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Love Story - Season 1 - Episode 03: America's Widow
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00:12She's so narrowing.
00:20Look at these trees.
00:24That's gorgeous.
00:26You okay?
00:28Yes, I'm fine.
00:33Well, we're just trying to lock down investors right now,
00:35which, needless to say, is no lesson in humility.
00:39Michael pretty much has me out there with my hat in hand,
00:41singing for my supper.
00:43Well, it's your magazine. What did you expect?
00:46I know.
00:48And I'm happy to do the work,
00:49but I don't want people to see George and think of me.
00:54I want it to have its own identity.
00:58You think your father won his congressional seat solely on marriage?
01:02No.
01:04He capitalized on his charm, his magnetism, his father's good fortune,
01:11and then he used his platform to do good and to prove himself.
01:17Now, I know it's important to you that you be your own man,
01:21but, sweetheart, there are so many doors open to you.
01:26You don't have to build one and run through it just to say you did.
01:31Can we please not do this again?
01:32Well, all I'm saying is your last name doesn't need to be this albatross
01:38from which you need to escape.
01:40This is why I wish you'd seek out Maurice's advice more.
01:44Yes, but I have spoken with him.
01:47He's always gonna be there for you.
01:50Why are you saying it like that?
01:51Well, I just mean you ought to take advantage of his counsel.
01:57Oh, let's just get Caroline and head home, shall we?
02:02The last thing I need is to give them a shot of me
02:05catching my breath or withering away.
02:08Born on the days when my style used to sell the papers.
02:12Oh, please.
02:13You could walk down Fifth Avenue in a bunny costume,
02:16and people would be like,
02:17Oh, where did you get that suit?
02:20There'd be models walking down runways hopping, actually.
02:23Cotton tails, the whole thing.
02:26Please don't make me laugh.
02:29I'm sorry.
02:30You okay?
02:31Yes, yes, I'm fine.
02:33It's a good kind of pain.
02:37Sure you don't want to keep walking?
02:38No.
02:39No, I'm actually quite hungry.
02:42Good, good.
02:43And appetite's a good sign.
03:00Thank you, Tony.
03:04Whoa.
03:06Looks like a greenhouse in here.
03:07Would you like me to bring them up?
03:09Yes, please, Tony.
03:11You're in my reflections.
03:13Michael Jackson?
03:14Mom secured his book deal.
03:15Hmm.
03:20Daryl?
03:21I thought we'd all been shunned after Doggate.
03:25It's quite magnanimous of her.
03:27You always have such nice things to say after they're gone.
03:29I'm just still trying to imagine what everyone on that flight
03:31must have been thinking when they saw you with those ashes.
03:34Why do you think I'm trying to get my pilot's license?
03:36All righty.
03:37I gotta go.
03:38Okay.
03:39Sure you don't want a hand with this?
03:40No, I'm good.
03:41Okay.
03:41Just take the vultures with you when you go, will you?
03:44Okay.
03:46Did you want to take the service entrance, Mr. Kennedy?
03:48No.
03:49I'm good.
03:59Come on.
04:00Walk faster.
04:01We're almost there.
04:02I'm just trying to make sure I don't hit anything.
04:06Oh, my God.
04:09You ready?
04:10Yeah, I guess.
04:13New York, eat your fucking heart out.
04:17Holy shit.
04:19I feel like I'm hallucinating.
04:22Jesus, you can really see my dick, huh?
04:24Yeah, it's better than the alternative.
04:27Should we linger?
04:28See if anyone notices you?
04:29I can't believe you made that happen for me.
04:31No, you just put your head shot in a mile.
04:37Take your photo.
04:40Come on.
04:42Oh, wait.
04:42I want you to be in with me.
04:43No, no, no.
04:44This is your moment.
04:45Go.
04:51Smile.
04:53Good job.
04:55We've gotten a doggy van.
04:57For what?
04:59Clean my plate.
05:01I asked if I could have a fry and you stated unequivocally I could have as many as I wanted.
05:07Well, that's because you didn't necessarily give me a choice.
05:11Uh, we got the check, right?
05:14Do you have somewhere you have to be?
05:16Uh, no.
05:16No, I just...
05:17I don't have any cash on me, so, um...
