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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:06,000 The first known episode where Jack Kennedy and Frank Sinatra 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,400 kind of come together in Vegas is at the Sands Hotel. 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:14,280 The Rat Pack was the Mount Rushmore of men having fun. 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,640 They each got something out of the friendship 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,200 and, plus, they both were womanisers. 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:25,200 Sinatra is the one who can give Jack Kennedy easy entree 7 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,560 to any woman he wants. 8 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:29,600 Kennedy himself loves all this. 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,240 It's like a fairy tale. 10 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:36,600 And this is the junction of politics and show business. 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,520 And what he got up to in Vegas with Frank Sinatra 12 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,080 would not have been OK if made public at the time. 13 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,360 Frank Sinatra knew a lot of guys in the Mob. 14 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:52,680 It was Frank to whom Joe Kennedy, Jack's father, turned when he wanted 15 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:57,160 help from organised crime in getting Jack elected. 16 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,440 The Mafia thought it had a get-out-of-jail-free pass 17 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,320 because of the work that they had done for Kennedy 18 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,120 in the election. 19 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,480 And just the opposite happens. 20 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,960 As soon as Robert Kennedy becomes the Attorney General, 21 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:12,520 he goes after the Mafia. 22 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,560 Sinatra's very upset. 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,560 But, worse than that, Sam Giancana is upset. 24 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,760 And that's where it gets rather murky. 25 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,240 Nothing they're doing is escaping the notice of the FBI. 26 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:32,720 J Edgar Hoover finds out that Kennedy is having this affair 27 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,560 with Sam Giancana's mistress. 28 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:40,880 The President of the United States was palling around with one guy 29 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:45,280 who was an obvious associate, at the very least, with mobsters 30 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,760 and carrying on an affair with a woman who was an associate 31 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,880 and hanging out with mobsters. 32 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:57,480 This diabolical triangle all really kicked off by Sinatra. 33 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:03,040 And Hoover has got all the threads and he can go to the President 34 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,920 and kind of say, "Gotcha!" 35 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:12,040 Which leads into the greatest amount of conspiracy theory we've ever had. 36 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,320 All the "who killed Kennedy" all starts then, 37 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,040 because the Mob have got a very good reason to do it. 38 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:24,800 And that is why it remains important to know what happened 39 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,120 between Sinatra and Kennedy and the Mob. 40 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,480 GUNSHOTS, SIREN 41 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,800 In the early years of the 20th century, 42 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:33,520 a lot of the immigrants that came through Ellis Island, they all came 43 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,880 to the area around New York City. 44 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,440 So, many of them went to Brooklyn, some went to Queens, 45 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:45,160 others came to that fringe area just over the Hudson River, 46 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:50,040 which ended up being Weehawken and Hoboken and those cities 47 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,520 around New York City. 48 00:03:54,400 --> 00:04:01,880 Downtown Hoboken was a true melting pot, predominantly a German town, 49 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:06,280 second by the Irish and then the Italians. 50 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,960 And the way it usually works is whoever is the latest group 51 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:14,360 to arrive sort of has to dig themselves up. 52 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:19,480 And so the Italians were discriminated against. 53 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,000 Many times, they did not know English. 54 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,320 Many times, they were a bit insular and they tended to live 55 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,280 in certain districts in Hoboken. 56 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:31,120 You had to mind your Ps and Qs and you wouldn't want 57 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:32,680 to call the Italians any names 58 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,400 and you wouldn't want to call the Irish any names 59 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,840 because it would catch up to you. 60 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:48,920 Frank's family - his mother, Dolly, his father Marty - 61 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,280 had come over to the United States as children. 62 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:53,720 They were both from families that were struggling to get a foot 63 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:55,080 on the ladder. 64 00:04:55,080 --> 00:05:00,920 Both of those families were involved on the periphery of criminality. 65 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,800 Marty was involved on the periphery of bootlegging 66 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:08,120 but Dolly also worked in those days as an abortionist. 67 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,160 She was also a political animal. 68 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,200 She was very much involved with the Democratic machine 69 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:18,160 in Hoboken, and part of that was being associated with other Italians 70 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:19,520 trying to make a living. 71 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,720 And one of those Italians she rubbed up against early was a guy called 72 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,840 Angelo "Gyp" DeCarlo. 73 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:30,560 Gyp was a small time mafiosi associated with the bigger powers 74 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,040 in New York and New Jersey, 75 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:37,800 and by bigger powers I mean people like Frank Costello, Willie Moretti, 76 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,520 Meyer Lansky, the people who were really in charge 77 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:46,520 of the nightclub scene in New York and New Jersey in those days. 78 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:53,480 Frank was born in the early hours of December 12th, 1915, 79 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,200 and he was blue when he came out. 80 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,600 He was blue because he was 13 lb, 81 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,120 and somebody called a doctor. 82 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,320 Doctor came - an actual physician - 83 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:10,440 and in short order picked up this blue baby 84 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,400 and ran cold water from the faucet of the cold water, 85 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:19,160 flat over the blue baby and suddenly screamed, came to life. 86 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:20,640 It was Frank Sinatra. 87 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:37,960 It's hard to begin to even describe all the differences 88 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,800 between Jack Kennedy and Frank Sinatra. 89 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,120 But Jack Kennedy was a prince. 90 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,680 Jack Kennedy was born in May of 1917, 91 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,120 the son of Joe Kennedy, 92 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:55,200 who came up amidst the rough and tumble of Boston 93 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,560 in the early 1900s. 94 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:03,000 The Kennedy family, Irish Catholic. There was a heritage that 95 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,800 they were quite conscious of, 96 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,720 and it was one that was not looked upon with great favour 97 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,320 in large segments of American society, 98 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,120 particularly since they were Catholics. 99 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:20,360 Society was ruled by the WASPs - White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. 100 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:25,560 And they were the so-called Brahmins who ruled Boston. 101 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:30,800 It was just understood that presidents of banks are WASPs. 102 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,080 Anybody who runs for office is a WASP. 103 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,200 That's the way it worked. 104 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,840 But that's something that Joe, the father, confronted. 105 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,880 Joe Kennedy, on the one hand, was a very aggressive businessman 106 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:51,520 who knew how to cultivate people, knew how to obtain favours, 107 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,680 but he was also very manipulative, and a crook. 108 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,640 The myth that he created 109 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,520 was that he made his money in the stock market selling short. 110 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:08,120 The truth was, he engaged in insider trading. 111 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,680 He created these syndicates where friends would pump up the price 112 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,280 of a stock, and then they'd all sell and they'd make a fortune. 113 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:20,760 And his stock market manipulations today would put him in jail. 114 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,840 He also was a bootlegger during Prohibition. 115 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,680 He would order in Scotch from England. 116 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,560 He would give it to organised crime. 117 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,080 All of this was illegal. 118 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,760 So that was Joe Kennedy's connection began then with the Mob, 119 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,560 because they were in business together. 120 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:39,480 During Prohibition, that was the heyday of the Mob. 121 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:41,440 They branched out into drugs. 122 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,480 They branched out into prostitution. 123 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,600 They branched out into gambling. 124 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,840 They've got their tentacles in a lot of different things at that point. 125 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,800 So that connection was there. They knew he was malleable. 126 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,440 Joe could influence because he'd just buy people, 127 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,280 because they just had so much money. 128 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,680 He understood, money first, politics next. 129 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:05,120 The plan was he would make the money, 130 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:06,720 he would make the fortune, 131 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,520 and his sons would then go into politics and get power, 132 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,840 which he didn't have. He had economic power, 133 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:14,440 but he wanted political power. 134 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,680 He clearly wanted to create a dynasty. 135 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:38,120 Frank Sinatra has described his youth as being rough and tumble. 136 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,960 There were neighbourhood skirmishes. 137 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,240 Kids got into scrapes with each other. 138 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:44,800 Kids would make fun of each other. 139 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:49,360 As an Italian-American, he knew that he was not in an echelon 140 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,880 of American society that was well respected. 141 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,160 And also, he was small, he was skinny. 142 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,200 He was spoilt. He was a mama's boy. 143 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:04,560 There came a point in his young life where Frank Sinatra decided, 144 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:06,400 I want to be a singer. 145 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:10,800 The family had a bar. 146 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,160 It was called the Marty O'Brien Association, 147 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,320 and Frank would go shine shoes. 148 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,160 It was frequented by what we would now know 149 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,600 as some of the most famous names in the Mafia. 150 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,920 Well, the wiseguys, big mobster chieftains as they would become, 151 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:31,320 hitmen and lots of kind of gofers. 152 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:36,160 Then Frank would start singing, and the people, the audience, 153 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:40,600 really enjoyed it, and he saw that type of positive response. 154 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,480 It was a Frankie, Little Frankie fan club by the mobsters. 155 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:48,880 And because Sinatra had grown up feeling puny and looked down upon, 156 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,800 he very quickly came to idolise these guys. 157 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,440 He saw them as men of strength, men of honour. 158 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:00,040 And that's where kind of he was adopted by major - 159 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,000 as in major, major - mobsters. 160 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,480 He got a job singing at the Rustic Cabin, 161 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:11,520 and the job was given to him by the local mobster in his area. 162 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:16,560 Willie Moretti was a pretty substantial power in organised crime 163 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:18,160 in northern New Jersey, 164 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,760 and he was a close neighbour of Frank's. 165 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:25,320 And in the end, singing at the Rustic Cabin 166 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,560 gave Frank Sinatra one of his first big breaks. 167 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:39,640 Frank got a job with Harry James, a brilliant trumpet player. 168 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,240 He hired Sinatra on the spot with one condition - 169 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,800 he wanted Sinatra to change his name to Frankie Satin. 170 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,160 S-A-T-I-N. 171 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:53,520 And Frank Sinatra says, "The name is Sinatra. 172 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,040 "Frank fucking Sinatra." 173 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:02,160 That nine months with Harry James has so many memories 174 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,160 for Frank Sinatra and his family attached to it. 175 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,560 Frank was a young married at that point. 