Article: On Cape Cod, a stage is set for one more Kennedy drama. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. _ White clapboards, green shutters, a black sperm whale weather vane. The rambling, three-gabled beach house that Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and her husband Joseph bought for $25,000 in 1928 looks almost too conventional, too Cape Cod quaint, to be the stage for so many larger-than-life American dramas.

It was here, amid the dunes and sweeping lawns overlooking Nantucket Sound, that the family received the news that oldest son Joe Jr. had been killed in combat over the English Channel. Here that the family mourned the assassinations of fallen sons John and Robert, and stood stolidly behind youngest son Ted after his car had plunged into the sea at ...

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