Bridges of Dublin - President John F. Kennedy (1963)

President Kennedy's cavalcade crosses O'Connell and Grattan Bridges in Dublin city during his state visit in 1963. For more information, please visit www.bridgesofdu...

[@JLNeis]

At least President Kennedy saw before he died how people really loved him.

[@peterfranks6243]

He flew straight in from West Berlin where he gave his famous speech that same day, his last words before he left Ireland was "I hope to return in the springtime"

[@andrewcharley1893]

.........was never to be😢😢

[@peterfranks6243]

​@@andrewcharley1893sadly not, God bless him

[@alfie4troy]

President Kennedy was safer in Dublin than Dallas.

[@jerryciccolella4280]

Amen!,It stuck me looking at this old footage this is exactly what our ex Prez craves but can never achieve without staging and intimidation,so sad to have a man so beloved around the globe be struck during the middle of his Presidency and the prime of his life.Where tiday we fast forward to everything this nation fought around the globe for decades and that's an autocratic regime which Trump appears as a wannabe!! NOW THAT IS SAD!!!!

[@freeguy77]

That was because he had a vicious snake as VP, who wanted him dead, so he could achieve his life's dream.

[@daviddowns7552]

I think so too.

[@andrewcharley1893]

@@freeguy77 in a nutshell.

[@jaydiltz]

Ironic as hell. 😒😑😐

[@serenafranklin6198]

Truly stunning What a fantastic man this President was. He unfortunately got used to riding in an open car. May his assassin be forever cursed. Even we in India so loved him and his wife Jackie and his adorable children Caroline and John John..

[@marymcdonagh4492]

mindcraft

[@rosakaser380]

Uuunglaublich dieser beliebte mensch.....bin immer noch traurig.

[@sharonjensen3016]

That's the reason why U.S. presidents don't travel in open cars now.

[@freeguy77]

LBJ was his mortal enemy, who had him killed only 5 months after his Ireland visit, seeing his cousin and where his ancestors emigrated to the U.S.

[@daviddowns7552]

​@@rosakaser380yes I'm still sad also.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

We have not seen the likes of John F. Kennedy since 1963.

[@marajosephmilio2718]

Truly, President Kennedy was a public figure that won the hearts of the mass and no wonder because he was coming home.

[@sharonjensen3016]

Ireland was his ancestral home. I'm glad he got to pay a visit.

[@seanhanley9942]

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 💘

[@gastonenriquebautistagiral5499]

Gran Hombre,,,irremplazable, futurista , mandatario adelantado, en ese tiempo , es triste su perdida todavía ,,Que en paz Descanse ,

[@geronimorex3608]

I well remember seeing him. I was standing at the Gresham hotel on O’Connell street. Two things I remember was the darkness of his tan and the blueness of his suit jacket.

[@MultiPsycopat]

I remember my mum telling me that she seen him at this time and said he stood out with his sun tan and striking blue suit.

[@Donna.Walmsley101]

There’s hope… right there! RIP JFK from Australia

[@davalvideo]

The live coverage provided by Irish television was fantastic. They seemed to have cameras everywhere and really captured the excitement of Kennedy's visit to Dublin.

[@jackchambers1654]

You can tell he loved this !!

[@jamesrafferty9048]

Whatever criticism scoundrels might want to assail upon the man after he was shot down like a dog in the street no one can ever say he lacked physical courage....

[@sharonjensen3016]

At least he took responsibility for the situation in Cuba. That's more than what most politicians do today. They're too busy blaming everyone else for their screw-ups.

[@jamesmcaleenan7169]

rest in peace

[@johnmurphy5064]

A terrible loss for the nation and the world.

[@brianeduardo1234]

You can see how vulnerable he was

[@controlcontrol1829]

Amazing 🙌😍❤️❣️💙😍👌!

[@danilonogueira648]

Kennedy era um autêntico pop star.

[@Toots22]

talk about the moment the Sun shone on a human being...

[@hazelanderson1479]

The sun shines on the face of the righteous.

