. >> the whole family gathered in hyannisport. they set up a war room.gn directors all over the country. and they waited. >> it appears that senator kennedy is moving into the lead. >> but as the night went on, the early lead that kennedy had seemed to drift away. >> when ohio went for nixon, the kennedy team began to wonder whether they would win this at all. >> senator kennedy's early lead of 2 million votes dwindles perilously as the returns come in from the western states. >> the suspense very much focused on illinois, which reported very late. >> northern illinois, chicago, was controlled by mayor daly, and southern illinois was controlled by republicans. >> richard daly was a powerful figure in chicago and he had a relationship with kennedy. >> jack gets daly on the phone, and mayor daly says we're going to win illinois with the help of a few close friends. >> there are stories to this day that dead people voted in chicago. there's no doubt that the daly machine helped the kennedys. but whether it engaged in massive fraud or not i think remains to

. >> he was such a vital force, we would play with him in hyannisport and walk on the beach or go swimmingocking. >> his face was disfigured, one side of his body was useless. but worst of all, he lost the power of speech. this man who never stopped talking, who's fabulously eloquent, who could walk into any room with anybody and command the attention of the crowd. lost his voice, lost his words, lost language. >> there was always a sense that as long as joseph is at the helm, things are going to work out. joe is the architect of everything. and for him to where sidelined when they're finally there, is such a tragedy. >> and for that to come at the end of a mean year, that was a terrible way for john f. kennedy to end 1961. >> as jack and jackie pose for the cameras, the mood in the white house is anything but festive. >> we know exactly what president kennedy was thinking at the end of his first year, when he was approached by an author who said i'm going to be writing a book on the first year of your presidency, and the president's response was why would anyone want to read a book about

. >> in the summer of 1944, the kennedy family gathers at hyannisport on the coast of massachusetts,ting news. >> his father and mother expected him home any day now. then in july they get this strange letter. and he says, i'm part of a special mission, but don't worry. it's not dangerous. see you in september. >> joe kennedy's already flown his 25 missions. he could go home. but he volunteers for extra duty. he's going to fly in a bomber stuffed with explosives towards a secret german weapon on the french coast. >> he would set the fuse and then he would bail out of the plane along with his co-pilot over the english channel. the plane would be set on remote, and it would attack these superguns that were being put in place by hitler on the coast of france, and this was, in joe kennedy jr.'s mind, the way to be a hero. >> he said, in case i don't come back, please tell my father i love him very much. you can't judge a woman looking at her man. you can't judge a daughter by looking at the mother. you can't judge a book by looking at the cover. taking one look. try to read me like a boo

at christmastime 1956, the family's gathered in hyannisport and bobby kennedy comes to his father and want to lead an investigation into organized crime. >> my father said either they're going to own the country or we are. >> so joe kennedy says, you don't know what you're getting into. don't go near that. and bobby kennedy says, i am. and i'm going straight up to capitol hill. his father just jumps up from the table and storms out and slams the door. ♪ how pure can pure be? for a future full of possibilities, our 12-step process provides 100% pure, quality water. nestle pure life. pure life begins now. a heart transplant... that's a whole different ballgame. i was in shock. i am very proud of the development of drugs that can prevent the rejection and prevent the recurrence of the original disease. i never felt i was going to die. we know so much about transplantation. and we're living longer. you cannot help but be inspired by the opportunities that a transplant would offer. my donor's mom says "you were meant to carry his story". with pg&e in the sierras. and i'm an arborist since

. >> president kennedy was in hyannisport for the weekend. washington that sunday morning told him that the communists had finally begun to seal the berlin sector border against the east germans and east berliners. >> through backyards, down canals, across streets, all along the 25-mile border between east and west berlin. >> telephone lines to west germany are cut. the flood of refugees is dammed up. west berlin is isolated. ♪ >> a communist country like east germany cannot exist with an open border. it must be able to wall its people in and make them work till communism succeeds. >> president kennedy decided on thursday to send johnson to berlin because mayor brant had written a letter warning that the city's rotting morale required bold and quick treatment. >> and the united states wants you to know that the pledge he has given to the freedom of west berlin and to the rights of western access to berlin is firm. >> is khrushchev entirely convinced that our words have meaning? and if he is not what can we do, short of war, to convince him th