and southern illinois was controlled by republicans. >> daly was a powerful political figure. >> jack gets daly on the phone, and mayor daly says we're going to win illinois with the help of a few close friends. >> there are stories to this day that dead people voted in chicago. there's no doubt that the daly machine helped the kennedys. but whether it engaged in massive fraud or not i think remains to be seen. >> back in -- the kennedys wait and wait. >> in the still of the night the secret service moved in. and when they saw the secret service surrounding the kennedy houses, they knew that they had