>> jackie would say, i just fear that what happened to jack will happen with bobby. president kennedy had successfully steered america through perilous times. . but in battling organized crime, taking a stand on civil rights, and averting nuclear war the kennedy brothers have made many enemies. >> president kennedy was shot at 12:25. as catastrophic eves devastate the family, jackie is determined to shape jfk's legacy. a reluctant new leader emerges. >> robert kennedy. >> to keep the kennedy dream

alive. >> several thousand enthusiastic texans are on hand to give the

president and mrs. kennedy a warm welcome. >> in november 1963 president kennedy i arrives in dallas to campaign for reelection. >> he probably as he was coming down those steps felt pretty confident about his political prospects. >> his health is better. his marriage is better. he's a very confident leader. he's a person recognized as having enormous potential tr his second term. >> jackie was very happy to be with her husband during that trip to dallas. it was really the happiest time of their marriage. >> now turning off el m street and it will be a matter of minutes before he arrives. >> bobby kennedy is at home with his family and close can

colleagues. >> attorney general ken b day is in his backyard having lunch with robert morgan. >> we were having lunch by the pool with earth el. >> bobby had a quick swim in the pool. he's just getting out and changing into dry clothes. >> so then the phone rang. >> this is not just any phone. it is one of the hot lines to the white house. >> ethyl picked the phone up ask said it's jay edgar hoover. >> bobby's stomach starts to sink because he knows he doesn't call unless it's bad news. >> he slapped his hand to his mouth and said, jack has been

shot in dallas. >> there are people running up the hill. the presidential car coming up now. we know it's the presidential car. there's secret service spread eagle over the toch of the car. >> bobby decides immediately he has to go to dallas to be with his brother. but thn he gets another call. >> he came in and just said jack is dead. nothing else. >> from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official. president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern standard time. some 38 minutes ago.

>> jackie kennedy travels from the hospital to air force one to accompany her husband's body back to washington. lyndon johnson is waiting on the plane. >> jackie goes back to what had been her and jack's bedroom on air force one and splaed on the bed feet up on it is this big texan lyndon johnson. that made appearent to her that he would resent johnson that he had already taken over and that jackie was yesterday's first lady. >> eager to be sworn in, lbj calls attorney general bobby kennedy for the precise wording of the oath of office. >> he wants to seize the reigns of power and show the world that he's in charge. to bobby, this is hasty to the point of obscene. >> bobby kennedy as the blood is still cooling in his brother's

veins begins to recite those words he heard last on january 20, 1961. >> i do solemnly r swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> bobby's voice breaks down. it's too much for him. >> here is a picture of the swearing in of the 36th president of the united states lyndon b. johnson. >> president johnson wants jackie to stand next to him for his inauguration. she insists on wearing her bloodstained clothes. >> by putting jacqueline kennedy in that e photo, he's showing the continueuation of power and jfk's widow is standing there. but i think ultimately the image conveyed utter shock and grief.

>> meanwhile, bobby goes into some e emotional netherworld because e he realizes that everybody else may be falling apart, but e he has to hold it together. he calls sister and says start planning the funeral. he calls brother ted and says you will tell our parents what's just happened. >> so it comes to ted to have the most honous duty possible to tell the father that it president kennedy is dead. >> ted didn't want him to hear this from anybody else. they called rose, who had heard about it immediately. they told rose to unplug every television in the house. and they arrive and they told them. he started to cry.

>> joseph and rose have now lost three of their nine children. >> joe kennedy always focuses ambition on his children. you have to wonder if at some deep level he felt he himself is responsible in some way. by thrusting his children out into the world, the world has consumed them. >> my mother, i knew he went home and my father was under a cedar tree with the dogs. and we went over and hugged him and we were crying. and e he hugged us back and he said he had a great life. >> in an instant, bobby kennedy lost his brother, his best friend and his whole sense of professional meaning in life. >> bobby's always been.

