August 19, 1962 - President John F. Kennedy takes a swim at the beach in Santa Monica, CA.

President John F. Kennedy going for a swim in the ocean behind his brother-in-law's home in Santa Monica, Calif., and being mobbed by hundreds of bathers.
Kennedy was staying at the Santa Monica home of his brother-in-law actor Peter Lawford for his L.A. visit. At about 5 p.m., Kennedy emerged for a quick dip in the ocean.

[@michaelbarnhart2593]

Amazing how accessible the president was to the public even in a small moment like that! Never again.

[@christopherstarr8050]

yea , way too accessible and he paid for it

[@m.e.d.7997]

@@christopherstarr8050 The top should have been up on the Lincoln in Dallas. I mean even Jackie Could have been killed. So irresponsible. Kennedy was taking chances and he knew it.

[@graceandpeace4414]

@@christopherstarr8050 absolutely. I remember reading somewhere that the secret service tried to convince him to ride with the top up but he refused.

[@0907oliv]

Unless a secret service man picked it up, he probably never saw his shirt again. I just love this video - it so reminds me of the happy time when he was our President. I love him.

[@raulmacias1311]

When I see film or video of President John F. Kennedy, a wonderful feeling of joy comes over me and I immediately smile and think how fortunate we were to have this wonderful and Blessed man as our Chief Executive for those Thousand Days in the early 1960s. We have a treasure trove of his speeches, quotes, video and film archives to learn from and grow! Thank You Mr. President. REST IN PEACE ~ PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY.

[@Gigi1111Layna]

Hope you recieve this msg...as from 2 yrs ago💁‍♀️was yours. But I agree...and I was born a few centuries after his murder..But absolutely💯 a truly joyously feeling of strength and gentleness.❤😊✨🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

[@suestephan3255]

A fact God does not ok sin (fornication) nor dies God bless chronic sinning.

[@rosemaryedwards7239]

He truly embodied the future of america! So much that could have been! Such a tremendous loss! He was one of a kind!

[@punchline43]

@@Gigi1111Layna l'm sure you meant to say years, unless you're a time traveller lol.

[@TheBruT4L1ty]

For one brief shining moment greatness touched those waters.

[@robfmas]

Can you imagine that? Our president comes out of his brother in laws home, walks across the beach and takes a dip in the ocean. A simple pleasure for anyone to enjoy, and no one bothered him. Of course the people on the beach were struck by his presence, but they let him enjoy himself for a short time. So much has changed...

[@hisukserjeant5204]

Loved the wording!!!!!!

[@manp1039]

I am not sure how the water was at that time.. but I know it was getting pretty polluted in the late 1960s onward. I know of a surfer who after one unfortunate day swimming has lived with a chronic skin condition all over his body believed to be from some sewage that he was swimming/surfing in, in that Santa Monica water. I sense at that time, the government was not as closely looking at the condition of the water as they are today. I won't swim in it, even now. It's too risky for me.

[@willruha3983]

Jack had a special grace, an understated coolness, a reservation of movement, emotion, and expression that resonated with Americans for its air of remoteness, self-reliance, and existential valor. He was a unique thinker and public figure years ahead of his time. We shall not see his like again, in American politics and life.

[@Snoopy7666]

+Will Ruha ~ WELL SAID... I enjoyed your posting.

[@willruha3983]

+Charlie Brown Thanks, CB. Jack Kennedy had a rare gift in American politics - a true belief in egalitarian democracy that derived not simply from the early onset of Addison's Disease that nullified any feelings he might have otherwise had of superiority owing to wealth and privilege, but based as well on his comfort with, and respect for, those of all social, class, ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds with whom he served in WWII. The men with whom he served revered him, telling me that he had no pretensions, no hauteur, no sense of superiority at all, that he was happy to be accepted as "just one of the guys," (although, they told me, he was "terribly bright and funny. He had a GREAT sense of humor.") That is so rare in American politics. Jack truly liked people, respected them for who they were, wanted the best for them, and sought, via his policies and programs, to aid them in the full realization of their respective dreams and ambitions. A good guy - and great president. I miss him.