176 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:12,360 His young bride Nancy came along with them on the road. 177 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,720 It really gave Frank an opportunity to cut his teeth, 178 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,200 working with a real touring band 179 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:23,320 that was also performing on the radio regularly and making records. 180 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:28,200 Frank always wanted to be bigger than Hoboken, and he was. 181 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:33,040 And Sinatra retains, from young manhood until the very end 182 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,760 of his life, this idolatry for the Mafia, the mafiosi. 183 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,680 Sinatra is said to have said, 184 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:42,120 "I would rather be a don of the Mafia 185 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:43,920 "than President of the United States." 186 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,720 Joe Kennedy had this vision that he's going to establish 187 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:58,760 something that is unprecedented in American history, 188 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,040 and that is a dynasty - 189 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:05,440 our version of the Royal Family. 190 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:11,880 The eldest, Joseph Kennedy Jr, was the son who was really anointed 191 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:16,480 from birth to run for everything, up to and including the presidency. 192 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,080 And I think he was being groomed throughout his childhood, 193 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:25,520 and he was bigger and more charismatic and a better athlete 194 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:28,440 than his younger brother, John F Kennedy. 195 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:32,920 John F Kennedy - bookish, wry and detached. 196 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,440 Also funny, but in a quieter way. 197 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:41,360 He seemed destined for a quieter, contemplative life of some kind. 198 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,280 But then everything changed in World War II. 199 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:51,200 Unfortunately, Joe Jr, he flew in a plane loaded with explosives 200 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,800 that was supposed to explode over Europe, and he was killed. 201 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,520 Joe Sr was absolutely devastated. 202 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,720 They say he just used to walk along the beach silently 203 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,600 and just look out at the ocean, because all his hopes had been put 204 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,960 in his oldest son and he had to transfer. 205 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:09,520 I think he looked at JFK 206 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,520 as kind of a... Not a ne'er do well, 207 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,920 but certainly Joe Jr was, you know, was the golden boy. 208 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,560 And so all of the family's hopes and dreams, 209 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,720 particularly for public life, public service, now fall to Jack. 210 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,040 It wasn't long before Frank was approached by Tommy Dorsey, 211 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,120 who at that moment 212 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,640 was the biggest and most successful big band leader in history. 213 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:47,080 Once Frank Sinatra joined the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, 214 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:51,400 the focus became the singer. 215 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,040 # You know, the one I love 216 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,160 # Belongs to somebody else 217 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:01,560 # You ain't nowhere # That's why 218 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,240 # She sings her songs for somebody else 219 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,880 # Whoa, oh, oh... # 220 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,800 When he sang, all the women in the audience 221 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,560 at whatever venue Sinatra was entertaining 222 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:19,080 would edge toward the bandstand, toward where Sinatra was singing. 223 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:21,600 # For somebody else 224 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,880 # Do-do do-do 225 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,600 # And when I hold her... # 226 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:30,000 All of a sudden, young girls wanted to go not just to dance, 227 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:35,400 but to stand in front of this wondrous singer named Frank Sinatra. 228 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:39,880 So by the end of 1942, Frank realises, 229 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:43,320 "I could do this as a solo act," 230 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,920 and he decides that he's going to leave the Dorsey band. 231 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,320 Tommy Dorsey was a terrific band leader, 232 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:53,720 but Tommy Dorsey was also a brilliant businessman. 233 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,800 The contract that Sinatra signed with Dorsey is extortionate, really. 234 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,680 Unto perpetuity, a percentage of Sinatra's earnings. 235 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:11,440 Frank Sinatra knew a lot of guys in the Mob. 236 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:16,080 Everybody who sang in clubs at that point knew the boys, 237 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,640 the wiseguys, because they controlled the clubs. 238 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:25,080 Now, he liked hanging around with the boys because Frank Sinatra 239 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:29,560 was fascinated by power, and these guys exuded power. 240 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,520 Willie Moretti had long been involved with his career, 241 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,720 and when Sinatra went to him and said, "I've got a major problem 242 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,640 "here with my boss, Tommy Dorsey," 243 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,240 Moretti went down there, 244 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,600 shoved a gun in his mouth, 245 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:47,920 and made him sell his contract for a dollar. 246 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,280 "Let him go, or you're dead." 247 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,320 Which is, it's back to the, "It's an offer you can't refuse." 248 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,720 It was a business relationship. 249 00:16:55,720 --> 00:17:01,440 Sinatra was a commodity to these men who ran the nightclubs. 250 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:25,240 In 1947 Sinatra attends a Mafia conference in Havana 251 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,600 in tribute to Lucky Luciano, 252 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,960 who was the head of this conference in Havana. 253 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,520 Lucky Luciano, who had been deported from the United States, 254 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,600 was the ultimate godfather of American organised crime, 255 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:42,640 the man that was considered the founder of the American Mafia. 256 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,640 And he had been allowed 257 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,160 to leave his home in Sicily 258 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,560 and return as far across the Atlantic as Havana, 259 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:56,000 where in that period, in the 1940s and '50s, 260 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,840 lots and lots of organised crime figures had casinos 261 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:03,640 where lots of Americans went to play, 262 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:08,040 and where the Mob was holding a little group gathering, 263 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,400 and Frank was their chosen entertainment. 264 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,120 Now Frank arrived in Havana aboard a flight from Miami 265 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:18,000 with the Fischetti brothers, with whom he was extremely close. 266 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,880 They were all underlings of the Chicago Outfit. 267 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:25,800 When he arrived, he was seen getting off the plane with a briefcase. 268 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,360 And in that briefcase, later reports suggested 269 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:33,280 he was carrying $2 million in cash for Lucky Luciano. 270 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:38,080 And also, back in Naples, when Lucky Luciano's apartment was raided, 271 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,920 they found a gold cigarette case inscribed to Luciano 272 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,480 from his pal, Frank. 273 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,880 Frank talked around his connection with the Mafia, 274 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:55,320 but it is clear that throughout his life, Frank was close to the Mob. 275 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,520 It's very interesting to look at the beginnings 276 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,120 of John F Kennedy in electoral politics, 277 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:21,520 because in some ways he's not gifted. 278 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:23,120 He's awkward. 279 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:25,800 He's extremely skinny. 280 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,400 He hasn't filled out his frame yet. 281 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,440 He was not a natural politician. 282 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:36,880 He didn't have that instinct to dive into a crowd and shake hands, 283 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:41,440 sort of embracing people and getting to know them. 284 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,840 He was the kind of guy who would go to an event, stand in a corner, 285 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,200 and his aides had to kind of like get him... 286 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,480 "Come on, Jack, you've got to shake hands." Right? 287 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:52,960 He's green. He needs practice. 288 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,920 He is not terribly good at public speaking at first, 289 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:57,200 but he works hard. 290 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,840 He campaigns with his family. 291 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,160 In fact, it's an entire family affair. 292 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,160 The family's money gets behind it. 293 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,120 His mother and his sisters get behind it. 294 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:10,520 It's a really extraordinary operation to get him into Congress. 295 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,480 That's when he starts to put together this Irish mafia 296 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,720 that's going to be so important for his later career, 297 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,680 because the key people there are going to stick with him 298 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,600 over the next 17 years. 299 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,320 Bobby Kennedy was a fantastic political organiser. 300 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,160 He was really running the campaign, 301 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,600 so he brought his friend Kenny O'Donnell along, 302 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,880 who was a big organiser. 303 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,520 My dad was at Jack's side. 304 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:35,360 He was his right hand guy. 305 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:39,440 He was his logistics guy and his kind of political antenna. 306 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,640 There's also going to be Dave Powers. 307 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,560 There's going to be Larry O'Brien. 308 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,920 They were all Irish Catholics. 309 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:51,000 And, you know, they were truly the brains behind 310 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,120 what became this Kennedy political machine. 311 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:59,040 He blows away the competition in 1946 at a young age. 312 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:03,520 And it's a sign that it isn't just luck or his father's money - 313 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,120 that he is gifted in his own way also. 314 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:15,000 By 1952, Jack Kennedy was now confident enough that he runs 315 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,960 for the United States Senate, which is a huge promotion, right? 316 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,480 Every senator thinks of himself or herself 317 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,280 as the next president, right? 318 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,920 Not so true of members of the House of Representatives. 319 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,800 It's a steep hill he's trying to climb up. 320 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,400 A lot of Massachusetts is not Boston. 321 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,440 It's not Irish and Catholic. 322 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,640 And amazingly, he does win. 323 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,480 He's now on track. 324 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:42,720 By 1952, he is clearly on track for what his father wants. 325 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:58,000 Frank really was the first multimedia superstar. 326 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,080 He was on film. 327 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,000 He was on television in the early '50s. 328 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,480 He was on radio. 329 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,560 He was making records. 330 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,360 He was having these mass sell-out live appearances 331 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:12,040 all over the country. 332 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,880 He would open his mouth to start singing, 333 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,240 and this tidal noise would spring up, 334 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,240 and all he could do was stand there moving his lips. 335 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,880 They just wanted to see him. 336 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:23,520 He was the heart-throb. 337 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,120 He was the Beatles of the 1940s, really. 338 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:31,040 They would sit in their seats, they would pee in their seats. 339 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,320 They would not leave. 340 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,680 They would tear his clothes off. 341 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,680 They would scream, they would trample, 342 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,640 you know, anyone to get to Frank. 343 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,000 It was hysteria. 344 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,760 And there was no-one more successful than Frank Sinatra. 345 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,760 And then suddenly it all went away. 346 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:01,440 Frank Sinatra's career almost came unstuck permanently 347 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,760 because the world began to notice that he was associated 348 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,160 with organised crime. 349 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,760 Here he was, an Italian-American, 350 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:14,800 consorting with these Italian-American criminals. 351 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,400 So Sinatra must be a criminal himself. 352 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,120 His record company dropped him. 353 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:22,640 His movie studio dropped him, his agents dropped him, 354 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,200 his publicist. Everybody dropped Sinatra. 