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The CURSE Of The KENNEDY FAMILY_ Tragic Deaths, Murder & Mysterious Accidents · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: One of the most significant events in American history was
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Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty three assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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Speaker 1: live on TV from Dallas, Texas, where the President was
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Speaker 1: mid parade route with his wife Jackie. Three shots pierced
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Speaker 1: through the air, striking John F. Kennedy and sent him
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Speaker 1: into a slump in the backseat of the car. Viewers
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Speaker 1: were horrified. But it wouldn't be until nineteen sixty nine
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Speaker 1: when rumors of a Kennedy family curse would spread as
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Speaker 1: more members of the Kennedy family were brutally killed or
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Speaker 1: died from tragic uncanny accidents. And the assassination of President
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Speaker 1: jfk certainly wasn't the first time the Kennedy family curse
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Speaker 1: had struck. In fact, public perception of the so called
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Speaker 1: curse spread and spanned over sixty years of generations in
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Speaker 1: the Kennedy family. On today's episode of The Conspiracy Files,
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Speaker 1: we're going to explore the series of unfortunate events surrounding
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Speaker 1: the famous Kennedy clan, from murders, accidental deaths, tragic misfortunes,
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Speaker 1: and even the supposed lobotomy. Is the Kennedy family actually
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Speaker 1: cursed or did they just have a long running history
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Speaker 1: of bad lies. Luck As always, all parties are presumed
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Speaker 1: innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. All
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Speaker 1: opinions on today's show are solely mine. Colin Brown, the
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Speaker 1: host and producer of The Conspiracy Files. I want to
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Speaker 1: thank Rebecca Whitworth for writing today's script, and without further ado,
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Speaker 1: let's hop right on it. So, first of all, I
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Speaker 1: know that I missed all this by a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: I know Women's History Month was in March, it's now
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Speaker 1: April when I'm recording this. I don't know when this
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Speaker 1: that there is a space for you in this community.
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Speaker 1: I know that conspiracies and sort of you know shows
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Speaker 1: like this can feel very male centered sometimes, But to
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Speaker 1: all the women out there who comment all the time
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Speaker 1: and who watched the show, I appreciate you all so much.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, just a big thank you to everybody before
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Speaker 1: we hop in here and today's script is brought to
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Speaker 1: you by Rebecca Whitworth, who did a lot of the
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Speaker 1: research in writing here. She's absolutely incredible. This story is
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Speaker 1: just crazy. Obviously, everybody knows JFK. I'm going to be
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Speaker 1: doing a JFK episode soon. It's incredibly long and very
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Speaker 1: thorough and something that's always intrigued me. Just as a
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Speaker 1: side note about JFK is all of the deaths surrounding JFK.
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Speaker 1: It's absolutely absurd. There have been entire books. I believe
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Speaker 1: one of the books is called The hit List. I
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Speaker 1: read it a while ago. I can't remember the exact title,
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Speaker 1: but going through all of the witnesses and people involved
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Speaker 1: who died in these bizarre ways, you know, building fires, murders,
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Speaker 1: self unlivings, it's really crazy. So obviously that's probably the
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Speaker 1: greatest cover up of all time, at least it's the
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Speaker 1: most in your face one besides Epstein. I think that
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Speaker 1: we've ever seen I think there are obviously greater cover
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Speaker 1: ups that have happened, but you know, we just don't
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Speaker 1: really know about them, or the masses don't really understand.
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Speaker 1: You know that these things have happened, but the Kennedy clan,
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Speaker 1: once you start going past Jfkin looking at all the
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Speaker 1: other members of the Kennedy family, it's pretty shocking. This,
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Speaker 1: this episode is really shocking. And so without further ado,
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Speaker 1: let's just get straight into this. The shortcomings of a
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Speaker 1: Kennedy family curse were believed to have started as early
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Speaker 1: as August of nineteen forty one with Rosemary Kennedy. Rosemary
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Speaker 1: was the eldest daughter born to Joseph P. Kennedy, Senior
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Speaker 1: and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. As a child, she reportedly exhibited
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Speaker 1: developmental delays, such as having a hard time learning to
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Speaker 1: sit up, crawl, and walk, and later with reading and writing.
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Speaker 1: In her young adult years, she became increasingly irritable and difficult.
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Speaker 1: It was reported that she would experience convulsions and fly
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Speaker 1: into violent rages, during which she would hit and injure others.
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Speaker 1: As a result, and out of fear of her embarrassing
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Speaker 1: the family, her father arranged a lobotomy on her in
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, when she was just twenty three years old.
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Speaker 1: In Ronald Kessler's nineteen ninety six biography of Joe Senior
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Speaker 1: Sins of the Father, James w. Watts, who carried out
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Speaker 1: the procedure with Walter Freeman, described the procedure to Kessler
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Speaker 1: as follows. After Rosemary was mildly sedated. Quote, we went
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Speaker 1: through the top of the head, doctor Watts recalled. I
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Speaker 1: think she was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I
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Speaker 1: made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull.
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Speaker 1: It was near the front, it was on both sides.
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Speaker 1: We just made a small incision, no more than an
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Speaker 1: inch end quote. The instrument doctor Watts used looked like
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Speaker 1: a butter knife. He swung it up and down to
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Speaker 1: cut brain tissue. We put an instrument inside, he said.
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Speaker 1: As doctor Watts cut, doctor Freeman asked Rosemary, for example,
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Speaker 1: to recite the Lord's Prayer or sing God bless America,
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Speaker 1: or even count backwards.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: We tried to estimate, thus how far to further cut
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Speaker 1: based on how Rosemary responded end quote, and when she
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Speaker 1: became incoherent, they ceased cutting. Watts told Kessler that, in
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Speaker 1: his opinion, Kennedy did not have mental problems, but rather
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Speaker 1: a form of depression. A review of all the papers
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Speaker 1: written by the two doctors confirmed Watts's declaration. All the
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Speaker 1: patients that the two doctors lobotomized were diagnosed as having
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Speaker 1: some form of mental disorder. Bertram S. Brown, director of
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Speaker 1: the National Institute of Mental Health, who was previously an
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Speaker 1: aid to President Kennedy, told Kessler that Joe Kennedy referred
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Speaker 1: to his daughter Rosemary as mentally rather than mentally ill,
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Speaker 1: in order to protect John's reputation for a presidential run,
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Speaker 1: and that the family's lack of support for mental illness
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Speaker 1: is part of a lifelong family denial of what was
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Speaker 1: really so, it was quickly apparent that the procedure had
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Speaker 1: caused immense harm. Kennedy's mental capacity diminished to that of
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Speaker 1: a two year old child. She couldn't walk, she couldn't
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Speaker 1: speak intelligibly, and she was incontinent, meaning she frequently wet herself.
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Speaker 1: She then spent most of the rest of her life
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Speaker 1: being cared for at Saint Coletta in Institution in Jefferson, Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: The truth though about her situation and whereabouts was kept
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Speaker 1: secret for decades, and it wasn't until Joseph's death in
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine when her siblings found out where she was.
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Speaker 1: Her sister Eunice publicly revealed her condition in nineteen sixty two,
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Speaker 1: and this entire thing wasn't public knowledge until the year
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, when it was publicly revealed that she
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Speaker 1: had received a lobotomy. So, obviously, lobotomies are a dark
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Speaker 1: and disturbing part of American and you know, world history.
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Speaker 1: The fact that so many people were given lobotomies that
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Speaker 1: definitely shouldn't have had lobotomies. Obviously, it's an archaic procedure
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Speaker 1: and it's like putting a band aid on a gunshot wound.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't actually help. It just turned these people into,
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Speaker 1: you know, vegetable zombies. It's crazy that the Kennedy family
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Speaker 1: tried to essentially cover up the fact that they had
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Speaker 1: had their sister lobottomized and shipped off to a facility
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Speaker 1: where she was cared for by other people. They really
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Speaker 1: didn't want any association with her. So that's dark, that's
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Speaker 1: really dark. But that's just the very beginning. Joseph Patrick
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Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior, the oldest child of Joseph P. Kennedy Senior
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Speaker 1: and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was an American naval aviator who
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Speaker 1: served as a lieutenant in the US Navy. Joseph's father
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Speaker 1: had aspirations for him to become President of the United
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Speaker 1: States like his younger brother John later became, and in
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty he became a delegate to the Democratic National Convention,
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Speaker 1: planning to run for a seat in the US House
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Speaker 1: of Representatives after his military service as the first stepping
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Speaker 1: stone on the path to presidency. In nineteen forty four,
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Speaker 1: Joseph Kennedy was part of the Operation Aphrodite, which was
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Speaker 1: the use of Army Air Corps Boeing B seventeen Flying
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Speaker 1: Fortress and Navy Consolidated PB four y one Liberator bombers
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Speaker 1: that were converted into flying bombs and deliberately crashed into
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Speaker 1: their targets under radio control from an accompanying bomber. On
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Speaker 1: August twelve, Joseph Kennedy and his co pilot, Willie flew
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Speaker 1: a BQ eight Robot aircraft loaded with twenty one thousand,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy pounds of torpex explosives and took
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Speaker 1: off to be used against a suspected V three development
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Speaker 1: site at Mimoyequis. Sorry if I'm mispronouncing that name. As planned, Joseph,
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Speaker 1: Kennedy and Willie remained aboard that aircraft as the BQ
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Speaker 1: eight completed its first remote controlled turn two thousand five
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Speaker 1: DA near the North Sea coast. Then Joseph, Kennedy and
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Speaker 1: Willie removed the safety pin, arming the explosive package, and
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Speaker 1: Joseph radioed the agreed code spade flush, his last known words.
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Speaker 1: Two minutes later, and well before the planned crew bailout
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Speaker 1: near rif Manston in Kent, the explosives on Kennedy's plane
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Speaker 1: detonated prematurely, destroying the Liberator and instantly killing Joseph, Kennedy
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Speaker 1: and Willie. The combat camera unit on a neighboring aircraft
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Speaker 1: supposedly filmed the whole incident, but that footage was never found.
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Speaker 1: Drone operations were then paused for a month while equipment
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Speaker 1: was evaluated and modified, and it was later suspected that
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Speaker 1: jamming or astray signal could have armed and detonated the explosives.
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Speaker 1: Later reports stated that Joseph's final mission had been kept
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Speaker 1: top secret until years later, and eventually, in nineteen forty five,
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Speaker 1: a detailed public account of the operation end of Joseph
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Speaker 1: Kennedy's death was released. Up until his death, Joseph was
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Speaker 1: dating Athalia Ponzl Linsley, an American model, Broadway dancer, political activist,
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Speaker 1: and television personality who was later on found murdered on
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Speaker 1: the front steps of her home in Saint Augustine, Florida
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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy four. Neighbor Allan Griffin Stanford Junior, with
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Speaker 1: whom she had an ongoing feud at the time, was
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Speaker 1: initially charged with her murder, but he was ultimately acquitted
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Speaker 1: and her murder remains unsolved to this very day. So
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Speaker 1: you have Joseph Kennedy dying in a massive plane explosion,
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Speaker 1: completely random, and then years later, his longtime girlfriend who
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Speaker 1: he was in a relationship with up until his death,
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Speaker 1: she's whacked on the front steps of her house and
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Speaker 1: the murder is still unsolved. Like I said, this is
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Speaker 1: just the very beginning. There's also Kathleen Kick Kennedy. Kathleen
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Speaker 1: was the second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Senior and
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Speaker 1: Rose Fitzgerald, sister to John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, and wife of the Marquess of Hartington,
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Speaker 1: Air Apparent to the tenth Duke of Devonshire. While her
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Speaker 1: family was serving as a US ambassador to the United Kingdom,
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Speaker 1: Kathleen Kick Kennedy made many friends in London and was
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Speaker 1: the quote debutante of nineteen thirty eight. Working with the Cross,
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Speaker 1: she began a romantic relationship with Lord Hardington, whom she
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Speaker 1: married in May of nineteen forty four, despite her mother's objections.
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Speaker 1: Lord Hardington and Kathleen spent less than five weeks together
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Speaker 1: before he went off to fight the war in France.
