,000 who suffered from intellectual disabilities, 424 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:59,000 ended up having a ripple effect 425 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:00,000 on our family 426 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:05,000 and years later my aunt eunice played a critical role 427 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,000 in recognizing the rights of people 428 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:12,000 who have intellectual disabilities. 429 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,000 This is the first tragedy 430 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 to befall the Kennedy family. 431 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Rose is overwhelmed 432 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 by what happened to their daughter. 433 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,000 But also overwhelmed 434 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,000 by the fact that her second son, Jack, 435 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,000 who is physically very weak, 436 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,000 enlists for what is probably 437 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:44,000 the most physically difficult job in the Navy. 438 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,000 He is in charge of pt-109, 439 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,000 which is a small patrol torpedo boat 440 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000 in the pacific theater. 441 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,000 The pt boat is a new type of craft 442 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,000 to carry torpedoes 443 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,000 to strike the enemy below the belt. 444 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Jack has a terrible, terrible back. 445 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,000 And to serve in a pt boat is only going 446 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 to exacerbate every problem that he's got. 447 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Jack Kennedy's pt boat 448 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 was on patrol 449 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 on a moonless dark night. 450 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 So, they don't see 451 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 this giant Japanese ship 452 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 coming straight at them. 453 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,000 It basically slices jfk's boat in half. 454 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Jack is thrown to the bulkhead 455 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 injuring his back. 456 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Two of his crew are gone, 457 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,000 and they are surrounded by burning in the water. 458 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Those back at the base 459 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 presume the worst. 460 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 They presume that there are no survivors 461 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,000 and they hold 462 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 a religious service, a mass, 463 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 for Kennedy and his crew. 464 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Joe Kennedy gets a telegram 465 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,000 that his son is missing and just sits on the news. 466 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,000 He doesn't tell his family. 467 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 He doesn't want to scare them. 468 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,000 When tragedy struck the Kennedy family, 469 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Joe senior didn't share it with other members, 470 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 like his wife, the mother of his children. 471 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,000 And so, he lives with this kind of private agony, 472 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 wondering whether his second son is dead. 473 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,000 His boat cut in half 474 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,000 by a Japanese destroyer in the south pacific, 475 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,000 26-year-old lieutenant John Fitzgerald Kennedy 476 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 is missing in action. 477 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Kennedy said, "I'm the skipper. 478 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,000 We're going to have to swim". 479 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,000 And they say, "but skipper, 480 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 it's miles to the nearest island." 481 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 One of his men is wounded 482 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,000 and Jack, this skinny little guy, 483 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,000 tows a man 484 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,000 much bigger for miles. 485 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 They swam for hours. 486 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,000 They found an island, 487 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,000 but this was Japanese-occupied territory. 488 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Two Solomon Islands natives 489 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,000 found them and said, "well, we will try to help you", 490 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 but they didn't speak very good English. 491 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 So, Kennedy took a coconut 492 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,000 and using his knife he writes out a message 493 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,000 that says "11 alive, native knows position, 494 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 need small boat, Kennedy". 495 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 The coconut reaches allied lines 496 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,000 and Kennedy and his crew are rescued. 497 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000 The point of pt-109 is, 498 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,000 it was not regarded by John F. Kennedy 499 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:23,000 or anyone in the vicinity of that combat zone 500 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 as any act of heroism. 501 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 It was a disaster. 502 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Jack should have been court-martialed 503 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 because he allowed his boat 504 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. 505 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Joseph Kennedy sees an opportunity 506 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 to turn disaster into triumph. 507 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Joe Kennedy was still politically connected 508 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 and immediately intervened, 509 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 and it was only through 510 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 a carefully managed investigation, 511 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Joe Kennedy was overseeing it, 512 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000 making sure that the story came out right, 513 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,000 that it became this great, you know, 514 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,000 heroic myth of, of jfk saving his crew. 515 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,000 Warner brothers 516 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,000 bring to the screen, 517 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000 one of the most important adventures ever filmed. 518 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,000 It became a book 519 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 and, years later, a movie. 520 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,000 It was a certification of leadership, 521 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000 it was a certification of courage, 522 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,000 and it became central to the story of Jack Kennedy. 523 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000 The young man I play is a fellow from Boston, 524 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,000 his name - lieutenant John F. Kennedy. 525 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Jack Kennedy 526 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000 becomes the military hero, 527 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 the kind of selfless man. 528 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000 And it's an important part 529 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 of this narrative that's being crafted around him. 530 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Joe junior is jealous. 531 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000 His little brother is a hero and Joe junior is not. 532 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000 It was extremely difficult for Joe Jr. 533 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 He'd always been 534 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 the oldest brother, the golden boy. 535 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,000 There's a banquet for Jack in Boston, 536 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000 and afterwards Joe came home and wept 537 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000 and said, "I'll show them." 538 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 And so came that early April morning 539 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 for a final inspection, 540 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000 they trained long and hard for these ships. 