JFK, Part 1, Chapter 1

Season 1

The first chapter in Part 1 of the American Experience biography "JFK" - special exemption

By the time he came of age, John Fitzgerald Kennedy inhabited a world of special exemption: the family estate in suburban New York, the summer compound in Hyannis Port, the winter retreat in Palm Beach. The story of his family's heroic multi-generational rise from the want of Irish famine might well have been a misty old folktale. The past was not the point in the Kennedy household.

AIR DATE 11/11/13

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