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president kennedy is killed, bobby travels to meet jackie on the plane carrying his brother's body. >> bobby heads out to andrews air force base and e he finds a dark hanger and he's sitting there in the back of the truck where he thinks nobody is watch ing. it was in the one moment of trying to take it all in to understand what had happened. >> the plane lands at andrews and so as all the cameras are focused on the front, bobby maneuvers his way and calls out for jackie. they embrace and exit the plane together. >> behind the casket is mrs. jacqueline kennedy. to her right is her brother-in-law, the attorney general, robert kennedy. >> they get into the ambulance. jack alongside them in the box. and jackie begins to unburden herself of what bobby kennedy

called the full horror of what occurred in dallas. >> jackie thought in part she was to blame. she said i thought that first sound was the backfire of a motorcycle. if i had turned at the first sound, i could have pulled him into my lap and i would have saved him. >> she goes into stun ining detl and bobby would later say i didn't think about whether i wanted to hear it or not. he just listened. because that was part of his role. he was the only one who felt the losses deeply as she had and he was the one that she knew despite his reputation as being the ruthless kennedy he was the one with the biggest heart and the broadest shoulders for her to lean on. >> while comforting jackie, bobby struggles with his own guilt. >> there's no doubt in my mind that it bobby kennedy felt at some level that he was

responsible. >> bobby is afraid his various attempts to prosecute bad guys has in some horrible way blown back on his own family. >> you have castro. you have the kkk. you have potentially the soviet union. you have the mafia. the list of suspects was immense. >> bobby kennedy's calling around to try to find out what happened. he has spies everywhere and he has a spy in chicago who has contacts with the mafia boss to find out if he killed jfk. the answer is no. >> bobby even wanders if america's own intelligence agency is to blame. he calls the head of the cia john mccomb to see if the cia did it. he swears as a fellow catholic the cia is is innocent.

>> as bobby searches for the truth behind jack's assassination, jackie plans for her husband's state funeral. >> the body of the late president john f. kennedy now lies in repose in the east room of the white house. the cameras are being allowed in the in at mrs. kennedy's specific request. >> jacqueline kennedy wanted to make sure at the time and for all of history his death would have meaning. and wanted to show that her husband was a martyr. >> she wanted the white house to be exactly as it was after lincoln's assassination. so the chandeliers were draped. it was a feeling of intense mourning. >> jack's father confined to a wheelchair is at home.

>> he demanded that they go for a ride because he was going to go to the funeral in washington. they drove to the airport where the kennedy plane was kept. and when he saw that the plane was no longer there, he went back and he watched on television. >> funeral proceedings were conducted in open spaces with jackie walking with bobby and ted. secret service agent tried to convince her to not do a lot of what she wanted to do. considering the fact that her husband was just killed by a sniper, she was taking a risk. but she took it for the country. she knew the kind of closure that america needed. >> jacqueline kennedy had such

an eye for image and art and she used every bit of that talent to plan the president's funeral. she thought of the military touch of the riderless horse with the boots turned back ward in the stirrup to indicate that the leader has fallen. >> all of america was there with her. in fact, i think much of the world was there with her. it just seemed that something good had disappeared in our lives. it was almost as if people had to watch the funeral to believe it. >> there was this feeling of national mourning of a dream defer deferred. >> what jfk offered the country was a challenge and the possibility of a country on the move. for my whole generation really,

he was an inspirational and transformational figure. people modelled themselves after john f. kennedy at home and around the world. >> the courage that it took for jackie, i just don't think people really understand it. >> her brother told me she was on the verge of collapsing every single moment. >> john was only turning 3 on that very day. and jackie knew that when she finished with the state funeral she would that night give a birthday party for john, who couldn't quite understand what had happened. >> a gentle reminder from his mother and jihadi john sell brats his 3rd birthday with a soldier's farewell to his father.