[@kayejeyeracer]

Will Ruha HEAR HEAR..

[@vernpascal1531]

Yeah...not quite the same if it was LBJ, or Nixon, goes for a swim.

[@sajjadchannar4839]

Pity he was killed by his own state institutions.

[@andraskristof4321]

He ran into the ocean with the enthusiasm of an 8-year-old, who had never done it before. This young president represented a prosperous era for the whole Western civilization, while being the symbol of the real American ideal. Just like its leader, the US was full of ambition - that would take mankind to the Moon by the end of the decade. It's deeply saddening to see who sits in his office by his table nowadays, and to see how the country has lost its true meaning.

[@obsolise8063]

Bet you thought it couldn’t get worse eh? 😆

[@m.e.d.7997]

The Kennedys truly loved the sea.

[@steveg2448]

JFK was really not a good person. Drug addict and serial cheater

[@HarryCecad]

My dad and I were in the water just down the beach a few hundred feet that day

[@marshmellowpie2277]

Great memory

[@tellitlikeitisfresh6541]

Yea right

[@susanriebold909]

God Bless him one of the greatest ever

[@marksilberstein7930]

I was there that day. 12 years old. I went into the water and swam within a few feet of the President. Secret service guys in the water with him. Memorable day at Sorrento Beach.

[@fredcollins8919]

You truly were one lucky kid that day, sir. Wish i had been there.....Cheers

[@vazz22]

Thanks for sharing my friend!

[@susanford2388]

amazing how close one could be to the President back then.

[@Vivi-c7o7p]

woah that’s awesome

[@krgaurav1511]

Wow .. one amazing reply read on the internet today

[@cherylthomas1268]

I wasn't alive nor were my parents old enough to think of having babies but looking at videos of this President, especially this one bring tears. Such a loss!

[@sweetsublimee]

The music makes it so sad. JFK was the most attractive President we ever had.

[@ahmedhany3651]

What's the music used in the background?

[@petediamond2721]

Oh, I don't know about that, I heard Taft was quite a looker😀

[@javiervalverde2374]

@@petediamond2721 Yeah right 😂😂😂😂

[@zyancuerdo7392]

True there

[@susanford2388]

Obama is no Quasimodo.

[@community1949]

A normal acting person who was the most classy, intelligent, generous person ever to occupy the White House - approachable and down to earth.

[@53Humes]

Never ever be another JFK!

[@dennis9707]

55 yrs this Nov., I was 6 yrs. old when he was shot and I'm still smh.

[@gallowsradio]

Ever...

[@Patricia-zt8ub]

But people can rise up to the occasion. If people are sufficiently inspired, people do wonderful things.

[@mattsmith3835]

RFK would have been just as great

[@marcbrillant]

This shows JFK's ultra confidence. One could never imagine Dick Nixon ever doing such (He tried to duplicate JFK's ease in the beach - yet wore hs wing tips whike strolling in the sand. Thanks for sharing this!

[@frankwallace5934]

What's wrong with wing tip shoes? Kennedy war Brooks brother suits mark

[@robparadise6099]

I read that he ditched his Secret Service team and went into the ocean on his own. They overheard the commotion and ran out to surround him. He later claimed that it was one of the best swims he ever had.

[@chrisguy4661]

My how times have changed since those days!!! Happy days, happy times. He really was quite an amazing President!

[@polyglot6542]

So beautiful. I was around 5 or 6 years old and living in Peru, South America. The whole world looked up to the USA!

[@Nan-ly8zb]

This makes me feel like 😢. We will never, ever see a leader here in the USA like this again. I’m grateful I was alive to witness at least a little bit of it. Rest in peace, Mr. President. 🇺🇸

[@dennis9707]

I imagine what it would have been as like seeing him in person. RFK also.

[@susanford2388]

There was a lovely story when RFK was on the campaign trail in 1968 & he & his crew went into a diner, one of his men told a waitress to stand back & RFK so "No no, she is one of my voters". I bet that waitress could not stop smiling & remembered that day as long as she lived. That is why he was given such a lovely send off. People lining the streets & rail tracks. RIP RFK.