355 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,560 And so by the time he gets together with Ava Gardner 356 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,480 and Nancy divorces him in 1950, he is... 357 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,840 He's on his ass. He has no more career. 358 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,200 He has no more money. It's all gone. 359 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,440 And not only that, he is in quite ill repute. 360 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:45,640 And in the early 1950s, when no-one else was there to help him, 361 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,960 the Mob stepped in to help him. 362 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,840 The Mob let him play all of the clubs all over again, 363 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,080 and sometimes he was playing to half empty clubs, 364 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,800 but he really owed them from that time on. 365 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,200 The Mob had been in Hollywood from the '30s. 366 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,840 They've got money in the studios. They've got money in the actors. 367 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,440 They could close the sets. 368 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,920 They could close Hollywood. They could close the racetrack. 369 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,600 Could blink certain people, and just, that was it. 370 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,000 So their influence was monumental. 371 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,640 Sinatra gets a role in From Here to Eternity. 372 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,840 Suddenly, inexplicably, everybody hates him. 373 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,120 You couldn't even get fleas to attend a concert. 374 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:28,800 I mean, he was that down. 375 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,680 And suddenly he gets this major starring part in the biggest movie 376 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,440 that year in Hollywood. 377 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,840 It was felt that he owed the Mob for his success. 378 00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:43,040 And he owed them later for getting him into Las Vegas 379 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:48,160 for the start of what would be an almost endless run in Las Vegas, 380 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,760 where he made a fortune and where the Mob made a fortune. 381 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:10,280 Early 1950s and mid 1950s, Las Vegas was a sleepy one-horse town. 382 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,960 It literally, in the downtown of Las Vegas, 383 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,200 there was this sort of bright flashing block 384 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,280 where you went to gamble. 385 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,960 But as Sinatra grew in power and fame, 386 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,600 he began to change Las Vegas. 387 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,120 It got bigger. It got glitzier. 388 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:29,000 More money flowed in, 389 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:34,760 and it became a place that was no longer a one-horse town, 390 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,240 because they built and they built and they built 391 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,560 along the Strip in Las Vegas more and more hotel casinos. 392 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,440 This was accelerated by the fall of Batista in Cuba. 393 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,360 The Mob is kicked out of Havana. 394 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:50,080 And so between Sinatra's rise and Batista's fall, 395 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:56,720 Las Vegas becomes the world capital of naughtiness, of fun and sin. 396 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,880 Lucky Luciano sent Bugsy Siegel out to Las Vegas 397 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,520 to really build up the whole gambling industry there. 398 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:25,400 Sinatra was actually offered a 9% share of the Sands, 399 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,800 because it was the great business model to bring top entertainers 400 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,440 to fill up these casinos. 401 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:40,160 Frank was hired in those early days in Vegas to play at the Sands 402 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,440 every single year until the late 1960s. 403 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,880 There, he built what can only be described as a sort of empire, 404 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:52,840 a cast of players who were just as talented as he was, 405 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:54,560 some arguably more talented, 406 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:59,120 if you speak of someone like Sammy Davis Jr, the young black dancer. 407 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:02,160 Dean Martin, very funny, very witty, very charismatic. 408 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,640 Joey Bishop, brilliant comedian. 409 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:09,680 Peter Lawford, the handsome, not necessarily terribly talented, 410 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,160 "Brother-in-Lawford", as they called him, 411 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:17,320 the brother-in-law of soon-to-be presidential candidate John Kennedy. 412 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,120 So you had this group that Frank headed. 413 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:24,880 They became known first as The Clan and then as the Rat Pack, 414 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:29,280 and they were just the summit, 415 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,640 the summit of everything in the '50s. 416 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,840 They said that the Rat Pack was the Mount Rushmore 417 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,200 of men having fun. 418 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,880 They made enormous fun for the huge audiences who came to watch them, 419 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,240 and they had a lot of fun on the side. 420 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:48,600 Women everywhere. 421 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,600 A lot of the women were young actresses and so on, 422 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,200 but a lot of the women were also prostitutes, 423 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,680 and they didn't make much secret of that. 424 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,160 The Rat Pack was good for the Mob 425 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,480 because it brought the huge audiences, 426 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,680 and Las Vegas was good for the Rat Pack. 427 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,040 It was a happy marriage of minds. 428 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,560 Everybody loves a comeback, and Sinatra had the biggest one ever. 429 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,960 And so people loved him just for rising out of the dirt 430 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:23,040 and brushing himself off and becoming a star again. 431 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,560 Nobody has ever failed so badly and come back so huge as Sinatra. 432 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,240 Sinatra first met Kennedy through Peter Lawford, 433 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,440 who married Kennedy's younger sister, Pat. 434 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,880 The first known episode where Jack Kennedy and Frank Sinatra 435 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,160 kind of come together 436 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,280 is at the Sands Hotel. 437 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,200 It was really the thunderbolt for both of them in different ways. 438 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:13,200 Obviously not a sexual thing, but something touching on sexuality 439 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,280 because they were both extremely attractive men 440 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,720 and both understood at once each other's magnetism. 441 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,640 Sinatra, of course, was this extraordinary singer 442 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,640 and presence in Hollywood, in the music industry, in film. 443 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,040 Kennedy, of course, was a rising star in politics, 444 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,120 the son of a famous American family 445 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,920 who had been splashed over all the papers. 446 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,080 And I think they were drawn to each other because they both 447 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:43,840 were drawn to that notion of excellence, of competence, 448 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,600 of star appeal. 449 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,480 Frank Sinatra was just, you know, 450 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,000 I don't think smitten is too strong a word. 451 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,360 He was smitten by him. And it wasn't just Frank. 452 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,640 I mean, that whole generation thought, this is our guy. 453 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,440 Jack sort of sees him as his, 454 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,120 not way in because he didn't need a way in. 455 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,520 But, like, everybody loves Sinatra, you know? 456 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:03,960 This is after the fall. 457 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,320 So Sinatra's back. 458 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,680 And by the time they really connect, you know, 459 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,800 Sinatra is the biggest thing on the planet at this point. 460 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,160 Sinatra gets out of it 461 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,320 this politician on the rise, 462 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,560 and with the Kennedy family background, 463 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,960 they lend a certain respectability to Frank Sinatra. 464 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,360 So he's getting a seat at the main table of political power. 465 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,320 And so they each got something out of the friendship. 466 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,960 And plus they both were womanisers. 467 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:40,560 JFK was, of course, married to the glamorous Jackie Kennedy. 468 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,960 But unseen by the public at that time 469 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:50,800 was his extraordinary addiction to bedding women. 470 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,840 And Frank was a master at having a good time 471 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:55,880 and helping others have a good time. 472 00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:00,760 Jack Kennedy instantly understands Sinatra is the key to the kingdom 473 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:05,160 and the kingdom of the most beautiful women in the world. 474 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:10,840 Sinatra is the one who can give Jack Kennedy easy entree 475 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,000 to any woman he wants at all. 476 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,480 Sinatra fulfilled very much the role of pimp for Kennedy 477 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,840 when he was in California, 478 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,200 because Peter Lawford has the beach-side house 479 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,880 down in Santa Monica. All the parties go on there. 480 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,240 The LAPD are policing it. 481 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:34,320 So anybody goes there with a camera or a notebook or just a passer-by, 482 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,760 they're shuffled away very quickly. 483 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,400 So it's very private and people are there and you've got parties. 484 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,920 You've got Kennedy there, you've got Marilyn Monroe there, 485 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,640 you've got Warren Beatty. It's like a fairy tale. 486 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,560 So I think for Kennedy, this is... 487 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:53,680 Who's been brought up very strict kind of parameters of his life 488 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,240 because he's got to follow this path and worked very hard, 489 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,880 and his kind of escape is into the glamour. 490 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:03,000 And of course, Sinatra is like freedom. 491 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,640 He sees this kind of flyaway lad who seems to be able to do anything 492 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,440 and get away with anything. So I think that's the attraction. 493 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,800 This is a really good looking guy from a very wealthy family 494 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,160 and from the very beginning, 495 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,960 I mean, women were attracted to him. And again, it's natural. 496 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,240 You have money and looks, combination. 497 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,760 You're going to attract girls. 498 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,760 And I think a lot of these people realise this guy is on the rise. 499 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:34,280 And this is the junction of politics and showbusiness. 500 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,640 He is the sexiest of politicians 501 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,840 in a time when politicians didn't do that. 502 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,560 And what he got up to in Vegas with Frank Sinatra 503 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,360 would not have been OK if made public at the time. 504 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,520 There were a lot of secrets about the Kennedys 505 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,560 that the press sort of kept to itself. 506 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,160 They weren't about to report on the philandering 507 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,280 of this young senator from Massachusetts. 508 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,640 But the historical record shows 509 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,840 that there was a great deal of philandering. 510 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,200 And if the press decided to report it, 511 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,240 it probably would have ruined Senator Kennedy's career, 512 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,800 which gets to a certain amount of recklessness on his part. 513 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,240 As 1960 is beginning, everybody wants something new. 514 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:40,840 It's a new decade. 515 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,440 The same guy's been president for eight years. 516 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,720 Everyone knows he's leaving, but no-one knows who's coming in. 517 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,480 So the Democrats want someone new and exciting, 518 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:55,000 and it's the perfect time for a young, charismatic 519 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,280 candidate to emerge. 520 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,120 I am today announcing my candidacy 521 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,680 for the Presidency of the United States. 522 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:07,320 Kennedy offered a breath of fresh air, not through what he had to say, 523 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,040 but the image that he portrayed. 524 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:13,760 He was young, he was handsome, he was smart, he was clever, 525 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:18,000 and he was telegenic in a television age. 526 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,920 We stand today on the edge of a new frontier. 527 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,680 The frontier of the 1960s. 528 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:31,600 The frontier of unknown opportunities and perils. 