The Kennedy Family
As I have already mentioned them, let’s start with arguably the most famous political dynasty in American history, the Kennedy’s, whose patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, having already been deeply submerged in political waters himself, would lay the foundation stone of what he hoped would be a political dynasty to rival all that had come before it.
It’s important to remind ourselves that John F. Kennedy was not the son who was earmarked for greatness by his father, it was his oldest son Joe Jnr. who senior saw as destined to become the commander and chief. His plans to bankroll his eldest progeny’s rise to the highest office in the land was to go down in flames, quite literally.
Joe Jr. had been a delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention, the one that resulted in the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term as president, and had planned to run for a seat in the United States House of Representatives after he had completed his military service.
Sadly for all concerned, especially Joe Snr., this was not to be as while flying a converted B-24 Liberator on a mission to destroy massive underground military complex called the Fortress of Mimoyecques, the Torpex explosive they were carrying exploded prematurely over the English Channel due to an electrical fault, killing Kennedy and his co-pilot on August 12, 1944.
