Contributions to and influence over her famed family dynasty. This program is about an hour. Host Barbara Perry its good to be here with you talking about the kennedys. But that is having grown up catholic i think the kennedys have the particular resonance for us but i wanted to start right off in ask you, youre a Supreme Court president ial scholar. How did you get interested in rose . Guest ive been interested in the Kennedy Family since i was a little tyke read when i was four years old my mother to me and my brothers to downtown louisville. She piled the center 56 chevrolet and drove us downtown to the courthouse. She was completely drawn to this new candidate on the scene in the president ial race senator john f. Kennedy. Host do you think because he was catholic a little bit . Guest i have to think i that was a major part of it in addition to which he was about her age so she was the new generation to which the torch was being passed that i point out what she loved history and po
Access. We begin tonight with the deadly Ebola Outbreak in west africa and the fight to calm fears here in the u. S. The World Health Organization says over 4500 people have died from ebola nearly all of them in liberia, guinea and sierra leone. With three confirmed cases here in the u. S. With one death, the centers for Disease Control says, it will release new guidelines for potential patients. Meanwhile, canada is prepared to send 800 vials, to the World Health Organization in west africa. Melissa chan, whats the latest . Well, randall, this afternoon judge clay jenkins spoke to the press. He is someone whos been very integral in dealing with the ebola challenge in dallas and he was also the person responsible for moving the Duncan Family for the unidentified location for the 21 day quarantine. The Duncan Family the first family involved in ebola. Here is what the judge said was important with this weekend. Its a critical weekend because eight to ten days after the exposure is the m
10 00, the man suspected of ambushing two state troopers and killing one of them in the poconos may have been spotted near the high school he once attended. Good evening, everybody, im joyce evans. Im karen hepp. There was a woman just out walking her dog and she may have gotten within feet of frein. Brad sat tip live in the newsroom in all of this. Police think this was really him. Reporter they do. A few miles away from actually where this manhunt was focused. They have been really following every lead for more than 30 days now. Even the leads that have been taking them out of state, but it turns out he may just be pretty close to home. There was a surprise encounter. It was after dark. Reporter around 9 00 last night a woman walking her dog very close to Pocono Mountain East High School got within 15 to 20 feet of a man who could have been eric frein. There were no threats made. This was a very close up siting. The individual that reported it had great detail and so our investigator
No way she was going to be trainedo be the Public Office holder that her father was and her sons would become. Having said that, i think her life is filled with paradoxes, and thats one of them. While she was not a feminist and did not begin as a suffragette, she pushed the boundaries as far as she could within her society and religion and pushed them as far as she could to become the vocal spokesperson for the Kennedy Family whenever possible, and she was trained to do that by her father. To shed go out on the campaign trail with him when she was a teenager. So she in some ways was pushing the envelope, as they say, but in others she was certainly not a feminist by any stretch of the imagination. Host you know, before we talk about her, the role she played in forming that incredible family, let me go back to something you said about wellesley. What do you think was important about her father not letting her go there . Guest right. Well, the story is that she had her heart set on going
One of the saddest moment of their life and regret it. She did not express much regret. Guest she did not. I point out the picture on the front of the book. I was a bit distracted by the goblet of water in the for front but its the perfect metaphor because its exactly half full with heart and that is how rose usually viewed life. She was the eternal optimist. That doesnt mean in private she didnt have sad moments but generally speaking she tried to keep this optimistic, upbeat attitude toward life, and in addition to not being able to go to wellesley, her father sent her away to a prussian convent. Not because she was going to be a nun but because she had fallen in love with joseph kennedy. And that is part of the reason honey fitz sent her abroad. The kennedyed and fitzgeralds were not always political allies in boston so honey fitz was not completely approving of joe kennedy. They were rivals. Guest indeed. So this was a problem for roses father, to see her fall in love with, and som