529 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:36,960 The frontier of unfilled hopes and unfilled threats. 530 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:42,760 I'm asking each of you to be pioneers towards that new frontier. 531 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:49,200 This was what I think many Americans believed was the best of themselves. 532 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,960 And I think in many ways, that's what Kennedy offered to Americans - 533 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,320 a sense of what they could be. 534 00:34:55,320 --> 00:35:00,520 John Kennedy is the first Catholic who is running for president 535 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,920 in a serious way since Al Smith of New York in 1928. 536 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,680 And Al Smith was defeated handily in 1928, 537 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,120 in part because of his Catholic faith. 538 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:17,880 The Ku Klux Klan would burn crosses outside of his campaign rallies. 539 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:22,280 Newspapers predicted that the Pope would for some reason 540 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,840 leave the Vatican and move to Washington. 541 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,760 People believed this stuff. 542 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,040 So that was the X factor in 1960. 543 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:34,280 Was the American public ready for a Catholic president? 544 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,440 Kennedy, in order to try to wrap up things as quickly as he could, 545 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,520 understands that the primaries themselves, 546 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,920 the presidential primaries that were held in a variety of states, 547 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,680 which were few and far between in those days, 548 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,480 and didn't have nearly the importance then as they do now, 549 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,400 they were still going to be crucial for Kennedy's ultimate appeal. 550 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,040 The West Virginia primary between Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey 551 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:05,720 was pivotal because West Virginia was a Protestant state, right? 552 00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:10,520 There were no centres of Irish Catholicism 553 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,160 in Wheeling, West Virginia. 554 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:16,120 So the test would be how would West Virginia react 555 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,240 to a Catholic candidate? 556 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:21,120 I am not the Catholic candidate for President. 557 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,160 I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, 558 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,240 who happens also to be a Catholic. 559 00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:30,120 I do not speak for my church on public matters, 560 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,760 and the church does not speak for me. 561 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:37,760 So the Kennedys poured money and resources into West Virginia 562 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,800 because they believed, and it turned out rightfully so, 563 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:45,200 if they could show the rest of the Democratic Party that, look, 564 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,880 a Catholic can win in this highly Protestant state, 565 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,240 well, that would send a message to the rest of the Democratic Party. 566 00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:55,760 So the stakes were unbelievably high. 567 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,920 If I should win this election, I will faithfully execute the office 568 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:13,320 of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, 569 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:18,200 preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, so help me God. 570 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:24,280 I think as Kennedy campaigned and was making these remarkable 571 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:30,640 speeches about how he was going to implement change in America, 572 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,000 I think Frank was really inspired 573 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,360 and wanted to help in any way that he could. 574 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,880 And the best way that he could help 575 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:42,360 was by lending his name to the campaign and saying, 576 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,080 "I support Jack." 577 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,440 He was really vital in terms of the campaign, 578 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,120 and I don't think people understand this. 579 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:50,880 He raised a ton of money. 580 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,560 He set up kind of a pseudo Kennedy campaign headquarters 581 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,440 at the Villa Capri in Hollywood. 582 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,680 He was like a don. He'd sit there and they'd set up phone lines 583 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,040 and he'd call everyone he could think of - 584 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,240 all the people in the business, and he'd get them to either give money 585 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:07,600 or commit to doing something for Jack. 586 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:12,640 And I mean, he worked it constantly and worked frenzied. 587 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:18,200 Frank really, really took it upon himself to gather 588 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,240 all of his Rat Pack cronies and send them out, 589 00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:26,160 working at different events, travelling around the country, 590 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,400 playing different affairs, raising money. 591 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,680 He was very dynamic in that way. 592 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,360 People remarked on it at the time, 593 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:40,240 but more importantly, it was Frank to whom Joe Kennedy, 594 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:45,640 Jack's father, turned when he wanted help from organised crime 595 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,280 in getting Jack elected. 596 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,640 His connections with the Mafia go back to when he was a bootlegger 597 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,320 during Prohibition. 598 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:58,120 He was in partnership with major organised crime figures, 599 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,760 and so he just parlayed those connections 600 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,520 when it came to getting support for Jack. 601 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:26,840 From the 1930s on, Joe Kennedy had spent a lot of time at a resort 602 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:31,320 casino on the shore of Lake Tahoe called Cal Neva, 603 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,880 and it was a place where Joe Kennedy loved to go and relax 604 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,600 and mix and mingle with beautiful young women. 605 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,040 And the Mob was there. 606 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:43,960 And that was where Joe Kennedy and the head of the Chicago Outfit, 607 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,600 Sam Giancana, became friendly. 608 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:53,800 Sam Giancana ruled the Mafia in that area of the United States. 609 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,320 He's been called the heir to Al Capone. 610 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:03,120 And he was a very vicious, powerful, slightly mad character. 611 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:07,920 His nickname was Mooney, kind of mad as the moon, 612 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:12,320 which he then dubbed himself as Momo, 613 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:16,640 but he was known to be a very odd, dangerous guy. 614 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,080 He was such a psychopath, 615 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,680 the US Army wouldn't allow him to join the army during the war. 616 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,360 He was regarded as too dangerous to be in the army. 617 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:31,640 He was extremely powerful and he was close to Frank, 618 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:33,840 and that was important. 619 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:40,680 Joe Kennedy knew that he needed some help from organised crime. 620 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:46,080 He also knew that he could not go directly to Sam Giancana 621 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:47,800 for any help with the election. 622 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:53,520 And so Sinatra was Joe Kennedy's intermediary. 623 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:57,520 And so he summoned Frank across the country to Hyannis Port 624 00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,240 and they had a meeting. 625 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:03,320 And he said to him, "I want you to bring people on board." 626 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:09,760 And Frank's mission was to bring on board, particularly Sam Giancana, 627 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:14,400 to enable him to swing every possible vote for Jack 628 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,680 in places where there would be tight primary elections 629 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,160 and then where there would be a tight general election. 630 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,440 The Mob controlled the unions. 631 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:27,840 The unions were big players in politics 632 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,560 because they could get out huge blocs of voters. 633 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:35,080 So if the Mob controlled the union and the Mob wanted somebody to win, 634 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,560 they would put the word out to the union 635 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,520 that we want your guys to vote for our guy. 636 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:45,960 So Sinatra went to Momo and said, the big man needs your help, 637 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:51,400 and we will give you... We'll make sure that the hounds will be off 638 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,400 your trail as soon as Jack enters the White House. 639 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,320 And, you know, they were not inclined to support Kennedy. 640 00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,680 This is something people lose sight of. 641 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,480 They didn't like Jack Kennedy because of Bobby Kennedy. 642 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:07,360 Robert Kennedy was an infamous anti-Mob guy 643 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,240 and was known to be an anti-Mob crusader. 644 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:13,160 In the late 1950s, 645 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:17,200 organised crime was only beginning to really come under attack 646 00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:24,240 as an entity. There'd been a big push by Bobby Kennedy as a counsel 647 00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:28,760 to the Senate Rackets Committee to target the influence 648 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,720 of organised crime on organised labour 649 00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:36,120 and people that were being targeted in particular, were people 650 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:40,000 who were leaders of the various organised crime families. 651 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,400 You've got people in Detroit, at least 15, 652 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,000 who have police records, 653 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,280 and it's not so shocking that you should be involved 654 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,840 in taking the Greenleaf money. 655 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:53,000 Mr Kennedy, it is shocking to even involve a man 656 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,680 with that kind of blood taint money. 657 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,960 And I don't go for that, Mr Kennedy. 658 00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,200 I don't go for that kind of action. 659 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,240 It was very dangerous times, you know. 660 00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:04,200 They were... Bobby was right on the edge going after these guys. 661 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:09,120 And one of the people that he went after was Sam Giancana. 662 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:13,520 Giancana is a guy that if you give him the wrong look, you're dead. 663 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,960 I mean, you're talking about a very scary guy, 664 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,760 but Bobby wasn't scared. 665 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,640 Can you tell us anything about any of your operations? 666 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,480 Or are you just gonna giggle every time I ask you a question? 667 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,760 I decline to answer because I honestly believe 668 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,080 my answer might incriminate me. 669 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,000 I thought only little girls giggled, Mr Giancana. 670 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,520 That's the same Giancana that then gets recruited for the campaign. 671 00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:38,880 Kennedy becomes like Sinatra, someone who is going to be assisted 672 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:40,720 by the Mafia to get what he wants, 673 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:43,640 which is to become the President of the United States. 674 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,360 So the Mob are on his side. 675 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,840 What the Mob wanted to get out of that 676 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:53,520 was for the Kennedy administration, once it won, to go easy on mobsters. 677 00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:00,320 There was a repeated, a modus operandi, if you will, 678 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,920 of cash being exchanged to get the vote out, 679 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:10,360 votes being cast and then a slim or substantial victory. 680 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:15,000 He won West Virginia, where the issue of Kennedy's Catholicism 681 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,080 had become a very big deal. 682 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:21,880 And then they turned out the vote in Illinois as well. 683 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,440 And he won by a wild margin in Chicago, 684 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,440 a small margin state-wide, which tells you something right there, 685 00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,240 that the machine had done its work in the city of Chicago. 686 00:44:31,240 --> 00:44:33,080 And Frank helped engineer that. 687 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,040 On election night, while the Kennedys were sitting up late 688 00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,440 waiting for the election returns to come in, 689 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:42,080 Frank was working the phones from his home in California, 690 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,960 and one of the people he was calling was Giancana. 691 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:49,360 Giancana was sitting in his office in Chicago telling him, 692 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,640 "We're going to pull it out. We're going to pull it out." 693 00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,720 And himself working the phones. 694 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:57,280 So you see this real connection between the campaign 695 00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,880 of Jack Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, and the organised crime figures 696 00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,920 who are helping to make that victory possible. 