05:22Uh...
05:22What?
05:25Of all the gin joints.
05:28Yeah.
05:29Uh, I'm a sucker for a laminate abenium.
05:35Uh, John, this is my friend Michael.
05:38Nice to meet you.
05:39Nice to meet you.
05:41I see you got a new bike.
05:42I did.
05:43Yeah.
05:44I reported the last one stolen, but, uh, I think the case has gone cold.
05:48Oh.
05:48And yet still no luck.
05:50Well, you know.
05:51Baby steps.
05:52Maybe we start with a helmet and work our way up from there.
05:54Over this set of hair?
05:55I don't think so.
05:58John.
05:59I got your order ready.
06:00Thanks, Joe.
06:01You got it.
06:03It was nice to see you.
06:04It's nice to see you, too.
06:07And, um...
06:09I'm thinking about your mom.
06:12I appreciate that.
06:16Nice to meet you, Mike.
06:18Meet you.
06:20See you around.
06:21Bye.
06:29Uh, so what's, what's up for the rest of the day?
06:32So we're just gonna ignore that just happened?
06:35Ooh, ketchup on your face.
06:47In my solitude, you haunt me with reveries of days gone by.
07:12In my solitude, you haunt me.
07:24Dear Lord above.
07:31You haunt me with reveries of days gone by.
07:35In my solitude, you haunt me with reveries of days gone by.
07:40I'm not going to be a smithsonian.
07:41You don't need to do that, Mom.
07:42I can see that those letters are locked away and sealed.
07:45I don't want them to be preserved, publicly or privately.
07:49It's a reason no one likes to read the fine print.
07:52It takes all the fun out of it.
07:56Is there a reason why you're doing this now?
07:58Well, unlike you, I don't like to put things off until the last minute.
08:04Oh, speaking of, how's your love life?
08:08I'm not prying, I'm just genuinely curious.
08:14I guess you could say I'm in kind of a transition period.
08:20Somehow, in an effort not to upset anybody, I've upset everyone.
08:25One person in particular who is, she's special.
08:30Well, confrontation's never been your strong suit.
08:34And have I read about this special person?
08:40No.
08:42And frankly, that's part of the appeal.
08:44She's not interested in that.
08:47She seems to know who she is.
08:50And when she looks at me, I can tell that she knows that
08:54I don't.
08:56Know who you are.
09:01You know, I remember the first night your father and I spent at the White House.
09:07He turned to me and he said,
09:10Can you believe where we are?
09:13And I said, of course I can.
09:15How do you think we got here?
09:18In some ways, our life together was more of a realization of my dream than his.
09:25Not that I ever imagined myself in the White House.
09:28But your father, well, he could have been happy sailing or riding his whole life.
09:34But I, for whatever reason, well, I always knew I was bound for a different life than everyone else.
09:46Something more.
09:49I've been reading some of the tributes.
09:54Why are you saying it like that?
09:57Well, absent the past tense, they're essentially obituaries.
10:03Well, isn't it nice to be around?
10:06So you can read it?
10:07See how much you mean to people?
10:08It's not the adulation I question.
10:13It's where it stems from, how it came to be.
10:17I can't help but sometimes wonder how I'd be remembered if I hadn't...
10:28If I wasn't...
10:29What?
10:32America's widow.
10:37That's not to say I'm not moved by the outpouring of love.
10:42It's just that...
10:44Well, pathos and recognition are two very, very, very different things.
10:51You really believe that that's what this is?
10:54Pity?
10:58It's not that.
11:00I think the world thought that we went through something together, that what happened in Dallas...
11:07Happened to all of us.
11:10You once told me that you had no choice but to go on after what happened.
11:14That anybody would.
11:16But you're wrong.
11:18You did have a choice.
11:26We grew up in people's living rooms.
11:30They feel like they know us, that we're a part of their family.
11:36Which is why whenever we do anything unseemly or at odds with their perception of us, they lash out with
11:43an even greater fervor.
11:45Because in their minds, we don't exist without them.
11:51The public's always holding a flower in one hand and a stone in the other.
11:59Don't forget that.
12:01Well, there you can do this.
12:04Who is here?
12:05That's not how.
12:05That's not how.
12:06That's not how these are.
