The Kennedys: A Fatal Ambition

Channel 5

3:25 AM to 4:15 AM

Monday 20 January

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Part one of two. Documentary examining the tragedies and scandals that have engulfed the Kennedy clan since they arrived in America in the mid-19th century. The episode begins in 1849 with the first Kennedy to arrive in America, and traces the family's fortunes over more than a hundred years, rising from the slums of East Boston to amass vast wealth and political influence. Archive of Joseph P Kennedy, the patriarch of the dynasty, helps to reveal how the seeds of the family's misfortunes were sown in the humiliation and discrimination he experienced as an Irish Catholic at the hands of Boston's Protestant elite