697 00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:09,840 Sinatra had a dangerous misapprehension of his relationship 698 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,120 with the men of the Mob. 699 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,480 He thought they loved him. 700 00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:19,200 He thought they felt about him as deeply as he felt about them. 701 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,640 These were cold, calculating guys. 702 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:28,600 He was a commodity to them, and only as long as he brought home the bacon 703 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,840 was he persona grata to the Mafia. 704 00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:44,480 In 1960, thanks to Frank Sinatra and his friends, you know, 705 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:48,320 Hollywood and American politics kind of fused together. 706 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,680 We hadn't seen the likes of Jack Kennedy 707 00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,680 and look who he surrounded himself with - 708 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,360 Frank Sinatra and Frank Sinatra's friends. 709 00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,280 And who's singing a campaign song for Jack Kennedy 710 00:45:58,280 --> 00:45:59,760 but Frank Sinatra! 711 00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:01,560 You know, you try to think of it today. 712 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,760 He had the biggest celebrity on the planet supporting him, 713 00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,040 somebody people adored. 714 00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:08,920 # Come on and vote for Kennedy... # 715 00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,280 And that gives his campaign, on top of his youth, 716 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:16,000 on top of his good looks, on top of his beautiful wife, 717 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:22,040 it gives his campaign such a sense of the dynamism in the country, 718 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,800 the youth of the country, the hope of the country, 719 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,200 a sense of the involvement, the commitment to the future. 720 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,480 That was exciting. 721 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,600 # K-E-double-N-E-D-Y 722 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:38,200 # Jack's the nation's favourite guy 723 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,560 # Every one wants to back Jack 724 00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,840 # Jack is on the right track... # 725 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,640 To everyone's delight, 726 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,840 Jack Kennedy wins the election. 727 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,240 Now we have the first Catholic president. 728 00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:57,160 We have a president who has all sorts of friends in Hollywood. 729 00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,960 This is going to be an inaugural gala like none other. 730 00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:02,520 And sure enough, it was. 731 00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,640 John Kennedy says to Frank Sinatra, 732 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,480 I'd like you to produce the inaugural gala 733 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,760 and Frank Sinatra being kind of the king of Hollywood, 734 00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,960 he knows every A-lister in Hollywood 735 00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:18,440 and they all turn up to perform at the inauguration. 736 00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,800 You would have thought it was the Oscars. 737 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:25,840 You know, Hollywood comes out in their finest tuxedos and dresses. 738 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:30,240 The red carpet, it's a Hollywood production. 739 00:47:30,240 --> 00:47:33,360 When you're dealing with the television age and you're dealing 740 00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:38,040 with this relationship between the President of the United States 741 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:42,440 and one of America's most beloved movie stars and singers, 742 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,920 who has all sorts of friends in Hollywood, 743 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,920 you look at that inaugural gala and you say, yeah, this is it. 744 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,240 This is showbiz and politics come together 745 00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:54,720 and neither will ever be the same. 746 00:47:54,720 --> 00:47:56,520 And arguably, that's true. 747 00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,840 I know we're all indebted to a great friend, Frank Sinatra. 748 00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:02,560 APPLAUSE 749 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,560 You cannot imagine the work that he has done 750 00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,560 to make this show a success. 751 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:13,280 Tonight there are two shows on Broadway that are closed down 752 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,040 because the members of the cast are here, 753 00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,240 and I want he and my sister Pat's husband, Peter Lawford, 754 00:48:19,240 --> 00:48:21,600 to know that we're all indebted to them, 755 00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,880 and we're proud to have them with us. 756 00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:25,280 APPLAUSE 757 00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,320 It was a big night for Frank, 758 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,680 as it should have been, because he was this guy, 759 00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:35,720 you know, he's come from really nowhere. 760 00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:39,400 Now you've got the guy who's going to the White House, you know, 761 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,360 standing up and saying, we want to thank you, Frank Sinatra. 762 00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,040 Without you, this couldn't have... 763 00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,760 I mean, you don't get heights like that. 764 00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,320 That was a big deal. 765 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,800 He said to my dad, "We did it. 766 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,600 "We're in the White House." 767 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,200 You know, and it was very much a "we" thing. 768 00:48:56,200 --> 00:49:00,240 The friendship, of course, is at its height then 769 00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:04,640 and then the problems ensue after that. 770 00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:11,880 The fact is that there's somebody else who has helped Jack Kennedy 771 00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:16,920 get elected, and that is the head of the Chicago Outfit, Sam Giancana. 772 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,560 Frank Sinatra, and the people around him had been very instrumental 773 00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:25,080 in helping Jack Kennedy get elected president. 774 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:30,840 Sinatra was treated with gratitude by the Kennedys at the beginning. 775 00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,920 The moment he was elected, 776 00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:38,800 Jack started to look at Frank in terms of his liabilities 777 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,760 instead of his positives. 778 00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:45,560 The people close to him and his advisers could see 779 00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:51,240 that Frank Sinatra could be a dangerous figure to be seen next to 780 00:49:51,240 --> 00:49:54,640 a man, to their man in the White House. 781 00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:58,320 Once you're in the White House, it's just everything changes. 782 00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,720 Your relationship with everyone changes. 783 00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:02,280 And Frank couldn't see that 784 00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,880 because he thought things would continue the way they... 785 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,520 In the way they did before - that he could just pick up the phone 786 00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:08,880 and chat with them. 787 00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,640 And I think that was very hard for him. 788 00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:15,160 I think the first step in the unravelling of the friendship 789 00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,800 actually happens when Joe Kennedy has his stroke. 790 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,480 NEWSREEL: Joseph P Kennedy, father of the President, 791 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:26,760 has improved after suffering a stroke, 792 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,840 Press Secretary Salinger announces, 793 00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:33,160 as his sons and daughter arrive in Palm Beach to be by his side. 794 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,200 One of the nation's richest men, 795 00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:39,680 Mr Kennedy is one of the few fathers to see his son become president. 796 00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:48,000 Joe Kennedy liked Frank Sinatra. They understood each other. 797 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,520 Two immigrants who had worked their way up, in effect. 798 00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:56,920 So without Joe there, it starts to crumble a bit. 799 00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:01,160 Bobby Kennedy and Jackie were not as big Frank Sinatra fans. 800 00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:07,800 Jacqueline Kennedy had very mixed feelings about Frank Sinatra. 801 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,760 She understood, of course, that in the ways in which 802 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,120 he could help her husband. 803 00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:19,360 But she also understood about the womanising, 804 00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:23,200 and she was high culture, 805 00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,800 and Frank Sinatra was not always high culture. 806 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:31,640 Frank Sinatra is soon edged out of the picture, 807 00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,960 not only because of Jackie Kennedy's dislike for him, 808 00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,800 but because of Bobby Kennedy's dislike for him. 809 00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,560 Bobby Kennedy and the people around him were concerned 810 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:03,360 about Sinatra's links to the Mafia, which he did have, 811 00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,400 and which, in the view of Bobby Kennedy, 812 00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:11,640 should not be allowed to besmirch the Kennedy presidency. 813 00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:20,120 At the same time as Frank was starting to really relax 814 00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,680 and enjoy his relationship with the President, 815 00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,560 and the fruits of his labours... 816 00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:35,640 ..John Kennedy appointed his brother Robert to be the Attorney General, 817 00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:39,960 and one of Robert Kennedy's first missions 818 00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,200 was to go after organised crime. 819 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,720 The people who got you elected 820 00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:48,800 and helped you get there, you're now telling them - what they would say, 821 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,080 that you ratted on them. 822 00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,240 So the Kennedys rat on the Mafia. 823 00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:56,280 You don't get something for nothing. 824 00:52:56,280 --> 00:53:03,080 And I think even though the Mob didn't expect to have carte blanche 825 00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:07,000 and do whatever they wanted unopposed, 826 00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:13,560 I don't think they expected to have this tremendous microscope 827 00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:18,320 put on them, and have them systematically dismantled. 828 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,680 That was the goal. 829 00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:24,160 To the point where even Kennedy aides at the time, 830 00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,440 they intervened and said to Bobby Kennedy, 831 00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,080 "Can't you just back off a little?" 832 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:29,960 I mean, but he was hell bent. 833 00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:33,000 Politics mean nothing to Bobby, you know. It's right or wrong. 834 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,600 The first day in the Oval Office 835 00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,280 and they're talking about all this stuff, 836 00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:42,680 and the first thing Bobby says is he's going to set up a, you know, 837 00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:46,200 a "Get Hoffa" and a "Get Giancana", you know, squad. 838 00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,920 First thing he said, day one. It's like a Saturday. 839 00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,680 And my father says to him, you know, Bobby, like a dog with a bone. 840 00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,000 There came a time, a year or so into the Kennedy presidency 841 00:53:56,000 --> 00:54:00,440 when known mafiosi were leaving the United States, 842 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,520 fleeing justice and going back to Sicily. 843 00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:10,960 He was winning, in a way, against the Mafia 844 00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:15,480 in the United States, in a way that no Attorney General ever had before. 845 00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:21,240 Sam Giancana hits the roof. 846 00:54:21,240 --> 00:54:23,000 He thought, "What are they doing?! 847 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,040 "We put this man in power. They owe us. 848 00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:27,680 "Why are they coming after us?" 849 00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:34,120 And that was one of the big concerns that the Mafia had. 850 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,880 Why have the Kennedys turned on us? Because we did them favours. 851 00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,160 They never thought, when they're supporting Kennedy 852 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:41,360 and Frank got them involved, 853 00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:43,720 they never thought Bobby would be the guy 854 00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:46,400 who's their archenemy going into the AG office. 855 00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:51,400 And even though Frank Sinatra had promised Momo Giancana 856 00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:56,920 that Frank could get his good friend Jack Kennedy to tell his brother 857 00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:01,360 Bobby to just let up a little bit on the Chicago mob, 858 00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:03,080 it never happened. 859 00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,560 The Mafia thought it had a get-out-of-jail-free pass 860 00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:09,360 because of the work that they had done for Kennedy. 861 00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,720 And just the opposite happens. 862 00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:14,000 They're getting arrested. They're getting busted. 863 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,240 They're getting shut down all over. 864 00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:19,720 And so they are furious. 865 00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:22,640 They felt quite betrayed by the whole thing. 866 00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,920 And whereas Frank Sinatra had been very good at repaying debts 867 00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:28,480 and turning up at Mob nightclubs, 868 00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,280 it was perceived the Kennedys were not. 869 00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:34,720 And that particularly Bobby Kennedy, I mean, 870 00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:39,120 he was behind the Joseph Valachi testimonies, 871 00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:43,160 which ended up with 317 mobsters being banged up. 872 00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:48,040 So, I mean, they felt the pain of what Bobby Kennedy was doing. 