Video: 'Joseph Kennedy Sr Father Of An American Dynasty'

(Tuesday, November 18, 1969, 11:05 a.m. EST) — Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., the patriarch of a political dynasty beset by tragedy, died peacefully today at his summer home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, at the age of 81.

Three of the Kennedys’ sons attained distinguished political positions: John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and as President of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) served as Attorney General and as a U.S. Senator from New York, and Edward M. Kennedy (1932–2009) also served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.

Kennedy eldest son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., who had become a U.S. Navy bomber pilot during World War II, was killed while participating in a top-secret mission in August 1944

Kennedy, who would be buried Nov. 20, 1969 at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts, had been in ill health since 1961 when he suffered a stroke in Palm Beach, Florida.

Video: 'November 21, 1969 -The Funeral of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. at Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Mass' (Nov. 20, 1969)