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She's almost crushed by photographers. she has thousands of people literally at her reception she doesn't know because they've been invited by her father-in-law. and she's wearing a dress that she doesn't care for that she says made her look like a lampshade. >> i'm sure that jackie would have liked to have chosen her own dress, but that's simply not how it worked out. joe sr. chose her dress. if jackie didn't know that she wasn't just marrying a person but a family before the wedding, she definitely learned during the planning process that this was a group affair. she was genuinely in love wi...

Extraordinary moment for joe in understanding that the runt of his litter, bobby, was as tough and as smart as he was. and for bobby, it was winning the paternal acknowledgment that he had spent his life trying to get. >> as bobby's reputation grows, a young politician decides to join him at the hearings. >> at the time, john f. kennedy is the pretty undistinguished senator, one with great ambition. he becomes part of that investigation and really distinguishes himself thanks to his younger brother. >> mr. hoffa, this bill is not a strike breaking, union busting bill. you're the best argument ...

Kennedy and her daughters and jack kennedy would go to a fancy hotel in massachusetts and they would invite all the ladies of the town to dress in their best finery and come to have formal tea with the kennedys. it was really one of the first times that women got involved in politics in a very sustained way. >> jack's sisters and his mother rose would wear what we call poodle skirts, then they would stand up and they'd reveal that their skirts are embroidered jfk. >> but his father joe understands that jack needs far more than fashion and fine china. >> joe kennedy didn't like what he thought ...

Brave face regarding her husband's absences. >> jackie, i think probably being married to a senator would compare with being a doctor's wife. a senator must be on call at all times. >> i suppose it is like being married to a doctor in that they have late hours, they go away with short notice. work late. >> jack's affairs are not the only thing he's hiding. >> the great secret about jack kennedy is not his sex life. it's his health. he is a sick man. >> the joke always was that if a mosquito bit jack, the mosquito would get sick. >> it wasn't a day of jack's life that he wasn't in pain. >> jack...

>> daddy was organized, he was straightforward, he held people accountable. and jack liked that. >> sometimes in politics you need somebody to be the bad cop. bobby was willing to be the bad cop. >> the charismatic jack, with his enforcer brother bobby, defeats henry cabot lodge to win the senate seat. >> kennedy wins what was one of the biggest upsets in maybe the state's political history. >> i guess you're glad it's over, aren't you, bobby? >> it was jack's victory in 1952 that gave kennedy the idea that he, in fact, could win the presidency. >> but if senator kennedy wants to make the whit...