Don Allison

At home and with little to do, for the first time in his life Joe Sr feels useless. Rose is angry and feels her sons have abandoned their father. Then, terrible news: Joe suffers a stroke from which he may never fully recover. In the South, civil rights demonstrators are protesting. James Meredith, a black student, is attempting to gain admission to the University of Mississippi and riots are imminent.

By August of 1961 the Russians move troops into Berlin, though their intentions are unclear. JFK prepares for the possibility that Khrushchev may try to take the city. Bobby announces the formation of the Organized Crime Division. Chicago mobster Sam Giancana is livid about it, and blames Frank Sinatra, who had arranged a meeting between the gangster and Joe Kennedy Sr before the 1960 election.

Bobby blames himself for the President's death but runs for senator in New York, Jackie decides to marry Aristotle Onassis, and Bobby decides to run for president but, in 1968, is assassinated.