[@andrewcharley1893]

I think JFK was the coolest President you guys ever had.

[@ruthcummings6824]

Thank you for posting...remember well his willingness to be human and near the people....saw him at church a lot in Hyannis. Makes you wonder why oh why. We miss you Jack

[@freduklernas3637]

God plz bless Jfk Eternally...Amen

[@martinliebig8677]

My goodness! Wonderful! It will never happen again. Now I understand why he was assasinated. He could take people away. He was able to change the whole corrupted system, able to cause a revolution... That's he was eliminated.... People loved him.. .

[@gusdogas7759]

JFK was the very last dynamic, charismatic, young , hopeful President this United States 🇺🇸 ever had ! He had Courage, leadership & America at its finest moment in time ! Thank God we had JFK

[@obsolise8063]

So effortlessly cool…

[@albertobaudino1963]

It's been a while and yet I look at these images and it is immediately born: yes, you are still and forever our President ... hello John

[@jaypee7632]

He was the greatest. RFK was right up their with him. And I really really like his dad Joe. He was a great man to me.

[@briankelleywastaken]

He was a Nazi sympathizer

[@60smusicrules]

JFK loved the sea. He seems so at home there

[@spirg]

This Guy will Never die !!!! Almost SIX decades later , he still kills it on Social Media. In terms of charisma, he is untouchable. And I wasn’t even born til ‘66

[@carlamoss1227]

I'm in love with John Kennedy

[@phuongduynguyen2334]

+Carla Moss me too

[@helensmith2839]

+phuong duy nguyen to

[@septube26]

me too.

[@alfredfreedomjones5105]

Yes! ♥️

[@NostalgicChannel]

Wow great!!!Thank you for sharing this!

[@williamrogers8060]

Those were the days.

[@raulmacias1311]

August 19,1962 was a Sunday. I can imagine my parents, my brothers Anthony, Raymond and I, enjoying a hot Summer's day in San Fernando, California. My mom was pregnant with my sister Leticia who would be born on November 2,1962. My parents admired the Kennedys and my late mom Rosa voted for Senator John F. Kennedy in the 1960 Presidential Election. My mom adored the First Lady Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy! Not very far from our home, unbeknownst to us, our Beloved President Kennedy was enjoying the day at his sister Pat Lawford and Peter Lawford's beach home. I would turn 5 years old that Summer of '62 on August 28th and begin Kindergarten at San Fernando Elementary School.

[@folarinadejube5721]

A great man. I love him so much.

[@nurula007]

i was smiling throughout the entire video. Its so cool that he did this, so down to earth. Just have 1 question, what happened to his shirt after he threw it on the ground?

[@conniechow819]

Nurul Azman i would have had grab it if i were there.

[@mymoniker7540]

For a man with a bad back he seemed to move around pretty well.

[@johnnypastrana6727]

My Moniker That is what Marilyn Monroe said...for reals.

[@dennis9707]

No back brace that day.

[@freeguy77]

He used a brace, but also did a lot of swimming in the White House pool (sometimes sans clothes!) to help the pain from his war injury when thrown off his boat from the impact of the large destroyer that rammed it. He also experimented with drugs to also help alleviate the pain. Anyone with that longtime pain would have tried anything to stop or lessen the pain from an injury or disease. Can't blame him, although many conservatives use that as a way to denigrate him. Too bad they aren't peacemakers, although the last president (#45) was the best one in that regard (hated wasteful war) than any since #35.

[@foreverred105]

@@johnnypastrana6727 Didn't she sadly pass away a week before this?

[@freeguy77]

@@foreverred105 On the Saturday, Aug. 4 (at only 36), two weeks and a day before this swim day at Santa Monica.

[@ew37]

Wonder where people get these cutest memorable footage.. Treasure finders!🍀

[@davidpallin772]

Like my Dad, I miss this guy so much.

