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Disobeyed his father totally. >> bobby kennedy and jack kennedy run around on the convention floor trying to round up delegates. it's very unorganized. it's very amateur. it's enthusiastic, but they don't really know what the hell they're doing. >> -- becomes the vice presidential nominee in one of the most thrilling wire-to-wire finishes that any convention has seen in years. >> it's close. they almost do win. ultimately they lose. >> senator john kennedy of massachusetts. >> this was hard for him. this was the first time jack kennedy ever lost. >> ladies and gentlemen, recognizing that this ...

>> tension mounts around convention hall in chicago and nomination time approaches and democrats stream in for the big convention. >> it was not long after jack's back operation, but he wanted to prove to everyone that he was vital and fit. >> at the democratic national convention, jack surprises everyone by announcing his candidacy for vice president. >> jack looks at bobby and says, bobby, would you call dad and give him the news? >> joe kennedy wanted his son to be president of the united states, but he didn't want him to try for vice president and lose and somehow blot his copybook before ...

>> bobby kennedy and jack kennedy run around on the convention floor trying to round up delegates. it's very unorganized. it's very amateur. it's enthusiastic, but they don't really know what the hell they're doing. >> -- becomes the vice presidential nominee in one of the most thrilling wire-to-wire finishes that any convention has seen in years. >> it's close. they almost do win. ultimately they lose. >> senator john kennedy of massachusetts. >> this was hard for him. this was the first time jack kennedy ever lost. >> ladies and gentlemen, recognizing that this convention has selected a man ...

Daughter kick, and yet for a family that's endured so much tragedy, they don't look like it. they look like they're at play all the time. >> 25-year-old aspiring attorney robert kennedy has given the dynasty its newest member. >> bobby marries ethel skakel who gives birth to the first grandchild of joe and rose kennedy, kathleen. >> john, known as jack, is eight years older than bobby and at 34 is in his third term as a congressman, yet he still leads a bachelor's life. >> jack was having a lot of fun not being married. he had lots of girlfriends. he was a party boy. he was a playboy. he was r...

>> the surgery goes very badly. he develops a life-threatening infection. >> his father wonders am i going to lose now my second son. >> he's actually given last rites. and yet miraculously he pulls through. >> the doctors had inserted a steel plate to try to settle his back, and jackie has to take over the job of trying to change the dressings on this gruesome wound. >> jack recovers with jackie's support, but he believes his days may be numbered. >> if you think you are going to die young, then you will act differently because you know your time is short on this earth.