12:20That's not how these are.
12:27That's not what they are.
12:28to sleep upon your cot think back on all the tales that you remember of carmelot
12:42ask every person if he's heard the story and tell it strong and clear if he has not
12:51that once there was a fleeting wisp of glory called camelot
13:05camelot camelot
13:08i know it gives a person part
13:13but in camelot camelot
13:24where once it never rained till after sundown
13:30by 8am the morning fog had flown don't let it be forgot that once there was a spot
13:40for one brief shining moment
13:46that was known as
14:16thank you for meeting me
14:22i feel like we're trading state secrets
14:30you know i got jumped in a park once
14:33what i was like 15 riding my bike to a tennis lesson this guy just socked me jacked my bike
14:38and took
14:38what is it with you and bikes didn't you have secret service i did but um my mom always insisted
14:44that
14:45they kept their distance she hated the idea of me moving through life like a coddled prince with a
14:49god complex hey she still lets you rollerblade probably because they're harder to steal than
14:54a bike yeah she used to love to send me to work on ranches fishing boats wilderness survival trips
15:00she was always very keen on me being a real man whatever that means she's probably scared she's
15:06gonna mess you up and that she wasn't enough she wants you to feel more shortchanged than you already
15:12were how is it that you have more insight into my family than my family now i just know there's
15:19no
15:19greater force on earth than that of a single mom
15:24you'd think with twice the responsibility they'd get graded on a curve but they're just forced to
15:29grin and bear it for a world dictated by the men who failed them you feel like your dad failed
15:34your mom
15:36i feel like you've healed a lot of people
15:41but how is she doing your mom
15:46i can tell she's scared which i mean i always knew there'd come a point where i'd have to take
15:52care of
15:52her but she's 64 you know she's a survivor that's what she does she survives yeah
16:02but think of all the lives she's lived in 64 years
16:10i wish she could meet her she'd love you
16:17sorry no it's fine it's fine
16:23i should probably go yeah
16:35why did you want to meet though i mean you've got tons of friends and family
16:43i don't know you're just the person i wanted to see
16:48what about uh daryl yeah she's back in la indefinitely it seems
16:57you don't have to walk me home five minutes from here i'll take the five minutes
17:03that's all right with you and the belts with sharpie and no one noticed oh no no rave reviews across
17:09the
17:09board all right i should go yeah i wouldn't want to keep an underwear model waiting either
17:18they must get very hungry did you look them up or something no i looked up at them all 50
17:23feet
17:24we're friends no one is just friends with an underwear model they're basically sex symbols for trade
17:31this coming from people's sexiest man alive well that's different
17:36how well i'm not on a billboard in times square in my tighty whiteys yeah you're just shirtless everywhere else
17:43well i'm happy for you and your budding friendship everyone needs a broad muscular shoulder to cry on
17:51how well i'm happy for you and your budding friendship is good
18:23Do you still want to be a teacher when you grow up?
18:27I want to be a photographer.
18:29A photographer? You do?
18:32Since when?
18:33Do you know that Grandma used to be a photographer
18:36when she was a young girl?
18:38For a newspaper and everything.
18:41Do you want to hold my baby, Grandma?
18:43Oh, yes, I do.
18:45The baby with all the jewels.
18:49Sweetheart, why don't you hold the baby
18:52and I'll go get her a blanket, yes?
19:01Grandma!
19:05Mommy!
19:09Mom? Mom?
19:12Eugene!
19:13Mommy? Mom?
19:15Mom! Eugene, call 911.
19:18Mommy, wait, no.
19:20Mom!
19:21Mom!
19:34Make sure the hospital knows to register her under an alien.
19:38Take care of me.
19:43It's okay, Mom. It's gonna be okay.
19:45It's okay, Mom. It's gonna be okay.
19:52It's okay, Mom. It's gonna be okay.
19:54Mom! Carolyn!
19:55We were optimistic, because the scans showed the cancer had dissipated from your chest and stomach.
20:02However, it does appear to have spread to your brain and spinal cord.
20:06At this point, we recommend a much more aggressive treatment.
20:10Pass my bag, please.
20:25One in which we would drill a hole into your brain and insert a shunt.
20:30That would allow the fluid build up to drain and redirect an other piece of the baby.
