paris on business in 1948. and she makes an arrangement with him that she and peter fitzwilliam will come meet him, and kathleen's hope is he will then give his blessing to the marriage. before though they have their meeting, kathleen and peter decide that they will take a mini holiday in the south of france in the riviera. >> fitzwilliam and kick decide to fly down. the weather is terrible. the pilot says, we can't go, it's too dangerous. but fitzwilliam is a very reckless man and he insists that they fly. >> a terrible thunderstorm strikes. and they crash into a mountainside in the rhone valley. e pilot, the copilot, kick, and her fiance, are all lost. >> joe kennedy never sees his daughter again, except in a casket.