[@williamblack135]

For me JFK was the greatest President that the USA ever had and he did more for Ireland 🇮🇪 than any other President ever did. Because of his legacy, the Irish are like brothers and sisters to most Americans and are welcomed with open arms for those of us visiting America 🇺🇸 or living there.What a awesome President and a wonderful friend to Ireland. He was an inspiration to me , 10:25 Ireland 🇮🇪 and probably the whole world 🌎. The world loved him and the fact that his father was Irish helped Ireland become the great nation that we are. Most Catholic families had a picture of him and the Sacred Heart ❤️ in our homes. Long live the Kennedys 🙏

[@brianeduardo1234]

A more innocent time I was 5 but remember v vividly him passing nearby our house

[@theresewalters1696]

I was 5 also. My parents loved him. 2 pictures hung on the living room wall. Jesus and JFK. My father was WWII Army vet same age as the President.

[@caroltapia4917]

Never should have happened and the beginning of the end.

[@audreyperrin320]

I wonder where that was my mom saw him I was a baby and she held me up and nearly let me fall she always said she wished she had a camera

[@liciogelli4565]

Клан Кеннеди выходцы из Ирландии.

[@jimmurray9032]

Yrs

[@stephencabrera9476]

Always tugging on that beautiful hair

[@JFK6163]

@(8:59) to(9:10) great security in Dublin

[@viccolantonio1691]

The secret service vehicle in dublin was bumper to bumper with the limo jfk was in and in Dallas both vehicles were far apart.

[@stephencabrera9476]

Secret service were non existent in Dallas, drove him right into his murder

[@user-yd9bg2vx7g]

He was loved by folks . At the same time he would intrdce gng sectrs were nearly would introduce then .but what a pity , But ....gng s soul made hım ruint , 5:36 .remved his prsnce l.

[@annguyendoan7189]

day pháo ngay xuân / 1963

[@user-lf7zg2st5v]

ケネディご一家は永遠のアメリカ🌐のpresident☀️💐💗🌲🏰恋してやまない永遠の政の王👑　庶民の幸福のために命を懸けてくれたご一家です　8才だった私は今60年が過ぎた今でも　最初で最後の庶民のために命を懸けてくれた　政の王👑ご一家で　敬愛の気持ちは今も変わりません‼️☀️💖ジョンエフケネデイご一家永遠に栄光あれ💖☀️from 🇯🇵

[@audreyperrin320]

U would not get that today

[@daviddowns7552]

Wow is all i can say. What happened to mr bowers?

[@willielittle9301]

Ireland's native son who galvanized the world 🌎...

[@annguyendoan7189]

Day pháo ngay xuân / uong rượu không say / trung ngon nghịch nhi

[@Toots22]

can you imagine this magnitude of greeting for Joe Biden lol

[@madalenasimoes8066]

😳😒🤪

[@michaelmeliambro5117]

Actually, I CAN LOL.

[@williamwells1862]

If the Secret Service had been on the cars two rear bumper foot stands with hand griips the shots would have been blocked. JFK did not want them there because he wanted himself and Jackie to be seen. It was always said that the rear bumper foot stands were not in the right place to protect the President anyway. This video clearly shows where the rear bumper foot stands were and would have protected the President. Also, it was always very obtuse about how Clint Hill got onto the back of the car with Jackie. Earlier windows of the footage show him riding on the side of the back up car. Somehow he managed to run up and jump on JFK's car stepping onto the bumper footstand and leaping onto the back of the car. Many accounts had him somehow walking along. So many strange stories. Strange these bumper stands were never brought up or revealed in the hundreds and hundreds of footage and photos I saw about the assasination. The bumper stands that were not there are there. Very mysterious. The hand rail to hang on is clearly visible on the right side of the car. More disproven conspiracy stories. It just goes on and on. Emory Roberts rode shotgun in the back up car head of the Secret Service Detail that day at Dealey Plaza. When the President got shot, Emory Roberts was in charge thereafter. Nobody ever talks about that. He took charge of everything, and immediately got Johnson onto Air Force One to leave Dallas and be sworn in going to Washington or if necessary a safe place to protect him. Emory was my neighbor in Wheaton, Md. on Holdridge Rd. Most of this is in Dealey Plaza - The End of Camelot In the early morning it was scheduled to rain in Dallas and the Secret Service was setting up to install the canopy on the car. The forecast changed and the President wanted to be seen by the crowds, and besides the President did not want ir put on. So it was not put on. So as to not make JFK negligent in his death, it was bandied about that there were no foot stands on the rear of the car for Secret Service to ride on. Clearly you can see two foot stands on the rear bumper of the car with handrails to hang on. Clint Hills is stepping on one to get onto the back of the car to be with Jackie. There is just bogus story after bogus story surrounding JFK's assasination.

