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Producer, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., was born Joseph Patrick Kennedy on Sep 6, 1888 in Boston, MA. Kennedy Sr. died at the age of 81 on Nov 18, 1969 in Hyannis Port, MA .

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Was a distant cousin of his wife, Rose Kennedy, whom he married in 1914. Rose was the daughter of John F. Fitzgerald, the Democratic mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, who as the fabled "Honey Fitz" was the most recognized politician in the city.

During Prohibition, Kennedy's company Somerset Importers became the exclusive U.S. agent for Gordon's Dry Gin and Dewar's Scotch. Anticipating the end of Prohibition, he assembled a large inventory of stock that he sold for a profit of millions of dollars when Prohibition was repealed in 1933. One of his partners in the deal was Franklin D. Roosevelt's son, James Roosevelt. Kennedy invested the money from his legal liquor business in real estate, the Merchandise Mart in Chicago and Hialeah Race Track in Hialeah, Florida. However, rumors that he was a "bootlegger," involved in running illegal liquor across the Great Lakes into the U.S. from Canada in cahoots with the Bronfman family and the Mafia, have never been proven.

Four of his nine children died before him: Joseph Jr. was killed in a W.W.II plane crash in 1944. Kathleen died in a plane crash in 1948. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

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