All language subtitles for Episode 5 - The Legend Of Camelot

President John F. Kennedy

has successfully steered america

through perilous times,

but in battling organized crime,

taking a stand on civil rights...

The Soviet military build-up...

...and averting nuclear war...

...on the island of Cuba.

...the Kennedy brothers

have made many enemies.

President Kennedy was shot

in Dallas at 12:25.

As catastrophic events

devastate the family,

Jackie is determined
to shape jfk's legacy.

A reluctant new leader emerges...

Robert Kennedy.

...to keep the Kennedy dream alive.

Several thousand enthusiastic texans

are on hand to give the
president and Mrs. Kennedy

a warm welcome.

In November 1963,

president Kennedy arrives in Dallas

to campaign for re-election.

He probably,

as he was coming down those steps,

felt pretty confident about
his political prospects.

His health is better.

His marriage is better.

He's a very confident leader.

He is a person recognized

as having enormous
potential for his second term.

Jackie was very happy

to be with her husband

during that trip to Dallas.

And it was really the happiest time

of their marriage.

The president's car

is now turning on to elm street,

and it will be only a matter of minutes

before he arrives at the trade mart.

Bobby Kennedy is at home

with his family and close colleagues.

Attorney General
Kennedy is in his back yard,

having lunch with Robert morgenthau,

the district attorney
for the southern district

of New York.

We were having lunch by the pool,

with Ethel,

having clam chowder
and tuna fish sandwiches.

And Bobby, he had a
quick swim in the pool.

He's just getting out,
changing into dry clothes...

Suddenly, the...

The phone rang.

And this is not just any phone;

it is one of the hotlines
to the white house.

Ethel picked the phone up and said,

very unhappily,

"it's j. Edgar hoover."

And Bobby's stomach starts to sink,

because he knows that j. Edgar hoover

doesn't call him unless it's bad news.

And he clapped his hand to his mouth

and then he said,

"Jack has been shot

in Dallas."

It appears as though something

has happened in the motorcade group.

There are numerous
people running up the hill.

The presidential car coming up now.

We know it's the presidential car;

we can see Mrs. Kennedy's pink suit.

There's a secret service man spread eagled

over the top of the car.

And Bobby decides immediately

he has to go to Dallas
to be with his brother.

But then he gets another call.

He came in

and he just said, "Jack is dead,"

nothing else.

Walked away.

From Dallas Texas,

the flash, apparently official:

President Kennedy died

at 1 P.M. central standard time,

2 o'clock eastern standard time,

some 38 minutes ago.

Jackie Kennedy

travels from the hospital to air force one

to accompany her husband's
body back to Washington.

Lyndon Johnson is waiting on the plane.

Jackie goes back to what had been

her and Jack's bedroom

on air force one,

and splayed on the bed, feet up on it,

is this big texan,

lyndon Johnson.

And that moment made apparent to her,

in a way that the Kennedys

would tend to resent Johnson for forever,

that he had already taken over

and that Jackie was
yesterday's first lady.

Eager to be sworn in,

lbj calls Attorney General Bobby Kennedy

for the precise wording
of the oath of office.

He wants to seize the reins of power

and show the world that he's in charge.

To Bobby, this is hasty
to the point of obscene.

And Bobby Kennedy,

as the blood is still cooling
in his brother's veins,

begins to recite those words

that he had heard last

on January 20, 1961.

I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy,

do solemnly swear

that I will faithfully execute the office

of president of the United States.

Bobby's voice breaks down,

and it's too much for him.

Here is a picture of the swearing-in

of the 36th president
of the United States,

lyndon baines Johnson.

President Johnson wants Jackie

to stand next to him for his inauguration.

She insists on wearing
her blood-stained clothes.

By putting Jacqueline Kennedy

in that photo,

lbj is showing the continuation of power,

in that jfk's widow is standing there.

But I think, ultimately,

the image conveyed utter shock and grief.

Meanwhile, Bobby goes into

some emotional netherworld

because he realises that

everybody else may be falling apart,

but he's got to hold it together.

He calls sister eunice and says,

"start planning the funeral."

He calls brother Ted and he says,

"you will tell our parents
what's just happened."

And so it comes to Ted

to have the most onerous duty possible

in that family:

To tell the father

that president Kennedy is dead.

Ted and eunice didn't want him

to hear this from anybody else,

and they called Rose,

who had heard about it immediately,

and they told Rose to unplug

every television in the house.