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Speaker 1: Four months after their marriage and less than a month
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Speaker 1: after Joe Junior was killed, Hardington was killed by a
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Speaker 1: sniper during a battle with the Germans in Belgium, and
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Speaker 1: with his family's blessing, he was buried close to the
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Speaker 1: area in which he felt. Eventually, after she was widowed,
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Speaker 1: Lady Hardington aka Kick Kennedy became romantically involved with the
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Speaker 1: Eighth Earl Fitzwilliam and once again her mother disapproved of
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Speaker 1: this and warned Kathleen that she would be disowned and
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Speaker 1: cut off financially if she married this man. In nineteen
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Speaker 1: forty eight, Kathleen learned that her father would be traveling
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Speaker 1: to Paris, and so, in an effort to gain his
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Speaker 1: consent for her upcoming plans to marry Fitzwilliam, she decided
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Speaker 1: to fly to Paris to meet with her father. On
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Speaker 1: May thirteenth, nineteen forty eight, Kathleen Kick Kennedy, and Lord
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Speaker 1: Fitzwilliam were flying from Paris to the friend Revere for
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Speaker 1: a vacation. At three point thirty in the afternoon, their
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Speaker 1: plane took off and eventually reached an altitude of ten
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Speaker 1: thousand feet. However, approximately one hour into the flight, radio
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Speaker 1: contact was lost with the plane when it entered the
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Speaker 1: region near vi End The planes four occupants endured twenty
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Speaker 1: minutes of severe turbulence, which bounced their small plane up
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Speaker 1: and down as much as several thousand feet at a time,
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Speaker 1: and when they finally cleared the clouds, they instantly discovered
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Speaker 1: the plane was in a dive and moments away from impact,
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Speaker 1: and they attempted to pull up. However, the stress of
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Speaker 1: the turbulence, coupled with a sudden change in direction tore
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Speaker 1: loose one of the wings followed by both engines and
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Speaker 1: finally the tail of the plane. The plane's fuselage then
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Speaker 1: spun into the ground seconds later, coming to rest noseedown
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Speaker 1: in a ravine after striking terrain at Plateau de Couron.
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Speaker 1: Kathleen Kick Kennedy was killed instantly, along with Fitzwilliam, the
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Speaker 1: pilot Peter Townsend, and the navigator Arthur Freeman. Kathleen was
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Speaker 1: buried on the Cavendish family burial grounds at Saint Peter's Churchyard,
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Speaker 1: Edensor outside out of Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England. Her father was
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Speaker 1: the only family member to attend the funeral, arranged by
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Speaker 1: the Devonshires. Rose Kennedy had refused to attend her daughter's
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Speaker 1: funeral and instead entered a hospital for medical reasons. So bizarre,
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Speaker 1: right months away from each other, in that same time period,
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Speaker 1: two original kind of Kennedy clan family members die in
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Speaker 1: plane related accidents. There's this one plane that basically disintegrates
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Speaker 1: in mid air mid flight after this turbulence. Then you
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Speaker 1: have another, you know, Kennedy who's fighting in the war,
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Speaker 1: whose explosives detonate preemptively killing him. And it just it
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Speaker 1: gets weirder and weirder from there, because at this point
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Speaker 1: John and Jackie Kennedy are getting married, They're starting to
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Speaker 1: have kids, and we have to get to John F.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy's first daughter. On August twenty third,
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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty six, John and Jackie Kennedy's first daughter was
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Speaker 1: tragically stillborn after Jackie awoke to heavy bleeding and was
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Speaker 1: taken to the hospital. Her daughter was later delivered by
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Speaker 1: sea section at the Newport Hospital Emergency department in Rhode Island.
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Speaker 1: At the time time, John F. Kennedy was cruising the
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Speaker 1: Mediterranean on a yacht and was reportedly reluctant to return home. However,
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Speaker 1: his friend told him to quote paul his ass back
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Speaker 1: to his wife if he ever wanted to run for
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Speaker 1: president end quote, and so he did. The couple never
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Speaker 1: officially named their stillborn girl, but Jackie later referred to
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Speaker 1: her as Arabella. Before Arabella, Jackie Kennedy had suffered a
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Speaker 1: miscarriage in nineteen fifty five, just three months into her pregnancy. Arabella,
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Speaker 1: that stillborn baby, was buried in the local Catholic cemetery
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Speaker 1: in Rhode Island, but was later reinterred beside her father
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Speaker 1: at Arlington National Cemetery. Her headstone at Arlington simply Read's Daughter,
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Speaker 1: as Jackie reportedly didn't want to mark her stillborn daughter's
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Speaker 1: grave with an informal nickname that her husband may not
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Speaker 1: have even been aware of. Moving on, though, we have
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Speaker 1: to talk about Patrick Bouvier Kennedy. On the morning of Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: August seventh, nineteen sixty three, while Jackie Kennedy and her
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Speaker 1: two children, Caroline and John Junior, were in Massachusetts, Jackie
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Speaker 1: began to feel early labor. Paints John at the White
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Speaker 1: House at the time boarded Air Force one one while
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Speaker 1: the infant Kennedy was born by c section at twelve
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Speaker 1: fifty two PM at the Otis Air Force Base Hospital
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Speaker 1: in Bourne, Massachusetts, five and a half weeks prematurely. The
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Speaker 1: infant's birthweight was four pounds ten and a half ounces.
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Speaker 1: He was the first child born to a serving US
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Speaker 1: President and first Lady since the nineteenth century. Shortly after birth,
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Speaker 1: though sadly, Patrick developed symptoms of highlen membrane disease now
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Speaker 1: called infant respiratory distress syndrome, and this was detected by
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Speaker 1: breathing difficulties within minutes of being born. The President then
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Speaker 1: arrived saw his son in distress and sent for a chaplain.
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Speaker 1: The infant was quickly baptized, named Patrick after his great
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Speaker 1: grandfather and Bouvier after his mother's maiden name. While he
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Speaker 1: was there, the President was allowed to wheel the baby
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Speaker 1: in an incubator to the first lady's bedside. James E. Droorbot,
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Speaker 1: the pediatric specialist of Boston Children's Hospital, was flown by
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Speaker 1: helicopter from Boston to consult on his case, and he
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Speaker 1: recommended transfer to Boston. Five hours after birth, the infant,
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Speaker 1: accompanied by doctor Drorbot, was rushed by ambulance to Boston
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Speaker 1: Children's Hospital, seventy miles away, in under ninety minutes. The
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Speaker 1: transfer to the hospital in Boston was initially reported as
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Speaker 1: of precautionary measure. The White House said the baby's condition
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Speaker 1: was accurately reported as HMD, but it was also reported
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Speaker 1: that it would take at least four days to assess
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Speaker 1: his condition and that he was being given medication to
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Speaker 1: assist his condition, led by doctor Drorobot, who stayed awake
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Speaker 1: the entire time. The hospital tried everything possible to save
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Speaker 1: the infant's life. The baby was given hyperbaric oxygen therapy,
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Speaker 1: in which he was placed in a hyperbaric chamber filled
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Speaker 1: with one hundred percent oxygen and pressurized to greater than
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Speaker 1: one atmosphere. At the time, the treatment was revolutionary, but unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: Patrick died at four or four a m. On August ninth,
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Speaker 1: despite a desperate medical effort to save him, and had
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Speaker 1: lived thirty nine hours and twelve minutes. At the time
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Speaker 1: of the infant's death, the President was outside the hyperbaric
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Speaker 1: chamber with his brother, US Attorney General Robert F.
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Speaker 3: Kennedy.
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Speaker 1: The First Lady, then thirty four, then remained at Otis
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Speaker 1: Air Force Base Hospital recovering from the sea section. She
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Speaker 1: was told of her son's death by doctor Walsh. She
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Speaker 1: was also given a sedative, and she went to sleep
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Speaker 1: until John F. Kennedy flew in to see her from Boston.
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Speaker 1: The New York Times obituary included the following information.
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Speaker 2: His obituary in The New York Times stated that at
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Speaker 2: the time, all that could be done for a victim
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Speaker 2: of highline membrane disease is to monitor the infant's blood
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Speaker 2: chemistry and to try to keep it in the normal levels.
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Speaker 1: Very little was said about the family's reaction. White House
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Speaker 1: Press Secretary Pierre Salinger stated of the First Lady's condition,
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Speaker 1: given the circumstances, her condition is satisfactory. The President, who
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Speaker 1: had reportedly slept only four hours since the birth, was
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Speaker 1: photographed arriving at Otis Air Force Base looking grave and
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Speaker 1: appearing tired. A small funeral mass was held on August tenth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, in the private chapel of Cardinal Richard
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Speaker 1: Cushing in Boston. The President's mother, Rose Kennedy, was in
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Speaker 1: Paris and was told not to return for the funeral,
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Speaker 1: but the First Lady's sister, Lee Radziwill, had already flown
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Speaker 1: in from Greece before the baby died. Cushing, the Archbishop
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Speaker 1: of Bombs, performed the funeral mass. Siblings, Caroline, then five
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Speaker 1: years old, and John Junior, just two and a half,
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Speaker 1: did not attend. The child was initially buried at Holyhood
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Speaker 1: Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts, the President's hometown, but later his
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Speaker 1: body and that of his stillborn sister Arabella were dug
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Speaker 1: up and reinterred on December fifth, nineteen sixty three, alongside
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Speaker 1: their father at Arlington National Cemetery, and later moved to
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Speaker 1: their permanent graves in Section forty five grid U thirty
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Speaker 1: five in the same cemetery. And now we're back to
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Speaker 1: one of the most significant deaths in the Kennedy family.
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Speaker 1: US President John F. Kennedy shown in this clip.
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Speaker 2: On January the second, nineteen sixty Kennedy initiated his campaign
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Speaker 2: for president in the Democratic primary election. We faced challenges
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Speaker 2: from Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator Wayne Moosse
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Speaker 2: of Oregon. Kennedy defeated Humphrey in Wisconsin and West Virginia,
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Speaker 2: Moss in Maryland and Oregon. He's victory in West Virginia
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Speaker 2: confirmed his broad popular appeal at the Democratic Convention is
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Speaker 2: well known New Frontier speech, saying, for the problems are
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Speaker 2: not all solved, and the battles are not all won,
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Speaker 2: and we stand today on the edge of a new frontier.
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Speaker 3: John F.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy was the thirty fifth acting president of the United States,
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Speaker 1: and not only is he part of this curse, his
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Speaker 1: assassination has obviously fueled numerous conspiracy theories on exactly what
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Speaker 1: happened On November twenty second, nineteen sixty three, just over
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Speaker 1: three months since Patrick Kennedy's birth and death. John F. Kennedy,
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Speaker 1: the thirty fifth President of the United States was assassinated
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Speaker 1: while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas. As
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Speaker 1: explained by.
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Speaker 2: This clip, the motor ke cars had been lined up
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Speaker 2: in a certain order earlier that morning. The original schedule
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Speaker 2: was for the president to proceed in a long motorcade
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Speaker 2: from love Field through downtown Dallas, an end of the
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Speaker 2: Dallas Business and Trademark. The original scheduled route had the
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Speaker 2: motor kaid continued straight on Domain instead of turning on
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Speaker 2: to Houston, but it was discovered that Elm Street provided
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Speaker 2: the only direct link from Dealey Plaza to this men's freeway,
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Speaker 2: Thus the route was altered. The presidential motorcay began its
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Speaker 2: route without incident, stopping twice so President Kennedy could shake
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Speaker 2: hands with some Catholic nuns.
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Speaker 1: At twelve thirty pm.
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Speaker 4: John F.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife Jackie, Texas
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Speaker 1: Governor John Connolly, and Connolly's wife Nelly, as their limousine
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Speaker 1: entered d Lee Plaza in Dallas. At one point, Nelly
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Speaker 1: turned and commented to John, who was sitting behind her,
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Speaker 1: Mister President, they can't make you believe now that there
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Speaker 1: are not some in Dallas who love and appreciate you,
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Speaker 1: can they? Kennedy replied, no, they sure can't. Those were
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Speaker 1: his last words from Houston Street. The limousine made the
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Speaker 1: plan left turn onto Elm, passing the Texas school Book Depository,
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Speaker 1: and as it continued down Elm Street, multiple shots were fired.
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Speaker 1: About eighty percent of the witnesses were called hearing three shots,
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Speaker 1: according to the Warren Commission obviously very crooked Commission and
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Speaker 1: the HSCA. Kennedy was waving to the crowds on his
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Speaker 1: right when a shot entered his upper back and exited
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Speaker 1: his throat just beneath his larynx. He raised his eyebrows
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Speaker 1: and clenched his fists in front of his face and neck,
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Speaker 1: then leaned forward and leftward. Jackie put her arms around him,
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Speaker 1: and it was reported that although it was a serious wound,
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Speaker 1: he likely would have been survivable. But as the limousine
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Speaker 1: passed the infamous grassy Knoll, John F. Kennedy was struck
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Speaker 1: a second time by a fatal shot to the rear
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Speaker 1: of his head. It then passed in fragments through his skull,
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Speaker 1: creating a large ovular hole on the rear right side
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Speaker 1: of the head and splut in bone fragments everywhere. John F.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy's sprayed far behind the vehicle, even hitting the Secret
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Speaker 1: Service car that was following his motorcade, and even some
20:31
Speaker 1: of the motorcycle officers that were riding immediately behind the limousine.
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Speaker 1: Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who was one of those
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Speaker 1: men on the motorcycles behind Kennedy's limousine, testifying to the
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Speaker 1: Warren Commission, that he heard one shot, jumped onto the
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Speaker 1: street and ran forward to board the limousine and protect Kennedy.