873 00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,080 So they were angry, very angry. 874 00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:54,360 And what's important to understand in the background to all 875 00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:59,160 these relationships is how much the FBI has been monitoring 876 00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:03,200 not only Frank Sinatra from the time he first got into the business - 877 00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,560 it's almost sick how much they monitored him - 878 00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:10,960 but they'd been monitoring Jack Kennedy the same amount of time. 879 00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,640 By the time Jack Kennedy is in office, 880 00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:18,040 J Edgar Hoover, he's been in power - literally in power - for... 881 00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:25,000 ..35 years, and he was an almost immovable object 882 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:26,680 in the American psyche. 883 00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,520 Part of the reason he kept his job for so long was because he would 884 00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:34,040 make clear to the presidents that he knew where the bodies were buried, 885 00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:36,120 that he knew where the dirt was. 886 00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:40,960 And from the 1960s, because he was continuing to age, 887 00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,040 he was also fearful that any new administration 888 00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:45,840 would try to push him out. 889 00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,200 So he was very much clinging for power 890 00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,560 and using the power he had accumulated 891 00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:52,120 over all of those many years 892 00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:54,520 of knowing where all the bodies were hidden. 893 00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:58,040 And he was very prepared to use that same kind of power and leverage 894 00:56:58,040 --> 00:56:59,720 with the Kennedy brothers. 895 00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:23,560 J Edgar Hoover started as a low level G-Man, 896 00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,640 eventually advocated for the creation of the FBI, 897 00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,320 and then when the FBI got created shortly after that, 898 00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,880 he became its director, and he stayed on as director 899 00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,440 for an unprecedented period of time. 900 00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:39,200 He was the FBI director for Roosevelt, for Truman, 901 00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:43,440 for Eisenhower, for Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. 902 00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,880 Blackmail was a favoured technique, 903 00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:53,920 and his method was to ask for a meeting with them 904 00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:58,640 and, you know, just very nicely reveal to them 905 00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:02,680 that he had this information about their association 906 00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:07,320 with the underworld or the fact that they were sleeping with so and so, 907 00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,720 and he would just speak to him very nicely 908 00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:12,080 and tell him that he had this information 909 00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,600 and that he certainly would keep it confidential. 910 00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,840 And when he told people that 911 00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:23,160 they wanted him to keep it confidential and they protected him. 912 00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:27,960 And Hoover has his own agenda. He despises Frank Sinatra. 913 00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:31,720 And, you know, everybody says, well, you know, 914 00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:34,640 it's because of the Giancana and the mobster connection. 915 00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:37,400 I think he also just didn't like him because he was Italian 916 00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:39,080 and Frank Sinatra and successful. 917 00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:41,680 I mean, I really think it was that, you know, 918 00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,200 and he's also... He despises Jack Kennedy. 919 00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:50,880 His disrespect for them goes back to before they were at the White House 920 00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,400 and in the Justice Department. 921 00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,920 I mean, he really regarded them as reckless. 922 00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:59,480 He did not like the direction that a lot of Kennedy policies 923 00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,160 were going in, particularly with respect to civil rights. 924 00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:04,600 He was an inveterate anti-communist. 925 00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:06,960 He had feared, especially regarding civil rights, 926 00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:10,680 that the communists had infiltrated the civil rights movement 927 00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:12,680 and was deathly afraid of that. 928 00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:15,000 And he was anti-Kennedy. 929 00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:18,240 He didn't like them as playboys. 930 00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,720 He didn't like the way that they threw themselves around, 931 00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:22,520 they threw their money around. 932 00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:25,040 And so he was somebody not to be tangled with. 933 00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:29,880 Hoover and the FBI are watching Sinatra closely. 934 00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,240 They're watching Jack Kennedy closely. 935 00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:35,640 And they also started paying attention to Sam Giancana. 936 00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:42,280 One can read wiretap after wiretap of various mafiosi 937 00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:46,600 expressing their absolute outrage, their... 938 00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:52,960 Their threats, their vows of revenge 939 00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:56,400 against both Sinatra for failing them - 940 00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:59,600 failing to act as an intermediary - 941 00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:04,160 and against the brothers for continuing to persecute them 942 01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:07,200 after they had offered all of this help. 943 01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,800 Principal among those angry threats 944 01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:13,280 were those that came from Sam Giancana. 945 01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:16,360 Sam Giancana at one point is quoted as saying, 946 01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:19,400 "I'll never get another penny to the Kennedys 947 01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:21,080 "because of what they're doing now." 948 01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:22,480 He was furious. 949 01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:26,520 You can hear these tapes where one of Giancana's associates says, 950 01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:28,520 "Do you want me to take care of Frank?" 951 01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:31,000 And Sam Giancana says, "No, I have other plans." 952 01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:36,120 And the other plans are that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin 953 01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:43,280 played Giancana's nightclub, Villa Venice in Illinois, for free. 954 01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,640 All these people are being watched. 955 01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:49,040 Nothing they're doing is escaping the notice of the FBI. 956 01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:52,480 And so all of these factors are coming together, 957 01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,160 and Hoover has got all the threads. 958 01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:58,240 And what happens is once you're in the White House, 959 01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,280 he has the opportunity to pull them all together. 960 01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:03,640 Which he hadn't been able to do before. 961 01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:07,880 And he can go to the president and kind of say, "Gotcha!" 962 01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:14,320 Virtually as soon as Jack Kennedy entered the White House, 963 01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:16,680 one thing that Hoover knew 964 01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:21,360 was that the presidential candidate and then the President-elect, 965 01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:24,000 and then the new President, had a girlfriend. 966 01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:44,320 While Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack 967 01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:48,120 were filming Ocean's 11 in Las Vegas, 968 01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:50,480 they did a performance at the Sands Hotel. 969 01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:52,880 Senator Kennedy was at that performance. 970 01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:57,200 At the time, Frank Sinatra was preparing to help campaign 971 01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:58,960 for then Senator Kennedy, 972 01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,960 and around that same time, at the Sands Hotel, 973 01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:05,880 Frank Sinatra introduced Jack Kennedy to his former girlfriend, 974 01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:08,640 Sinatra's former girlfriend, Judith Campbell. 975 01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:11,560 Jack Kennedy is smitten by Judy Campbell. 976 01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:13,080 She's clever. 977 01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,480 She's not a doormat. She's assertive. 978 01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:19,160 And Jack Kennedy found all these things very attractive, 979 01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:24,360 and he found something in her that he wanted more of. 980 01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:28,800 And so they had a thing that lasted for a little while, 981 01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:33,200 even as Jack Kennedy entered the White House in January 1961. 982 01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,960 Judith Campbell was a stunningly beautiful young woman 983 01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:41,280 who was somewhat reminiscent of the young Elizabeth Taylor. 984 01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:44,160 Well-spoken, middle class. 985 01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:48,880 You know, she was not the image of a party girl or someone who was, 986 01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:53,320 you know, a person of loose or cheap morals, as they would have said 987 01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:55,320 and described it in those days. 988 01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:57,240 She was a "classy dame" 989 01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:00,960 and therefore she would have appealed to Frank. 990 01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:02,840 She would have appealed to Jack Kennedy, 991 01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:05,200 she would have appealed to Mooney Giancana. 992 01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:08,920 And this is the nub of the story about Judith Campbell. 993 01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:11,920 At the same time that she was seeing the President, 994 01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:15,160 she was having a sexual affair with Sam Giancana. 995 01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:17,520 Frank introduced her. 996 01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:23,520 So by now you have an intersection of Frank Sinatra, Sam Giancana, 997 01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:27,280 Judy Campbell, and the President of the United States. 998 01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:29,560 The fact that the President of the United States 999 01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:31,640 was engaged in a relationship 1000 01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:35,440 with a woman who had a relationship with this powerful mobster 1001 01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:38,240 in Chicago, is... 1002 01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:42,560 I'm saying it - in some ways, I still find it hard to believe 1003 01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:44,360 that a man could be that reckless. 1004 01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:47,600 They were all at the height of their power, you know, 1005 01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:52,920 and they couldn't imagine that they had to live by the rules 1006 01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,120 everybody else did, because they had never had to. 1007 01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:59,120 And it works well until it doesn't. 1008 01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:06,200 When Jack Kennedy takes office and enters the White House, 1009 01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:09,400 Sam Giancana, along with J Edgar Hoover, 1010 01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:13,880 is very aware that Judy Campbell's visiting the President 1011 01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:20,280 in the White House, and Sam Giancana and J Edgar Hoover both understand 1012 01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:22,720 that this is a cudgel they can wield 1013 01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:25,400 over the most powerful man in the world. 1014 01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:29,160 In the midst of all this, as if the story couldn't get any crazier, 1015 01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:32,920 the FBI stumbles upon a CIA plot... 1016 01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:37,080 ..to assassinate Castro. 1017 01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:41,400 The plot is to be carried out by the very mobsters 1018 01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,960 that is hanging out with Sinatra, 1019 01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:46,840 hanging out with the president's girlfriend, Sam Giancana. 1020 01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:48,680 He's in the thick of this plot. 1021 01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:53,840 He's working with the CIA to assassinate Castro. 1022 01:04:55,400 --> 01:05:00,760 Judith Campbell claims she was a messenger taking messages 1023 01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:06,120 from Kennedy, and possibly money from Kennedy, to Sam Giancana 1024 01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:10,840 to carry on this CIA plot. 1025 01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:15,640 You have this crazy situation where very early in the presidency 1026 01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:20,040 of John F Kennedy, the head of the FBI realises 1027 01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:23,720 that the President is sleeping with a woman 1028 01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:26,080 who's an associate of mobsters. 1029 01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:29,600 He's being politically supported by a prominent singer 1030 01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:31,720 who's an associate of mobsters. 1031 01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:35,560 The mobsters are all complaining that they didn't get what they paid 1032 01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:37,520 for by supporting Kennedy. 1033 01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:41,440 And meanwhile, these same mobsters are working with the CIA 1034 01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,040 to assassinate Castro. 1035 01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:50,240 J Edgar Hoover, who was no friend of the Kennedy presidency, 1036 01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:53,960 had something, and something very big, on the President. 1037 01:05:56,000 --> 01:06:00,400 Now he wants to make sure it's clear - I'm going nowhere. 1038 01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:05,800 Hoover had the goods and was able to put pressure on the Kennedy 1039 01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:09,200 administration to break its ties to Sinatra. 1040 01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,640 And the big break comes in 1962. 