THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

THE KENNEDYS

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15 @ 7:00pm & 11:00pm

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents The Kennedys, a dramatic portrait of America’s most famous political family and their repeated pursuit of the presidency. “Ought to keep viewers riveted to their seats, even those who think they know everything about the bloodstained Camelot dynasty. Shapely and implacably revealing. American Experience has outdone itself again.” — The Wall Street Journal

“There are few dates in recent American memory with the same magnitude on the Richter scale as November 22, 1963 — the day John F. Kennedy was killed,” says Elizabeth Deane, executive producer of The Kennedys. “Especially for those who are too young to remember the events of that day, our film shows how the Kennedy family became both legend and lightning rod for several generations of Americans.”

The founding father, Joseph Kennedy, rose to wealth and power by way of Boston, Wall Street, Hollywood and Washington. Then, moving on to London as Franklin Roosevelt’s ambassador to the Court of St. James — his popularity greatly enhanced by his large, photogenic family — Joe Kennedy seemed poised for the pinnacle, the presidency, his lifelong goal.
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