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Speaker 1: Hill stated that he heard the fatal headshot as he
20:49
Speaker 1: reached the Lincoln, approximately five seconds after the first shot
20:52
Speaker 1: that he heard. After the head shot, Jackie began climbing
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Speaker 1: onto the limousine's trunk, but she later had no recollection
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Speaker 1: of doing so. He'll believe that she may have been
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Speaker 1: reaching for a piece of her husband's skull. So Hill
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Speaker 1: jumped onto the limousine's bumper and clung to the car
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Speaker 1: as it exited Daley Plaza and sped to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
21:09
Speaker 1: After Jackie had crawled back into her seat, both the
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Speaker 1: Governor and Missus Connolly heard her repeatedly saying they've killed
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Speaker 1: my husband I have in my hand. At twelve thirty
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Speaker 1: eight PM, President Kennedy arrived in the er of the
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Speaker 1: emergency room of Parkland Memorial Hospital. Although Kennedy was still
21:25
Speaker 1: breathing after the shooting, his personal physician, George Berkeley, immediately
21:29
Speaker 1: saw that survival was impossible. After Parkland surgeons performed futile CPR,
21:34
Speaker 1: President Kennedy was pronounced dead at one o'clock PM, thirty
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Speaker 1: minutes after the shooting. They broke the news on live television,
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Speaker 1: which you're about to see in the following clip. Please
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Speaker 1: note that this clip at times can be extremely graphic,
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Speaker 1: so watch at your own risk.
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Speaker 5: The essential facts are these. President Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Texas.
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Speaker 5: He was shot by a sniper hiding in a building
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Speaker 5: near his parade room.
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Speaker 1: The Secret Service was immediately concerned about the possibility of
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Speaker 1: a larger plot, and they urged Lyndon B. Johnson to
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Speaker 1: leave Dallas, to which he replied he would not leave
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Speaker 1: with Jackie Kennedy and she would not leave without John F.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy's body. At the time of the Kennedy assassination, the
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Speaker 1: murder of a president was not under federal jurisdiction. Accordingly,
22:25
Speaker 1: Dallas County Medical Examiner Earl Rose insisted that Texas law
22:29
Speaker 1: required him to perform an autopsy. A heated exchange between
22:32
Speaker 1: Kennedy's aids and Dallas officials nearly erupted into a fistfight
22:36
Speaker 1: before the Texans yielded and allowed Kennedy's body to be
22:39
Speaker 1: transported to Air Force one. President Kennedy's autopsy was performed
22:43
Speaker 1: on November twenty second, and people argued that it was
22:46
Speaker 1: the most botched segment of the government investigation. First, the
22:49
Speaker 1: physicians conducted a rushed and incomplete autopsy. Then, three years
22:53
Speaker 1: after the autopsy, John F. Kennedy's brain was found to
22:56
Speaker 1: be missing when the family transferred material to the National
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Speaker 1: Arts Archives. Also, some autopsy x Raisin photographs were lost
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Speaker 1: to time, meaning they just vanished. Following the autopsy, Kennedy
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Speaker 1: lay in repose as explained in this documentary clip.
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Speaker 2: The body of President Kennedy was brought back to Washington,
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Speaker 2: d C. And placed in the East Room of the
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Speaker 2: White House for twenty four hours. Vice President Johnson took
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Speaker 2: the oath as president on board that flight.
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Speaker 1: The state funeral was held in Washington, d C. As
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Speaker 1: shown in the following.
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Speaker 2: The state funeral of John F. Kennedy took place in Washington,
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Speaker 2: d C. During the three days that followed his assassination.
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Speaker 2: On the Sunday, his coffin was carried on a horse
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Speaker 2: drawn chason to the US Capitol to lie in state.
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Speaker 2: Throughout the day and night, hundreds of thousands lined up
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Speaker 2: to view the guard casket. Representatives from over ninety countries
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Speaker 2: attended the state funeral on Monday, November twenty five. The widow,
23:50
Speaker 2: wearing a black veil and holding the hands of her
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Speaker 2: two children, John Junior, who celebrated his third birthday on
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Speaker 2: the day of his father's funeral, and Caroline, led the
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Speaker 2: way up the steps at the cathedral. The three year
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Speaker 2: old John Junior stoically saluted his father's casket during live
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Speaker 2: television coverage of the funeral procession.
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Speaker 1: After the service, Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery
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Speaker 1: in Virginia, where an eternal flame was lit in nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty seven. Now we are going to dive deep into
24:19
Speaker 1: JFK's murder, the plot to have him killed, All the
24:23
Speaker 1: bad actors involved, all the people. They got away with it, obviously,
24:26
Speaker 1: Lee Harvey Oswald being a Patsy and a fall guy,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna go incredibly deep into that whole thing.
24:32
Speaker 1: I have a sixty three page script written, which is
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Speaker 1: going to be very, very long. So we're going to
24:37
Speaker 1: save all that talk for another time because right now
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Speaker 1: we're just focused on the Kennedys. But subscribe and stay
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Speaker 1: tuned for that episode. We're going to go really, really
24:46
Speaker 1: in depth because now we have to get to US
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Speaker 1: Senator Robert F. Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy was an American
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Speaker 1: politician and lawyer who served as the sixty fourth United
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Speaker 1: States Attorney General from January nineteen sixty one to September
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four. He also served as a US Senator
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Speaker 1: from New York from January nineteen sixty five until June
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight, when he was running for the Democratic
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Speaker 1: presidential nomination. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy,
25:12
Speaker 1: he was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and
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Speaker 1: is considered an icon of modern American liberalism. On June fourth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five, after Robert Kennedy won the California and
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Speaker 1: South Dakota primaries, he was addressing his campaign supporters in
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Speaker 1: the Ambassador Hotels Embassy ballroom in California. As explained here.
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Speaker 2: At the time, the government provided Secret Service protection for
25:34
Speaker 2: incumbent presidents, but not for presidential candidates. Kennedy's only security
25:38
Speaker 2: was provided by former FBI agent William Barry and two
25:42
Speaker 2: unofficial bodyguards, former professional athletes. During the campaign, Kennedy had
25:46
Speaker 2: welcomed contact with the public, and people had often tried
25:49
Speaker 2: to touch him in their excitement. Kennedy had planned to
25:52
Speaker 2: walk through the ballroom when he had finished speaking, on
25:54
Speaker 2: his way to another gathering of supporters elsewhere in the hotel. However,
25:58
Speaker 2: with Deadline's fast approach, reporters wanted a press conference. Campaign
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Speaker 2: eight Fred Dunton decided that Kennedy would forego the second
26:05
Speaker 2: gathering and instead go through the kitchen and pantry area
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Speaker 2: behind the ballroom to the press area.
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Speaker 1: At this point, Robert started to exit through the ballroom
26:14
Speaker 1: when former FBI agent William Barry directed Robert to the
26:17
Speaker 1: left through some swinging doors into the kitchen corridor. Maitre
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Speaker 1: D Hotel Carl Uker led Robert through the kitchen area,
26:24
Speaker 1: holding his right wrist but frequently releasing it as Robert
26:28
Speaker 1: shook hands with people whom he encountered. When Yuker and
26:31
Speaker 1: Kennedy started down a passageway narrowed by an ice machine
26:34
Speaker 1: and a steam table to the north, Robert turned to
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Speaker 1: his left and shook hands with a man named Juan Romero,
26:40
Speaker 1: just as Saran. Saran stepped down from a low trace
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Speaker 1: stacker beside the ice machine, rushed past Uker and repeatedly
26:46
Speaker 1: fired an eight shot point twenty two long rifle caliber
26:50
Speaker 1: revolver at point blank range, right into Robert Kennedy's body.
26:54
Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy then fell to the floor as writer George
26:57
Speaker 1: Plimpton and another tried to disarm Siran, but he continued
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Speaker 1: firing his gun in random directions. Robert Kennedy had been
27:03
Speaker 1: shot multiple times. The fatal shot was fired at a
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Speaker 1: range of one inch and entered behind his right ear.
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Speaker 1: The other two shots entered at the rear of his
27:12
Speaker 1: right armpit, one exiting his chest and the other lodged
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Speaker 1: in the back of his neck. Barry attended to him
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Speaker 1: on the ground.
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Speaker 2: Barry went to Kennedy and Lady's jacket under the candidate's head,
27:21
Speaker 2: later recalling I knew immediately it was A twenty two,
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Speaker 2: a small caliber, so I hoped it wouldn't be so bad.
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Speaker 2: But then I saw the hole in the senators and
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Speaker 2: I knew.
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Speaker 1: Romero cradled his head and placed a rosary in his hand.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy's wife, Ethel, who was three months pregnant, had been
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Speaker 1: away from the shooting scene at the time that it happened.
27:40
Speaker 1: She was led to Kennedy and knelt beside him. He
27:42
Speaker 1: turned his head, seeming to recognize her, and after a
27:45
Speaker 1: few minutes, medical attendants arrived and lifted Kennedy on to
27:48
Speaker 1: a stretcher, prompting him to whisper don't leave me, which
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Speaker 1: were his last words. He lost consciousness shortly afterwards. Before
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Speaker 1: the following occurred.
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Speaker 2: One doctor slept his face, calling Bob, Bob, while another
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Speaker 2: message Kennedy's heart. After obtaining a good heartbeat, doctors handed
28:04
Speaker 2: his stethoscope to Ethel Kennedy so she could hear her
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Speaker 2: husband's heart beating, much to her relief.
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Speaker 1: After obtaining a good heartbeat, Robert Kennedy was transferred several
28:14
Speaker 1: blocks to Good Samaritan Hospital to undergo surgery. Surgery began
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Speaker 1: at three twelve am and lasted approximately three hours and
28:21
Speaker 1: forty minutes. At five point thirty pm on Wednesday, spokesman
28:24
Speaker 1: Frank Mankiwitz announced that Kennedy's doctors were concerned over his
28:28
Speaker 1: continuing failure to show improvement. His condition was critical despite
28:32
Speaker 1: extensive neurosurgery to remove the bullet and bone fragments from
28:36
Speaker 1: his brain. He was pronounced dead at one forty four
28:38
Speaker 1: am on June sixth, nearly twenty five hours after the shooting.
28:42
Speaker 1: At two am on June sixth, spokesman Frank announced Kennedy's
28:46
Speaker 1: death to the press and news media here.
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Speaker 6: At the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles at the moment of
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Speaker 6: his greatest political time. Bobby Kennedy too had been gunned down.
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Speaker 6: For twenty five hours, he clung to life at the
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Speaker 6: Good Samaritan Hospital, bullet and his brain surgeons thought to
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Speaker 6: save him. Waking crowds pray. Their prayers echoed throughout the
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Speaker 6: United States throughout the world. It was unbelievable that such
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Speaker 6: a tragedy could happen twice in the same family. Jackie Kennedy,
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Speaker 6: sister in law widow of the late president, arrived to
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Speaker 6: join the family's bedside vigil. She knew so well the
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Speaker 6: horror of this moment.
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Speaker 1: On the morning of June eighth, Senator Kennedy's casket was
29:23
Speaker 1: taken to Saint Patrick's Cathedral, where it was viewed by thousands,
29:26
Speaker 1: later followed by the funeral mass. Kennedy was buried near
29:29
Speaker 1: JFK in Arlington National Cemetery, the first burial to ever
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Speaker 1: have taken place there at night. But the curse doesn't
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Speaker 1: end there. We now have to talk about David A. Kennedy.
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Speaker 1: David Anthony Kennedy in Washington, d C. Was the fourth
29:44
Speaker 1: of eleven children born to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and
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Speaker 1: Ethel Schockle Kennedy. David A. Kennedy had been just twelve
29:50
Speaker 1: years old when he was at the Ambassador Hotel in
29:53
Speaker 1: June of nineteen sixty eight watching news footage of his
29:56
Speaker 1: father's assassination, which had happened downstairs with his brother RFK. Junior.
30:01
Speaker 1: He was supposed to be asleep at the time, but
30:03
Speaker 1: the excitement of the day had kept him awake, so
30:05
Speaker 1: some time had elapsed before someone came to check on him.
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Speaker 1: Presidential biographer Theodore White found the boy devastated at the
30:11
Speaker 1: site he had seen, and comforted the youngster. He supposedly
30:15
Speaker 1: was extremely emotionally attached to his father. According to the
30:18
Speaker 1: Palm Beach Post, family members said that that assassination triggered
30:22
Speaker 1: David's addiction to him, which started at the age of thirteen,
30:26
Speaker 1: but a car crash in nineteen seventy three likely made
30:28
Speaker 1: it worse. In nineteen seventy three, David was involved in
30:31
Speaker 1: a very serious jeep accident in which his brother Joseph
30:35
Speaker 1: Patrick Kennedy the Second, was driving. David sustained a major
30:38
Speaker 1: fracture and his girlfriend, pame La Kelly, was left paralyzed.