[@carlamoss1227]

president Kennedy was very handsome and good looking Jackie Kennedy was lucky to have him for her husband I wish I was born when he got to be president

[@johnnypastrana6727]

Carla Moss You do realize that they both cheated on one another?

[@djones7130]

Johnny Pastrana never heard Jackie cheated on him. Many believe he cheated on her with MM.

[@Kayte-tv2cw]

Johnny Pastrana, Stop spreading vicious lies. My father in law was a Kennedy cousin. He and my mother in law were especially close to Robert and Ethel. FACT: Jacqueline Kennedy DID NOT CHEAT ON JFK during their marriage. Jackie loved him immensely, and was totally devastated when he was assassinated. So devastated that she thought of ending her own life at one point. That poor woman suffered enough in her lifetime. Have the basic respect, and let her now Rest In Peace…

[@alwayslernin4400]

@@Kayte-tv2cw I only know about Jackie from videos and audios I've been graced with. I've never doubted her love for him, never heard any rumors of affairs by her. What sealed the deal on my beliefs of her love was an audio I heard where jfk was trying to get her to go to camp David during the missile crisis and she told him no, that her and the kids wanted to be with him in life or in death, they just wanted to be by his side. Anyone with an iota of knowledge knows of the great love she had for him. I was 8 when he was assassinated. I cried and prayed he would live. I don't remember anything else about that day. We had a satirical album some comedians had put out about them. It truly was Camelot. She was so admired as our first Lady not just for her style and grace but her intelligence and eloquence. I've never seen a woman with more grace than her. They were both a national treasure. Thank you for your comment.

[@raulmacias1311]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESIDENT KENNEDY!

[@sarahemily597]

He was the peoples president! 💜

[@jodywhelan7995]

So happy I found this Channel... Or did this Channel find me 😭❤🙏

[@raulmacias1311]

Quote by JACQUELINE LEE BOUVIER KENNEDY ~ "Now, I think I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it ~ but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together."

[@willieboy8798]

poor guy ...look at that crowd and all he did was go for a swim at home!!!

[@jayrosen6663]

The best swimmer and golfer in the White House. All that, with a horrible back and very poor health!!!!!

[@carolebaez2504]

We will never see the likes of him again ❤

[@ii_bonnie9208]

the way he runs.. so majestic💀love him tho.

[@raulmacias1311]

Quote by PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY ~ "Let both sides [the United States and the Soviet Union] join in creating a new endeavor. Not a new balance of power but a new world of law where the strong are just, and the weak secure and the peace preserved."

[@septube26]

Awesome!! Didn't know JFK swam at Santa Monica beach!!

[@m.e.d.7997]

A couple weeks after Marilyn Monroe died.

[@Adam-bq2vw]

It’s amazing that he could swim at all with his back the way it was.

[@kevincorcoran6493]

Swimming is good for a bad back Much the way it was good for FDR paralysis. Therapeutic.

[@hempspirit1576]

Nice to sea. Here looked like he enjoyed himself. 😇🙏

[@punchline43]

Good pun, intended or not.

[@raulmacias1311]

Quote by NORMAN MAILER ~ "Superman Comes To The Supermarket."

[@ahmedhany3651]

What's the music used in the background?

[@champaray8025]

So cool!

[@elliesimplified]

We're about to find out how truly "special" he really was.

[@hotticket7772]

A man of the people.

[@joannsissy4768]

The women loved him

[@carmenvalenzuela5658]

So bittersweet

[@veronicakerr4920]

Yes they just had a reserved calm manner about them, like their feet were firmly planted on the ground, grounded, yup.

[@wilburbonzo]

He was staying at the beachfront home of Peter and Patricia Lawford (his sister). Called the Western White House, it was originally built for MGM boss Louis B. Mayer.

[@Americaone1]

The last great president we have had......Camelot🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@HDCAMAN]

Legend

[@Toots22]

back off & give the man some space

[@loridee1182]

RIP JFK

[@danilonogueira648]

Pelo jeito o serviço secreto sempre deu chance para o azar. No meio desta multidão, o que impedia de um maluco chegar perto e meter bala? Infelizmente isso aconteceu pouco mais de um ano depois.

