if i am elected president of the united states, i'm going to work for those who are deprived, those who are poor whether they be white or black. >> robert kennedy is hoping to fulfill the family dream of a second son in the white house. but tragedy strikes once more. all eyes are on the only surviving son ted as he inherits the burden of expectation. >> you will not reconsider your decision about seeking the presidency? >> absolutely not. >> overcoming scandal and defeat, ted fights back. >> the hope still lives and the dream shall never die. >> to lead the new generation and continue the legacy of this great american dynasty. >> this family's name is kennedy.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i thank all of you who made this possible this evening. all of the effort that you made. >> bobby kennedy wins the crucial california primary in

his battle to secure the democratic presidential nomination. >> we're all congratulating ourselves and each other on how terrific this is. everybody is looking forward to having a drink and dancing and thinking about all the great things that are in store. >> we are a great country and a compassionate country, and i intend to make that my basis for running -- [ cheers and applause ] >> 4 1/2 years after his brother jack was assassinated, bobby had set his sight on the white house. >> it's a jubilant moment. he might actually go all the way straight to the presidency following his brother jack. >> the people who loved jack kennedy loved bobby kennedy. he had developed the softer side after the death of his brother. >> he's no longer the ruthless cynical mob-busting hard head. here's someone who is as powerful as anyone, but who

identifies with common people in a way that you hadn't seen anybody at the top of american society do. >> bobby's wife and greatest champion ethel shares in his y triumph. >> i'm not doing this in the order of importance, but i also want to thank my wife ethel. >> ethel lives for this moment because she's always believed bobby had a lot to offer. she wanted it to be bobby's turn and now it is bobby's turn. >> he felt very confident as he stood on that stage in the ambassador hotel. you can see it in his face. he knew he had a real shot. >> my thanks to you wiall of yo now it's on to chicago and let's win there. >> bobby was supposed to turn right and go into a press room. but some teeny boppers get in the way. >> kennedy is cut off from his own body guard.

the hotel manager turns him around and aims him to exit through the kitchen. >> his body guard gets there too late. >> it's complete chaos. everybody is screaming and crying. >> we ran down the end of the hall. it looked really bad. >> robert kennedy has been shot. >> i remember looking at him and his shirt was open.

that, that shock. that's stunning. >> ethel kennedy is leaning over him inches from his face. she can see that he's badly wounded. >> ted is with bobby's campaign team in san francisco when he hears the news. he rushes to be with his brother. >> he's in surgery. senator ted kennedy has arrived at the hospital. the doctor said the surgery will last another hour. >> i sat with my father on and off throughout the night. my father's head was bandaged. his eyes were black, like

somebody had punched him in the face. >> ted tells ethel the doctors have said that we need to take him off life support. this is no life for bobby. >> for ethel, bobby is everything. it's always been that way. bobby and ethel together, forever. she is at that moment pregnant with their 11th child. and now she's losing bobby. the same way that jackie lost jack. >> senator robert francis kennedy died at 1:44 a.m. today, june 6, 1968.

>> in the morning, my brother joe came in and said, he's gone. that afternoon we took him back to new york. >> the engine side of the airplane stops. the casket now about halfway out of the door of the airplane. >> the great tragedy of this moment is that we actually never get to see what bobby kennedy would have been able to accomplish. >> he would have been one of the most experienced men to occupy the american presidency since its founding. >> jacqueline kennedy behind her, mrs. edward kennedy. >> the sense of hope for the country was ending in bobby kennedy who tapped it in a way that not even his brother did. >> you know, it's like the pin in the balloon. it's gone.

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the doors of saint patrick's have been open only ten minutes and thousands of people have begun streaming through to pay their respects to the body of senator robert kennedy.