1041 01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:39,520 About a year or so into Kennedy's presidency, 1042 01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:41,920 he's going to make a trip to California. 1043 01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:44,920 The purpose of the trip is for him to do presidential things 1044 01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:48,560 that presidents always do, but also to try to solidify political support 1045 01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:51,520 in California, which was a very close race 1046 01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:54,160 that Nixon won in 1960 - 1047 01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:56,520 Nixon carried the state of California. 1048 01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:59,000 And they really wanted to shore up support in that state, 1049 01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,480 so they sent Kennedy to go there. 1050 01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:04,800 Peter Lawford, Kennedy's brother-in-law, 1051 01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:07,560 has arranged for Frank Sinatra's 1052 01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:12,240 Palm Springs kind of compound to be where Kennedy, the President, 1053 01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,600 will stay on his visit. 1054 01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:19,680 And Sinatra goes full Conrad Hilton and, you know, 1055 01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:23,600 brings in the special soaps and baths and walkie talkies. 1056 01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:26,960 Puts a flag up like the same flag that's up at Hyannis Port, 1057 01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:30,000 where the Kennedy compound is. 1058 01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,960 You know, it's a bit like vacuuming under the bed and under the carpet - 1059 01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:34,640 the Queen's coming. 1060 01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:42,440 For Sinatra, this is the fulfilment of his greatest hopes for power, 1061 01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:45,680 for glamour, for reputation. 1062 01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:47,480 The President of the United States 1063 01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:49,440 is going to visit him in Palm Springs. 1064 01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:52,160 And so Sinatra pulls out all the stops. 1065 01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:56,160 He has a helicopter pad installed for the presidential helicopter. 1066 01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:59,640 He has special telephone lines installed so the President 1067 01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:03,000 can be in touch with anybody around the world, 1068 01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:05,360 the military, if he needs to. 1069 01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:09,760 He has a special guest house fitted out for the President. 1070 01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:13,680 Frank Sinatra does all this stuff to make it welcoming for the President 1071 01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:21,120 right when Hoover lowers the boom on this by informing Robert Kennedy 1072 01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:27,560 of how close his brother is to both Judith Campbell and Sinatra, 1073 01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:30,760 and how close those two are to the Mob. 1074 01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:36,280 Just as he did when he wanted to use blackmail, he made an appointment 1075 01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:41,760 to see the President and suggest that this was not a good idea. 1076 01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:43,360 Hoover was very slick that way. 1077 01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:46,720 He knew to be... To hold this in until he had to use it, 1078 01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:49,520 and he never asked to see the President unless it was serious. 1079 01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:52,680 So he got in, he got his lunch with the President, 1080 01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:55,520 and he had his memo and he laid it out right for him. 1081 01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,200 Like, "This is what we got. Gotcha." 1082 01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:02,120 Bobby Kennedy realises the scandal is going to destroy his brother's 1083 01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:05,840 presidency, because it's all going to come out about Judith Campbell, 1084 01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:08,200 and it's going to explode. 1085 01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:12,880 Bobby Kennedy, who was practical and really was ruthless, 1086 01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:16,680 he knew and he just said, "That's it. The visit's off." 1087 01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:20,240 It wasn't like it was, there was a big discussion about it. 1088 01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:21,760 It was a done deal. 1089 01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:25,560 Bobby Kennedy tells his brother, you can't go. 1090 01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:28,720 You cannot stay with Frank Sinatra. 1091 01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:31,160 You can't be involved with this woman any more. 1092 01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:33,640 You can't be involved with Frank Sinatra any more. 1093 01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:35,080 You can go on this trip. 1094 01:09:35,080 --> 01:09:37,360 But if you're going to stop in Palm Springs, 1095 01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:39,320 you can't stay at Frank Sinatra's. 1096 01:09:39,320 --> 01:09:44,480 And so this side visit, which had been heavily publicised, 1097 01:09:44,480 --> 01:09:46,440 is suddenly terminated. 1098 01:09:46,440 --> 01:09:48,800 And Jack Kennedy was not foolish. 1099 01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:51,680 He was reckless, but not foolish about politics. 1100 01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:53,400 He knew it was done. 1101 01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:56,320 And so the person who was going to pay the price, of course, 1102 01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:58,720 was Frank, because he couldn't stay there. 1103 01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:01,080 And, you know, I feel badly for Frank 1104 01:10:01,080 --> 01:10:03,840 because Frank doesn't know any of this is happening. 1105 01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:25,440 Nobody wants to tell Frank. That's the reality. 1106 01:10:25,440 --> 01:10:29,800 And the President says to my dad... My dad said, "I'll tell him," 1107 01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:31,240 because my father is just - 1108 01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:33,720 he and Frank had this very direct relationship. 1109 01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:37,360 And so he said, "No, have Peter do it," 1110 01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:39,360 because he wants it to go smoothly. 1111 01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:42,120 He doesn't want to... The president didn't want to lose Frank. 1112 01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:44,400 This is what people don't get. 1113 01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:45,960 He wasn't trying to cut him loose. 1114 01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:49,400 He wanted him to understand the circumstances. 1115 01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:53,960 So they tasked Peter Lawford with it to explain the situation. 1116 01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:57,520 But Peter has a history of stalling on these things with Frank. 1117 01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:00,640 And Frank doesn't have a great deal of faith 1118 01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:02,680 in Peter's candour with him. 1119 01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:05,040 So Frank doesn't understand 1120 01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:07,760 because he doesn't understand sort of the Kennedy way. 1121 01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:10,160 Like, this is "Don't take it personally, Frank. 1122 01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:12,800 "This is not personal. It's just politics." 1123 01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:14,840 And that's what needed to be said to him. 1124 01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:18,080 But nobody actually says that. Peter sort of dances around it. 1125 01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:22,480 Kennedy does, of all things, 1126 01:11:22,480 --> 01:11:25,560 Kennedy stays at Bing Crosby's house in Palm Springs. 1127 01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:28,400 Bing Crosby is a Republican, and this is like - 1128 01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:30,360 this is the final straw! 1129 01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:35,720 This is the most public of slights, of insults, 1130 01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:38,560 of comedowns for Frank Sinatra. 1131 01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:40,920 It's a humiliation. It is... 1132 01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:43,960 It's a humiliation on as grand a scale 1133 01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:48,000 as the pleasure and honour would have been 1134 01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:50,600 of hosting the President at his compound. 1135 01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:53,000 And Sinatra goes into a fury. 1136 01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:57,720 Tina Sinatra said, who wrote a very forthright biography, 1137 01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:00,480 interesting memoir about her father. 1138 01:12:00,480 --> 01:12:05,680 And she says, if the Kennedys had tried to come up with a better 1139 01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:09,400 way of hurting my father, it would have been impossible. 1140 01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:12,400 He was devastated by this break-up. 1141 01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:16,360 Sinatra is so kind of bereft by it, 1142 01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:18,200 he takes out a sledgehammer 1143 01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:21,480 and starts cracking up the concrete helicopter pad. 1144 01:12:21,480 --> 01:12:23,360 He's so maddened by it all. 1145 01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:28,440 He blamed the messenger, and he cut Peter Lawford out 1146 01:12:28,440 --> 01:12:30,920 of any planned roles in the movies. 1147 01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:34,960 They were done. And that friendship never, ever recovered. 1148 01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:40,080 My father, at one point said, reaches out to Sinatra, and says, 1149 01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:42,840 "Listen, Frank, if you're going to be mad at somebody, 1150 01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:45,120 "be mad at me. It was my decision. 1151 01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:46,880 "It was a political decision. 1152 01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:50,040 "I brought it to Bobby. Bobby said, that's it, you know? 1153 01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:53,000 "And you're going to be mad at someone, be mad at Bobby and I. 1154 01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:55,840 "But don't be mad at Peter. He just did what we asked him to do." 1155 01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:57,600 And Frank's position was 1156 01:12:57,600 --> 01:13:00,480 it was the principle of the thing for Frank. 1157 01:13:00,480 --> 01:13:03,280 Because if Peter had just spoke the truth to him 1158 01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:04,800 and just said to him, 1159 01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:07,480 this is what it is and this is why it's happening, 1160 01:13:07,480 --> 01:13:09,160 he said I could have dealt with it. 1161 01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:11,960 "If he had dealt with me like a man," is the way Frank put it. 1162 01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:15,920 My father always felt that if the President had just picked 1163 01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:20,000 up the phone and said to Frank, "Look, this is what it is," 1164 01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:23,960 it would have been fine because Frank got the point, 1165 01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:26,080 but it was the way it was handled. 1166 01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:28,360 He was insulted at the way it was handled 1167 01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:29,680 because he was a very proud man. 1168 01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:32,040 And as I said, they were giants of their worlds. 1169 01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:35,560 And he expected to be treated with a certain respect. 1170 01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:40,320 Frank Sinatra believed in Jack Kennedy, 1171 01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:43,960 and from all appearances, 1172 01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:48,360 was very, very fond of Jack Kennedy. 1173 01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:51,880 I am not convinced that that feeling was reciprocated. 1174 01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:54,400 I think that Jack Kennedy, 1175 01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:58,400 as Shirley MacLaine said, "When Frank met Jack 1176 01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:01,800 "he met his match in terms of cynical manipulators." 1177 01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:05,640 Sinatra was depressive. 1178 01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:09,080 He was furious. Sinatra was never cynical. 1179 01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:10,840 Sinatra was not a cynic. 1180 01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:13,640 Sinatra couldn't be cold and calculating 1181 01:14:13,640 --> 01:14:16,000 the way Jack Kennedy could be. 1182 01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:19,280 It broke Frank's heart, broke Frank Sinatra's heart 1183 01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:21,360 to be discarded by Kennedy, 1184 01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:24,920 and in fact, set him on a rightward drift 1185 01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:30,760 where, by the late 1960s, he had moved from being a staunch, 1186 01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:34,520 lifelong Democrat into the orbit of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, 1187 01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:37,240 where he would stay for the rest of his life. 1188 01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:42,360 Sinatra has lost this grip on power, this access, 1189 01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:46,360 this unparalleled access, to the greatest power in the world, 1190 01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:48,760 all through this... 1191 01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:53,200 This diabolical triangle 1192 01:14:53,200 --> 01:14:58,240 between Momo Giancana and Jack Kennedy and Judy Campbell, 1193 01:14:58,240 --> 01:15:01,640 all really kicked off by Sinatra. 1194 01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:04,480 Sinatra's very upset. 1195 01:15:04,480 --> 01:15:07,800 But worse than that, Sam Giancana is upset. 1196 01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:09,600 Which leads into... 1197 01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:16,920 ..um, probably the greatest amount of conspiracy theory 1198 01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:19,000 we've ever had, you know? 1199 01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,840 All the, "Who killed Kennedy?" all starts then, 1200 01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:25,240 because the Mob have got very good reason to do it. 1201 01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:26,520 SIRENS WAIL 1202 01:15:26,520 --> 01:15:28,400 It appears as though someone in the limousine 1203 01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:30,280 might have been hit by the gunfire. 1204 01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:54,080 There had been plans for a presidential visit to Dallas 1205 01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:57,080 for some time before November 1963. 1206 01:15:57,080 --> 01:16:00,120 There were people around President Kennedy who were opposed to it, 1207 01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:02,080 thought he shouldn't go, 1208 01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:06,520 because there was clear hostility to him in Texas, 1209 01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:08,960 but particularly in Dallas. 1210 01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:11,600 But he was he was determined to go. 1211 01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,520 The Democratic Party in Texas is at sixes and sevens. 1212 01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:16,440 There's a division between a liberal wing 1213 01:16:16,440 --> 01:16:18,160 and a conservative wing. 1214 01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:22,920 He needs to patch that up in advance of the campaign season in 1964. 