And they arrived, and they told him,

and he started to cry.

Joseph and Rose have now lost

three of their nine children.

Joe Kennedy always

focused his ambition on his children,

and you have to wonder
if, at some deep level,

he felt that he himself was
responsible in some way,

that by thrusting his
children out into the world,

the world has consumed them.

My mother, she said that a
bad man had shot uncle Jack.

And we went home,

and my father was under a cedar tree

with the dogs,

and we ran over and hugged him,

and we were crying.

And he hugged US back and he said,

"he had a great life."

In an instant,

Bobby Kennedy has lost his brother,

his best friend and his whole sense

of professional meaning in life.

Bobby's always been

the little brother in a secondary role.

Now he's the head of the family.

Less than three hours

after president Kennedy is killed,

Bobby travels to meet Jackie

on the plane carrying his brother's body.

Bobby heads out to Andrews air force base,

and he finds a dark hangar,

and he's sitting there
in the back of a truck,

where he thinks nobody is watching -

and it was the one moment he'd had

of trying and take it all in

to understand what had happened.

The plane lands at Andrews,

and so, as all the cameras
are focused on the front,

Bobby maneuvers himself onto the plane

through some back staircase.

He walks through the
plane, calling out for Jackie.

They embrace

and exit the plane together.

Behind the casket

is Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy.

To her right is her brother-in-law,

the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy.

They get into the ambulance,

Jack alongside them in a box,

and Jackie begins to unburden herself

of what Bobby Kennedy
called the full horror

of what had occurred in Dallas.

Jackie thought, in part,

she was to blame.

She said, "I thought that first sound

was the backfire of a motorcycle.

If I had turned at the first sound,

I could have pulled him into my lap,

and I would have saved him."

She goes into stunning detail,

and Bobby would later say that

"I didn't think about whether
I wanted to hear it or not."

He just listened,

because that was part of his role.

He was the only one

who felt the loss as deeply as she had,

and he was the one that, she knew,

despite his reputation as
being the ruthless Kennedy,

he was the one with the biggest heart

and the broadest
shoulders for her to lean on.

While comforting Jackie,

Bobby struggles with his own guilt.

There's no doubt in my mind

that Bobby Kennedy felt,

at some level, that he was responsible.

Bobby's afraid

that his various attempts to

prosecute bad guys

has in some horrible way

blown back on his own family.

You have Castro.

You have the ku klux klan.

You have, potentially, the Soviet union.

You have the mafia.

The list of suspects was immense.

Bobby Kennedy's calling around

to try to find out what happened.

He has his spies everywhere,

and he has a spy in Chicago

who has contacts with the
mafia boss Sam giancana,

to find out if giancana killed jfk.

The answer is no.

Bobby even wonders

if america's own intelligence agency

is to blame.

He calls the head of the CIA, John mccone,

to see if the CIA did it,

and mccone swears to
him as a fellow catholic

the CIA is innocent.

As Bobby searches for the truth

behind Jack's assassination,

Jackie plans for her
husband's state funeral.

The body of the late president,

John F. Kennedy, now lies in repose

in the east room of the white house.

The cameras are being allowed in

at Mrs. Kennedy's specific request.

Jacqueline Kennedy
wanted to make sure that,

at the time, and for all of history,

his death would have meaning,

and wanted to show that her husband

was a martyr.

She wanted the white house

to be exactly as it was

after President Lincoln's assassination,

so it was draped in heavy black fabric.

The chandeliers were draped.

It was a feeling of intense mourning.

Jack's father, Joe,

confined to a wheelchair,

is at home in hyannis port.

He demanded

that they go for a ride

because he was going to go to

the funeral in Washington.

And they drove to the airport

where the Kennedy plane was kept.

And when he saw that the
plane was no longer there,

he went back and he
watched it on television.

The funeral proceedings

were conducted in open spaces,

with Jackie walking with Bobby and Ted.

A secret service agent
tried to convince her

to not do a lot of what she wanted to do.

Considering the fact that

her husband was just killed by a sniper,

she was taking a risk,

but she took it for the country.

She knew the kind of
closure that america needed.

Jacqueline Kennedy

had such an eye

for image and art,

and she used every bit of that talent

to plan the president's funeral.

She thought of the military touch

of the riderless horse

with the boots turned
backwards in the stirrup

to indicate that the leader has fallen.

All of america

was there with her.

In fact, I think much of the world

was there with her.

It just seemed that something good

had disappeared in our lives.

