What does family life do to a child? What does that child retain of all its challenges, its aspirations, its duties? Especially when that family’s name is Kennedy, the clan that held America and the whole world in thrall.
Caroline, Robert, Christopher, Mary, John-John and David were all between seven and eleven years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and between thirteen and seventeen when Bobby Kennedy was gunned down. As the years passed, they came to know all the intoxication of the rich kid’s lifestyle, but they also learned of all the infidelities of their elders, of all the President’s secret love affairs, and of the threats that hung over their family.
The End Of Innocence looks at those privileged childhoods and those shattered destinies, and, through both official footage and intimate archives, reveals the complex personalities of the Kennedy clan, to create a family portrait that may be nostalgic but which pulls no punches. It is an insider’s family history, seen through the eyes of a child, with all their naivety, their doubts and their questions; a story that at last lifts the curtain on the private life of one of the twentieth century’s most powerful families.