541 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 You're on your way, Joe. 542 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,000 This is it. 543 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Joe junior leaves 544 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000 to join the allies in Europe, 545 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,000 seizing his opportunity to be a Kennedy hero. 546 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,000 Whether you were British or American, 547 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000 the ultimate in being the dashing war hero 548 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,000 was being a pilot, 549 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,000 and that's what Joe did 550 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,000 and took on the scariest of missions 551 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,000 which was flying a liberator bomber 552 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,000 going after the greatest threat to the western alliance 553 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 which was German u-boats. 554 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Kick also joins the war effort, 555 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,000 volunteering for the American red cross in england. 556 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Kathleen Kennedy was a charming girl 557 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,000 who wowed the boys 558 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 and met one of the richest 559 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,000 and most socially prestigious, 560 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000 the oldest son of the Duke of Devonshire. 561 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000 He was London's most eligible bachelor, 562 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,000 he was heir to the Chatsworth estate. 563 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000 He was a catch. 564 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,000 Duty calls from lovely Chatsworth, 565 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000 seat of the ducal Devonshire. 566 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,000 One would think that Joe and Rose 567 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000 would be completely thrilled 568 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,000 that their daughter had risen to these dizzying heights, 569 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,000 but unfortunately Billy was suitable 570 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000 in every way except for one, 571 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,000 he wasn't Roman catholic. 572 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,000 There is a complex of feelings, 573 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Joseph Kennedy saw her romance 574 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,000 as a sense that the Kennedys had arrived. 575 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,000 However, what's so interesting 576 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,000 is that Rose didn't share the same sense of success. 577 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,000 For her, kick's romance 578 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,000 threatened her sense of identity 579 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,000 and her sense of the family's identity. 580 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,000 Kick becomes the first 581 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000 of the Kennedy children to marry, 582 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,000 but the union is not blessed by her parents. 583 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,000 Her older brother Joe 584 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,000 is by her side on her wedding day 585 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,000 and no one else. 586 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000 They could have been married at Chatsworth 587 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,000 with a thousand guests, 588 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,000 but instead they were married in a registry office 589 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,000 in what she described as a squalid affair. 590 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000 In the summer of 1944, 591 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,000 the Kennedy family gathers at hyannis port 592 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000 on the coast of Massachusetts, 593 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,000 but Joe junior sends disappointing news. 594 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,000 His father and mother 595 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000 expected him home any day now. 596 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,000 And then in July they get this strange letter 597 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,000 and he says, "I'm part of a special mission. 598 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,000 "But don't worry, it's not dangerous. 599 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,000 See you in September." 600 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,000 Joe Kennedy's already flown his 25 missions, 601 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,000 he could go home. 602 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,000 But he volunteers for extra duty. 603 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,000 He's going to fly in a bomber stuffed with explosives 604 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,000 towards a secret German weapon on the French coast. 605 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000 He would set the fuse, 606 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,000 and then he would bail out of the plane, 607 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000 along with his co-pilot, over the English channel. 608 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,000 The plane would be set on remote, and it would attack 609 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,000 these super guns 610 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,000 that were being put in place by Hitler, 611 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000 on the coast of France 612 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000 and this was, in Joe Kennedy junior's mind, 613 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,000 the way to be a hero. 614 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,000 He said, "in case I don't come back, 615 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000 please tell my father I love him very much." 616 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,000 On August 13th, 1944, 617 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,000 the Kennedy family is home. 618 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,000 Bing Crosby is on the phonograph 619 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,000 singing 'I'll be seeing you.' 620 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,000 Joe junior isn't there. 621 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000 He's volunteered for a secret mission. 622 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000 Rose sees two priests 623 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,000 draw up to the family home. 624 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,000 They say, "we're here to speak to Mr. Kennedy", 625 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,000 and she says, "he's napping. 626 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,000 Would you like to come in, have some tea?" 627 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,000 And they say, "no, 628 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,000 we have some very bad news about Joe." 629 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,000 They go upstairs, 630 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000 they tell Joe the terrible news 631 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,000 that his beloved son has been killed in action. 632 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,000 Joe has to then come down 633 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,000 and tell the rest of the assembled clan 634 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,000 that Joe is dead. 635 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,000 He said, "there's no time for crying. 636 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,000 "We've got to get on with the living. 637 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000 Kennedys don't cry." 638 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,000 And Jack says, "he wouldn't want US 639 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,000 "sitting here crying over him. 640 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,000 We're going to go sailing." 641 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,000 And that's what they did. 642 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000 In Joe Kennedy's rage 643 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000 over the death of his son, 644 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,000 he blamed fdr. 645 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,000 He said, "that son of a bitch Roosevelt got my son killed." 