The Kennedy family had a long-cherished dream: the dream of a president. Someone in this family must become the president of the United States. When Joseph was praying in the church, he secretly swore: I have reached the peak of wealth, and I will let my son rise to the peak of power.
The Kennedy family is descended from immigrants to the United States from Ireland. In 1848, a poor Irishman named Patrick Kennedy sailed across the ocean to Boston in the United States. He was only 26 years old. He quickly found work in a cooperage, and after earning some money he settled down to marry and have children. He died of cholera ten years later, and his widow took care of the family. After some years, the only boy in the family, Patrick Joseph, grew up. In order to earn money to support his family, he dropped out of school and became a porter at the wharf. After accumulating some money from work, he opened a beer restaurant and became a small boss, and he dreamed of the American dream of making a fortune. Patrick Joseph is very good at business, and the tavern business is booming. After that, he began to get involved in politics. After successfully running for state legislature, he married Mary, the daughter of a wealthy hotel owner, and gave birth to a son, Joseph Kennedy. Patrick Joseph was a visionary, and in order to give his children the best education, he sent his son to Harvard University.
As soon as he graduated from Harvard, Joseph Kennedy was determined to make money as soon as possible and to become a millionaire by the age of 30. Where to make money? Joseph has his own opinion: "If you want to make money, you have to figure out where the money is." He chose banking as the direction of making money. After amassing a fortune of several hundred million dollars, Joseph began to pay attention to political activities, and he was particularly concerned about a potential presidential candidate. This man was later the famous Franklin Roosevelt.
The Kennedy family had a long-cherished dream: the dream of a president. Someone in this family must become the president of the United States. When Joseph was praying in the church, he secretly swore: I have reached the peak of wealth, and I will let my son rise to the peak of power. The couple have 9 children, and the political potential is naturally 4 boys. The four boys are the eldest son Joseph Kennedy Jr., the second son John Kennedy, the third son Robert Kennedy, and the fourth son Edward Kennedy. From his own experience, Joseph knew that in order for his sons to have status, they had to have money so that they would never have to worry about life. He set up trust funds that gave his children and his wife $20 million each.
In the father's mind, the eldest son, Joseph Jr., is the most qualified among the four sons. But the ruthless war shattered his wishful thinking. In the war against Germany, Joseph Jr. joined the army and became a pilot. In 1944, he was ordered to blow up the V-1 missile launcher of Nazi Germany. During the mission, the plane he was flying exploded over the UK due to a malfunction, and he and his co-pilot were blown to pieces. This was the first disaster for the ill-fated Kennedy family in the future. Two weeks later, the bad news came that the newly married husband of the second daughter, Catherine, was killed by a German gunman while fighting in France.
After the death of the eldest son, the family's hopes were pinned more on the second son, John F. Kennedy. According to John F. Kennedy later, "My brother Joseph was the natural choice of the family. If he lived, I would continue to be a writer. If I died, my brother would be a senator. If something happened to him, my other A younger brother will run for us." The son inherits the father's business, and the younger brother inherits the brother's business, just like a sequence of political careers.
John F. Kennedy's greatest political success was his election as President of the United States in 1960. His father, Joseph, was the chief planner and chief director of realizing the president's dream. He spent a lot of money to mobilize the press and publishing circles to publicize his son indiscriminately. His son finally became the youngest president in American history. When John F. Kennedy formed the cabinet, his old father asked him to put his younger brother Robert into the cabinet, and Robert got the post of attorney general as he wished. It was a political peak for the Kennedy family.
Not long after she was elected president, Jacqueline gave birth to a son for the new president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. President Kennedy got the good news on the plane, and was immersed in the double joy of having a child in middle age and being in the White House for a while.
Time flies, and in less than three years, Kennedy is running for re-election. On November 22, 1963, the couple went to Dallas City to solicit votes for re-election. At 12:30 noon, a bullet fired from a building on the street hit Kennedy in the head, shattering his skull, and Kennedy was stabbed to death. Three days later, it was Kennedy's third birthday, and people kept wishing him: "Happy birthday!" "Long life!" Who could have predicted that he would die in the last year of the 20th century.
It is said that the murderer who shot Kennedy was an American named Oswald, but he always repeated over and over during his trial: "I am the scapegoat." Two days later, Oswald was escorted by a A nightclub owner named Ruby was shot and killed, and Ruby died of cancer in prison after being arrested. To investigate the murder, the U.S. government appointed a commission of inquiry (the "Warren Commission") to try to find out the truth. The Warren Commission's investigation concluded that the murder was committed by Oswald alone, with no other special background. For more than 30 years, many people were dissatisfied with this conclusion and made various speculations about the cause of Kennedy's death. It is believed that another gunman was ambushed nearby and shot Kennedy in the head during the stabbing. As for the manipulators behind it, there are even more claims, including Cuban exiles, Cuban secret agents, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Mafia, and Soviet intelligence agencies. Hollywood director Oliver Stone also made a movie called "JFK" in 1993, implying that powerful figures within the US government planned the conspiracy.
Three older brothers died, and only Edward Kennedy survived. He was also striving to sprint to the political peak. In 1969, he was elected as the deputy leader of the Senate Democratic Party, and he hoped to become a popular figure in the 1972 presidential election. But a car accident in July 1969 ruined his career. The incident damaged the reputation of the Kennedy family and forced Edward to give up running for president. On the evening of August 25, 2009, after a tenacious battle with a malignant brain tumor for more than a year, Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy family of the American political family and a Massachusetts senator, died at the age of 77. He was also the only one of the four Kennedy brothers to die of natural causes.
In the next generation of the Kennedy family, the situation is also quite bad. Several people are crazy drug addicts. Robert Kennedy's son Bobby was also sentenced in 1983 for drug addiction. His younger brother David was even worse, dying of drug addiction the following year.
Originally the family's last hope was pinned on John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. He was dignified, very popular, and had the strength to revitalize the Kennedy family politically. Some even estimate that as long as he announces his campaign, there will not be many people who can compete with him. But this air accident almost cut off the last hope of the Kennedy family. Or many of the ill-fated Kennedys are pinning their hopes of re-emergence on the next generation.
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