>> for two days mourners lined 25 blocks outside saint patrick's cathedral to pass by kennedy's coffin. the service it self, 2000 mourners crowded the cathedral. it included the rich and famous, also the dispossessed, farm w e workers, people who felt close to jfk. >> bobby's brother joe is too ill to attend the funeral. his only surviving son ted delivers the eulogy. >> he had to be tested immediately. the world expected it. >> my brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death what he was in life. be remembered simply as a good 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, some men see things as they are and say why. i dream things that never were and say why not. ♪ ♪ >> robert kennedy's body is taken by train on an eight-hour journey from new york to arlington national cemetery, the final resting place of his brother jack. >> my father organized the funeral train, and that was an incredible experience. 227 miles of people on both

sides of the tracks with signs and -- it was just a very moving experience. >> i was on that train and just watching these people carrying the signs that said, "good-bye, bobby." nuns, priests, rabbis, you had hippies and soldiers. >> there's nobody that i can think of that could have drawn those numbers and that kind of diverse a population to say

good-bye. >> ted was able to keep it together at the funeral, but the funeral train, with all of the thousands of people who met that train along its way, it was more than ted could bear. >> it marked a major change in ted's life. he had always been the younger brother one way or another. >> all three of the other brothers die through acts of violence, and the baby brother winds up being the family patron. >> and everybody is looking at ted right now to take over. he's only 36 years old. >> i hope the countless thousands who have sent their expressions of sympathy and condolence to ethel kennedy and my mother and father and the

members of the kennedy family could realize the strength and the hope that they have given to the members of the family during these last several days. now my mother would like to say a few words. >> i want to extend our thanks to all of you. >> rose was not big on emotional displays. there is a certain courage that she was able to call upon because of her religious convictions. and she also understood what was important for the country. >> we shall carry on the principles for which bobby stood. his devotion and dedication are familiar to us. >> it only served to put more pressure, i think, on ted because all these new expectations were projected onto him. >> ted had a lot on his shoulders just being in the

shadow of the great jfk and rfk. >> he was the baby brother. he was the child of his parents' old age. the adored little brother of eight older siblings. he was supposed to be cute, a little rascal, and adored. >> in 1968, ted and joan kennedy celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. they have three children, cara, edward, jr., and patrick. >> ted kennedy and his first wife joan had a very difficult relationship. >> ted is known to be reckless and even more so after bobby's death. he was drinking too much. he was seeing too many women. in many ways he was self-sabotaging. >> a year after bobby's death,

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on july 18th, 1969, senator ted kennedy and his brother's former campaign aide, mary joe kopechne, leave a party together on chappaquidick island. >> it was absolute pitch black darkness heading out to a beach which happened to have a very rickety wooden bridge that went over a fast-moving channel and his car went over the bridge. >> he said he had no memory of how he escaped. that he dove as many times as he could manage to try to get mary joe out. >> after diving in a couple of times, he abandons the scene. >> he said he went back ultimately to his hotel room in edgar town and fell asleep. >> he waited nine hours to report it.

that was unfathomable to most people. >> a diver recovers mary jo kopechne's body the next morning. she was 28 years old. >> the death of chappaquidick was a tragedy and terrible enough. but the way teddy handled it made it infinitely worse. >> all the first moves were about protecting teddy. it was all about teddy's reputation, teddy's career, the kennedy legacy. nothing about the fact that mary jo kopechne died what must have been a horrible death. >> mary jo is buried three days later. ted, joan and ethel attend the funeral mass. >> ted felt pretty strongly that his wife joan should accompany him to mary jo's funeral as a sign there was nothing she was concerned about in his behavior. so, joan kennedy, pregnant and on bed rest, had to stand by his

side. and then very sadly suffered a miscarriage. >> the kennedys have overcome tragedy and scandal before, but mary jo's death at chappaquidick threatens to tarnish the family's name forever. >> there is this sense that teddy in a family known for courage acted like a coward, that he may have tried to save his own hyde rather than save a life and it's a scar on him. >> in the end, bottom line is that because of ted's recklessness, a woman died. >> senator edward kennedy pleads guilty to leaving the scene of an accident. on account of his unblemished record, he receives a suspended sentence. >> teddy finally breaks his silence and goes on television and he's speaking primarily to

the voters of massachusetts, but he's speaking to the american people and he's speaking to the world. >> my fellow citizens, i have requested this opportunity to talk to the people of massachusetts about the tragedy which happened last friday evening. i would understand full well why some might think it right for me to resign. so, i ask you tonight to think this through with me. in facing this decision, i seek your advice and opinion in making it. i seek your prayers. >> i think he should stay in office. >> would you vote for him again? >> definitely. >> we feel that he is human. people do make mistakes. >> i think he'll be the next president of the united states.