It was almost as if people
had to watch the funeral

to believe it.

And there was this feeling
of national mourning,

of a dream deferred.

What jfk offered the country

was both a challenge

and a sense of the possibilities

of a country that was on the move.

For my whole generation, really,

he was a inspirational -

indeed, transformational - figure.

People modeled themselves
after John F. Kennedy,

got into public service
because of John F. Kennedy,

at home and around the world.

The courage

that it took for Jackie,

I just don't think people
really understand it.

Her brother told me that she was

on the verge of collapsing
every single moment.

John was only turning three

on that very day,

and Jackie knew that,

when she finished with the state funeral,

she would, that night, give
a birthday party for John,

who couldn't quite
understand what had happened.

A gentle reminder from his mother,

and John John
celebrates his third birthday

with a soldier's farewell to his father.

One week after Jack's death,

Jackie begins to shape
her late husband's legacy.

Jackie invites Theodore
white, a prominent journalist,

to do a piece for life magazine.

She tells him

that those thousand days

were "Camelot".

She spins this tale

about the arthurian legend

of this place that was known as Camelot

that she believed was perfectly suited

to representing the
Kennedy administration.

The Kennedys were
human like the rest of US,

but Jackie wanted the family

to be seen as epic

and royal and heroic.

That's what "Camelot" did.

Two weeks later,

the article is published.

Jackie oversaw

every word of it -

she thoroughly edited
it, she annotated it -

and "Camelot" continues to be

the defining word

for the Kennedy presidency.

Jackie is forced to leave behind

a white house she'd
worked so hard to restore

and make way for president Johnson

and his family.

Jackie lived in Georgetown

for a period of time
after the assassination,

but it was difficult for her.

There were tour buses coming through.

There was no privacy.

Bobby was there,

acting as a surrogate dad

to John junior and to Caroline.

He was there so that
Jackie could lean on him.

Bobby and Jackie become incredibly close.

And they spend late afternoons together,

talking about jfk

and wondering about what kind of world

would have let him die.

With Bobby and Ted by her side,

Jackie addresses the nation and the world,

giving thanks for hundreds of thousands

of supportive messages.

The warmth of these tributes

is something I shall never forget.

Whenever I can bear to, I read them.

All his bright light gone from the world.

All of you who have written to me

know how much we all loved him

and that he returned
that love in full measure.

Jackie is being pulled

deeper and deeper into her depression,

and she's pulling Bobby
with her in some ways.

Bobby was Attorney General.

He had been the closest
thing america had ever seen

to a co-president.

But he became an outsider

from the moment his brother died

and lyndon Johnson, the guy he despised,

took the oath of office.

In the white house,

Bobby sees Jack Kennedy's
rocking chair in the hallway.

It's a reminder to him
that power's passed.

You know, my father would take

long walks alone with the dogs.

And you know, he was clearly--

he was-- he was shattered.

Overcome by grief,

Bobby wonders if the price paid for power

is too high.

I just don't know what my future will be.

I'm going to decide that
sometime in the future,

but I haven't decided that yet.

He kind of immersed himself

in trying to rearrange

his cosmology

and trying to figure out
what to do with his life.

I just don't know what I'll do.

As Bobby considers his future,

his family is a source of support.

His brother Teddy

is seven years younger than Bobby,

and the two Kennedys had relatively little

to do with each other growing up.

It's only with the death of Jack in 1963

the two brothers become extremely close.

Ted is establishing himself

in the world of politics.

In 1962, he was elected
senator of Massachusetts,

filling Jack's old seat.

Teddy is much more outgoing

than Bobby.

He liked to schmooze

and he just loved people -

and that's the perfect trait

to be a successful legislator.

Teddy had always been

the somewhat hapless little brother.

Now Ted Kennedy is the senator

who actually knows what he's doing.

As Ted charts his own political course,

trauma hits the family.

Misfortune strikes the Kennedy family

once again.

Senator Edward m.
Kennedy was seriously injured

when his private plane
crashed in the woods

near southampton, Massachusetts.

Two die in the crash.

Ted Kennedy is dragged from the wreckage

with a broken back.

In any other family,

to have one of the primary members

in an airplane crash
that almost kills them

and leaves them with
permanent back problems

would be at the top
of the list of tragedies.

But in the Kennedys,

it's just another check off on the list.

Two months later,

a traumatized Bobby addresses

the Democratic national convention

as it honors Jack's memory.

