. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> america's new ambassador to britain, joseph p. kennedys a battery of cameramen as he's about to depart for st. james court. >> when president roosevelt sends joseph p. kennedy in 1938 across the atlantic to be the ambassador to the united kingdom, he was a star, a celebrity. he had run a studio in hollywood. and he was already a success in business and politics. he was among the top 20 richest men in america. it was big news. >> the rise of joseph kennedy is as remarkable as it is seemingly unstoppable. >> joe kennedy came from an irish family, and they worked their way from the bottom to the top. they were outsiders. >> his grandparents came during the great potato famine of the 1840s to boston. so the family is just two generations removed from the peasantry of ireland. >> mr. joseph kennedy, the american ambassador, left the buckingham palace to present his credentials to the king. >> having an irish catholic in that job, it was just like the perfect victory in the struggle of my grandfather to feel accepted. >> and as for me, i'm deli

joseph p. kennedymother of the president of the united states. >> on the road to the white house, rose kennedy has campaigned tirelessly to get her son elected. >> mrs. kennedy, this must be just about the proudest day of your life. >> oh, yes, wonderful. >> it's important to keep in mind that rose kennedy evidently had dynastic ambitions for the family. this is not just the story of joseph p. kennedy, prominent pushing father. this is a joint effort on the part of both joseph p. kennedy and rose. >> have you had a chance really to sit back and realize -- >> no, no. that will take a little time, i think. >> jack's brother, robert, and wife, ethel, joined in the family's triumph. bobby had been jack's campaign manager, and their father is adamant he's handed an important role in the new administration. >> joe kennedy let jack choose his cabinet with one exception. joe insisted that the next attorney general be robert kennedy. >> one cold december morning the president gets bobby kennedy up in his house

and for all of its existence the names of the president of the joseph p kennedy junior foundation named for her older brother who was killed in world war ii from the beginning to the end the foundation was eunice's baby. , she decided where millions of dollars of kennedy money went to support research into the condition we called mental retardation. the condition that she found the experts wanting in their advice to people. what was the advice to mothers and fathers when eunice was growing up. institutionalize your child for the sake of your other children and for your marriage. the kennedys have kept rosemary at home as long as they could. when mental illness intruded on intellectual disabilities that she suffered. whether he was misguided or ill intentioned is for others to decide. i think he grabbed onto the possibility that this new experimental cycle and neurological surgery would cure his daughter instead, it left her immobilized. she couldn't walk, she couldn't talk. and then came the real sin the guilt that she spent her life trying to not just for herself but for her whole fami

line of washington brings home the biggest group of refugees, joseph p. kennedy children. >> my wife and i have given nine hostages, our children and your children are more important than anything else in the world. >> joseph is called a coward for his decision to send his family home and for his opposition to the war he is branded a nazi sympathizer. >> calling kennedy a fascist. >> once he was in the war, he was too out spoken and called back to washington. president roosevelt did not want to the apreepease. he wanted to fight. the last thing fdr needed is an appeaser. so he was finished. >> joseph kennedy goes from being a legitimate power broker in the united states and a player in international politics to being a pariah. >> when he crashed and burned as ambassador to great britain. that costs him his job and his notion that he can become president. from the moment that he realized he couldn't do it, he realize his kids can do it. passes it on his children and called them his goelden trio. >> joe junior's father and mother believed that he would be the one t

for all of its existence, the names of the president of the josep joseph p kennedy association, named for her older brother was killed in world war ii, the president was either john fitzgerald kennedy or robert m kennedy. the foundation was her baby. the condition called mental retardation that the experts wanted in their advice to peopl people, what was the advice to mothers and fathers when she was growing up? what was the advice right through the 50s, institutionalize your child for the sake of your other children in your marriage. that didn't wash with eunice. they had kept rosemary at home as long as they could when mental illness intruded on the intellectual disability she suffered. joe was grasping at straws. whether he was misguided or ill intentioned is for others to decide but i think he grabbed on to the possibility of this new cycle neurological surgery would cure his daughter. instead the prefrontal lobotomy left or immobilized. you can walk or talk. then came the real sin, the real guilt that eunice spent her life trying to resolve, i think, not just for her but her whol

. >> just four months after the tragedy at chappaquiddick joseph p. kennedymily home in hien s port. he's 81 years old. >> joe's death is another devastating moment for the kennedys because show has been the architect of all of their dreams and ambitions from the 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 fathers. his children loved him, they rr respected him, they honored him. >> joe kennedy dies with his family mired in scandal. ted must now seek redemption. ♪ uhp. i didn't believe it. again. ♪ ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? ♪ i want to believe it. [ claps hands ] ♪ ooh i'm not hearing the confidence. okay, hold the name your price tool. power of options based on your budget! and! ♪ we'll make heaven a place on earth ♪ yeah! oh, my angels! ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪ [ sobs quietly ] ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪ ♪ je plonge à l'envers ♪attiré par l'extase ♪ ♪ un tourbillon vert illumine les sirènes ♪ ♪ ♪ oh la fête f

family's charitable foundation and for all of its existence the names of the president of the joseph p. kennedy, jr., foundation, named for her older brother killed in world war ii. the president was john fitzgerald kennedy, robert francis kennedy or edward m. kennedy. from the beginning to the end the foundation was eunice's baby. she ran it. she decided where millions of dollars in kennedy money went to support research into the condition we then called mental retardation. the condition that she found the experts wanting in their advice to people. what was the advice to mothers and fathers when eunice was growing up? what was the advice right through the '50s? institutionalize your child for the sake of your other children and for your marriage. well that didn't wash with eunice. the kennedys had kept rosemary at home as long as they could. when mental illness intruded on the intellectual disabilities that she suffered, joe was grasping at straws. whether he was misguided or ill intentioned is for others to decide. i think he grabbed on to the possibility that this new experimental, psycho, n

kennedy live. and now, this compound is the center of the world. this was the realization, the dynastic dream of joseph p kennedy. you. >> next, the kennedys. >> ask what you can do for your country. >> jack believed in the promise of america. >> kennedy was walking into an ambush and he had no idea. >> turns out to be an unmitigated disaster. >> jack needed someone to watch his back. >> i am pleased to accept the position of the attorney generalship. >> he says, grab your balls, let's go. >>> i, john fitzgerald kennedy, do solemnly swear -- >> just over 100 years after his family first set foot in the country, john f. kennedy becomes president of the united states of america. the kennedys have achieved their dream. but in his first year in the white house, jfk learns winning power is one thing, wielding it is another. engulfed by violence at home and conflict around the world, he turns to those he trusts the