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she tells him that those thousand days were camelot. >> she spenins this tale about e legend of this place that was known as camelot. that she believed was perfectly suited to representing the kennedy administration. the kennedys were human like the rest of us, but jackie wanted the family to be seen as epic and royal and heroic. that's what camelot did. >> two weeks later, the article is published. >> jackie oversaw every word of it. she thoroughly edited it and camelot continues to be the defining word for the kennedy presidency. >> jackie is forced to leave behind a white house she'd worked so hard to restore and

make way for president johnson and his family. >> jackie lived in georgetown for a period of time after the assassination, but it was difficult for her. there were tour buss coming through. there was no privacy. >> bobby was there acting as a surrogate dad to john jr. and caroline. he was there so that jackie could lean on him. >> bobby and jackie become incredibly close. >> they spend late afternoons together talking about jfk and wondering about what kind of world would have let him die. >> with bobby and ted by her side, jackie addresses the nation and the world giving thanks for hundreds of thousands of supportive messages. >> the warmth of these tributes is something i shall never forget. whenever i can bear to, i will

read them. all his bright light gone from the world, all of you who have written to me knowow mhe all loved him and that he return that love in full measure. >> jackie is being pulled deeper and deeper into a depression. she's pulling bobby with her in some ways. >> bobby was attorney general. he had been the closest thing america had ever seen to a co-president when he became an outsider from the moment his brother died and lyndon johnson took the oath of office. >> in the white house, bobby sees jack kennedy's rocking chair in the hall wway. it's a reminder to him that power has passed. >> my father would take long walks alone with the dogs. and he was clearly -- he was

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in 1962 he was elected senator of massachusetts filling jack's old seat. >> teddy is is much more outgoing than bobby. he liked to smooz and he just loved people. and that's the perfect trait to be a successful legislator. >> teddy has been somewhat hapless little brother. now ted kennedy is the senator who knows what he's doing. >> as ted charts his own pl political course, trauma hits the family. >> misfortune strikes the kennedy family once again. senator edward ken difs injured when his private kplaen crashed in the woods near south hampton, massachusetts. >> two die in the crash. ted kennedy is dragged from the wreckage with a broken back. >> in any other family, to have one of the primary members in their plane crash that almost kills him and gives him

permanent back problems would be at the top of the list of tragedies. but in the kennedys, it's just another check off on the list. >> two months later, a traumatized bobby addresses the dratti natiol convention as it hons jack's memory. >> and now it is my privilege and honor to introduce the man who stood closer to him than anyone else, his brother, robert kennedy. >> the place just breaks into this heartfelt cathartic applause. and he stands there and this goes on for five minutes and ten minutes and it overwhelms him. >> i was by myself and i watched

that 17-minute ovation, which was very, very move iing. because it's for his brother. and it's sad because it's a sense of loss. and it's who are you. who are you. you're clapping for my brother. what am i supposed to do? it's very tough.

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after months of soul searching, bobby kennedy has made a decision. >> bobby is looking for the platform to begin to restore the family to its rightful place. >> one level he was a shy, humble guy who you have been happy to stay in the background. but in another level knew he had to pick up the family standard and rise to the occasion. >> i have decided to make myself available for the nomination of the democratic state convention.

>> he enters the race for the new york senate seat. >> a lot of people in the family were worried. but they all knew that this was always the way it was supposed to be. >> the magic of the kennedy name will overcome some voters resistance who lives in virginia and votes in massachusetts. >> when bobby becomes the democratic nominee he resigns as president johnson's attorney general. >> running for senate for new york, this was thot easy. he was an outsider who was from washington with no real connection to new york. and he's thought of as an opportunistic young man. >> bobby kennedy was regarded as tough and mean. someone who dropped the hammer on opponents of jack and he doesn't have the gifts that the good lord gave to jfk. >> attorney general robert

kennedy return ed here today. >> bobby kennedy is a poor candidate. his voice is weak. >> he speaks in a monotone. >> that's my first. >> he's stumbling for his words. he's not buttoned up and polished. >> that's my first speech as a candidate. >> he's a terrible candidate. >> he was shy. he didn't like small talk. he didn't do back slapping. >> he was running against the guy named kenneth keating. an older, white-haired, veteran, so-called liberal republican. >> taking a page out of jack's campaign book, bobby brings in his mother rose. >> i know you have come to hear about bob, and why i think he's fitted to be be.

a united states senator. >> they put his mother on television. i remember, she was really good. she insisted on writing her own statement, by the way. she wouldn't take anything from anybody else. she was really a tough -- she was something of a battlist. >> that's a very dangerous thing. >> rose of was the mayor of boston's daughter. she loved to campaign. >> again. she was shaking hands. she was working very hard for her son. >> how do you feel about transferring your family to the state of new york? >> i'm looking forward to it. >> ethyl was around all the time. although there were eight kids to take care of.