And now it is my privilege and honor

to introduce

the man who stood closer to him

than anyone else:

His brother,

Robert Kennedy.

And the place just breaks

into this just heartfelt,
cathartic applause.

And he stands there,

and this goes on for five minutes,

and ten minutes,

and it overwhelms him.

I was in hyannis port.

I was by myself,

and I watched that 17-minute ovation,

which was very, very moving,

'cause it's-- you know,
it's for his brother,

and it's sad 'cause it's a sense of loss.

Mr. Chairman...

Mr. Chairman...

And, you know, it's "who are you?

Who are you?

Are you-- you're clapping for my brother.

What am I supposed to do?"

It's very tough.

After months of soul-searching,

Bobby Kennedy has made a decision.

Bobby is looking for a platform

to begin the process

of restoring the Kennedy family

to its rightful place.

Mr. Attorney General, do you--

what sort of Kennedy--

excuse me.

At one level, he was a shy, humble guy

who I think would have
been perfectly happy

to stay in the background,

but at another level,

knew that he had to

pick up the family standard

and rise to the occasion.

I've decided to make myself available

for the nomination

of the Democratic state convention.

Mr. Kennedy... Mr. Kennedy...

He enters the race

for the New York senate seat.

A lot of people in the family

were worried,

but they all knew that this was

always the way it was supposed to be.

His backers hope that the glittering magic

of the Kennedy name

will overcome some voters' resistance

to a candidate who lives in Virginia

and votes in Massachusetts.

When Bobby becomes
the Democratic nominee...

Robert f. Kennedy.

...he resigns as president Johnson's

Attorney General.

Running for senate from New York,

I mean, this was not easy.

He was an outsider. He
was from Washington.

He had no real connection with New York.

And he's thought of

as a very opportunistic young man.

Bobby Kennedy was regarded

as tough and mean,

someone who dropped the
hammer on opponents of Jack,

and he doesn't have the gifts

that the good lord gave to jfk.

Attorney General Robert Kennedy,

who is a Democratic nominee
for senator from New York,

returned here today.

Bobby Kennedy is a poor candidate.

His voice is reedy and weak.

Let me...

Just let me say that's my...

He speaks in a monotone.

...that's my first...

He's stumbling for his words.

He's not buttoned up. He's not polished.

...that's my, first
speech as a, candidate...

He's a terrible candidate.

He was shy.

He didn't like small talk.

He didn't do back-slapping.

He was running against

a guy named Kenneth keating -

an older, white-haired,

veteran, so-called liberal republican.

Taking a page

out of Jack's campaign book,

Bobby brings in his mother, Rose.

I know you have come to hear about Bob

and why I think he is eminently fitted

to be a United States senator.

They put his mother on television.

I remember she was really good.

She insisted on writing her
own statement, by the way.

She wouldn't take
anything from anybody else.

She was a-- she was really a tough--

she was something of a battle ax.

God, that's a very dangerous thing.

I think I'm going to
move it out of the way.

I wouldn't want somebody to--

alright, we'll move it right away.

Rose was the mayor of Boston's daughter.

She was a natural political woman herself.

She loved a campaign.

Hello, Mrs. Kennedy. God bless you.

Thank you very much.

Well, I always expected them to work

and do something worthwhile.

They should.

And again, she was doing teas,

she was shaking hands.

You are a remarkable woman.

She was working very hard for her son.

I'm looking forward to it.

Ethel was around all the time,

although there were
eight kids to take care of.

We were all shaking hands,

wearing buttons, licking envelopes...

It was fun.

Even Jackie hits the campaign trail.

Mrs. Kennedy, is this your first visit

to the campaign headquarters?

Yes, it is. I just got to
New York yesterday.

Jackie felt an obligation

to campaign for Bobby.

She sets out with her
little son, John junior,

on her hand.

But the crowds and the paparazzi,

they're just overwhelming.

It was incredibly painful for her

to be playing a role

and to watch what was going on.

Jackie is seriously in trouble,

psychologically.

She hides it well,

but she's suffering

from severe post-traumatic
stress disorder.

She couldn't handle it,

and so she didn't campaign anymore.

That was it.

A wildly enthusiastic

group of followers cheered him

as Mr. Kennedy defeated
his republican opponent.

Senator keating couldn't overcome

the magic of the Kennedy name.

Bobby's victory makes him

the second Kennedy currently sitting

in the United States senate.

