Hoover vs. The Kennedys

Hoover vs. The Kennedys: The Second Civil War is a four-hour 1987 made-for-television mini-series depicting the political struggles between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The series was produced by Operation Prime Time.^[1]

Synopsis

The film takes place between the 1960 Democratic National Convention in July 1960 and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968, with the majority of the mini-series focusing on the Kennedy Administration (1961–1963).^[2]

Other sub-plots include Bobby Kennedy's frustration with his elder brother's politically risky womanizing and his often turbulent relationship with Hoover and the Civil Rights leadership of the era. The mini-series also touches on the alleged bargains Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. made with Mafia figures in order to get his son elected to the U.S. presidency.

Production

Hoover vs. The Kennedys was primarily filmed on location in and around Toronto, Ontario.^{[dubious – discuss]}

Cast

• Robert Pine as John F. Kennedy
• Nicholas Campbell as Robert F. Kennedy
• Jack Warden as J. Edgar Hoover
• Richard Anderson as Lyndon B. Johnson
• Barry Morse as Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
• Marc Strange as Clyde Tolson
• Leland Gantt as Martin Luther King Jr.
• Djanet Sears as Coretta Scott King
• Heather Thomas as Marilyn Monroe
• Jennifer Dale as Jacqueline Kennedy
• Nicholas Walker as Peter Lawford
• Brioni Farrell - Judith Campbell

See also

• Kennedy (miniseries)
• Prince Jack
• The Kennedys (miniseries)
• Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy
• Robert F. Kennedy in media

References

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John F. Kennedy

• 35th President of the United States (1961–1963)
• U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1953–1960)
• U.S. Representative for MA–11 (1947–1953)

Presidency
(timeline)

• Transition
• Inauguration
• Cabinet
• Judicial appointments
  • Supreme Court
• Executive Orders
• Presidential Proclamations
• Presidential pardons
• Presidential limousine
• Presidential yacht
• Resolute desk
• Situation Room

Foreign policy

Alliance for Progress Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Flexible response Kennedy Doctrine Peace Corps Trade Expansion Act Migration and Refugee Assistance Act USAID Vietnam War Cuba: Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Project Cuban Missile Crisis ExComm Soviet Union: Berlin Crisis Moscow–Washington hotline Vienna summit

New Frontier

Clean Air Act Communications Satellite Act Community Mental Health Act Equal Pay Act Executive Order 11110 Federal affirmative action Federal housing segregation ban Fifty-mile hikes Food for Peace Pilot Food Stamp Program Presidential Medal of Freedom Space policy Status of Women (Presidential Commission) University of Alabama integration Voter Education Project All-Channel Receiver Act Oil Pollution Act of 1961 Revenue Act of 1962 Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961 Wetlands Loan Act

Presidential
speeches

• Inaugural address
• American University speech
• "We choose to go to the Moon"
• Report to the American People on Civil Rights
• "Ich bin ein Berliner"
• "A rising tide lifts all boats"
• Remarks at Amherst College on the Arts
• State of the Union Address
  • 1961
  • 1962
  • 1963

Elections

• U.S. House of Representatives elections: 1946
• 1948
• 1950
• U.S. Senate elections in Massachusetts: 1952
• 1958
• 1960 presidential primaries
• 1960 presidential campaign
• Democratic National Conventions: 1956
• 1960
• U.S. presidential election 1960
  • debates

Personal life

• Birthplace and childhood home
• Kennedy Compound
• Hickory Hill
• Wexford
• Navy service: PT-109
  • Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana
  • Arthur Evans
• PT-59
• Castle Hot Springs
• Hammersmith Farm
• Coretta Scott King phone call
• "Happy Birthday, Mr. President"
• John F. Kennedy document hoax

Books

• Why England Slept (1940)
• Profiles in Courage (1956)
• A Nation of Immigrants (1958)

Death

• Assassination
  • timeline
  • media coverage
  • reactions
  • in popular culture
• State funeral
  • Riderless horse
  • attending dignitaries
• Gravesite and Eternal Flame

Legacy

• Bibliography
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
  • Profile in Courage Award
• Twenty-fourth Amendment
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Apollo 11 Moon landing
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Kennedy Space Center
• Kennedy Round
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• VISTA
• Cultural depictions
  • films
  • Kennedy half dollar
  • U.S. postage stamps
  • U.S. five cent stamp
  • Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences
• Operation Sail

Memorials,
namesakes

• Harvard Kennedy School
• Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• John F. Kennedy Federal Building (Boston)
• John F. Kennedy International Airport
• Boston statue
• Brooklyn memorial
• Dallas memorial
• Hyannis memorial
• London memorial
• Portland memorial
• Runnymede memorial
• John F. Kennedy Arboretum
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge
• John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
• John F. Kennedy University (defunct)
• John F. Kennedy Stadium
• Kennedy Expressway
• Mount Kennedy
• MV John F. Kennedy
• USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
• USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)
• Yad Kennedy

Family

• Jacqueline Bouvier (wife)
• Caroline Kennedy (daughter)
• John F. Kennedy Jr. (son)
• Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (son)
• Rose Schlossberg (granddaughter)
• Tatiana Schlossberg (granddaughter)
• Jack Schlossberg (grandson)
• Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (father)
• Rose Fitzgerald (mother)
• Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (brother)
• Rosemary Kennedy (sister)
• Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (sister)
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver (sister)
• Patricia Kennedy Lawford (sister)
• Robert F. Kennedy (brother)
• Jean Kennedy Smith (sister)
• Ted Kennedy (brother)
• P. J. Kennedy (grandfather)
• John F. Fitzgerald (grandfather)
• Pushinka (dog)

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