Joseph Kennedy purchases Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) 90 years ago today (Feb 7 1926)


Video: 'PBS American Experience & The Kennedys 1 of 2' (Feb. 7, 1926, at 13:17)

(Sunday, February 7, 1926) — Boston banker Joseph P. Kennedy entered the motion picture production business today by buying, with some associates, control of the Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) film studio from Lloyds Bank and other British financial interests.