>> they were all shaking hands, licking envelopes. it was fun. . >> even jackie hits the campaign trail. >> is this your first visit to the campaign headquarters? >> yes, it is, i just got to new york yesterday. >> jackie felt an obligation to campaign for bobby. she sets out with her son john jr. on her hand. but the crowds and the paparazzi just are overwhelming. >> it was incredibly painful for her to be playing a role and to watch what was going on. >> jackie is is seriously in trouble. psychologically. she hides it well. but she's suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder. s>> she couldn't handle it. so she didn't campaign anymore. that was it.

>> while the group of followers, kennedy defeated his opponent. keating couldn't overcome the magic of the kennedy name. >> bobby's victory makes him the second kennedy currently sit tig in the united states senate. >> although cob fined to the hospital since the plane crash earlier in the year, senator edward kennedy joined his brother on the floor of the senate. >> he will make a speech. >> ted understood the issues that bobby was passionate about and maybe most importantly he was the one guy that would have bobby's back the same way jack had trusted bobby. >> i explained to him that i was older. >> and to bobby, winning that senate race in new york meant not just that he could win an office in his own right t meant that he had something to do in life other than just be jack's little brother. well, like most of you, i just bought a house.

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their needs and their aspirations. and so part of it really was his ambition. >> e he went to mississippi to see the worst poverty of all. >> about 15 months ago. >> e we went down together to mississippi. we saw people about income. he saw grandmothers who could not provide breakfast or lunch for their children. >> e he said to merks i have been in third world places and i have never seen anything like this. it was so shocking to see that kind of thing. in the united states. >> he spent time in the inner cities and was moved by those experiences and became more and more an advocate for t dispossessed. >> he had a sense of touch. he could rub a kid's cheek or try to get. a child to respond. ask that was a very different

sense of the tough bobby kennedy that i had known before his brother's death. >> he has the capacity to grow. he's tough. he's arrogant, but if you get through all that and you touch his heart, you can change him. >> i think that's what made bobby kennedy different from his brother. jack kennedy was an intellectual and learned from on high. bobby kennedy, as he showed in mississippi, learned at the grass roads grass roots in a way that stuck with him forever. >> when bobby returned to hickory hill from mississippi, burst in on his own dining room where his kids were eating. >> he said i have just been to mississippi where a family lives in a shack the size of your dining room. and they have tummies that are distended and sores all over those tummies. do you know how lucky you are?

do you know how lucky you are? >> he knew that in america the richest country in the world there was something deeply, morally wrong with having kids who were starving to death. >> we know it's a problem. we know we have the finances. we know we have the resources. what are we going to do? >> bobby is also beginning to question the morality of a war that has already claimed countless lives. >> senator robert f. kennedy makes a demand of a bomb iing targets be halted, a demand that could widen the differences between him and the president. mr. johnson says we shall persist in our operations in the north. >> bobby kennedy was an assessed president the creation on vietnam. he was involved when his brother was get. ing u.s. troops in there in the '60s. but by the mid-to late '60s, bobby kennedy is turning against

the war. >> ken b day said all men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the error. the only sin is pride. >> bobby was being seen increasingly as a figure around whom the left could rally. if it's going challenge lyndon johnson. >> in 1968 there's a meeting at bobby kennedy's house to discuss the possibility of him running for the presidency. >> at that time he was having this debate within himself. >> he didn't want to be seen as just running against lyndon johnson out of bitterness. >> also he knew enough about politics that it's hard to run against a sitting president.

