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The Bastard Brigade - The Kennedy Curse | 3

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The Kennedy Curse

This is episode three of the Kennedy curse. In September 1943 Joe Kennedy, Jr was a pilot on a mission to ram a remote control plane full of explosives into a suspected atomic bunker in northern France. The volatile older brother of future president John F. Kennedy had dropped out of Harvard Law School to join the Navy. He disappeared completely before you can find him at his 50th birthday party and when it's time for toast he appears from behind a door. "I've ever met someone who willingly had nine kids," says former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain Edward McCaffery.

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