[@regenahregenah6510]

Who has GH got hold of his shirt.He certainly is a 🌟 similar to King" Elvis

[@kera9095]

what is song?

[@wastemanagementowner]

THATS ME!!!

[@normancampion6437]

I would be proud to have a father like you

[@wastemanagementowner]

@@normancampion6437 awww

[@wastemanagementowner]

@Julia Shapiro me too

[@occiclean349]

Kid in the hoodie at 0:22 is me. Via time machine. I was born in 2005. Obviously

[@ferabra8939]

Every time new footage of JFK surfaces, I'm amazed at how many risks he took. This is just another one, and I'm beginning to think that the miracle is that he did make it until 11.22.63.

[@MarilynAparecida]

Wow, what wonderful images, is a colirio. security guards were running it, at least for women not to get mad.

[@newphx]

Couldn't imagine a president doing something like this today. It actually shocked me when I firs t saw this and how accessible/exposed the president was.

[@0907oliv]

I tried to post the link to the photo, article, interview of the photographer, and comments from people who were there that day -- but You Tube will not let me post a link. So just google "JFK swims at Santa Monica Beach" -- and pull up one of the first links that starts with the word "framework".

[@cyndimorgan9792]

Vote for Robert F Kennedy Jr. You will get the same feeling! I was spellbound by his opening speech at the Boston Hotel a few months ago when he announced his candidacy. I’m not a liberal but this man speaks truth just like his uncle and his father.

[@Terry-te1ij]

His father, however, was a different story.

[@sheilac1845]

Those Kennedy Men sure look GOOD on the Beaches 🤗

[@susanmeekins6826]

Awesome President, Best ever in History! This was taken 16 days after Marilyn Monroe passed away as well. I think he was dealing with a lot of emotions that day.. as he also may have known things we will never know as far as the truth on what happened to Marilyn Monroe that August 4th ,1962. God Bless Them Both

[@iamtman1]

I bet you Marilyn Monroe never crossed his mind. But secret plans to overthrow Castro did. Two months later it led to missiles put in cuba by the soviets. That gave us the Missile crisis. The Marilyn connection to the Kennedy's has been greatly exaggerated by our more modern superficial media. To him (JFK), she was just another babe he conquered. I'm not saying its justified, but that's the way Joe Kennedy taught his boys to treat women.

[@0907oliv]

iamtman1 I bet overthrowing Castro never crossed his mind because he wasn't planning it - the CIA was.

[@iamtman1]

He was in on all those plots on Castro. Stop trying to rewrite history. Check operation Mongoose. That was orchestrated by bobby kennedy. Guess who that was? Yes the president's brother, and attorney general. JFK was in on all those plots.

[@0907oliv]

iamtman1 The full record is not in. It may never be in. I am reserving judgment. Some historians have said there is no smoking gun, but they tend to suspect Robert Kennedy. Operation Mongoose was about a sabotage campaign against Cuba. In writing, at least, it did not include an assassination plot. Most of the folks who have made this accusation about the Kennedys have been CIA -- and/or General Lansdale. I wouldn't trust any of those people. The only non CIA person who has indicated a "plot" with Kennedy knowledge and whom I would take more seriously was Joseph Califano. There are a couple of memos that have been found implying RFK knowledge. I personally would like historians to compare memos in CIA or Pentagon files with memos in the Kennedy brothers files because as some of us know the CIA is noted for disinformation including planting false information in writing. The internal CIA memo about assassination attempts against Castro ordered by LBJ in 1967 said that the Kennedys did not know about the assassination attempts. People who worked with and around the Kennedy White House or who worked for Robert Kennedy vehemently deny it, including John Seigenthaler and Arthur Schlesinger and Richard Goodwin and Ted Sorensen. Given the tenor of the times and the fact that JFK did not the U.S. military to engage in any invastion of Cuba, the concept that he might have been tempted to accept the concept of assassination makes some sense to me -- but I am not saying that I believe he did - just that it might be understandable how he fell into that trap. Beginning in early 1963, overtures for rapproachment went between JFK and Castro through mediators that were mainly journalist. The two journalist involved were Lisa Howard of ABC News, who carried the first message from Castro to JFK that Castro was willing to negotiate, and a French journalist who was meeting with Castro on the day of the JFK's assassination who was carrying a last message from JFK to Castro. There were several communications in between those two meetings. Things were proceeding to the point that a diplomat was about to enter the negotiations. This is established fact. Castro has admitted it -- and so has the French journalist and the diplomat William Attwood. For your information, Castro was not such a great guy, something lefties don't want to see. He tortured and executed political prisoners. On the morning of JFK's inauguration, Castro announced that although he was planning to execute two prisoners that morning, he decided to grant them clemency as a gesture of good will to the new President. Fear of communism was real in the early 1960's, although it is hard for the people of today to realize that it makes it no less real. I have just given a more complete view of the situation than you did in your simplistic accusation. But this video is really about a swim in Santa Monica Bay.

