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Taking on the Kennedys: Directed by Joshua Seftel. With Tom Kemp, Patrick Joseph Kennedy II, John Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy. What would it be like to run against one of the most powerful political families in America?
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- Joshua Seftel
- 1996-05-28
Enter the backrooms of American politics as a doctor named Kevin Vigilante takes on the Kennedys. In his first race for public office, Kevin Vigilante challenges Ted Kennedy's youngest son, Patrick, and gets the political education of a lifetime.
Enter the backrooms of American politics as a doctor named Kevin Vigilante takes on the Kennedys. In his first race for public office, Kevin Vigilante challenges Ted Kennedy's youngest son, Patrick, and gets the political education of a lifetime.
Q&A with director Joshua Seftel; co-presented by Docurama A thrillingly provocative, modern-day David vs. Goliath battle set in the amphitheater of American politics, P.O.V. presents TAKING ON THE KENNEDYS, a sharply witty and brilliantly concise peek into the “brutal circus” of contemporary political warfare.
Enter the backrooms of American politics as a doctor named Kevin Vigilante takes on the Kennedys. In his first race for public office, Kevin Vigilante challenges Ted Kennedy's youngest son, Patrick, and gets the political education of a lifetime.
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"Taking on the Kennedys" is a short 45 minute documentary about the 1994 Rhode Island campaign for Congress which pitted 26 year old Democrat Patrick Kennedy against a 39 year old Republican physician Kevin Vigilante.