[@freeguy77]

You wrote two bogus parts of that sad day yourself! He did NOT order any S.S. off the rear bumper hand holds and footstools! That is a myth that keeps being repeated by those who wanted him dead. He did NOT do what you said he did. He obeyed the S S orders (yes, the S S. legally is in control of him for his safety), and he cannot "order them" to do anything! The S.S. stand down on that awful day was directed by higher-ups in the S.S. (Emory Roberts for one), who did not like him, and were in on the plot along with the VP, the Mastermind who got his allies in the Pentagon, Intelligence, anti-Castro Cubans, and the Mob, plus FBI Director Hoover to coordinate the plot to kill him in that easily hidden area at Dealer Plaza; Dallas, TX, the VPs home State of power with some key people in the Dallas PD. So, Kennedy did not "cause his own death" by ordering the S.S. off the rear of the limo or other actions taken by others. It was a plot by those power-grabbing, war-mongering murderers who killed him! STOP repeating that lie on him "ordering the S.S. off the rear" as it is patently false and a myth! As is the bubbletop that you said he also "ordered removed!" Where do you get your false info? That cover top was not bulletproof, but the light changes when on the limo could mislead the shooters where to aim their rifles. It also could deflect a bullet aimed at him, but we'll never know because the rain had stopped by then. (The S.S. was in control of the bubbletop, part of their overall security area.) If it hadn't, maybe the plot would have failed on Elm Street with the fatal bullet deflected away, but the plotters would have had a backup plan. Unless he still had to go to the hospital. But not hit fatally in his head, as his other wounds in his mid-back and throat (front direction wound proving a conspiracy, by Dr. Malcolm Perry's report of a small, round hole just below his Adam's Apple area in his throat) were survivable.

[@subhashshukla5222]

Alas !!! If we could have stones buildings of abput 6 to 700 hundred years of the life rather having got 100 years buildings life ...we goy adanis and Amanis still not have . At least 2 to 4 built up in india too . Whats so ever we got thats the symbol of the Colonial era but noy erected by us all ..Jai Hind

[@patgauthier2250]

The

[@patgauthier2250]

I was there in my girl guide uniform right across from the Gresham Hotel, we were lined up right behind the police who you see here, it was a huge deal for us young girl guides that evening, I think about it often and just loved the whole experience. JFK you left this Dublin girl guide with a lasting happy memory many many years ago. Slainte 🇨🇮 🇺🇸

[@controlcontrol1829]

Wear a helmet !

[@MultiPsycopat]

I guess you are a brain surgeon then?

[@elisamcgowan4774]

I am truly baffled as to why folks revere this man, is he 'great' because he was assassinated?, although I also have Irish Nationality, I am not going to say how 'wonderful' he was, that's for sure. Mind you, I am Right Wing!.

[@TheKingofjune]

You don’t know history, and at least you are being honest about yourself.

[@elisamcgowan4774]

@@TheKingofjune I know enough about this guy thank you, the only thing I agreed with him about was the space programme.

[@geronimorex3608]

“I am truly baffled”. I frequently wonder why people post online statements about their ignorance. Sounds as if you are proud of things you don’t understand. The rest of the world could care less.

[@stephencabrera9476]

maybe it’s because of his charm and charisma and youth, my mothers generation yearned for somebody like this man, you just don’t get it, but that’s ok we all did….. his like we will never see again…..

[@freeguy77]

He and Khrushchev disregarded their respective military chiefs, to broker a Peaceful agreement that saved the world! What's wrong with you not to realize that by itself, elevated him as a man who truly wanted peace, unlike his evil, war-mongering successor who gleefully mass murdered over 58,000 in Vietnam (that Kennedy was starting to pull out his non-combat advisors) all to make $ Millions in previously buying war armament stocks as other insiders also did in changing the foreign policy there. No combat troops in S. VN until the landing near Da Nang, on Mar. 8, 1965! None before by Ike or Kennedy!

[@joeoconnor5400]

Did RTE have support from the BBC with the outside broadcast coverage?