30:42
Speaker 1: David then became addicted to the painkillers he was prescribed
30:45
Speaker 1: and later turned to that autumn. In February of nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy three, after spending time between McLean, Virginia, and New
30:51
Speaker 1: York City, David decided to move to New York full time,
30:54
Speaker 1: where he was often seen in the various hot spot
30:57
Speaker 1: nightclubs of the city with a variety of attractive women.
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Speaker 1: Between nineteen seventy six and nineteen seventy eight, he was
31:02
Speaker 1: twice diagnosed with bacterial endocarditis, in inflammation of the heart,
31:07
Speaker 1: a common result of using intravenous drugs. He also suffered
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Speaker 1: from in nineteen seventy six and nineteen seventy eight. Between
31:14
Speaker 1: seventy eight and eighty four, David spent time at various
31:17
Speaker 1: locations trying to treat his but he went through several relapses.
31:21
Speaker 1: On April nineteenth, nineteen eighty four, David flew down to
31:24
Speaker 1: Palm Beach, Florida to be with his family for an
31:27
Speaker 1: extended Easter break at the Brazilian Court Hotel. He was
31:30
Speaker 1: there to see Rose Kennedy, whom the family thought they
31:32
Speaker 1: would be celebrating their last Easter with, and David was
31:35
Speaker 1: distraught at the state she was in. Additionally, Marianneman, a
31:39
Speaker 1: woman he had supposedly got out with during his stay,
31:41
Speaker 1: stated that David had had quite a bit to drink
31:44
Speaker 1: that evening, and back at the hotel he sobbed and
31:46
Speaker 1: talked about the night his father had died and the
31:49
Speaker 1: pain he had felt about it ever since. When the
31:51
Speaker 1: family got together for Easter at the Kennedy estate, David
31:54
Speaker 1: reportedly got thrown out because he was very dirty and
31:57
Speaker 1: very intoxicated, and so abusive to members of the family
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Speaker 1: that he was removed from the function altogether. David instead
32:03
Speaker 1: went to party until the early hours of the morning
32:05
Speaker 1: and then retired to his room, and witnesses said that
32:08
Speaker 1: he had a massive amount of drinks that evening. At
32:11
Speaker 1: ten thirty am, Caroline Kennedy and cousin Sidney Lawford arrived
32:14
Speaker 1: at the hotel looking for David. There was no answer
32:17
Speaker 1: from his hotel room. Later, Ethel Kennedy called the receptionist
32:20
Speaker 1: asking that they check on David, and from there Douglas
32:23
Speaker 1: Maciano and Betty Barnett, the hotel secretary, went upstairs to
32:27
Speaker 1: his room to see if everything was all right. When
32:29
Speaker 1: they entered the room, they found that the curtains were
32:31
Speaker 1: still drawn, the beds had not been slept in, there
32:33
Speaker 1: was money all over the floor, clothing scattered everywhere, and
32:36
Speaker 1: the phone was off the hook. Between the two beds,
32:39
Speaker 1: wearing a shirt, pants, shoes and socks was the body
32:42
Speaker 1: of David Kennedy, lying face down. It was eleven thirty
32:45
Speaker 1: two am when they found it, and he appeared to
32:47
Speaker 1: have been dead for quite some time. The news at
32:50
Speaker 1: the time reported the following.
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Speaker 4: The family whose tragedies our country has followed and indeed felt,
32:55
Speaker 4: has been struck once again today. David Kennedy found it
32:58
Speaker 4: in a palm beach Florida hotel. Although Kennedy had a
33:01
Speaker 4: history of police would not positively confirm that caused his death.
33:05
Speaker 4: I would say only there was no sign of foul play.
33:08
Speaker 4: The drug problem of Ethel and Robert's fourth child dates
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Speaker 4: back at least in nineteen seventy nine, when police say
33:13
Speaker 4: Kennedy frequented a connection in Harlem. At the time, friends
33:17
Speaker 4: of the Harvard student called Kennedy one of the walking wounded,
33:20
Speaker 4: saying young David admitted to her that's a habit David
33:23
Speaker 4: shared with his older brother, Robert, who's now on probation
33:26
Speaker 4: after a recent possession conviction. It's also a problem the
33:29
Speaker 4: family tried to deal with by hiring private live in
33:32
Speaker 4: drug counselors, though in this case to no avail. Today,
33:35
Speaker 4: a phone call by the mother of Robert Kennedy's eleven
33:38
Speaker 4: children prompted the search of her son's hotel room this morning.
33:41
Speaker 4: In that room, just after eleven thirty, David Kennedy was
33:44
Speaker 4: pronounced dead. Ironically, it was also in a hotel room
33:47
Speaker 4: back in nineteen sixty eight that David Kennedy learned from
33:50
Speaker 4: a television newsgroup of the death of his father in Miami.
33:53
Speaker 4: Dian Magnum Channelton High Witness News.
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Speaker 1: An autopsy determined that he had died on April twenty fifth,
33:59
Speaker 1: following an combined with a tranquilizer and the painkiller. A
34:05
Speaker 1: funeral service was held in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he was
34:08
Speaker 1: then afterwards buried at the family plot. But an investigation
34:11
Speaker 1: indicated several suspicious things regarding David's death. At first, it
34:15
Speaker 1: was believed that no drugs were found, but police later
34:18
Speaker 1: reported that they had found one point three grams of
34:21
Speaker 1: hidden in David's wallet in the drawer. Traces of the
34:24
Speaker 1: drugs were found in the toilet bowls and tank, and
34:26
Speaker 1: people considered this odd as it would likely never flush
34:30
Speaker 1: their down the toilet. Someone had been in the room
34:33
Speaker 1: and apparently had cleaned up, but they missed the trees
34:35
Speaker 1: in his wallet. Additionally, there were no syringes found in
34:38
Speaker 1: the room, and furthermore, apparently, according to the official story,
34:42
Speaker 1: David had ed into his groin and had a sock
34:45
Speaker 1: inside out, which indicated he may have been found nude
34:49
Speaker 1: originally and was later dressed after he died. Why would
34:52
Speaker 1: someone who would drank an exorbitant amount of alcohol after
34:56
Speaker 1: from the groin bothered to put all of his clothes
34:58
Speaker 1: back on in the state he was in at the time.
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Speaker 1: Defense attorneys at the trial demanded that the fingerprints they
35:04
Speaker 1: found of David's be tested against other Kennedys, but the
35:07
Speaker 1: prosecutors refuse this. Later police said that the fingerprints did
35:11
Speaker 1: not belong to Caroline or Sydney, but they hadn't identified
35:14
Speaker 1: them all and two of the cousin's fingerprints were never
35:17
Speaker 1: even taken in the first place. Additionally, none of the
35:19
Speaker 1: Kennedys were ever seriously interviewed, and over one thousand pages
35:23
Speaker 1: were never released, including the final toxicology report. The investigation
35:27
Speaker 1: ended with two bell Hops being arrested for selling to David.
35:31
Speaker 1: And that was it kind of suspicious, right, He's embarrassing
35:33
Speaker 1: the family. He's kicked out of the family function. This
35:36
Speaker 1: is one of the most famous families in America. The
35:38
Speaker 1: guy has for years been struggling, embarrassing them, you know,
35:41
Speaker 1: on a national stage, and then he ends up dead
35:44
Speaker 1: with suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. The day or I
35:47
Speaker 1: guess I should say the night slash early morning after
35:50
Speaker 1: he had this blowout fight with the entire family where
35:53
Speaker 1: they felt he was disrespecting them. And they actually kicked
35:56
Speaker 1: him out of the family celebration, but he just keeps
35:58
Speaker 1: on going. There's also Michael Lemoyne Kennedy, who was the
36:01
Speaker 1: sixth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy.
36:05
Speaker 1: He was five years old when his uncle jfk was
36:07
Speaker 1: assassinated and ten years old when his father Rfkay was assassinated.
36:11
Speaker 1: A Boston lawyer, Michael Kennedy briefly worked for a private
36:14
Speaker 1: law firm before becoming chairman of his brother Joseph's nonprofit
36:18
Speaker 1: organization Citizens Energy Corporation in nineteen eighty six, which provides
36:23
Speaker 1: heating oil and services to the elderly and low income
36:25
Speaker 1: households in Massachusetts. Under Kennedy, Citizens diversified to provide discount
36:30
Speaker 1: AIDS related medications to uninsured patients. In nineteen ninety seven,
36:34
Speaker 1: allegations were reported that Michael Kennedy was having an affair
36:38
Speaker 1: with the family's underaged former babysitter, an affair which allegedly
36:42
Speaker 1: began when she was only fourteen years old. Michael Kennedy
36:45
Speaker 1: took and passed three polygraph tests arranged by his attorneys,
36:49
Speaker 1: during which he claimed he had not had with the
36:51
Speaker 1: cohaset teen until she was sixteen, the legal age of
36:54
Speaker 1: consent in Massachusetts at the time. Despite news reports like this.
36:58
Speaker 7: One, there were some good news for Michael Kennedy this
37:00
Speaker 7: week when the parents of the teenage babysitter with whom
37:02
Speaker 7: he had a five year affair decided not to pursue
37:05
Speaker 7: criminal charges. However, a lawyer for the babysitter's family called
37:09
Speaker 7: Kennedy a quote sick, pathetic individual, while the county district
37:13
Speaker 7: attorney described him as a quote alcoholic cradle robber. The
37:16
Speaker 7: only kind words came from his uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy,
37:19
Speaker 7: who called him, quote an inspiration.
37:23
Speaker 1: Soon after the scandal began, Kennedy and his wife separated.
37:26
Speaker 1: Norfolk County District Attorney Jeffrey Locke decided to drop the
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Speaker 1: investigation into statutory because of a lack of cooperation from
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Speaker 1: the babysitter. Michael Kennedy and his older brother Joseph, who
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Speaker 1: withdrew from the nineteen ninety eight Massachusetts s gubernatorial election
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Speaker 1: in part because of this scandal, were dubbed poster boys
37:45
Speaker 1: for bad behavior by cousin John F. Kennedy Junior in
37:48
Speaker 1: an editorial in his magazine, George According to some Massachusetts
37:52
Speaker 1: political observers, this incident ended Kennedy's hopes of following in
37:56
Speaker 1: his family's political footsteps. Michael Kennedy died on December thirty one, first,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, as the result of a skiing accident
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Speaker 1: in Aspen, Colorado. He was playing football while on skis
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Speaker 1: with several other members of the Kennedy family when at
38:09
Speaker 1: approximately four to fifteen PM, he hit a tree going
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Speaker 1: a fast speed. Kennedy was not wearing a helmet or
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Speaker 1: any other safety equipment at the time. In fact, the
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Speaker 1: family had been admonished earlier that day by the ski
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Speaker 1: patrol ceased the activity to stop playing football at high
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Speaker 1: speeds with no safety equipment on the mountain. After the accident,
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Speaker 1: Michael Kennedy was taken to Aspen Valley Hospital, where he
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Speaker 1: was pronounced dead at five point fifty pm. He was
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Speaker 1: later interred on January third, nineteen ninety eight. In the
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Speaker 1: family plot at Brookline, Massachusetts. There's also John F. Kennedy Junior.
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Speaker 1: John Fitzgerald Kennedy Junior was the second born of US
38:43
Speaker 1: President John F. Kennedy and first Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Born
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Speaker 1: two weeks after his father was elected president. JFK. Junior
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Speaker 1: spent his early childhood years living in the White House
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Speaker 1: until his father was assassinated. At the funeral procession, which
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Speaker 1: took place on his third birthday, JFK. Junior gave him
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Speaker 1: his father's flag draped casket a final salute as it
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Speaker 1: went past him. As an adult, Kennedy was a popular
39:05
Speaker 1: social figure in Manhattan and the subject of intense media
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Speaker 1: attention throughout his entire life. He worked for nearly four
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Speaker 1: years as an assistant district attorney in New York City,
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Speaker 1: and in nineteen ninety five he launched the magazine George
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Speaker 1: with Michael Berman, using his political and celebrity status to
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Speaker 1: promote it. The September nineteen ninety seven issue of George
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Speaker 1: featured Kennedy's cousins, Michael Lemoyne Kennedy and Joseph P. Kennedy,
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Speaker 1: the second as Michael had been accused of having an
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Speaker 1: affair with his children's underage babysitter, while Joseph, the Massachusetts congressman,
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Speaker 1: had been accused by his ex wife of having bullied her.
39:38
Speaker 1: On September twenty first, nineteen ninety six, Kennedy married Carolyn
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Speaker 1: Bessett in Cumberland Island, Georgia, but the pair struggled over
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Speaker 1: the next few years due to the intense media attention.
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Speaker 1: In April nineteen ninety eight, John F. Kennedy Junior took
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Speaker 1: flying lessons at the Flight Safety Academy in Vero Beach, Florida,
39:54
Speaker 1: where he later received his pilot's license, and on July sixteenth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, John F. Kennedy Juniae year departed from Fairfield,
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Speaker 1: New Jersey, at the control of his aircraft. He was
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Speaker 1: traveling with his wife and sister in law, Lauren Bissett.