>> 10 to 1, people responded with letters and cards saying, please stay in office. >> encourage the by public support, ted decides to continue his senate career. >> thank you, and good night. >> in the immediate aftermath of chappaquidick, joseph kennedy was another victim of a tragedy. by that time joe was confined to a wheelchair and could not speak. however, he understood everything that was going on, which must have made it his own private hell. >> teddy sees his father cry and he sees the devastation that his father is suffering. and teddy knows in 1969, after chappaquidick, he is the cause of that. and he believed it caused his father to give up his will to live.

>> just four months after the tragedy at chappaquidick, joseph p. kennedy dies at the family home in hyannis port. he is 81 years old. >> joe's death is another devastating moment for the kennedys because joe had been the architect of all of their dreams and ambitions-free ve, f very beginning. >> this man truly lived for his family and his dynasty. >> joseph kennedy, for all his faults -- and by god, there were many -- was an extraordinary father. his children loved him. they respected him. they honored him. >> joe kennedy dies with his family mired in scandal. ted must now seek redemption. [ doorbell rings ]

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the chappaquidick scandal throws the kennedys' political ambitions into disarray. >> there was always from the very beginning a plan, and the plan was jfk was first, bobby was next, and then ted. but deep down inside, i think ted didn't feel that he was worthy of picking up the mantle.

>> you will not reconsider your decision about seeking the presidency? >> absolutely not, under no circumstances ever. >> that's a long time, senator. >> you have the expectation that that's what you're supposed to do because everyone around you put you into that narrative. so, it's almost that narrative on steroids. >> what would have to happen for you to make up your mind? >> i have no precise time frame. >> but the time was never right for him. chappaquidick put him out in '72. in '76 jimmy carter came on the scene. >> in 1973, ted and joan's eldest son edward, jr., is diagnosed with cancer. his leg has to be amputated. >> that's when ted kennedy found his mission in life, which had to do with health care reform. he felt so outraged that people could be dismissed simply because they didn't have the

finances to get life-saving care. >> and as long as i have a voice in the united states senate, it's going to be for that democratic platform plank that provides decent quality health care for all americans as a matter of right and not a privilege. >> he began to devote himself to that cause. but there were still feeling that he would run for president one day. >> after 16 years in the senate, ted sees his chance to aim for the white house. >> 1979 is an extraordinarily important moment in the history of the united states. you have the after effects of the islamic revolution in iran. americans are taken hostage in tehran. >> an unbelievable humiliation. >> the situation at the pumps worsen today. there was inflation. the american economy wasn't doing very well. >> i ask congress to give me

authority for stand by gasoline rationing. >> the president looked weak. the democratic party looked weak. >> we want ted. >> the time was ripe for ted kennedy because the liberal democrats have soured on jimmy carter and they're really ready for a restoration of the kennedy dynasty. but it is important to remember kennedy would be up against a formidable challenge. he's trying to unseat a sitting president of his own party. >> the family is mixed on teddy running for president in 1980. >> joan believed that ted did have a lot to offer. and she still loved him. but at this point they were separated. >> his mother did not want him to run for fear that he would be assassinated. but once he made the decision, they were all-in. >> ted prepares to launch his

campaign. he appears on national television, interviewed in front of millions, by roger mudd. >> i was standing just feet away as roger mudd began his interview with kennedy. >> senator, can you tell me, are you optimistic about the future of this country? >> i would say that i'm hopeful about the future, basically optimistic about it. >> roger mudd begins by asking simple questions, throwing soft balls really. but all of a sudden, mudd asks the key question. >> why do you want to be president? >> well, i'm -- >> he stammers and he stumbles and he fails really to even complete his sentence. >> the reasons that i would run is because i have a great belief in this country, that it is --

has more natural resources than any nation of the world. >> what's wrong with this guy? he can't even figure out for roger mudd why he wants to voru for president. why should we vote for him? >> the burden to succeed was crushing. it was crippling to be a kennedy running for president after his brothers. so, i think he just felt overwhelmed by that. >> this country is not prepared to sound retreat. it is willing to make a stand and so am i. >> even though kennedy goes on to fight a spirited battle, he never overcomes this stumble right out of the blocks. >> when ted arrives at the democratic national convention, he is trailing so far behind carter that he's left with no choice but to concede. >> for me, a few hours ago this campaign came to an end. for all those whose cares have

