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Malone and james hood, are determined to enroll at americas last all-white state university. >> my sister knew the consequences of what could happen. people were getting beaten and killed over very simple rights, but she faced her fears and she felt tired of accepting second-class citizenship. >> standing in their way is the states governor who made an election promise to keep the campus segregated. >> george wallace, the governor of alabama, said that he would stand at the schoolyard door and t...

Campbell. >> the next day, the phone operator at the white house was instructed no more calls. he had cut off that relationship. >> the even bigger problem for bobby is how to deal with jacks old friend, frank sinatra. >> in the late winter of 1962, jfk was supposed to go to sinatras house in palm springs to party with him. >> frank cant wait to have jack at his home. he even puts in secret service lines, you know, for them to communicate. theres a lot of excitement about the fact that the presi...

>> were still considering what we ought to do, whether or not we should call up the guard and have them already there. go in with you. >> as the situation unfolds in alabama, one of bobbys children drops by to visit her father. >> want to say hello to carrie? >> yeah. >> hi, nick. >> hi, carrie. how are you, dear? >> are you at my house? >> no, im not out at your house, im way down in the southland. >> i remember sitting behind a chair in what we called the television room while my father was ta...

The white house, he relays a request from chairman khrushchev to the president. >> bolshakov delivers a message asking kennedy to stop those annoying spy plane flights over soviet freighters going to cuba. in fact, the russians are putting nuclear missiles on those freighters. >> bobby kennedy summons bolshakov to his office at the justice department. >> this meeting is a little different. no party scene at hickory hill. bobby kennedys sitting behind his desk. hes got his suit and tie on. very f...

Supporting integration was a politically risky move. >> just about nobody else on jack kennedys team thought the timing was right. they thought it was premature, and bobby said, no, weve got to do it and weve got to do it now. do the right thing. >> bobby is in favor of an immediate unambiguous public statement about racial injustice. and he implores his brother to address the nation. >> this was bobby as being jacks better side, his better angel, telling him you give up whatever political price...

Spy posing as a journalist. bobby knows it, jack knows it, and bolshakov knows that its precisely because hes a russian spy that hes been invited in. >> we thought he was great because, you know, we were watching the james bond films at that time. to meet a real russian spy was, you know, was wonderful. >> the man who so amuses the kennedy kids plays another more important role as bobbys secret back channel to soviet leader nikita khrushchev. >> he thought, if i can communicate directly with som...

Look, well make an exchange, but we dont want any recognition of this in the press. this has to be absolutely secret. >> secrecy is critical. if the press or the public find out the kennedys are removing u.s. missiles from turkey, it would be political suicide. >> bobby is essentially saying, youve got to help us out of this because my brothers got these generals who are pushing him to do something that isnt good for us and isnt good for you. >> the russian ambassador writes up the proposed deal...

Bobby was the fixer of the family. he believed in jack and jacks mission. and jack trusted him completely. >> bobby was doing a lot of damage control during this period. and bobby was there to have jacks back. at times having his back meant doing his dirty work. >> bobby is jacks attorney general, the man responsible for the largest investigation ever into organized crime. bobby and his investigators meet regularly at the department of justice. >> hed be sitting behind his desk. very informal, u...

Cuba. and bobby asked bolshakov, what are you doing here? bolshakov says theyre defensive weapons, not offensive weapons. >> bobby no longer trusts the benign version of events hes getting from moscow. >> the moment that bobby became convinced that he was getting disinformation about what was really going on in cuba, thats the moment he said, youre out of here. >> six days later, as jack and the family host the algerian prime minister at the white house, the surveillance images provide positive ...

Male companion. shes also having an affair with bobbys longstanding nemesis, sam giancana, the chicago mafia boss. >> it appeared that giancana and jfk were sharing a girlfriend. >> you just cant make it up. >> it was a very awkward thing to be saying to the attorney general you need to know your brothers been compromised. >> i mean, imagine, this is the president of the united states having an affair with this woman who is also involved with the head of the chicago mafia. its a devastatingly da...