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Speaker 1: Lauren was going to be dropped off at Martha's Vineyard
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Speaker 1: and John F. Kennedy Junior and his wife would continue
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Speaker 1: on to Hyannisport, Massachusetts to attend the wedding of his
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Speaker 1: cousin Rory Kennedy.
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Speaker 8: John F.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior that day had already checked in with the
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Speaker 1: control tower at the Martha's Vineyard Airport, but shortly afterwards
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Speaker 1: the plane was reported missing after it failed to arrive
40:26
Speaker 1: on schedule. Officials were not hopeful about finding survivors. After
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Speaker 1: aircraft debris and a black suitcase belonging to Bassett were
40:33
Speaker 1: recovered shortly afterwards from the Atlantic Ocean. On July eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: a Coast Guard admiral declared an end to the rescue efforts,
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Speaker 1: and within the next two days news reports informed the
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Speaker 1: masses of the details.
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Speaker 3: John F.
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Speaker 9: Kennedy Junior and his wife and her sister took off
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Speaker 9: from Caldwell, New Jersey's small place, not far from New
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Speaker 9: York City, about eight thirty Eastern time last night. While
40:54
Speaker 9: no flight plan was filed, none had to be under
40:57
Speaker 9: the circumstances of this flight. They were bound for Marthura's
40:59
Speaker 9: Vie and you're the plan. The plane was due there
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Speaker 9: about ten o'clock, never got there. Radar contact was believed
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Speaker 9: to have been made just after nine thirty. Believed we'd
41:08
Speaker 9: been made about seventeen miles west of Martha's Vineyard in
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Speaker 9: that Gayhead area, and the aircraft was believed at that
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Speaker 9: time to be down to about two thousand feet Footnote
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Speaker 9: bottom of the page, reminding again that there are two
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Speaker 9: Iioneer witnesses say that they saw and heard a small
41:24
Speaker 9: plane twenty to fifty or sixty feet off the water
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Speaker 9: at about that time, that is nine thirty two, nine
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Speaker 9: forty five. The plane is now nineteen hours overdue, no
41:36
Speaker 9: sign of the aircraft, no sign of the people who
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Speaker 9: aboard the plane. There were some early unconfirmed reports of
41:43
Speaker 9: a deep possibly coming from some emergency beacon. It was
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Speaker 9: never confirmed. The Coast Guard checked it out, no lit
41:49
Speaker 9: a word. And so at this point the belief runstrong
41:53
Speaker 9: that there has been no emergency signal of any kind
41:56
Speaker 9: received from the aircraft. Now nineteen hours overdue. And if
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Speaker 9: you were asking the question, will did they ever contact
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Speaker 9: Walthor's Vineyard Airport tower, The answer is no, there was
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Speaker 9: no contact.
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Speaker 1: There After, the fragments of Kennedy's plane were found by
42:08
Speaker 1: Noah vessel Rude using side scan sonar. Navy divers were
42:12
Speaker 1: subsequently prompted to descend into the sixty two degree water.
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Speaker 1: They found a part of the shattered plane strewn over
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Speaker 1: a broad area of seabed one hundred and twenty feet
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Speaker 1: below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, and the surge
42:24
Speaker 1: ended in the late afternoon of July twenty first, when
42:27
Speaker 1: high resolution images of the ocean bottom helped Navy divers
42:30
Speaker 1: recover the three bodies from the ocean floor. The bodies
42:33
Speaker 1: were taken by motorcade to the County Medical Examiner's office afterwards,
42:36
Speaker 1: and divers found Carolyn and Lauren's bodies near the twisted
42:40
Speaker 1: and broken fuselage, while John F. Kennedy Junior's body was
42:43
Speaker 1: still strapped in to the pilot's seat. Admiral Richard M.
42:46
Speaker 1: Larabee of the Coastguard said that all three bodies were
42:49
Speaker 1: near and under the fuselage and still strapped in. The
42:52
Speaker 1: National Transportation Safety Board determined that pilot error was the
42:56
Speaker 1: probable cause of the crash. Kennedy's failure to maintain control
42:59
Speaker 1: of the airplane during a descent over water at night,
43:02
Speaker 1: which was a result of spatial disorientation, that was the
43:05
Speaker 1: given reason for why the plane crashed. Later that evening,
43:08
Speaker 1: the bodies were autopsied at the County Medical Examiner's office
43:11
Speaker 1: and taken from Hyannas to Duxbury, where they were cremated
43:14
Speaker 1: in the Mayflower Cemetery Crematorium. The families announced their plans
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Speaker 1: for memorial services that same day, and the autopsy determined
43:21
Speaker 1: that the crash victims had died upon impact. Kennedy favored
43:25
Speaker 1: a public service for John, while Caroline Kennedy insisted on
43:28
Speaker 1: family privacy. On the morning of July twenty second, their
43:30
Speaker 1: ashes were scattered at sea from the Navy destroyer USS
43:34
Speaker 1: Brisco off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. Memorial service was
43:37
Speaker 1: held for Kennedy on July twenty third, nineteen ninety nine,
43:40
Speaker 1: at the Church of Saint Thomas Moore in New York City,
43:42
Speaker 1: a parish that Kennedy had often attended with his mother
43:45
Speaker 1: and sister. Hey, everybody, by the way, my wife Courtney
43:49
Speaker 1: just brought our little puppy, and everybody downline, say hi
43:52
Speaker 1: to Alfie, Elfie, say hi, not like a little puppy
43:55
Speaker 1: break in the middle of like a really dark, disturbing episode.
44:00
Speaker 1: Why Why so you had another plane crash, another Kennedy
44:07
Speaker 1: family member dying in an incredibly bizarre way. I mean,
44:11
Speaker 1: think about it, everything from suspicious deaths to assassinations, plane crashes, explosions,
44:16
Speaker 1: and it just keeps getting weirder because we still have
44:18
Speaker 1: to talk about more. There's also Kara Kennedy. Kara Kennedy
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Speaker 1: was the oldest of the three children and was the
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Speaker 1: only daughter of US Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts and
44:27
Speaker 1: Joan Bennett Kennedy. She was born on February twenty seventh,
44:30
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty and was a niece to Robert F. Kennedy
44:33
Speaker 1: and John F.
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Speaker 8: Kennedy.
44:34
Speaker 1: She served on boards of numerous charities, such as the
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Speaker 1: JFK Library Foundation and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for
44:41
Speaker 1: the United States Senate. She was also a filmmaker and
44:43
Speaker 1: a television producer. On September ninth, nineteen ninety, Kara and
44:47
Speaker 1: Michael Allen, an architect and real estate developer from Rhode Island,
44:50
Speaker 1: were married at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Massachusetts,
44:54
Speaker 1: a frequent site of Kennedy family events. They later had
44:57
Speaker 1: two children, Grace Kennedy Allen and Max gray House Allen,
45:00
Speaker 1: and after eleven years of marriage, they divorced. In two
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Speaker 1: thousand and two, Kara Kennedy was diagnosed with lung cancer,
45:06
Speaker 1: which she was told was inoperable. However, she found, with
45:09
Speaker 1: her father's help, a surgeon in Boston who was willing
45:12
Speaker 1: to remove part of her right lung in an effort
45:14
Speaker 1: to save her life. The operation ended up being successful,
45:18
Speaker 1: and she resumed an active life that included regular running
45:21
Speaker 1: and swimming. On August twelfth, two thousand and nine, Kennedy
45:23
Speaker 1: accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
45:27
Speaker 1: On behalf of her father at a ceremony in Washington,
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Speaker 1: d C. Her father died thirteen days later. He had
45:33
Speaker 1: been diagnosed with brain cancer in May of two thousand
45:36
Speaker 1: and eight. In April twenty eleven, Kara Kennedy wrote an
45:38
Speaker 1: article for The Boston Globe magazine about her family, life,
45:42
Speaker 1: growing up, and her father's influence on her. In the article,
45:44
Speaker 1: she revealed her close relationship with her father and the
45:47
Speaker 1: role he played in helping her to wage her battle
45:50
Speaker 1: against lung cancer. On September sixteenth, twenty eleven, two years
45:53
Speaker 1: after her father's death, Kennedy suffered a fatal heart attack
45:57
Speaker 1: in a Washington, d C. Health club after her daily work.
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Speaker 1: She was fifty one years old at the time. News
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Speaker 1: reports at the time covered her death just like this.
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Speaker 10: Kara Kennedy, the daughter of late Senator Edward Kennedy, passed
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Speaker 10: away of an apparent heart attack. She was also the
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Speaker 10: sister of former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy. She was
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Speaker 10: fifty one years old, and tonight we're hearing from friends
46:17
Speaker 10: of the Kennedy family about Kara's full life.
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Speaker 11: It's another tragic death for a family with a tragic history.
46:23
Speaker 11: We talked to US Congressman Jim Langevin about the death
46:26
Speaker 11: of Kara Kennedy. The news was unexpected.
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Speaker 1: Kara Kennedy, the sister of former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy,
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Speaker 1: died at the age of fifty one from a heart attack.
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Speaker 2: I thought some prayers grew out to the entire Kennedy
46:38
Speaker 2: family Kyra's passing as such a tragic lass at such
46:42
Speaker 2: a young age, only fifty one years old.
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Speaker 1: She was later interred at the family plot in Brookline, Massachusetts,
46:47
Speaker 1: alongside her paternal grandparents, Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy Senior.
46:51
Speaker 1: Mary Richardson Kennedy, now a different Kennedy, another Kennedy, was
46:54
Speaker 1: an American interior designer and philanthropist. She traditionally was a
46:58
Speaker 1: proponent of green building and was a co founder of
47:01
Speaker 1: the Food Allergy Initiative, the largest fund for food allergy
47:04
Speaker 1: research in the United States. On April fifteenth, nineteen ninety four,
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Speaker 1: Richardson married Robert F. Kennedy Junior, the brother of her
47:11
Speaker 1: close friend Carrie Kennedy, aboard a research vessel on the
47:14
Speaker 1: Hudson River. They had four children, Connor, Kira, Aiden, and William. However,
47:19
Speaker 1: during their marriage, RFK Junior was widely regarded as a
47:22
Speaker 1: serial philanderer and was known amongst his friends for sending
47:25
Speaker 1: explicit nude photos of women that they presumed he had
47:28
Speaker 1: taken himself. According to Vanity Fair, the highly publicized allegations
47:32
Speaker 1: of against RFK Junior by the family's then babysitter, Eliza Cooney.
47:37
Speaker 1: On May twelfth, twenty ten, Kennedy filed for divorce from Richardson.
47:41
Speaker 1: Three days later, she was arrested and charged with driving
47:44
Speaker 1: under the influence. A court then ordered that full temporary
47:47
Speaker 1: custody of her children be granted to her estranged husband,
47:50
Speaker 1: and on May sixth, twenty twelve, about two years later,
47:54
Speaker 1: Mary Richardson Kennedy was found dead at her home in Bedford,
47:58
Speaker 1: New York. Her death was ruled a self unliving and
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Speaker 1: autopsy revealed that she had antidepressants in her blood. Check
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Speaker 1: this clip out.
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Speaker 8: It was a new shock for the Kennedy family on Wednesday,
48:10
Speaker 8: as the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Junior was
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Speaker 8: found dead. Mary Richardson Kennedy was fifty two and was
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Speaker 8: known to have problem It's found on Wednesday in the
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Speaker 8: family estate north of New York City. Mary Kennedy's husband
48:23
Speaker 8: was the son of Robert F. Kennedy, the senator who
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Speaker 8: was assassinated while running for president in nineteen sixty eight.
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Speaker 5: Robert F.
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Speaker 8: Kennedy, Junior's chief of staff at least a statement saying
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Speaker 8: Mary Kennedy inspired our family with her kindness, her love,
48:36
Speaker 8: her gentle soul, and generous spirit. Mary Kennedy was a
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Speaker 8: designer and often won praise for incorporating environmental technology into
48:43
Speaker 8: her work. Robert Kennedy filed for divorce from her in
48:46
Speaker 8: twenty ten. Cause and Mary Kennedy's death has not been
48:49
Speaker 8: released and autopsy is scheduled for Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Before her death, Mary Richardson had discovered RFK Junior's personal
48:56
Speaker 1: journal from two thousand and one, in which he recorded
49:00
Speaker 1: counters with thirty seven different women. According to RFK Junior,
49:03
Speaker 1: Mary Richardson passed the journal along to her sisters with
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Speaker 1: instructions that if anything happened to her, it should be
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Speaker 1: published in the press. Her funeral was organized by the
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Speaker 1: Kennedy family and was held at Saint Patrick's Catholic Church
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Speaker 1: in Bedford on May twenty first, twenty twelve. A memorial
49:18
Speaker 1: service organized by the Richardson family was held at the
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Speaker 1: Standard Hotel in Manhattan. A legal battle between her widower
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Speaker 1: and her brother ensued over which family should have control
49:28
Speaker 1: of her remains. RFK Junior won the court case and
49:31
Speaker 1: buried her beside his aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver at Saint
49:34
Speaker 1: Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville, Massachusetts. Several days later, RFK
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Speaker 1: Junior moved Richardson's remains to an empty plot in the
49:42
Speaker 1: cemetery and put up a gravestone there. Media at the
49:45
Speaker 1: time reported that Kennedy negotiated to buy fifty plots surrounding
49:49
Speaker 1: Richardson's grave, and this was confirmed when Shosia Kennedy Hill,
49:52
Speaker 1: Mary's niece, was interred beside her in twenty nineteen. Sir
49:56
Speaker 1: Sia Kennedy Hill was born on May twenty second, nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety seven, to Court Kennedy Hill and Paul Michael Hill.
