he said, i just need to rest. don t call any doctors. those are his last words. he then went into his room and he suffered a massive stroke. joseph is taken to the hospital. immediately he s put on the critical list. he s in real bad shape. he s given last rights because he might pass away. for jackie to be the one to tell jack that this has happened, it s devastating. jack, bobby and their sister jeanne fly from washington to be at their father s side. they all rush eed be with hi in the hospital. everybody is in a panic. joe might not live. joe s doctors don t think they can save him. but bobby refuses to let them
it was a safe haven. despite everything that was going on, when they got together at the compound all of that was forgotten. jack finds solace in his ever-growing extended family. in addition to his own children john jr. and caroline, his brothers and sisters have 17 children between them. the excitement when the helicopter landed and then they would take us for a ride on the golf cart with all the cousins. there were games and sailing and there were parties every night. there was always something going on. i think it s those moments that really kept them sane and focused on who they were and what their mission was. especially their political goals because a lot of politics talk
the united states in the 60s, you re not living in a democracy, you re living under an apartheid dictatorship based on race. we re still seeing intense violence. lynching is still the reality. if you were black you couldn t vote. you couldn t buy property, you couldn t go certain places. i said i m sorry, our management does not allow us to serve niggers in here. while jfk is looking at the moon and stars, you see real hypocrisy and contradiction. how can the united states be a democracy if its citizens are killing, are hurting, are hospitalizing its other citizens but in the spring of 1961, john f. kennedy and his brother robert didn t care that much about civil rights. jack and bobby kennedy grew up rich and privileged.
before her husband s. there s another kennedy dining with the kruschevs that night jack s mother rose. john f. kennedy did not want his mother to go. he didn t want a huge family delegation going with him to europe but his mom insisted. his mother loved the limelight. she was interested in power and she liked being around people with power. away from the banquets and the cameras, jack has a serious mission in vienna. both sides have enough missiles to destroy the entire world so kennedy intends to make a deal on nuclear disarmament with kruschev. john kennedy was deeply concerned about nuclear danger, that the cold war could spiral out of control. since the bay of pigs, jack no longer has full confidence in his own advisers.
previousl previously. i john fitzgerald kennedy do solemnly swear that i will facefully execute the office of president of the united states. for the family, having a kennedy in the white house is the inauguration of their ambition. jack is cheered on by his family. the president s brothers, his sisters, his mother rose, his wife jackie, and the patriarch himself, joseph p. kennedy. joe kennedy, who had been the behind-the-scenes strategist, architect, stood up and doffed his top hat to kennedy. waving to his father. it was a great moment that showed his paternal pride. let every nation know whether