646 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,000 Obviously an outrageous statement, 647 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,000 but it shows the depth of pain that Joe felt. 648 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,000 After his death, 649 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000 it was really jfk who had to step up 650 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000 and there was actually a moment 651 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000 where his father said, "okay, you're next..." 652 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Just after Joe junior died, 653 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,000 Jack said to one of his friends, 654 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,000 "I can feel my father's breath on my neck." 655 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,000 After the war, 656 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,000 Joe senior pressures Jack to launch his political career. 657 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000 Jack really wasn't ready 658 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,000 for the role that he was about to take on. 659 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,000 First of all, he was young. 660 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000 And second of all, all the attention up to that point 661 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,000 had been on grooming Joe. 662 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000 But the Kennedys always find a way 663 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000 to make their dreams come true. 664 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000 And for Joe Kennedy senior, in 1946, 665 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,000 his dream is to have Jack go to congress. 666 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,000 The problem is that there is no seat open 667 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000 to run for in Boston. 668 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,000 But there is one that's being held in the 11th district 669 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,000 by an infamous politician called James Michael curley. 670 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,000 And Joe buys him off, 671 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,000 by retiring his debts and other favors, 672 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,000 and makes him go away 673 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,000 and run for mayor, opening the seat for Jack. 674 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000 And Jack suddenly finds himself 675 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000 out walking the streets, 676 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,000 shaking hands, kissing babies, 677 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,000 having to learn to be a politician. 678 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000 From dawn to dusk Kennedy worked. 679 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:10,000 He began the day at factories at six in the morning 680 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,000 and he kept going 681 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000 with meeting after meeting after meeting 682 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,000 'til late at night 683 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,000 when he would collapse 684 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000 into the bathtub first 685 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000 to ease the pain in his back. 686 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000 Joe Kennedy is smart enough to know 687 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,000 that his profile is not good. 688 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000 He was an appeaser. 689 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000 He knows he needs to stay in the shadows, 690 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000 in the background. 691 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000 But, Joe has the money. 692 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000 So, Joe provides the funds 693 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000 to make Jack's career possible. 694 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000 Reader's digest featured John Kennedy 695 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,000 as a hero from the pacific war. 696 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,000 His father saw to it 697 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,000 that this was given maximum publicity. 698 00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,000 I think a hundred thousand copies 699 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,000 of the reader's digest article were purchased 700 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,000 by Joe Kennedy senior to help campaign. 701 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,000 The father later said, 702 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000 "for the amount of money I spent on that campaign, 703 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,000 I could have elected my chauffeur." 704 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,000 That standing of being a war hero 705 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000 is something they know how to make very good use of. 706 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000 Joe Kennedy's money absolutely helps, 707 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000 but it's pt-109, 708 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000 plus the family's energy, 709 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000 plus the family's political contacts 710 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000 that prove to be 711 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000 a winning combination in 1946. 712 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,000 Jack Kennedy was elected 713 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,000 to the house of representatives. 714 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,000 But Jack's exertions 715 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,000 on the campaign trail take a heavy toll. 716 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,000 He gets sick 717 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,000 and doctors determine that he has Addison's disease 718 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,000 which leads to a weak immune system, 719 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,000 making him susceptible to diseases, and infections. 720 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000 At first, the doctors think 721 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000 that Jack is going to die young, 722 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,000 but they're developing treatments at this time, 723 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,000 that can effectively keep Jack alive. 724 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000 The family don't want Jack's illness 725 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,000 to become an open story. 726 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000 So, in fact the story goes out to the press 727 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,000 that Jack's suffering from a recurring bout of malaria. 728 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000 At just 30 years old, 729 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000 Jack faces his own mortality. 730 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,000 He was a fatalist. 731 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,000 He talked about death a lot. 732 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,000 It didn't scare him, 733 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000 but he had this sense that it was going to happen, 734 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000 probably sooner rather than later. 735 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,000 And that certainly helped make him a young man in a hurry. 736 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,000 Joseph p. Kennedy 737 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,000 had predicted 738 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,000 that the best and the brightest 739 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,000 of his children's generation 740 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,000 would die in a war 741 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000 and now this had happened, 742 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000 not only to Joe junior 743 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,000 but to kick's beloved husband. 744 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,000 Kick had defied her family 745 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,000 to marry the love of her life, Billy hartington, 746 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,000 only to lose him. 747 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000 The heir to the Chatsworth estate 748 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000 was killed by a German sniper. 749 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,000 The timing was brutal, 750 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,000 they had only weeks together as a married couple 751 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000 before he left 752 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000 and to be widowed so young 753 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000 was devastating. 