50:02
Speaker 1: Her grandfather was Robert F. Kennedy and her great grandparents
50:05
Speaker 1: were Joseph P. Kennedy Senior and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. She
50:08
Speaker 1: graduated from Deerfield Academy, where she started the Deerfield Students
50:12
Speaker 1: Against Group, and later attended Boston College, where she became
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Speaker 1: VP of the College Democrats. She additionally struggled with her
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Speaker 1: own mental health, grappling with depression for years, saying quote,
50:22
Speaker 1: people talk about cancer freely, why is it so difficult
50:25
Speaker 1: to discuss the effects of depression, bipolar anxiety, or schizophrenic disorders.
50:30
Speaker 1: Just because the illness may not be outwardly visible doesn't
50:32
Speaker 1: mean the person suffering from it isn't struggling. Let's come
50:35
Speaker 1: together to make our community more inclusive and comfortable.
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Speaker 4: End quote.
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Speaker 1: On August first, twenty nineteen, Sir She was found dead
50:42
Speaker 1: at Ethel Kennedy's home in Hyannisport. An autopsy determined that
50:45
Speaker 1: she had suffered from acute toxicity of and alcohol in
50:53
Speaker 1: her system. It was determined to have been an accidental
50:57
Speaker 1: The Kennedy family was devastated by yet another track loss
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Speaker 1: in the public eye. As reported on the news.
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Speaker 10: We are all either struggling or know someone battling a
51:06
Speaker 10: mental health issue. Sirsha Kennedy Hill.
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Speaker 8: Wrote her mom's cousin calling her a loving spirit.
51:11
Speaker 11: Her memory is going to be that of a very
51:15
Speaker 11: bright eyed, sparkling, loving spirit. She was just doing karaoke
51:21
Speaker 11: last week and had that joy about her that was contagious.
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Speaker 11: She was loved in my family.
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Speaker 1: And she was later interred to Centerville, Massachusetts, where she
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Speaker 1: was buried next to Mary Richardson Kennedy May and Kennedy McKenna,
51:33
Speaker 1: another woman in the Kennedy family, was born to Lieutenant
51:36
Speaker 1: Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townshend. She was a granddaughter of Senator
51:40
Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy and a grand niece of President jfk
51:43
Speaker 1: and First Lady Jackie Kennedy. McKean served as the Executive
51:46
Speaker 1: Director of the Global Health Initiative at Georgetown University during
51:50
Speaker 1: the Obama administration. McKenna was the first ever Senior Advisor
51:54
Speaker 1: for Human Rights in the US Department of State's Global
51:57
Speaker 1: AIDS Program in the Office of Global Affairs at the
51:59
Speaker 1: un US Department of Health and Human Services. However, on
52:02
Speaker 1: April second, twenty twenty, Mayve Kennedy MacLean and her eight
52:06
Speaker 1: year old son, Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean disappeared while paddling
52:10
Speaker 1: in a canoe near McKean's mother's waterfront residence in Shadyside, Maryland.
52:15
Speaker 1: McKean had taken her family to Maryland to stay in
52:17
Speaker 1: quarantine during the COVID nineteen pandemic. Reports from the Maryland
52:21
Speaker 1: Natural Resources Police indicated that they were attempting to retrieve
52:25
Speaker 1: a kickball that it landed in the water, but due
52:27
Speaker 1: to high winds, they were swept further out into the
52:30
Speaker 1: Chesapeake Bay. Fire officials from ann Arundel County received an
52:33
Speaker 1: emergency call at four thirty pm that day from a
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Speaker 1: man who had spotted them near the community pier at
52:39
Speaker 1: Columbia Beach. McKean and her son were last sighted ten
52:42
Speaker 1: miles south of Annapolis near Herring Bay. Marine units then
52:46
Speaker 1: searched the Chesapeake Bay by boat and helicopter, and eventually
52:49
Speaker 1: found an overturned canoe at around seven pm on April third,
52:53
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, near Rockhold Creek in Dealey. Later that night,
52:56
Speaker 1: the Coastguards suspended its search. At seven thirty pm, Maryland
53:00
Speaker 1: officials called off the search due to darkness, and as
53:03
Speaker 1: of April third, twenty twenty, she and her son were
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Speaker 1: presumed dead. On April fourth, twenty twenty, the search was
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Speaker 1: resumed by Maryland police, and on April six, twenty twenty,
53:12
Speaker 1: May of Kennedy McKean's body was recovered. Two days later,
53:15
Speaker 1: Gideon her son's body was also recovered. The Medical Examiner
53:19
Speaker 1: reported that McKean accidentally drowned in the turbulent and chilly
53:23
Speaker 1: waters of Chesapeake Bay due to the COVID pandemic. However,
53:26
Speaker 1: a public funeral could not take place. An online memorial
53:29
Speaker 1: via zoom was hosted by the Kennedy family on April eleventh,
53:32
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and was watched by over three thousand people.
53:36
Speaker 1: And we still have to cover Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy
53:39
Speaker 1: was the youngest of nine children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy
53:42
Speaker 1: and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. His eight siblings were Joseph Junior, John, Rose, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert,
53:50
Speaker 1: and Jean. Between the ages of eight and sixteen, Ted
53:52
Speaker 1: suffered the death of his two siblings and his sisters
53:55
Speaker 1: failed the bottoming. After attending Harvard University and earning his
53:58
Speaker 1: law degree from the Universe City of Virginia, Kennedy began
54:01
Speaker 1: his career as an assistant district attorney in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
54:05
Speaker 1: He won a November nineteen sixty two special election in
54:08
Speaker 1: Massachusetts to fill the vacant seat previously held by his
54:12
Speaker 1: brother John, who had then at that point taken office
54:15
Speaker 1: as the President of the United States. He was then
54:17
Speaker 1: elected to a full six year term in nineteen sixty four,
54:20
Speaker 1: and was re elected seven more times. He ran in
54:23
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty in the Democratic primary campaign for the party's nomination,
54:27
Speaker 1: but lost to the incumbent President, Jimmy Carter. Kennedy played
54:30
Speaker 1: a major role in passing many laws, including the Immigration
54:34
Speaker 1: and Nationality Act of nineteen sixty five, the National Cancer
54:37
Speaker 1: Act of nineteen seventy one, the Cobra Health Insurance Provision,
54:41
Speaker 1: the Comprehensive Anti Apartheid Act of nineteen eighty six, the
54:44
Speaker 1: Americans with Disabilities Act of nineteen ninety the Ryan White
54:47
Speaker 1: Aids Care Act, the Civil Rights Act of nineteen ninety one,
54:50
Speaker 1: the Mental Health Parody Act, the s CHIP Children's Health
54:53
Speaker 1: Care Program, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the
54:56
Speaker 1: Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. On June nineteenth, nineteen
54:59
Speaker 1: six sixty four, Ted Kennedy was a passenger in a
55:02
Speaker 1: private Aero Commander six eighty airplane that was flying in
55:05
Speaker 1: bad weather from Washington, d c. To Massachusetts. The plane
55:08
Speaker 1: crashed into an apple orchard in Southampton, Massachusetts, on final
55:12
Speaker 1: approach to the Barnes Municipal Airport in Westfield. The news
55:15
Speaker 1: at the time reported the incident.
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Speaker 3: Tragedy strikes again at the Kennedy family, but the blow
55:20
Speaker 3: to Senator Ted Kennedy is not fatal. The crash of
55:23
Speaker 3: his befogged plane in an apple orchard near Springfield, Massachusetts, did, however,
55:27
Speaker 3: kill his pilot and his aid. The Senator's back is
55:30
Speaker 3: broken and his guests, Senator and Missus Birch Buy of Indiana,
55:33
Speaker 3: are less seriously injured. To the hospital where the thirty
55:36
Speaker 3: two year old brother of the late president is taken
55:38
Speaker 3: come members of his family, headed by Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
55:41
Speaker 3: Besides losing one brother in last Novembers assassination, he has
55:44
Speaker 3: also lost another brother and a sister, both in plane crashing.
55:48
Speaker 1: Kennedy was pulled from the wreckage by fellow Senator Birch
55:51
Speaker 1: Bay and spent months in the hospital recovering from a
55:53
Speaker 1: severe back injury of punctured lawn, broken ribs, and internal bleeding.
55:57
Speaker 1: He suffered chronic back pain for the rest of his life.
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Speaker 1: On the night though of July eighteenth, nineteen sixty nine,
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Speaker 1: Ted Kennedy was at Chapiquittic Island in Massachusetts, hosting a
56:07
Speaker 1: party for the boiler Room Girls, a group of young
56:09
Speaker 1: women who had worked on his brother Robert's presidential campaign.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy that evening left the party with one of the women,
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Speaker 1: twenty eight year old Mary Joe Kopecne. Driving in nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty seven Oldsmobile Delmont eighty eight, he attempted to cross
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Speaker 1: the nearby Dyke Bridge, which did not have a guardrail
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Speaker 1: at that time, But in the middle of crossing that
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Speaker 1: bridge over the ocean, Kennedy lost control of the vehicle
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Speaker 1: and crashed into the pouch a pond inlet, a tidal channel.
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Speaker 1: Ted Kennedy escaped from the overturned vehicle that had sunk
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Speaker 1: in into the waters below, and by his description, he
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Speaker 1: dove below the surface seven or eight times, vainly attempting
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Speaker 1: to rescue Mary Joe. Ultimately, he swam to the shore
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Speaker 1: and left the scene with Mary Joe still trapped inside
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Speaker 1: of the vehicle deep underwater. Kennedy's cousin, Joe Gargin, later
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Speaker 1: said that he and Kennedy's friend Paul Markham, both of
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Speaker 1: whom were at the party and came to the scene,
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Speaker 1: had urged Ted Kennedy ami immediately to report it, but
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Speaker 1: Ted Kennedy did not report the accident to authorities until
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Speaker 1: the next morning, after two fishermen who were in the
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Speaker 1: area happened across the submerged vehicle sitting in the water.
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Speaker 2: The following morning, two fishermen noticed the submerged vehicle in
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Speaker 2: the water and alerted police. It was asserted by one
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Speaker 2: of the rescue divers that Mary Joe had died from
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Speaker 2: suffocation and not drowning or injury sustained in the crash.
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Speaker 2: Her he it was facing upwards and pushed into a
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Speaker 2: small pocket of air. It was estimated that she may
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Speaker 2: have survived for three to four hours after the crash,
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Speaker 2: and that had rescue has been called at the time
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Speaker 2: of the accident, she may have survived.
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Speaker 1: A week after the incident, Ted Kennedy pleaded guilty to
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Speaker 1: leaving the scene of an accident and was given a
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Speaker 1: suspended sentence of two months in jail. That night, he
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Speaker 1: gave a national broadcast in which he said I regard
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Speaker 1: as indefensible the fact that I did not report the
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Speaker 1: accident to the police immediately. But he denied driving under
57:53
Speaker 1: the influence of alcohol and also denied any immoral conduct
57:57
Speaker 1: between him and Mary Joe. Ted Kennedy us the Massachusetts
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Speaker 1: electorate whether he should stay in office or resign, but
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Speaker 1: after getting a favorable response in messages sent to him,
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Speaker 1: Kennedy announced on July thirtieth that he would remain in
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Speaker 1: the Senate and run for reelection next year. In January
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy, an inquest into Mary Joe's death was held
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Speaker 1: in edgar Town, Massachusetts. At the request of the Kennedy's lawyers,
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Speaker 1: the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered the inquest to be
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Speaker 1: conducted in secret. The presiding judge, James A. Boyle, concluded
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Speaker 1: that some aspects of Kennedy's story of that night weren't true,
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Speaker 1: and that negligent driving appears to have contributed to the
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Speaker 1: death of Mary Joe. A grand jury conducted a two
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Speaker 1: day investigation in April nineteen seventy but issued no indictment,
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Speaker 1: after which Boyle made his inquest report public. Kennedy deemed
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Speaker 1: its conclusions not justified. Questions though about the incident, generated
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Speaker 1: many articles and books in the following years, and from
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine to two thousand and nine, Ted Kennedy
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Speaker 1: held various roles in office and on committees. On May seventeenth,
58:58
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, Ted Kennedy suffered a seizure, which
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Speaker 1: was followed by a second seizure as he was being
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Speaker 1: rushed from the Kennedy Compound to Cape Cod Hospital and
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Speaker 1: then by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Within days,
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Speaker 1: doctors announced that Ted Kennedy had a malignant glioma, a
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Speaker 1: type of brain tumor. Doctors initially informed Ted that the
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Speaker 1: tumor was inoperable, but Ted followed standard procedure and sought
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Speaker 1: other opinions. He decided to follow the most aggressive course
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Speaker 1: of treatment possible. On June second, two thousand and eight,
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Speaker 1: Ted Kennedy underwent brain surgery at Duke University Medical Center
59:30
Speaker 1: in an attempt to remove as much of the tumor
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Speaker 1: as possible. The three and a half hour operation, conducted
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Speaker 1: by doctor Allen Friedman while Kennedy was conscious, was deemed successful.