20:34Okay.
20:36Um, come on in.
21:03Jackie!
21:08How much longer do you think we have?
21:10I mean, roughly, what's the general time frame for someone at this stage?
21:14It can vary significantly.
21:17Okay. Thank you.
21:30Should we call Aunt Leigh?
21:34It can go a lot of different ways.
21:36Yeah, maybe we should call Anthony first.
21:38Yeah.
21:48What is it, Nancy? What's wrong?
21:51She asked to see Monsignor Bards.
21:53Why?
21:54It's what she wants.
21:55Last rites?
21:55What?
21:57Why are we acting like this is happening right now?
22:00I mean, I know her time is limited, but that doesn't mean we just give up.
22:04Nancy, do not call him.
22:05I'm gonna go talk to her.
22:06John, please.
22:07She wants to do this while she is still lucid, and we can't fault her for that.
22:36Would you like to give me your confession now?
22:38Oh.
22:47Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.
22:59I wanted to die after Jack.
23:06I thought there was supposed to be the both of us that day in Dallas.
23:18But I couldn't move.
23:22I froze.
23:26Oh, and I was so, so mad at him.
23:32All he put me through.
23:35All the women.
23:38But I always protected him.
23:43Always.
23:45Even after he died.
23:50And I sat down with that journalist, and I gave him the fairy tale.
24:11There will never be another Camelot.
24:24And I want him to know.
24:33I forgive him.
24:40Jack.
24:48God.
24:59It is glory to have been tested, to have had our little qualities.
25:04cast our little spell the thing is to have made somebody care you happen to be
25:12crazy of course but that doesn't affect the law a second chance that's the
25:22delusion it was never meant to be but one we work in the dark we do what we can
25:33we give what we have our debt is our passion
25:45I'm sorry what what are you talking about
25:53all this
25:57it's just just for an idea
26:10oh
26:16oh
26:50I don't know.
27:26I don't know.
27:42I don't know.
28:15I don't know.
28:24Last night, at around 10.15, my mother passed on.
28:29She was surrounded by her friends and her family and her books and the people and the things she loved.
28:36And she did it in her own way.
28:39And we all feel lucky for that.
28:42And now she's in God's hands.
28:57I will never understand it.
29:01What's that?
29:04Why, we have to put on a brave face for them.
29:13Thank you so much for coming.
29:15I really, really appreciate it.
29:23John.
29:26Hi.
29:30I'm so sorry.
29:32I tried to get on an earlier flight and then everything was booked and then they lost my luggage and
29:37it was a whole...
29:37I didn't even know you were coming.
29:38Of course.
29:39She was your whole world.
29:40I meant to the wake.
29:42I figured I'd see you at the funeral, but how did you know that...
29:44Look, whatever happened between your mother and I, it doesn't matter.
29:48Life is too short and I know how much she meant to you.
29:52Is there a coat check?
29:53Oh, I'll just go put it in your room.
30:00It would have meant so much to her for you two to have traveled so far to be here today.
30:05Thank you so much.
30:06I still remember that trip she took with your father to Paris.
30:09Do you have any idea how elegant, how proficient someone has to be to impress the French?
30:14I was at a party at the Prince's Palace of Monaco and someone asked Princess Grace what it was like
30:19to be the most glamorous woman in the world.
30:22And you know what she said?
30:23You'll have to ask Jackie O.
30:25Of course.
30:27You know my Uncle Teddy.
30:30Pleasure to meet you, Senator Kennedy.
30:31I'll leave you in this very capable answer.
30:33Sir, nice to meet you.
30:36I need you next week.
30:40Here you are.
30:43I don't think you might have disappeared.
30:45No, no, I've just been running around.
30:47How are you feeling?
30:49Um, I don't know.
30:51I haven't had a lot of time to process it, I think.
30:53Yeah.
30:54And grief is weird that way.
30:56It kind of sneaks up on you and all you can do is succumb to it, you know?
31:01Like when I lost Hank.
31:03Sorry about that.
31:04I mean, yes, he was a dog, but he was also like my child.
31:08Yeah.
31:09Of course everyone keeps trying to find out what's going on with us.
31:12Like in what capacity I'm here.
31:15People are asking you about our relationship status at my mother's wake?