been our concern, the work goes on. the cause endures. the hope still lives. and the dream shall never die. >> it is one of the greatest political speeches of all time. if he had given 1% of that, 1% of that as an answer to roger mudd at the beginning of the campaign, he might well have become president of the united states. >> ted kennedy's presidential ambitions are over. his marriage to joan has ended. ted devotes the reagan years to working in the senate. >> i will not be a candidate for the presidency of the united states in 1984. >> it's clear to everyone, including to him, that he'll never have another opportunity to run for the presidency. and so the baton passes to the next generation.

>> over a quarter century ago, my father stood before you to accept the nomination for the presidency of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> john, jr. clearly by participating in the 1988 convention has to know that once you embrace a public role as the son of the martyr john f. kennedy, people are going to start to ask, where does this lead. domo. it'll connect us to everything that's going on in the company. get it for jean who's always cold. for the sales team, it and the warehouse crew. give us the data we need. in one place, anywhere we need it. help us do our jobs better. with domo we can run this place together. well that's that's your job i guess. ♪

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ever since he was a boy, john f. kennedy, jr., has been seen as the heir apparent to the kennedy throne. >> john kennedy, jr. becomes an icon on the very day he turns 3 years old, the day of his father's funeral because his mother leaned over and said to him, you can salute daddy now and say good-bye to him. and so that is how the american people saw him. he would replace his father some day. >> jackie kennedy gave her children two conflicting legacies. one was to protect your privacy, the other was exploit your celebrity.

>> i knew her as a fabulous and devoted mother. she said, if you mess up raising your children, nothing else you do in life much matters. >> jfk, jr. has his mother and father's chafrm. he lacks their all-out ambition. >> i think his uncle thought more about his political future more than he did. >> john never wanted it to define him. >> we met at university. i lived with him for two years off campus. everything he did was under the microscope, good and bad, successes and failures. >> when law school graduate john, jr. fails his bar exams, it's headline news. >> i'll be back there in july and i'll pass it then or i'll pass it the next time, i'll pass it when i'm 95. >> he was annoyed by the press. he went to great lengths to keep his marriage to carolyn bissette a secret and to marry on an isolated island off the coast of georgia.

>> jackie does not live to see her son married. she dies of cancer in may 1994 at the age of 64. t >> the paparatzi were out there and everybody was jumping all over him. i remember screaming at one point, get away, it's his mother. give the guy a break. >> jackie had married greek shipping magnate aristotle owe nasa -- onassis and had been widowed a second time. she wished to be buried at arlington national cemetery next to her first husband jack. >> jackie will always be remembered for her courage in the wake of the assassination of her husband and how by that courage she helped pull the

united states together as well as i think to pull together the world. >> but after bobby's death, she was feeling that her children were next. she said if they're coming after kennedys, then my children are targets. >> jackie kennedy's decision to pull her family out of the limelight, certainly protected them. one of the unintended consequence was that when they got older, there was a real fascination about them. >> ladies and gentlemen, meet george. >> in 1995, john, junior chooses his own route into politics. he launches a magazine that combines politics with celebrity culture. >> "george" named after the first president is designed to be the rolling stone of politics. >> i think he wanted to prove to himself through his own effort and work that he could do something that would be considered successful on its own without having been given to him through his background, his name, et cetera. >> i don't think that i've seen as many of you in one place since they announced the results of my first bar exam, so it's nice to see you all again.

>> this is the cover with cindy crawford. inside there is an article by madonna. >> "george" magazine is publishing which his mother would have loved, politics his father would have loved. it's all right there on a silver platter. >> when jfk jr. started george magazine, everyone in the press snickered it would fail. it actually was pretty clever. >> in many ways george persuaded him, i could be a good leader. i can be a leelder ader of peop. >> by em bratsibracing george m, john, jr. fueled speculation he would run for office. >> what he received from media figures was, yeah, this is your time. >> that sure sounds like you haven't given up the notion going into politics. >> maybe, maybe not. >> come on, john. a >> no one has ever asked me that question before. >> real any i know, i'm so

original, aren't i? >> on july 16, 1999, john junior pilots his own plane to his cousin rory's wedding on cape cod. with him are his sister-in-law lauren and his wife carolyn. >> he had only been flying solo for a relatively short time. he was late in leaving. it became dark as he flew from the new york city area. >> my team from cnn called me to say that john kennedy's plane is missing. i was beside myself like all his friends, like all his family. >> search and rescue units marshalled all their resources. >> after a five-day search, navy divers recover three bodies amongst the wreckage off the coast of martha's vineyard. the ashes of john, carolyn and lauren are scattered at sea.