59:40
Speaker 1: Kennedy left the hospital a week later to begin a
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Speaker 1: course of chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Opinions varied regarding Kennedy's prognosis.
59:48
Speaker 1: The surgery typically extends survival time for only a few months,
59:51
Speaker 1: but people can sometimes live for years. The operation and
59:54
Speaker 1: follow up treatments left Ted Kennedy thinner, prone to additional seizures,
59:58
Speaker 1: weak and short on energy, and and it hurt his balance. However,
1:00:01
Speaker 1: Kennedy's tumor had spread by spring two thousand and nine
1:00:04
Speaker 1: and treatments for it were no longer effective. This information
1:00:08
Speaker 1: was not disclosed to the public. By June two thousand
1:00:10
Speaker 1: and nine, Ted Kennedy had not cast a Senate vote
1:00:13
Speaker 1: in three months, and his deteriorating physical health had forced
1:00:16
Speaker 1: him to retreat to Massachusetts, where he underwent another round
1:00:19
Speaker 1: of chemotherapy. At the end of July two thousand and nine,
1:00:22
Speaker 1: Kennedy was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. However, he
1:00:26
Speaker 1: could not attend the ceremony to receive this medal and
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Speaker 1: attended a private service, but not the public funeral when
1:00:31
Speaker 1: his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shreiver died at age eighty eight
1:00:35
Speaker 1: on August eleventh, two thousand and nine. In his final days,
1:00:38
Speaker 1: Ted Kennedy was in a wheelchair and had difficulty speaking,
1:00:41
Speaker 1: but consistently stated that quote, I've had a wonderful life.
1:00:44
Speaker 1: Ted Kennedy died of a brain tumor on August twenty fifth,
1:00:47
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, at his home in Hyannasport, Massachusetts,
1:00:50
Speaker 1: two weeks after the death of his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shreiver.
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Speaker 1: In a statement, Kennedy's family thanked everyone who gave him
1:00:57
Speaker 1: care and support over the last year, and everyone who
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Speaker 1: stood with him for so many years in his tireless
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Speaker 1: march for progress towards justice. Kennedy's funeral procession traveled seventy
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Speaker 1: miles from the Kennedy Compound in Hyannisport to the John F.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy Library in Boston, where his corps lay in repose.
1:01:12
Speaker 1: Over fifty thousand members of the public filed by to
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Speaker 1: pay their respects and ted. Kennedy's eventual funeral service was
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Speaker 1: attended by a number of famous politicians, including Jimmy Carter,
1:01:22
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Vice President Biden, three former
1:01:26
Speaker 1: Vice presidents, sixty nine senators, many members of the House
1:01:29
Speaker 1: of Representatives, and several foreign dignitaries, and President Obama delivered
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Speaker 1: the eulogy. Kennedy's remains were then returned to Washington, d c.
1:01:37
Speaker 1: And laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, near the
1:01:40
Speaker 1: graves of his assassinated brothers. There are also a few
1:01:43
Speaker 1: miscellaneous events that aren't deaths that are related to the
1:01:47
Speaker 1: Kennedy family curse that are incredibly bizarre. We have to
1:01:50
Speaker 1: talk about Michael Scockell. In two thousand and two, Michael Scockell,
1:01:53
Speaker 1: nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow Ethel Kennedy, was convicted
1:01:57
Speaker 1: of his neighbor Martha Moxley to death during a jealous
1:02:00
Speaker 1: rage in nineteen seventy five. Both were fifteen at the
1:02:03
Speaker 1: time of the killing and lived near each other in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1:02:07
Speaker 1: In twenty thirteen, he was granted a new trial and
1:02:09
Speaker 1: freed on bail. However, three years later, prosecutors appealed the
1:02:13
Speaker 1: decision and the state Supreme Court reinstated Michael Scockell's conviction.
1:02:17
Speaker 1: Michael Skockel has since asked the court to reconsider and
1:02:20
Speaker 1: remains free on bail. There's also Edward M. Kennedy Junior,
1:02:23
Speaker 1: who was an American lawyer and politician. He was a
1:02:26
Speaker 1: partner at Epstein, Becker and Green and had previously represented
1:02:30
Speaker 1: Connecticut's twelfth State Senate district from twenty fifteen to twenty nineteen.
1:02:34
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy three, when he was twelve years old.
1:02:36
Speaker 1: Osteo seracoma was diagnosed in his right leg or bone cancer,
1:02:40
Speaker 1: and the leg was surgically removed on November seventeenth, nineteen
1:02:43
Speaker 1: seventy three. Additionally, in nineteen eighty two, his mother Joan
1:02:47
Speaker 1: revealed that Edward missed being a board air Floor to
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Speaker 1: flight ninety by just ten minutes, which crashed into the
1:02:53
Speaker 1: Potomac River on January thirteenth of that year, killing many
1:02:56
Speaker 1: of the people on board. Kennedy had been delayed on
1:02:59
Speaker 1: the drive to the airport that day and had missed
1:03:01
Speaker 1: the flight. There's also Patrick Joseph Kennedy. From nineteen ninety
1:03:04
Speaker 1: five to twenty eleven, Patrick served as a Democratic member
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Speaker 1: of the US House of Representatives from Rhode Island's first
1:03:10
Speaker 1: congressional district, and was the first generation ex member of
1:03:14
Speaker 1: Congress when he took office in nineteen ninety five. He
1:03:16
Speaker 1: was a former member of the Opioid and Commission and
1:03:19
Speaker 1: a co founder of One Mind, a mental health nonprofit.
1:03:22
Speaker 1: Kennedy acknowledged having a d but as a teenager and
1:03:25
Speaker 1: was treated at a rehabilitation center in nineteen eighty six.
1:03:29
Speaker 1: He sought treatment for in two thousand and six, and
1:03:32
Speaker 1: due to his experience with addiction, Kennedy advocated against the
1:03:36
Speaker 1: legalization of recreational marijuana, but still supports it for medical use.
1:03:40
Speaker 1: On May fourth, two thousand and six, Kennedy crashed his
1:03:43
Speaker 1: automobile into a barricade on Capitol Hill in Washington, d C.
1:03:47
Speaker 1: At two forty five am. A US Capitol Police officer
1:03:50
Speaker 1: said that the congressman had appeared intoxicated when he crashed
1:03:53
Speaker 1: his car. According to Kennedy, he was disoriented from the
1:03:56
Speaker 1: prescription medications Ambient and Fernegut. Anonymous sources, however, were alleged
1:04:01
Speaker 1: to have seen Kennedy drinking at the nearby Hawke and
1:04:03
Speaker 1: Dove bar prior to the incident. Kennedy also stated to
1:04:06
Speaker 1: officers that he was late for a vote. However, the
1:04:09
Speaker 1: last vote of the night had occurred almost six hours earlier.
1:04:12
Speaker 1: The standard field sobriety test was not administered, and Kennedy
1:04:15
Speaker 1: was driven home by an officer. The next day, Kennedy
1:04:18
Speaker 1: admitted publicly that he had an addiction to prescription medication
1:04:21
Speaker 1: and announced he would be readmitting himself to a drug
1:04:24
Speaker 1: rehabilitation facility at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where he
1:04:27
Speaker 1: had sought treatment for his prior addictions. He has since
1:04:30
Speaker 1: stated that he has no recollection of the car crash.
1:04:32
Speaker 1: A few days later, he received a show of support
1:04:35
Speaker 1: when he was endorsed by the Rhode Island Democratic Party.
1:04:38
Speaker 1: A month after the incident, Kennedy was released from drug rehabilitation,
1:04:41
Speaker 1: and on June thirteenth, two thousand and six, Kennedy made
1:04:44
Speaker 1: a deal with prosecutors and fled guilty to a charge
1:04:47
Speaker 1: of driving under the influence of prescription drugs. He was
1:04:50
Speaker 1: sentenced to a one year probation and a fine of
1:04:53
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty dollars. Two of the three charges
1:04:55
Speaker 1: were dismissed. He was also ordered to attend a rehab
1:04:58
Speaker 1: program that included weekly urine tests, twice weekly meetings with
1:05:02
Speaker 1: a probation officer, near daily alcoholics, anonymous meetings, and a
1:05:05
Speaker 1: weekly meeting for recovering addicts. On June twelve, two thousand
1:05:09
Speaker 1: and nine, Kennedy announced that he had again entered rehab
1:05:12
Speaker 1: for an indefinite amount of time at an undisclosed facility.
1:05:15
Speaker 1: In a statement to the press, Kennedy said that his
1:05:17
Speaker 1: recovery was a lifelong process and that he would do
1:05:20
Speaker 1: whatever it takes to preserve his health. I've decided to
1:05:22
Speaker 1: temporarily step away from my normal routine to ensure that
1:05:25
Speaker 1: I am being as vigilant as possible in my recovery,
1:05:28
Speaker 1: he said at the time. As of twenty eighteen, Kennedy
1:05:31
Speaker 1: says that he has been sober for more than six years.
1:05:34
Speaker 1: There's also Joseph P. Kennedy the second, the son of
1:05:37
Speaker 1: former US Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy. He's
1:05:40
Speaker 1: an feu of former US President jfk and former US
1:05:43
Speaker 1: Senator Ted Kennedy. Joseph the second served as a member
1:05:46
Speaker 1: of the US House of Representatives from nineteen eighty seven
1:05:49
Speaker 1: to ninety nine, and in nineteen seventy nine he founded and,
1:05:52
Speaker 1: until he was elected to the US House, led Citizens
1:05:55
Speaker 1: Energy Corporation, a nonprofit energy company which provides heating oil
1:05:59
Speaker 1: to low income and elderly families in Massachusetts. Joseph had
1:06:03
Speaker 1: a troubled youth and was expelled from several private schools
1:06:05
Speaker 1: as a result of his quick temper. He regularly got
1:06:08
Speaker 1: into fights with his young brothers and male cousins, and
1:06:10
Speaker 1: he was fifteen when his father was assassinated. The night
1:06:13
Speaker 1: he was shot at the Ambassador Hotel. Kennedy, along with
1:06:16
Speaker 1: two siblings, Kathleen and Robert Junior, were being flown to
1:06:19
Speaker 1: Los Angeles aboard one of the planes in the Secret
1:06:21
Speaker 1: Service's presidential fleet. On February twenty second, nineteen seventy two.
1:06:25
Speaker 1: Joseph the Second was on the fans of flight six
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Speaker 1: forty nine when it was hijacked shortly after the in
1:06:31
Speaker 1: flight movie began. During the seven forty seven's flight from
1:06:34
Speaker 1: New Delhi to Athens, five gunmen seized the jet and
1:06:37
Speaker 1: forced it to land at Aiden International Airport, where all
1:06:40
Speaker 1: hostages were released the following day. In August nineteen seventy three,
1:06:43
Speaker 1: a jeep he was driving on Nantucket overturn, fracturing a
1:06:47
Speaker 1: vertebra of his brother David and permanently paralyzing David's girlfriend,
1:06:51
Speaker 1: Pam Kelly. The police cited Kennedy for reckless driving, and
1:06:54
Speaker 1: the judge temporarily suspended his driver's license. The Kennedy family
1:06:58
Speaker 1: paid for Kelly's initial medical treat and contributed modestly to
1:07:01
Speaker 1: her car during the years following the accident. I mean,
1:07:04
Speaker 1: I'm sure that there's more things that we weren't able
1:07:06
Speaker 1: to dig up or research or find about this whole
1:07:09
Speaker 1: Kennedy family curse. One thing that I've always thought was
1:07:11
Speaker 1: really interesting is that Ghlaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's whatever you
1:07:15
Speaker 1: want to call her, girlfriend, very close friend, partner, the
1:07:19
Speaker 1: madam of the Epstein Girls, the daughter of Robert Maxwell,
1:07:23
Speaker 1: one of the most kind of evil, intelligence connected people ever.