31:18I mean, not explicitly, but like...
31:20Well, we haven't spoken in months, so...
31:22Exactly.
31:23There's a lot that remains unsaid.
31:26Hey, Nancy, have you seen Caroline?
31:29I think she just needed a minute.
31:31I'm going to go check on my sister, but I'll talk to you later.
31:36Of course.
31:50Hey, it's all right.
31:52I just...
31:52It's okay.
31:54I know it's crazy out there.
32:02I don't think anyone out there has said one thing about her that I'm going to miss.
32:06I'm not going to miss her poise or her love for the written word.
32:10It's like they're all afraid to admit she was just a person.
32:14Like somehow acknowledging even the slightest imperfection would somehow discount their proximity to her.
32:23Remember when she found your weed plant in her garden at Hyannis?
32:29She didn't find it.
32:31A police officer found it.
32:32Oh my God, that's right.
32:34What was he doing wandering around the garden at Hyannis?
32:36I don't know.
32:37I think a neighbor probably reported it.
32:39I thought our neighbors loved us.
32:42Didn't you tell her it was a zucchini?
32:44Parsley.
32:45Zucchini?
32:46She was so mad.
32:47Her voice dropped into that really scary octave.
32:52Caroline, marijuana?
32:54How could you?
32:55And in my garden, a botanical sanctuary.
32:58You had a real rebellious streak going there for a little while.
33:03Missed those days.
33:09I think I was just trying to find ways to tell her I was never going to be like her.
33:14Well, I for one.
33:16I'm glad you didn't.
33:17Otherwise, I'd be missing out on someone really special.
33:23Okay.
33:25You should go back.
33:27I think I overheard one of the cousins asking if someone knows how to play forever, Jacques,
33:31on the piano.
33:32Oh.
33:34I'll be out in a second.
33:35Okay.
33:38Okay.
33:39Glory, glory, hallelujah.
33:52Glory, glory, hallelujah.
33:55Glory, glory, hallelujah.
33:57His truth is marching on.
34:12I'll be out in a second.
34:12Exactly.
34:32Sorry.
34:52I don't know.
35:02Those of you who may just be joining us right now, we are on to keep you apprised at the
35:07funeral arrangements for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
35:10Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, of course, died on Thursday night around 10.15 in her home.
35:15She had asked to be returned to her apartment on the Upper East Side.
35:18Everybody over 10 years old in 1963 remembers her with the greatest gratitude
35:24because it was her strength that carried us through that awful, awful November of 1963.
35:30That was also the first time anything like this had ever been seen on television.
35:35It really is a national communion of sorts, a cathartic experience for many people.
35:40And the eulogy to be delivered by Senator Edward Kennedy.
35:44No one else looked like her, spoke like her, wrote like her, or was so original in the way she
35:53did things.
35:55No one we knew ever had a better sense of self.
36:00Her two children turned out to be extraordinary, honest, unspoiled, and with a character equal to hers.
36:07She reveled in their accomplishments, she hurt with their sorrows, she felt sheer joy and delight in spending time with
36:16them.
36:17They are her two miracles.
36:21I often think of what she said about Jack in December after he died.
36:26They made him a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
36:31Jackie would have preferred to be just herself, but the world insisted that she be a legend too.
36:50Dear John, I understand the pressures you will always have to face as a Kennedy, even though we brought you
36:59into this world as an innocent.
37:02You, more than anyone, have a place in history.
37:06No matter what path you blaze in life, all I ask is that you continue to make Caroline, the Kennedy
37:15family, and most importantly, yourself proud.
37:21Stay close to those who know you and love you as you are.
37:27Oh, my love, Mommy.
37:40Oh, my love, Mommy.
38:01Oh, my love, Mommy.
38:04Oh, my love, Mommy.
38:06Oh, my love, Mommy.
38:14Oh, my love, Mommy.
38:21Oh, my love, Mommy.
38:23Oh, my love, Mommy.
38:23Oh, my love, Mommy.
38:23Oh, my love, Mommy.
38:25Oh, my love, Mommy.
38:27Oh, my love, Mommy.
39:13Breathe.
39:30Breathe.
39:32Breathe.
39:43Breathe.
39:46Breathe.
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