754 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,000 I think Rose Kennedy 755 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,000 was very sad about that for Kathleen 756 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,000 but there had been terrible problems in the family 757 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,000 over that marriage 758 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,000 because Billy hartington was protestant. 759 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,000 And she must have a feeling 760 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,000 that Kathleen could come back to the United States 761 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,000 and back into the church with full membership. 762 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000 Rose prays that this would be 763 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,000 the saving grace for Kathleen. 764 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000 But after Billy's death, 765 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,000 kick decides to stay in england. 766 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000 England's in her blood. 767 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,000 Kick at this time 768 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,000 is seriously considering a career in politics, 769 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,000 and becoming a member of parliament. 770 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,000 She's very politically engaged at this point 771 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,000 and then in just a few years 772 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,000 all of that just comes to an end. 773 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,000 In 1948, Kathleen tells her parents 774 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,000 that she's fallen in love a second time 775 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,000 with a British nobleman, an anglican, 776 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000 who is married and has a child. 777 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,000 And she tells her parents that as soon as 778 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000 Peter Fitzwilliam's divorce is final, 779 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,000 that she will marry him. 780 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000 Peter Fitzwilliam 781 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000 was a bad boy. 782 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,000 He was into gambling, 783 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,000 he was into horse races, into women. 784 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,000 He was protestant, and he was married. 785 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,000 To be involved with somebody like Peter Fitzwilliam 786 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,000 was the ultimate sin in Rose's eyes. 787 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,000 Rose says kick will be marrying a divorced man 788 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,000 which will mean that it's not a valid marriage 789 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,000 in the eyes of the catholic church 790 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000 and so she has to tell her beloved daughter 791 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000 that she must disown her 792 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,000 if she goes through with the marriage. 793 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,000 She really genuinely believed 794 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,000 that her daughter's soul would go to hell. 795 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,000 I think it was clear to kick 796 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,000 that there were no chances 797 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,000 getting her mother's approval 798 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,000 but she believed there was some margin with her dad. 799 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000 Her father is coming over to Paris 800 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,000 on business in 1948. 801 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,000 And she makes an arrangement with him 802 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,000 that she and Peter Fitzwilliam will come meet him 803 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,000 and Kathleen's hope is that he will then 804 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,000 give his blessing to the marriage. 805 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,000 Before though, they have their meeting, 806 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,000 Kathleen and Peter decide that they will take 807 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000 a mini holiday in the south of France 808 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,000 in the riviera. 809 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,000 Fitzwilliam and kick 810 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,000 decide to fly down. 811 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000 The weather is terrible, 812 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000 the pilot says, "we can't go, it's too dangerous." 813 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000 But Fitzwilliam is a very reckless man 814 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000 and he insists that they fly. 815 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,000 A terrible thunderstorm strikes 816 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000 and they crash into a mountainside, 817 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,000 in the rhone valley. 818 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:39,000 The pilot, the co-pilot, kick, and her fiancÚ 819 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,000 are all lost. 820 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,000 Joe Kennedy never sees his daughter again, 821 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000 except in a casket. 822 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,000 Jack learns that his beloved sister 'kick' 823 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,000 has died in France. 824 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Jack Kennedy is a man who doesn't cry, 825 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000 who rarely shows emotions. 826 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,000 But that day Jack Kennedy breaks down. 827 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,000 Jack is totally debilitated by grief 828 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000 and he is supposed to organize family 829 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,000 to go to the funeral, 830 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,000 which is going to be held in england. 831 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000 But, but he can't do it. 832 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,000 He got in a car to go to the airport, 833 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,000 fly to her funeral, 834 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,000 and didn't get on the plane. 835 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000 Joe was informed, 836 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,000 and was the only family member 837 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,000 to show up at her funeral. 838 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,000 Rose called kick's death divine retribution. 839 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,000 My wife and I have given nine hostages to fortune. 840 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:54,000 Joe Kennedy had lost his oldest son Joe junior, 841 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000 he'd lost his older daughter Rosemary 842 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,000 to a botched lobotomy that had ended her life 843 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,000 as far as the family was concerned. 844 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:07,000 And beloved kick was gone too. 845 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000 There is, woven through the Kennedys, 846 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,000 a sense of doom, 847 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000 and by the late '40s, 848 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,000 only Jack remains of the golden trio. 849 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,000 The torch was passed to him. 850 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:28,000 His parents' ambitions were now his ambitions. 851 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000 The burden of taking the dynasty forward 852 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,000 was his burden. 853 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,000 This season 854 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,000 on American dynasties: The Kennedys... 855 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,000 You're never running against one Kennedy. 856 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,000 It's a full family affair. 857 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,000 We could see 858 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,000 a different world. 859 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000 Confident and unafraid we must labour on... 860 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,000 They've made a lot more enemies than friends 861 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,000 and some of those enemies are truly dangerous. 862 00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,000 With the Kennedys, 863 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,000 it's always tragedy and triumph mixed together. 61851

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