Although confined to the hospital

since a plane crash earlier in the year,

senator Edward m. Kennedy

ran up a victory of landslide proportions

to join his brother Robert
on the floor of the senate.

He'll make a speech if you don't look out.

Ted understood the issues

that Bobby was passionate about,

and maybe most importantly,

he was the one guy

that would have Bobby's back,

the same way Jack had trusted Bobby.

Senator, he has seniority on you now.

Well, I explained to
him that I was older...

And to Bobby,

winning that Senate Race in New York

meant not just that he could win an office

in his own right,

it meant that he had
something to do in life

other than just be Jack's little brother.

Three years after Jack's death,

Bobby watches as Jackie,
John junior and Caroline

christen the aircraft carrier
USS John F. Kennedy.

Jackie is devoting herself

to her late husband's legacy -

one to which Bobby seems permanently tied.

Jack and Bobby Kennedy had

a relationship like no
other that we've seen

in the American presidency.

They knew each other
backwards and forwards.

They could finish each other's sentences.

And he sounds like his brother.

And it reminds everyone of Jack.

But Bobby had to decide

what he believed,

not what his brother believed,

and what was best for him.

How are you? Nice to see you.

He was looking for a new constituency.

He believed that, if we took minorities -

poor people, black people, women -

and embraced them,

that we would have a
new majority in our country

based on their needs
and their aspirations.

And so part of it really was his ambition.

He went to Mississippi

to see the worst poverty of all.

We went down together

to Mississippi,

and he saw people without income.

He saw grandmothers and mothers

who could not provide breakfast

nor even lunch for their children.

He said to me,

"I've been in third-world places,

and I've never seen anything like this."

It was so shocking to
see that kind of thing

in the United States.

Hey, I'm glad to meet you.

He spent time in the inner cities,

and was moved by those experiences

and became more and more

an advocate for the dispossessed.

He had a sense of touch.

He could rub a kid's cheek

or he could try to get a child to respond.

How do you like breathing that?

It's not too good.

And that was a very different sense

of the tough Bobby Kennedy

that I had known before
his brother's death.

He has the capacity to grow.

He's tough, he's arrogant,

but if you get through all that

and you touch his heart,
you can change him.

And I think that's what made Bobby Kennedy

different from his brother.

Jack Kennedy was an intellectual

and he learned from on high.

Bobby Kennedy, as he
showed in Mississippi,

learned at the grassroots,

in a way that stuck with him forever.

When Bobby returned

to hickory hill from Mississippi,

he burst in on his own dining room,

where his kids were eating.

He said, "you know,

I've just been to Mississippi,

where a family lives in a...

A shack the size of your dining room,

and they have tummies that are distended

and sores all over those tummies.

Do you know how lucky you are?

Do you know how lucky you are?"

He knew that, in america,

the richest country in the world,

there was something deeply morally wrong

with having kids who
were starving to death.

We know there's a problem.

We know we have the finances.

We know we have the resources.

What are we going to do?

Bobby is also beginning to question

the morality of a war

that has already claimed countless lives.

Senator Robert f. Kennedy

makes news again with a demand

that bombing of north
Vietnam targets be halted -

a demand that could widen the differences

between himself and the president.

Mr. Johnson says,

"we shall persist in our operations

in the north."

Bobby Kennedy was, in a sense,

present at the creation on Vietnam.

He was involved when his brother

was getting US troops in there

in the early '60s.

But by the mid/late '60s,

Bobby Kennedy is turning against the war.

Kennedy said, "all men make mistakes,

but a good a man yields

when he knows his course is wrong

and repairs the error.

The only sin is pride."

Bobby was being seen increasingly

as a figure around
whom the left could rally

if it's going to challenge lyndon Johnson.

In 1968,

there is a meeting at
Bobby Kennedy's house

to discuss the possibility

of him running for the presidency.

At that time, he was having

this debate within himself.

He didn't want to be seen

as just running against lyndon Johnson

out of bitterness.

Alright.

I caught you, daddy.

Also, he knew enough about politics...

Daddy!

...that it's hard to run
against a sitting president.

Bobby was insecure,

Bobby was riddled with doubts,

but his wife believed that he was

a great man fulfilling his destiny

and he ought to be president.

Ethel hangs a sheet out of hickory hill.

She gets the kids to paint
on the sheet, "run Bobby run."

On march 16th, 1968,

Robert Kennedy addresses the nation

from the very same room on capitol hill

where John F. Kennedy
announced his candidacy

eight years earlier.