1:07:26
Speaker 1: There's a lot of evidence that showed that Ghlaine Maxwell
1:07:30
Speaker 1: had tried her hardest to romance and marry into the
1:07:33
Speaker 1: Kennedy family in the nineteen nineties early two thousands. She
1:07:36
Speaker 1: was like obsessed with the Kennedys and really wanted to
1:07:39
Speaker 1: get in with them. In the nineties, you know, she
1:07:42
Speaker 1: was trying to extend her influence after moving to New
1:07:44
Speaker 1: York City. So that's just something to note too that
1:07:46
Speaker 1: there's ties there to Epstein. Obviously, Robert F. Kennedy RFK
1:07:50
Speaker 1: Junior has ties to Epstein. I'm sure a lot of
1:07:52
Speaker 1: them did. And in summary, there are quite a lot
1:07:54
Speaker 1: of Kennedy's that died in bizarre ways. In fact, here's
1:07:58
Speaker 1: a chart that shows their family true that I thought
1:08:00
Speaker 1: was particularly interesting that I'm a place on screen, So
1:08:04
Speaker 1: was this entire thing, Is this entire thing a curse?
1:08:07
Speaker 1: After all, or just a sequence of incredibly unfortunate, very
1:08:11
Speaker 1: awful luck. Many have long pondered this, as documented by
1:08:15
Speaker 1: the news story on the fiftieth anniversary of JFK's assassination.
1:08:19
Speaker 12: John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas was far from the
1:08:22
Speaker 12: first misfortune to befall his family, though was certainly the
1:08:25
Speaker 12: most shocking. The young president cut down in his prime.
1:08:28
Speaker 12: But before JFK even thought of gaining the White House,
1:08:31
Speaker 12: his parents had already suffered the loss of their first son,
1:08:34
Speaker 12: who died in World War Two. While one of John's sisters,
1:08:37
Speaker 12: pictured here on the far right, was severely mentally disabled.
1:08:40
Speaker 12: The presidential couple themselves lost a two day old son
1:08:43
Speaker 12: just three months before John's assassination. While such bad luck
1:08:47
Speaker 12: may strike many families, the legend of a so called
1:08:50
Speaker 12: Kennedy curse really began when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated during
1:08:53
Speaker 12: the early stages of his own presidential bid.
1:08:56
Speaker 13: The idea of a possible curse occurred after Bobby Kennedy
1:09:00
Speaker 13: died was killed five years after his brother. People thought,
1:09:03
Speaker 13: how is it possible that this family has suffered so much?
1:09:07
Speaker 13: Is there some curse?
1:09:08
Speaker 12: With the three oldest Kennedy sons, now dead, the political mantle,
1:09:11
Speaker 12: pastor Edward known as Ted, as senator from Massachusetts. He
1:09:15
Speaker 12: was to become a respected elder statesman of US politics,
1:09:17
Speaker 12: but his presidential chances ended with an event known as
1:09:20
Speaker 12: the chap Equittic Incident, which resulted in the death of
1:09:23
Speaker 12: one of his brother's former campaign workers.
1:09:25
Speaker 13: He'd had a few drinks toward the end of the party.
1:09:28
Speaker 13: He left in a car with Mary Joe Capeckney. It
1:09:32
Speaker 13: took a sharp right turn and went onto a dirt road,
1:09:35
Speaker 13: went down that road, went off a bridge, and Mary
1:09:38
Speaker 13: Joe Capeckney was drowned.
1:09:39
Speaker 12: In nineteen ninety nine, JFK's only son, John Junior, died
1:09:43
Speaker 12: in a plane crash at just thirty eight years old.
1:09:46
Speaker 12: That left Caroline Kennedy as the only remaining child of
1:09:48
Speaker 12: the former president. She's recently been appointed Ambassador to Japan
1:09:52
Speaker 12: and cited her father as an inspiration in her Senate confirmation, hearing.
1:09:56
Speaker 5: I'm conscious of my responsibility to upholl the ideals that
1:09:59
Speaker 5: he wrot presented a deep commitment to public service, a
1:10:02
Speaker 5: more just America and a more peaceful world.
1:10:05
Speaker 12: Caroline is the most prominent member of a family that,
1:10:08
Speaker 12: despite its many tragedies, remains active on the US political landscape.
1:10:12
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty nine, shortly after the chap Equittic Island
1:10:16
Speaker 1: incident in which Ted Kennedy lost control of his car
1:10:19
Speaker 1: and crashed into the water, killing Mary Joe, the media
1:10:22
Speaker 1: frenzied over his interview on national television. He went on
1:10:25
Speaker 1: to explain the tragedy, saying, quote, all kinds of scrambled
1:10:28
Speaker 1: thoughts went through my mind, including such questions as whether
1:10:31
Speaker 1: some awful curse did hang all over the Kennedys end quote.
1:10:35
Speaker 1: Some historians believe Kennedy's allusion to a curse was a
1:10:38
Speaker 1: misguided attempt to exculpate himself from responsibility for Mary Joe's death.
1:10:42
Speaker 1: Mary Joe died because of his actions, not because of
1:10:45
Speaker 1: any twist of fate that happened because he was driving
1:10:47
Speaker 1: late at night under the influence of alcohol. Author Thomas Mayer,
1:10:50
Speaker 1: who has written extensively about the Kennedy family, said in
1:10:53
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, Ted Kennedy did not report that incident to
1:10:57
Speaker 1: the police right away, and the accident is often regarded
1:11:00
Speaker 1: as being the thing that ruined his future chances to
1:11:02
Speaker 1: be elected president. Mayor in his book went on to say,
1:11:05
Speaker 1: the curse is an absurd and deeply offensive myth that
1:11:08
Speaker 1: has been perpetrated by the media and people trying to
1:11:10
Speaker 1: explain away circumstances. In fact, the deaths were always except
1:11:14
Speaker 1: in the case of John and Robert's assassinations caused by
1:11:17
Speaker 1: the actions that deliberately endangered their lives end quote. Meyer
1:11:20
Speaker 1: also added that the staying power of the Kennedy's curse
1:11:23
Speaker 1: stems from the way in which the family seemingly embodied
1:11:26
Speaker 1: the American dream. The Kennedy story is deeply rooted in
1:11:29
Speaker 1: the story of America itself. He wrote, the embodied the
1:11:31
Speaker 1: great American belief that an immigrant can come to America and,
1:11:35
Speaker 1: through hard work and sense of family, work their way
1:11:37
Speaker 1: to the top of society. That legacy, Mayor believes was
1:11:41
Speaker 1: solidified by John F. Kennedy's charisma and fate.
1:11:44
Speaker 4: Quote.
1:11:44
Speaker 1: John Kennedy's rhetoric, his appearance, his youth, and the tragic
1:11:47
Speaker 1: situation in which he died indelibly left its imprint on
1:11:50
Speaker 1: the American psyche and left people groping for answers. That
1:11:53
Speaker 1: is part of the reason that he and his family
1:11:56
Speaker 1: remain powerful figures in the American imagination.
1:11:59
Speaker 3: End quote.
1:11:59
Speaker 1: A comment on a Reddit thread stated that back in
1:12:01
Speaker 1: the old days of Ireland, as the Kennedys were a
1:12:04
Speaker 1: very traditional Irish Catholic family, the community would take the
1:12:07
Speaker 1: most likely to succeed, pool money together and ship the
1:12:10
Speaker 1: individual to the States. When that individual became successful, they
1:12:13
Speaker 1: were to send money back to the old village to help.
1:12:16
Speaker 1: It's been said that the Kennedys didn't keep up with
1:12:19
Speaker 1: their half of the deal, and that possibly through that action,
1:12:21
Speaker 1: the Kennedy Curse was born. It was also reported that
1:12:24
Speaker 1: these Irish families were gypsies, and they cursed Joseph Senior
1:12:28
Speaker 1: so that all of his sons would die tragically. Edward
1:12:30
Speaker 1: Kleines The Kennedy Curse, Why tragedy has haunted America's first
1:12:34
Speaker 1: family for one hundred and fifty years, discussed that the
1:12:36
Speaker 1: Kennedys had a special thrill seeking gene. However, in reference
1:12:40
Speaker 1: to the DRD four dopamine receptor gene, the evidence was
1:12:43
Speaker 1: often inconclusive and often contradictory.
1:12:46
Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: Researchers have identified a variant of the gene DRD four
1:12:50
Speaker 1: seven ARE that is linked directly to thrill seeking behavior
1:12:53
Speaker 1: and the propensity for risk taking. This variant is also
1:12:56
Speaker 1: linked to those that and those that are adhd add
1:13:01
Speaker 1: JFK was known to have had. Add we also know
1:13:04
Speaker 1: of the Kennedy's history with alcohol consumption, and additionally, rumor
1:13:08
Speaker 1: headed that Joseph P. Kennedy absolutely hated Jewish people and
1:13:12
Speaker 1: was actually pro Nazi. Some people believe that the Kennedy
1:13:15
Speaker 1: curse began when the patriarch of the family, Joseph P.
1:13:18
Speaker 1: Kennedy Senior, refused Rabbi Aharon Kotler's request to help save
1:13:22
Speaker 1: European Jews from certain death at the hands of the
1:13:24
Speaker 1: Nazis in World War Two. Some say that Rabbi Coltler
1:13:28
Speaker 1: asked Kennedy to let in a boat full of Jewish
1:13:30
Speaker 1: people to the US, the s S. Saint Louis, and
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Speaker 1: that when Kennedy refused, the boat was forced to return
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Speaker 1: to Nazi Europe, where all of the Jews on board died.
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Speaker 1: The story goes that not only did Kennedy refuse to help,
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Speaker 1: but he was rude to the rabbi and publicly humiliated him.
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Speaker 1: The rabbi subsequently, according to this story, cursed to Kennedy
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Speaker 1: clan and stated that his family would suffer from a
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Speaker 1: series of unusual deaths, otherwise known as mesa mashuna. A
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Speaker 1: mesa mashuna is the Talmudic term for an unnatural death,
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Speaker 1: a life cut short due to an accident or other
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Speaker 1: unfortunate event, rather than a natural death from old age.
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Speaker 1: Others simply attribute the calamities to the conditions of the
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Speaker 1: Kennedy family life. In his book The Kennedy Curse Shattered Less,
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Speaker 1: Williams argues that Joe Kennedy's intense parenting style was at fault.
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Speaker 1: Obsessed with power, Joe Kennedy pushed his children to value
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Speaker 1: ruthless ambition and their own exceptionalism, and this could have
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Speaker 1: led to reckless behavior, the accumulation of too many enemies,
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Speaker 1: or a high pressure environment that didn't allow for anything
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Speaker 1: short of conventional success. A reader on another online forum
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Speaker 1: expanded on this, saying that the family, particularly the boys,
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Speaker 1: were raised with the idea that engaging in risky activities
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Speaker 1: was considered manly. The Kennedy men took a lot of risks,
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Speaker 1: some of which resulted in death or injury. There's only
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Speaker 1: one accidental premature death among the women because they didn't
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Speaker 1: engage in risky activities, and all but one of Joe
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Speaker 1: and Rose's daughters who are now dead, lived well into
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Speaker 1: their eighties, the exception being Kathleen Kick Kennedy. People also
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Speaker 1: believed it was just how the cookie crumbled, that in
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Speaker 1: such a large family there would obviously be several deaths
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Speaker 1: or or other misfortunes over time. However, in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and nine, Edward Junior and his brother Patrick Kennedy told
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Speaker 1: CNN they reject the idea of a family curse. Patrick said, quote, no, no, obviously,
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Speaker 1: my dad had a sense of spirituality that transcended his
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Speaker 1: ability to face these problems, you know, in a way
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Speaker 1: that would have otherwise paralyzed the normal person. And Edward
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Speaker 1: Junior said, the Kennedy family has had to endure these
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Speaker 1: things in a very open way. But our family is
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Speaker 1: just like every other family in America in many ways. Well, y'all,
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Speaker 1: that is the Kennedy family curse. Now, I agree with
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Speaker 1: statements that, you know, could be just some sort of
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Speaker 1: chain of really bizarre natural events. Being in the public eye,
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Speaker 1: being so politically connected and famous would lead to more
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Speaker 1: likelihood of accidents and assassinations. But I know for certain
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Speaker 1: my family is like a huge family, both on my
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Speaker 1: mom's side and my dad's side, and I've never had
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Speaker 1: any sort of like defining bizarre accident. Even one would
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Speaker 1: be like crazy, let alone the amount of accidents in
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Speaker 1: the Kennedy family and murders, bizarre deaths and cover ups everything.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm gonna hop off, y'all. Thank you so
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Speaker 1: much for tuning in to that. I'm eager to hear
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Speaker 1: what you guys think about the Kennedy Family curse in
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Speaker 1: the comment section. Keep that tinfoil hat on, stay suspicious,
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Speaker 1: and I'll see you guys next week.