S2E15.1: The FBI, JFK, Frank Sinatra, Judith Campbell Exner, and Sam Giancana.

Blood and Business

Cassie and Bethany

True Crime, History

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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"Sinatra had basked, and was about to bask even more, in the warm glow of Kennedy celebrity"... We need to talk about the Chicago mob, Frank Sinatra, and the Kennedys. Welcome to Kennedy Family Meeting 15.

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0:00.0	Let the spirit of the Kennedys and the magic of the Disney brothers be with you always.
0:05.9	Blood and business legacy merch. Available now. Let's run faster. Work harder, burn brighter,
0:13.1	before we're gone. Order your blood and business legacy merch today. Sinatra had basked and was about to bask even more in the warm glow of Kennedy's celebrity.
0:26.0	We need to talk about the Kennedy siblings.
0:29.0	Episode 15.
0:34.9	Welcome to Blood and Business.
0:42.3	I'm Bethany, and I'm Cassie.
0:46.0	Welcome to the new kind of KFM, the story KFM, where I dump on you all of the juicy, lovely, fun anecdotal stories that don't fit into
0:57.3	the main episode, but are so insightful. It will kind of be like KFM 14, where we did with
1:02.9	Peter Lafford, we just told all those random little stories. One example is this quote from Jack.
1:08.4	This is from the Kennedy women. As Attorney General, Bobby was making the most single-minded attack on organized crime in American history, which we will also be telling you the context and the story of that.
1:20.9	He warned Jack time and time again about Sinatra's unsavory connections.
1:28.4	Quote, everybody complains about my relationship with Sinatra's unsavory connections. Quote,
1:29.2	Everybody complains about my relationship with Sinatra.
1:31.9	Jack confided to Charles Bartlett.
1:34.3	Sinatra is the only guy who gives Peter Lafford jobs.
1:37.3	And the only way I can keep this marriage going is to see that Peter gets jobs.
1:42.7	So I'm nice to Frank Sinatra.
1:46.1	Jack then may have compromised himself in large part to help his sister.
1:52.9	And it's like we're wondering why are you freaking involved with Frank Sinatra? That seems so stupid.
1:59.4	And on the surface it just seems like, oh, he doesn't give a crap.
2:01.9	He's just like having fun and enjoying himself, like with the affairs. Yeah. With all the other
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