:08:00
No public man whom Kane himself
did not support or denounce.
:08:06
Often support, then denounce.
:08:18
Twice married, twice divorced.
:08:22
First to a president's niece...
:08:24
...Emily Norton, who left him in 1916.
:08:28
Died 1918 in a motor accident
with their son.
:08:34
Sixteen years after his first marriage...
:08:36
...two weeks after his first divorce...
:08:39
...Kane married Susan Alexander...
:08:41
...singer, at the Town Hall
in Trenton, New Jersey.
:08:45
For wife two,
one-time opera-singing Susan Alexander...
:08:51
...Kane built
Chicago's Municipal Opera House.
:08:54
Cost: $3 million.
:08:56
Conceived for Susan Alexander Kane,
half-finished before she divorced him...
:09:03
...the still unfinished...
:09:05
...Xanadu.
:09:06
Cost: No man can say.
:09:13
Kane, molder of mass opinion
though he was...
:09:16
...in all his life
was never granted elective office...
:09:19
...by the voters of his country.
:09:21
But Kane papers were once strong indeed...
:09:24
...and once the prize seemed almost his.
:09:27
In 1916, as independent candidate
for governor...
:09:30
...the best elements of the state
behind him...
:09:33
...the White House seemingly the next
easy step in a lightning political career...
:09:37
...then suddenly, less than one week
before election...
:09:42
...defeat.
:09:43
Shameful, ignominious.
:09:46
Defeat that set back for 20 years
the cause of reform in the U.S...
:09:50
...forever cancelled political chances
for Charles Foster Kane.
:09:57
Then, in the first year
of the Great Depression...