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republican party, welcome to the debate on education. >> they consider him one of the great liberal legislators of all time now. >> finally we're talking about health care. >> the lion of the senate. he looked like one, hair like one. but more importantly he was so thoughtful. >> this is the irishman, who loves people, loves to tell a story. the politician who is at the top of his game. >> with barack obama we'll finally make health care what it should be in america, a fundamental right for all, not just an expensive privilege for the few. >> ted does not live to realize his dream of universal health care. in august 2009 at age 77, he dies of brain cancer. he is survived by his second wife vicki, first wife joan and three children. ted had served as a senator from massachusetts for nearly 47 years.

>> the greatest expectations were placed upon ted kennedy's shoulders because of who he was. but he surpassed them all because of who he became. >> seven months after ted's death, his great cause, the affordable care act, passes into law. >> it was something very inspirational to take my father's ultimate dream that we have coverage for everybody and actually embed it into the laws of this nation. >> he not only was -- was a powerful the most powerful senator of his time. he was a grandfather figure to many of us. we miss him. >> ted began life as the youngest child of joseph and rose kennedy. he ended it as the head of a dynasty with over 100 family members.

the matriarch ted's mother rose died in 1995 at the age of 104. >> rose kennedy does not get mere due, her ability to infuse the exact right combination of competition and compassion. there is no precedent in a democratic society for what she created, this royal family. >> some people enjoy a life that's normal and mediocre. other people respond to challenges and adventure attainment. that's what we are. >> rose lived long enough to see generation after generation of kennedys served their country. >> today all of you young athletes are in the arena. >> eunice founded the special olympics. jean was an incredible ambassador who helped to bring

peace to northern ireland. >> jack and jackie's daughter caroline became the u.s. ambassador to japan. >> i'm also proud to carry forward my father's legacy of public service. >> you have joseph kennedy ii, bobby and ethel's oldest son who served a number of terms in congress, along with his cousin patrick. kathleen kennedy townsend who was a lieutenant governor of maryland. you have christopher kennedy, son of robert kennedy launching his political career in illinois. >> it would not be possible to write a complete history of modern america without talking about the kennedys and the contribution that they made. >> but let us not forget they were not angels. >> when asked by the newspaperman this afternoon what the chances were of appeasement. >> they had all sorts of flaws, some of them very, very serious flaws. >> they have had more than their share of scandals and done some terrible things. >> some might think it right for me to resign.

>> but then there are the moments of greatness. >> we choose to go to the moon and do the other thing not because they are easy but because they are hard. >> and they inspired us. to do things we might not have otherwise done. >> we are so fortunate that they lived, that they served, and that even today so many years later they continue to inspire a whole new generation of people to get involved. >> thank you. thank you. >> i think if any of the succeeding generations will rise to the heights of the jack kennedy generation it could be joseph, patrick kennedy iii, the grandson of robert kennedy, who is a member of congress now. >> i stand here today, the proud son of irish immigrants to deliver a message to immigrant families. we understand your willingness to walk to the ends of the earth to navigate oceans and mountains and deserts and war zones

because every parent would do the same. we know what you've risked to give them a better future, what you sacrificed to be part of our united states. >> this guy could bring the country together. this sort of big hearted liberalism that's about everybody together and up we go, that you haven't seen for a very long time. so anybody who thinks that the kennedy story stops with teddy kennedy, yeah, you don't know the kennedys. these guys are to going around a long time. >> if a new generation of kennedys can come through who think more about what they can give to their country than what they can take for themselves, that is really important to paraphrase president kennedy's inauguration. >> and so my fellow americans, ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. my fellow citizens of the world, ask not what america will do for

you but what together we can do for the freedom of man. 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, the pope. and this is his path to power. ♪ ♪