Hello and welcome to the second episode of our series on JFK.

We left you in the last episode with Jack Kennedy, the war hero, in mourning for the loss of his big brother Joe Jr.

But Jack is alive and he wants to make his life count for something, even more

so given his keen sense of his own mortality because of his ongoing serious health issues.

He is ambitious and he's a man in a hurry and he's living in a country in a hurry. The US, with

mainland America untouched by the war, has emerged from global conflict

in a better economic condition than any country in the world. Its casualties too are comparatively

lighter than any of the other major participants. There's a real sense of purpose and of anxiety

by what the future might bring. but Jack and the country want to leave

war behind. Now that Joe Jr. is dead, it's up to Jack to fulfill his father's big dream,

to put a Kennedy in the White House. But with all that privilege, does Jack have what it takes

for the man and women in the street to back him at the ballot books?

From Wonderry and Goalhanger, I'm Peter Frankopern.

I'm Afouhash.

And this is Legacy, the show that tells the lives of the most extraordinary men and women

ever to have lived, and asks if they have the reputation that they deserve.

This is JFK, episode two.

Violence at home and abroad. So the wars ended, Jack's 28, and Joe Sr thinks that his second son has the right ingredients to be a successful politician.

In fact, it's a little bit more blunt, Afwa. He doesn't just say he's going to be a successful politician.

He says, Joe's dead, and it's your responsibility run for Congress. It's not really pressure, more coercion. And Jack says,

it was like being drafted. My father wanted his eldest son in politics. Wanted isn't the right

word. He demanded it. But, you know, he's 28. He's a decorated war hero. He's served his country.

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