<p>Hack historians James Ottley and Thornton Kennedy explore the dark origin story of America’s most glamorous political dynasty. Long before JFK captured the nation's imagination, his father Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was amassing a fortune through bootlegging, stock manipulation, insider trading, and political backroom deals — with more than a few suspicious deaths along the way. This is the story of how the house of Kennedy was really built: Before Camelot.</p>

Hack historians James Ottley and Thornton Kennedy explore the dark origin story of America’s most glamorous political dynasty. Long before JFK captured the nation's imagination, his father Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was amassing a fortune through bootlegging, stock manipulation, insider trading, and political backroom deals — with more than a few suspicious deaths along the way. This is the story of how the house of Kennedy was really built: Before Camelot.

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Before Camelot: The bootlegging, securities fraud, suspicious homicide and other sins of Joseph Kennedy Sr., which built one of America’s largest fortunes and political dynasties. Episope 1

Before Camelot: The bootlegging, securities fraud, suspicious homicide and other sins of Joseph Kennedy Sr., which built one of America’s largest fortunes and political dynasties. Episope 1

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