I run for the presidency

because I want the Democratic party

and the United States of America

to stand for hope

instead of despair.

Ethel, she believed

that this would be
the first stepping stone

of getting the white house restored,

rightfully, to the Kennedy family.

And that was hard for Jackie to hear.

She would say, "I just fear
that what happened to Jack

will happen with Bobby."

In 1968,

Robert Kennedy hopes to be

the next Democratic
presidential candidate.

When Bobby Kennedy
goes on the campaign trail,

he's a complete rock star.

Security was not great.

People rip off his cufflinks,

they rip off his tie,
they take his shoes...

If I am elected president
of the United States,

I'm going to work for
those who are deprived,

those who are poor, those who lack jobs,

whether they be white or black.

He had a soft spot

that had been unveiled.

He was much more open to people.

He was much warmer.

And that comes out on the campaign trail.

I'm going to talk about
the problems of race

and the problems of the city,

and it's not a light subject.

There was a sense of urgency

and a sense that

the world was kind of coming apart

and that he and this campaign

were about trying to repair the world.

He brought an energy.

He brought a determination

to do what is right.

It wasn't exactly

a well-planned campaign.

It was more of a moral movement,

and people were very excited about that.

Well, you must get a hustle
and a bustle on over there.

His sister eunice and
the rest of the family

are never far away.

Thank you very much for coming today.

Glad to see you.

And you.

Bobby's rivals for the nomination

are president Johnson and Eugene McCarthy,

a senator from Minnesota.

But just 15 days into Bobby's campaign,

Johnson makes a shocking announcement.

I will not accept

the nomination of my party

for another term as your president.

As angry protests mount

over the war in Vietnam,

Johnson quits the race

in favor of his vice
president, Hubert Humphrey.

Hubert Humphrey

has the establishment behind him.

What Bobby has

is the imagination of the American people,

the idea that you can restore

the Kennedy legacy

and the Kennedy dynasty.

Four days after Johnson's announcement,

Bobby heads to a campaign rally

in Indianapolis.

On the way, he is told

that the reverend doctor
Martin Luther King Jr.

Has been shot.

When he arrived in Indianapolis,

the authorities there asked him not to go.

The crowd hadn't yet learned
that king had been killed,

but there were riots

erupting elsewhere in response to it,

and they were worried about his safety.

And he insisted on going.

The police tell him,

"you can't go there."

The mayor of the city says,

"you can't go there."

And he said, "you know, I can go in there

with my whole family

and sleep in a tent on the street

and be perfectly safe.

And if the chief of police can't do that,

that's his problem."

He drives into

the black ghetto in Indianapolis.

He jumps up on the back
of a flatbed pick-up truck.

I have some very sad news for all of you,

and I think sad news

for all of our fellow citizens

and people who love
peace all over the world,

and that is that Martin Luther King

was shot and was killed
tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.

There's this anguished
reaction in the crowd.

And he starts the speech...

For those of you who are black

and are tempted to be filled

with hatred and mistrust

of the injustice of such an act,

against all white people,

I would only say that I can also

feel in my own heart

the same kind of feeling.

I had a member of my family killed,

but he was killed by a white man.

Never talked about it before,

but people could recognise the power

of that revelation,

of that opening for him.

They knew what he was doing,

and they responded to it.

Even in our sleep...

One of the only cities in america

that didn't riot that
night was Indianapolis,

and the reason was Robert Francis Kennedy.

What we need in the
United States is not violence.

He spoke to people's

incredible pain.

He had the ability

to bring different sides together.

Of all the Kennedys,

I think Bobby Kennedy evolves the most.

And in a way, his heartbreak

opens him up to the
heartbreak of the world.

On June 4th, 1968,

Bobby wins the critical
California primary.

I thank all of you who made
this possible this evening,

all of the effort that you made.

He won with a coalition that he sought

of black people, of brown people,

of progressives,

and it looked as if

he was on the path to the nomination.

After years in Jack's shadow,

Bobby becomes a political
force in his own right.

The campaign was really rolling.

I think we were--

we were very relaxed and confident.

Next on American dynasties:

The Kennedys...

For my dad,

the overwhelming burden to succeed

was... crushing.

Ted has too much to
drink and gets into the car

with a young woman.

He took a radically wrong turn.

Rescue units marshaled all resources.

They called me to say

that John Kennedy's plane is missing.

How much tragedy, how much death

can one family take?