Documentary filmmaker David Harvey’s insightful look at the
men who surrounded President John F. Kennedy, Kennedys’ Irish Mafia,
will be available on DVD on July 12 from Network Ireland Television … MVD
Entertainment Group will be directing the domestic sales and distribution
effort.
Key advisers to Kennedy, Dave Francis Powers (personal aide to the president), Lawrence O’Brien
(future Commissioner of the NBA) and Kenny O’Donnell (White House Appointments
Secretary) were known for their intense loyalty and were nicknamed “The Irish
Mafia.
Harvey delves into their special
relationship with JFK.
Of note, all three had accompanied the president to Dallas
in November of 1963 and were in the motorcade following Kennedy when he was
assassinated.
According to Harvey’s
documentary, when it was decided to bring Kennedy’s body back to D.C. on Air
Force One, Powers, O’Brien and O’Donnell not only moved the body from Parkland,
but they can be seen physically carrying the president’s coffin up the gangway
(there was no hoist available) in vintage film footage from that fateful day.
Bonus features include over an hour’s worth of video
sessions with with Patrick Kennedy,
Sandy Vancour, Helen O’Donnell, Kathleen Kennedy and Lawrence O’Brien.
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