“Kennedys Don’t Cry” (1975) is a documentary film narrated by actor Cliff Robertson that chronicles the tumultuous private and political lives as well as victories of one of America’s most famous families – The Kennedys. While the film is 90 minutes in total, this 30-minute installment focuses on Joe Kennedy Sr.’s career and JFK’s early career.

Opening credits (0:08). Funeral Joe Kennedy Sr. (0:20). Close-up young JFK’s profile, driving in convertible (1:02). Archival footage young Bobby Kennedy on family trip to Europe (1:10). Opening montage archival footage of Kennedy boys on campaign trail, funerals (1:24-3:25). Irish peasants immigrating to United States during Potato Famine of 1860s (3:31). Images Joe Sr. – Boston Latin School baseball team, Harvard school photo (3:56). Wedding portrait Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Joe Sr. (4:23). Photos, videos Joe Sr. as narrator details his career path (4:25). New York Stock Exchange (5:45). Video portrait of Gloria Swanson (6:12). New York Stock Exchange, hustle and bustle of brokers ahead of market crash (6:32). Home video, young Kennedy children swimming in palm-tree lined pool in Palm Beach, Florida (6:49). Bonus Army/ “Cox’s Army” storm United States Capital Building, protest Hoover; Other riots, protests made up of unemployed Americans (7:10). Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) campaign address at Madison Square Garden “We Have Only Just Begun to Fight” October 1936 (7:50). Archival footage presidential campaign rallies, parades in support of FDR, Joe Sr. funds campaign efforts, FDR driven around in 1936 Ford Phaeton (8:02). Joe Sr. sits with members of Securities and Exchange Commission, swearing in ceremony as chairman of commission (8:35). Aerial view of trans-Atlantic steam passenger ship traversing NYC harbor, Statue of Liberty in background (9:26). Joe Sr. as US Ambassador to the United Kingdom/ “Court of St. James,” public address to the press; Kennedy children in the UK visit to zoo, JFK and Joe Sr. walk side by side (9:29). Kennedy boys horse around in Palm Beach pool, role of Joe Jr. as surrogate father (10:40). Joe Sr. and Joe Jr. in front of a De Havilland DH86 Express plane (11:32). Hitler delivers speech, Nazi soldiers march through European cities, British Appeasement & American Isolationism speech (11:58). Joe Sr. speech from Usher Hall, Scotland, presented by dignitaries with the Freedom of the City (13:02). Nazi invasion of Poland, shots of destruction, hollowed out buildings, fires blazing through homes (13:36). Joe Sr. resignation address “Mr Joseph P Kennedy (US Ambassador to Britain) Says Au Revoir” 1940 (14:32). January 1942 Joe Sr. speech “My Views on Foreign Policy: We Ought to Stay Out of the War” during FDR third term campaign (15:10). Air battles in the Pacific Theater, Bombing of Pearl Harbor (15:59). FDR speech to congress on Attack on Pearl Harbor (16:32). Home videos Joe and JFK from years serving in World War II, JFK returns from Pacific a war hero, Lt. Joe Kennedy Jr. perishes in mission with unmanned combat drone (16:58). JFK journey into politics, photos of young JFK with father Joe Sr. meeting officials, politicians; “John F. Kennedy for Congress” early campaign posters (17:55). Young JFK political views (18:58). Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. speaks to press as Eisenhower campaign advisor (19:36). JFK and Bobby Kennedy join forces, take to campaign trail by engaging youths, meeting local constituents (20:04). Eisenhower and Lodge Jr. ride on convertible through political parade (20:36). Senator Joseph McCarthy, United States v. Owen Lattimore (21:09). JFK and Bobby announce final figures of Massachusetts congressional election 1952, JFK sworn in (22:18). JFK and Jackie Kennedy wedding in Newport, Rhode Island (23:05). Adlai Stevenson political rally, crowed waves posters with campaign slogans; JFK speaks at 1956 Democratic National Convention (24:11). Baptism of Caroline Kennedy (26:04). JFK Congress re-election campaign, “At Home with the Kennedys” campaign TV special (26:25). JFK remarks at Democratic Party’s 1960 Presidential Campaign Kick-off dinner (30:15). Hubert Humphrey Presidential campaign rally, Wisconsin battleground, “High Hopes (with Jack Kennedy)” by Frank Sinatra jingle (31:19). Film ends (32:47).

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