[@iamtman1]

0907oliv Interesting you name the CIA guys who said kennedy was involved in those plots vs castro as biased, but then take the word of Kennedy loyalists who deny any kennedy connection. They were equally biased the other way. I believe Kennedy was determined after The Bay of pigs to overthrow castro any way he could.

[@bradjustin2573]

I googled maps and the trees and buildings remain the same

[@bradjustin2573]

in the background is Peter Lawford's house

[@AQ-uc4bb]

A normal day .! Not for the serious secret service ♥️

[@ronaldmitchell3665]

The hoary Atlantic is SO cold : in and OUT he came. Next time try San Diego… you wont wanna come outta the surf there!!!😎…

[@gallowsradio]

What the fuck are the secret service all over him over a swim? What Happened in Dallas?

[@john1198]

Well Dallas. He lost his security . Right before elms street . The motorcycles cops pulled back. A umbrella man started pumping to warn tdriver he’s not gone. And next Greer the driver and pulls his gun and no one suspects he was killed from inside the car

[@djdilo7208]

2020

[@veronicakerr4920]

I was 6 years old and lived in Canada, we never had leaders like this, just doufus trudeaus

[@libertarian100]

My mom is the brunette patting him on his back.

[@cyndimorgan9792]

Sad this great man died so young. I do wish he had never gotten involved with Marilyn Monroe though. Jacqueline was a good wife. What was he thinking!

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

He killed Marilyn that weekend

[@carlamoss1227]

my god can he ever have any privately without any people around even though he's look good without his shirt

[@lizzieanthony3422]

🔥

[@lizzieanthony3422]

🙏

[@AndieZ4U2]

PROTECT!

[@pattyblevins2765]

He donated his pay as senator and President to charities.

[@lcs1955]

Only a year later he would take the long swim.

[@waynetables6414]

West Coast Kennedy LFG

[@johnrogan9420]

LBJ and Connally...also Navy men...sadly...bad eggs!

[@santamonicanotary]

Wow! Can a guy get e moment alone? ^^

[@devorah935]

mm killer

[@musicalmelodies3595]

0:23 the time traveler in the black hoodie telling JFK about October and the Cuba situation. The camera quickly cuts out

[@justplainbrad7713]

There were only 2 people in the water, when he took off his shirt, and the clip jumps to where he came out. I'd like to see how many went into the water, while JFK was swimming. They looked like a school of piranha, following him around. As a child, he was my 1st world hero...after mon père JFK sera connu comme le plus grand potus depuis Abraham Lincoln; et personne ne l'a dépassé depuis.

[@freduklernas3637]

God please bless Jack fovrever.. Amen

[@Patricia-zt8ub]

Trump in 2019 would sink like a stone.

[@pegnewsarepta3589]

😂, I was in school the day he was killed. The Best of the Best. ❤❤❤❤❤❤😂

[@jamesbond4633]

Can you imagine Joe Biden trying to do that? He can't even ride a bike properly!!! lol

[@nancymarkiewick3557]

Big woop

[@bradmeeds1226]

Few weeks after Monroe's death