1215 01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:26,840 It's important that he shore up a region that he knows is trouble 1216 01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:30,000 to him now, particularly because he's advanced civil rights 1217 01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:33,280 legislation - that doesn't go over terribly well in the South - 1218 01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:35,080 and particularly in Texas. 1219 01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:38,680 And Dallas itself is a trouble spot of anti-liberal 1220 01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:41,240 and certainly anti-Kennedy sentiment. 1221 01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:47,200 He flew into Dallas on the presidential aircraft that morning. 1222 01:16:48,360 --> 01:16:50,640 Was welcomed at the airport. 1223 01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:53,680 Smiles, cheers. 1224 01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:57,440 Glamorous president, glamorous wife, come down the steps of the aircraft. 1225 01:16:57,440 --> 01:17:00,120 They get into the motorcade, 1226 01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:02,480 which was going to be ten miles long, 1227 01:17:02,480 --> 01:17:06,000 to where then he was going to do a speech at the Trade Mart. 1228 01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:10,280 Again, these are the Kennedys. These are rock stars. 1229 01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:13,000 So if they're in an open motorcade and they're waving to the people, 1230 01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:15,360 that's what you want. They can see the pretty people, 1231 01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:17,760 and they wanted to see Jackie in her pink dress 1232 01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:20,040 and JFK with his nice thick head of hair. 1233 01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:21,480 And that's what they want, right? 1234 01:17:21,480 --> 01:17:25,400 So they're using, you know, their looks and their charisma 1235 01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:26,800 to their advantage. 1236 01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:28,360 You also put yourself in danger 1237 01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:30,240 because a lot of powerful forces hate you. 1238 01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:31,680 Kennedy had a lot of enemies. 1239 01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:38,480 And that is the background music to what happens on November 22nd - 1240 01:17:38,480 --> 01:17:42,480 that the Mob, angry at Sinatra for failing them, 1241 01:17:42,480 --> 01:17:45,120 angry at Bobby Kennedy for persecuting them, 1242 01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:47,880 now chooses to go after JFK. 1243 01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:57,200 And that is why it remains important to know what happened 1244 01:17:57,200 --> 01:18:00,360 between Sinatra and Kennedy and the Mob. 1245 01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:04,080 They turned down Elm Street through Dealey Plaza. 1246 01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:08,680 As they passed underneath the Texas School Book Depository building, 1247 01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:10,440 shots were fired. 1248 01:18:10,440 --> 01:18:14,160 One of them hits Kennedy in the neck and back. 1249 01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:15,760 It goes through him. 1250 01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:19,520 It goes through to the front seat where the current Governor 1251 01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:21,960 of Texas, John Connally, is sitting. 1252 01:18:21,960 --> 01:18:25,920 And then the fatal shot hits Kennedy in the back of the head. 1253 01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:29,040 It... It-it appears as though something has happened 1254 01:18:29,040 --> 01:18:30,600 in the motorcade route. 1255 01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:33,760 Something, I repeat, has happened in the motorcade route. 1256 01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:37,200 The limousine is now travelling at a very high rate of speed. 1257 01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:39,480 Secret Service men standing up in the limousine. 1258 01:18:39,480 --> 01:18:41,400 They are armed with submachine guns. 1259 01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:44,320 It appears as though someone in the limousine might have been hit 1260 01:18:44,320 --> 01:18:45,880 by the gunfire. 1261 01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:49,000 At that moment, the President was effectively dead. 1262 01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:52,240 He was rushed to Parkland Hospital, 1263 01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:54,280 but he was given the last rites 1264 01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:57,840 and he, as all the world knows, did not survive. 1265 01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:02,440 It's official. As of just a few moments ago, 1266 01:19:02,440 --> 01:19:05,200 the President of the United States is dead. 1267 01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:32,800 The official investigation into the assassination 1268 01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:37,840 of President Kennedy in Dallas was, of course, the Warren Commission, 1269 01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:41,640 which concluded that the President had been shot 1270 01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:48,880 by a former defector to the Soviet Union, Lee Harvey Oswald. 1271 01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:55,400 And that he had fired at the President from his vantage point 1272 01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:58,920 in the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, 1273 01:19:58,920 --> 01:20:02,040 up and behind the President. 1274 01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:04,720 But the Warren Commission, 1275 01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:09,120 um, could see no motive for Oswald, 1276 01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:14,080 and it is very hard to see the motive because good sources, 1277 01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:17,240 including his wife and other people, 1278 01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:25,120 say that Lee Harvey Oswald was a person who approved the work 1279 01:20:25,120 --> 01:20:28,920 of President Kennedy, who has actually spoke always, 1280 01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:33,520 if he spoke about him casually in social situations, 1281 01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:38,440 if anything, liked President Kennedy and supported him, 1282 01:20:38,440 --> 01:20:39,920 so why would he shoot him? 1283 01:20:41,440 --> 01:20:44,280 The Warren Commission decide it's a lone gunman 1284 01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:46,240 and it's all done and dusted. 1285 01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:51,960 But meanwhile, even Bobby Kennedy is asking himself, 1286 01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:55,600 am I responsible for my brother's death? 1287 01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:59,920 Is something I did, something I put into motion, 1288 01:20:59,920 --> 01:21:03,440 behind why my brother was killed? 1289 01:21:03,440 --> 01:21:08,880 And ten years later, a new government inquiry, 1290 01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,480 the House Select Committee on Assassinations, 1291 01:21:11,480 --> 01:21:13,880 comes to the conclusion that, in fact, 1292 01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:16,240 there probably was a conspiracy. 1293 01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:19,040 There probably was more than one actor involved, 1294 01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:25,560 and the most likely actor that their chief counsel pegs 1295 01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:27,760 is organised crime. 1296 01:21:29,440 --> 01:21:32,840 The Mafia had the motive and they had the means. 1297 01:21:32,840 --> 01:21:37,240 Their motive was that they were furious at the Kennedy clan 1298 01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:40,600 for betraying their relationship with the Mafia. 1299 01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:44,560 The Mafia felt they had helped to put him in power, and Bobby Kennedy, 1300 01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:48,880 both into power, and were very angry at this crusade 1301 01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:51,160 that Bobby Kennedy led against them. 1302 01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:53,040 So they definitely had a motive. 1303 01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:56,080 And of course, curiously, through all the work 1304 01:21:56,080 --> 01:21:58,440 that they've been doing with the CIA, 1305 01:21:58,440 --> 01:22:02,440 the CIA had given the Chicago Mob poison pills 1306 01:22:02,440 --> 01:22:06,160 and all kinds of regalia for killing someone. 1307 01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:11,600 So the idea of assassinating a politician had already been seeded 1308 01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:13,960 by the CIA itself. 1309 01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:16,600 You know, the official story is that Lee Harvey Oswald 1310 01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:19,040 was in that book depository, 1311 01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:24,200 and he uses this imported rifle, got from mail order, 1312 01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:28,000 and somehow manages to shoot Kennedy. 1313 01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:31,720 Hit him with those two shots as the car was going away 1314 01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:34,880 through the trees. Very bad angle. 1315 01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:36,640 And then the feat... 1316 01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:41,080 And actually get the three shots off in 5.6 seconds. 1317 01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:45,120 None of the FBI marksmen who attempted that shot could do it. 1318 01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:48,440 It didn't make any sense from a logical standpoint. 1319 01:22:48,440 --> 01:22:54,240 From the shot that was supposedly taken from the Book Depository. 1320 01:22:54,240 --> 01:22:58,840 And there has been argument ever since about whether the accused 1321 01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:04,280 assassin, shortly afterwards himself to be killed by Jack Ruby, 1322 01:23:04,280 --> 01:23:06,720 who had links to organised crime, 1323 01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:10,000 not least to organised crime in Chicago. 1324 01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:14,480 There is still argument about whether Lee Harvey Oswald 1325 01:23:14,480 --> 01:23:20,520 shot or shot at all, or shot on his own, fired on his own, 1326 01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:25,680 or whether there were at least two, and possibly more, assassins, 1327 01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:31,160 firing from a place usually accepted to be the grassy knoll, 1328 01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:34,160 which was off to the right of the President's car. 1329 01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:38,880 And what is fascinating is that the Church Committee, 1330 01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:43,200 was, in 1975, to actually investigate what were the links 1331 01:23:43,200 --> 01:23:45,720 between the CIA and the Mafia. 1332 01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:53,240 And strangely, Sam Giancana was killed days before that. 1333 01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:58,880 Giancana was killed in a way that the Mob uses 1334 01:23:58,880 --> 01:24:00,840 to ensure people's silence. 1335 01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:03,560 He was shot with a ring of bullets around his mouth, 1336 01:24:03,560 --> 01:24:07,280 which is a way of telling the world, we don't want you to talk. 1337 01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:12,320 The other bloke who was the top gunman did testify 1338 01:24:12,320 --> 01:24:14,680 and then was found dead a few days later. 1339 01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:19,080 So the Mafia were trying to cover up their links with the CIA. 1340 01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:24,600 Whoever killed Kennedy was dead not long after. 1341 01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:28,560 Certainly within the year of killing Kennedy. 1342 01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:30,920 They do clean house. 1343 01:24:30,920 --> 01:24:36,440 And I think if you've done that, you're going to not talk about it. 1344 01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:42,840 We're at November 21st, 1963. 1345 01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:45,680 The day before the assassination. 1346 01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:50,240 Frank Sinatra was making a movie called Robin and the 7 Hoods. 1347 01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:52,680 They are shooting in a graveyard. 1348 01:24:52,680 --> 01:24:56,240 Sinatra wanders off to have a smoke during the break. 1349 01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:59,480 He kind of goes up and is leaning against this tombstone. 1350 01:24:59,480 --> 01:25:01,960 And he looks at the tombstone, 1351 01:25:01,960 --> 01:25:05,360 and the tombstone name is John Kennedy. 1352 01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:06,800 Everybody laughed. 1353 01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:09,400 It was, of course, a totally different John F Kennedy, 1354 01:25:09,400 --> 01:25:11,800 who'd died much earlier. 1355 01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:16,360 And then came the news that Kennedy had been assassinated. 1356 01:25:16,360 --> 01:25:20,280 It's announced on the set, when they're shooting. 1357 01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:23,720 They take a break. 1358 01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:26,120 They actually finish the day's shooting, 1359 01:25:26,120 --> 01:25:30,000 and then Frank Sinatra goes to Palm Springs, to his compound, 1360 01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:31,920 and he just holes up. 1361 01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:35,480 He is so devastated by this, even though they were not the best 1362 01:25:35,480 --> 01:25:37,920 of friends any more by a long shot, 1363 01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,200 he still, he's mourning the friendship. 1364 01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:44,160 He's mourning the loss to America. 1365 01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:46,840 To the world. 1366 01:25:46,840 --> 01:25:52,640 And he's in his room solitary for a very, very long time. 1367 01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:57,040 Sinatra was devastated when President Kennedy was assassinated. 1368 01:25:57,040 --> 01:26:02,160 I talked to his constant companion and valet for many years, 1369 01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:07,720 who told me that Sinatra drank himself stupid for days. 1370 01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:11,680 A couple of days, just more and more whiskey, bourbon, 1371 01:26:11,680 --> 01:26:14,160 went down his throat. 1372 01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:16,760 And a week later, 1373 01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:22,360 Sinatra's son, Frank Jr, was kidnapped and held for ransom. 1374 01:26:22,360 --> 01:26:25,920 And was eventually released for money, 1375 01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:28,880 but Sinatra told his daughter 1376 01:26:28,880 --> 01:26:32,360 that he thought the kidnapping of his son 1377 01:26:32,360 --> 01:26:38,480 was a message from the Mafia to make sure that he shut his mouth 1378 01:26:38,480 --> 01:26:42,800 about anything he knew about the possible Mob involvement 1379 01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:44,680 in Jack Kennedy's death. 1380 01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:56,880 Bobby Kennedy, in turn, would be assassinated 1381 01:26:56,880 --> 01:27:00,440 when he was running for president in 1968. 1382 01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:18,880 When one looks at the relationship between Frank Sinatra, 1383 01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:21,920 the Kennedy White House, and organised crime... 1384 01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:30,080 ..you have to look at what the quid pro quo was 1385 01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:34,640 that the Mob was expecting out of the Kennedys. 1386 01:27:34,640 --> 01:27:38,960 And whether or not they felt that the Kennedys lived up to it. 1387 01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:41,200 The answer is no, they didn't. 1388 01:27:44,320 --> 01:27:46,280 Sinatra, all his life - 1389 01:27:46,280 --> 01:27:49,440 who, after all, was a genius - 1390 01:27:49,440 --> 01:27:51,800 and I'll say it flat out, he was a genius. 1391 01:27:53,400 --> 01:27:57,280 But he could never really totally glory in his own genius 1392 01:27:57,280 --> 01:28:00,600 because he saw himself as lesser than. 1393 01:28:02,280 --> 01:28:06,240 And Jack Kennedy was class incarnate, 1394 01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:12,080 and Sinatra was helplessly and hopelessly and pitifully 1395 01:28:12,080 --> 01:28:15,840 drawn toward what he considered class his whole life, 1396 01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:18,200 because he didn't think he had any. 1397 01:28:18,200 --> 01:28:20,480 And Jack Kennedy was the whole package. 1398 01:28:20,480 --> 01:28:25,720 And so with the rupture in 1962 1399 01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:29,960 and then with the death of Jack Kennedy, this was... 1400 01:28:31,360 --> 01:28:35,960 It was a wound that Sinatra felt I think until the end of his days. 120926

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