>> bobby was insecure. bobby had doubts. but his wife believed he was a great man fulfilling his destiny and he ought to be president. ethyl hangs a sheet to get the kids o to paint run, bobby, run. >> on march 16th, 1968, robert kennedy addresses the nation from the very same room on capitol hill where john f. kennedy announced his candidacy eight years earlier. >> i run for the presidency because i want the democratic party and the united states of america to stand for hope instead of despair. >> ethyl, she believed that this would be the first steppingstone of getting the white house restored rightfully to the kennedy family. and that was hard for jackie to

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security was not great. people rip off his cuff lengths, rip off his tie, they take his shoes. >> if i'm elected president of the united states i'm going to work for those who are poor, lacking jobs, whether white or black. >> he had a soft spot is that had been unveiled. he was much more open to people, much warmer. that comes out on the campaign trail. >> i'm going to talk about the problems of the race and the problems of the city. and it's not a light subject. >> there was a sense of urgency and a sense that the world was coming apart, and that he in this campaign were about trying to repair the world. >> he brought an energy, he brought a determination. to do what is right. >> it wasn't exactly a well-planned campaign. it was more of a moral movement. and people were very excited

about that. >> you must get a hustle and bustle on there. >> his sister and the rest of the family are never far away. >> glad to see you. you. >> bobby's rivals for the nomination are president johnson and eugene mccarthy, a senator from minnesota. but just 15 days into bobby's campaign johnson makes a shocking announcement. >> i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. >> as angry protests mount over the war in vietnam, johnson quits the race in favor of his vice president hubert humphrey. >> hubert humphrey huss the establishment behind him. what bobby has is the imagination of the american people, the idea that you could restore the kennedy legacy and the kennedy dynasty.

>> four days after johnson's announcement, bobby heads to a campaign rally in indianapolis. on the way he is told that the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. has been shot. >> when he arrived in indianapolis he asked them not to go. the crowd hadn't learned that king had been killed. there were riots. and he insisted on going. they were worried about his safety. >> the police tell him you can't go there. the mayor of the city says you can't go there. and he said, you know, i can go in there with my whole family and sleep in a tent on the street. and be perfectly safe. and if the chief of staff can't do that, that's his problem. >> he drives into the black ghetto in inasmus, jumps up on

the back of a flatbed pickup truck. >> i have some very sad news for all of you. and i think sad news for all of our fellow citizens. and people who love peace all over the world. and that is that martin luther king was shot and killed tonight. >> there is this anguished reaction in the crowd. and he starts the speech. >> for those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled wh hatred and distrust, of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, i would only say that i can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling.

i had a member of my family killed. but he was killed by a white man. >> i've talked to -- that people could recognize the power of that revelation, of that opening for him. he knew what he was doing. and they responded to it. >> even in our sleep, pain. >> one of the only cities in america that didn't riot that night was indianapolis. and the reason was robert francis kennedy. >> what we need in the united states is not violence. >> he spoke to people's incredible pain. he had the ability to bring different sides together. >> of all the kennedys, i think bobby kennedy ee involves the most. and in a way huss his heart break opens him up to the heart break of the world.

>> on june 4th, 1968 bobby wins the critical california primary. >> i thank all of you who made this possible this evening, all of the effort that you made. >> he won with a coalition that he sought, of black people, brown people, of progressives. and it looked as if he was on the path to the nomination. >> after years in jack's shadow, bobby becomes a political force in his own right. >> the campaign was really rolling. i think we were -- we were very relaxed and confident. >> next on american dynasties, the kennedys. >> for my dad, the overwhelming burden to succeed was crushing.

>> ted has too much to drink and gets into the car with a young woman. >> he took a radically wrong turn. >> rescue units marshalled all resources. >> they called me to say that john kennedy's plane is missing. >> how much tragedy and death can one family take? one of the most powerful men on earth, holds a position that has existed for nearly 2,000 years. as the world changes and faith evolves his authority remains. what began with one apostle has become 1.2 billion followers under one man. he is the head of the catholic church, t