JFK - How John F. Kennedy Became President of the United States | Free Documentary History

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

As we celebrate the centenary of JFK's birth, this documentary explores the path of a president. JFK's life inside the Kennedy dynasty. His travels through Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Fighting the Japanese in WWIl, swimming for survival to a tropical island. His many illnesses - hidden from the public. His marriage to Jackie and his journey from Senator to President of the United States. Camelot American-style.

[@joet8931]

Qwq a q sad moment that

[@ELIOSANFELIU]

Really nice documentary¡¡Thank you¡¡

[@StevenKeery]

He was born on 29th May, 1917. So how do arrive at this being his Centenary in 2024?

[@lostinmacsworld2232]

RIP❤❤

[@tjdomerny4847]

No, it doesn't. It propounds unproved or debunked "conspiracy theories."

[@ThePatrick4840]

I was 15 when he died in Dallas, sixty years later, he’s still moving my life forward fueled by his intellect, his inspiration, his insights and his imagination of who I could become and what my life could be. Everything he represented drives me to realize who I am supposed to be. I loved him. Patrick J. Hurley

[@tatata1543]

He intensified the disastrous involvement in Vietnam. That kind of sullies his reputation.

[@danwright1794]

Apparently the controllers of the CIA didn’t care much for JFK. It’s prophetic that today’s world events are culminating in the response to this . Enjoy the show. New world

[@paulsimon6544]

Even the adultery inspires you?

[@ThePatrick4840]

He had flaws as we all do. I prefer to focus on the good.

[@paulsimon6544]

@@ThePatrick4840 the one and only reason he was in the position to be president was because his daddy was an bootlegger.

[@geraldhillard2146]

Is it me or do the politicians of the past seem far more intelligent than today's politician

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@geraldhillard2146 if that’s the case, seems to me the voters were more intelligent then too

[@ThePatrick4840]

And CLASSIER.

[@swalls48]

It was a better world because of one simple priority that has fallen to the wayside: the importance of family.

[@faunwillow]

❤Kennedy's inaugural address inspired children and adults to see the importance of civic action and public service. His historic words, “Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country,” challenged every American to contribute in some way to the public good.❤

[@johngarbarini1048]

He was quoting Cicero.

[@chrise.2666]

I like JFK, I watched that debate I thought Nixon won on substance, Kennedy just looked better

[@katehughes1860]

Nixon was I’ll

[@anthonyfrias5533]

I would have voted nixon in 1960

[@AA-ke5cu]

Substance is more important than looks; as the games continue.😮

[@davidharper8500]

Smoke and mirrors. Cult of personality

[@real.mir_]

Lol, you must be drinking if you thought Nixon won 😂😂😂

[@EmoNiezsche31]

The comment that Jack came “from a middle class family” followed by “he was a quasi-aristocrat”

[@helenachase5627]

I caught that as well as not a political family, followed by grand Dad is the mayor of Boston

[@iainpaton1865]

Very interesting video please keep the great videos coming from Scotland 😊

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

most definitely 👍🏻

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

Check out _"That was the President,"_ by Phil Ochs - a very moving tribute to JFK.

[@alexanderdelacruz9249]

on youtube?

[@francis802us]

Youthful and vigorous is one of the characteristics of a US president but now when you looked at Biden and Trump, the heck just happened to the US.

[@HistoricalAnalysis12]

Old men with old thinking, right?

[@SueTucker-ub4pc]

Exactly old old old. We need a new JFK

[@January.]

*when you look I care a lot more about a presidential candidate's intellect, humanity, and policy beliefs than their age. DUH

[@johntillotson4254]

Agreed

[@johntillotson4254]

I like president Kennedy, his wife, President Obama, his wife, and family. How did we go from charismatic and carring to a monster

[@January.]

*President Kennedy

[@helenachase5627]

Who's a monster ? Biden I presume you mean. There's no monster under the bed dear

[@mdquaglia]

JFK's father wasn't a "businessman" any more than Lucky Lucciano was.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Avarice

[@HistoricalAnalysis12]

great video ! thanks for watching !

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

The next presidential debate did not occur until 1976, after which debates would become a regular feature of all presidential campaigns.

[@Ckom-Tunes]

I think she actually did love him. Her kissing his body for the last time before it was put in the casket demonstrates deep love not an arranged partnership.

[@greggprice3609]

It it very possible for two people to fall in love AFTER the marriage has been arranged.

[@duplicitouscanadian3073]

In the end, we'll never know. But to both Jaqueline and John's memory, i'd prefer to believe they did love eachother.

[@TheGreyLineMatters]

So, moral of the story, act like something you're not, smile and laugh at everyone's jokes.

[@cahlendavidson2921]

The algorithm noticed I just finished American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders and brought me here 🐙

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

welcome 🐳

[@Tin-Trump]

Great work ! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Ghost_Rider_786]

Prof Hamilton's book - Reckless Youth - Is an AMAZING read ....If u have any kind of interest in JFK ...then Reckless Youth is a MUST read

[@jacquelinejanz5792]

His quick wit and self-effacing humor endeared him to the country. ♥️

[@Green_Roc]

Learning by books and research self-guided.... that's what I would have liked. School sucked. (why: bullies, schedules, hierarchy, competition, etc... dont mix well with me). The rigid expectation to attend school leaves some of us without better lives for ourselves. I heard somewhere, Lincoln was book-educated too, Abe had only 500 hours of school.

[@MsVanorak]

the nternet has been wonderful for those of us who discover a love of learning later in life. i too did not like or perform at school. i had an elder brother who was outstanding and was therefore deemed 'thck' which is fairly unmotivating.

[@MaryPoppins-d1k]

Men were so well dressed back then. He was so dashing and debonair ❤. He was very handsome

[@Kerwin-Kendell]

You're absolutely right (the way men dressed back then). Sometimes I get a lot of unkind looks for my taste in clothes.

[@MsVanorak]

women were too. hats and proper coats etc. modern clothng is so comfortable and easy but i never feel as good as i could.

[@Kerwin-Kendell]

@@MsVanorak very true. In those days (& some previous eras) fashion was copacetic when it came to style. Many fashion houses are still copying designs from then - even 👓 & 🕶️ 🙂

[@弘历爱新觉罗]

Greatest POTUS after WWII！！R.I.P Jack Kennedy❤❤

[@Ghost_Rider_786]

JFK ....the fallen - KING of America ...

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

GOD SAVE THE KING

[@Ghost_Rider_786]

@@SuperGreatSphinx Yea .... a tad late for that

[@scottishthistle7950]

@@SuperGreatSphinx he was not a king

[@barbarashrader27]

great video 👍

[@shawnastephens1536]

My neice is 16 and she's reading a book about him now. He's effect on people now is very wide. On young and old.

[@kmcneely94]

We’re not really going to say that Joe Sr. was a good father, was he? The guy that had his daughter lobotomized and then shut away for the rest of her life and never visited her?

[@cynic2all]

"How...?" As his old man said, "What's $100 M if it helps Jack?"

[@timgallagher9229]

Just his war story is remarkable!!!!

[@tatata1543]

His old man used his mafia contacts from his days as a bootlegger to deliver Chicago for his son.

[@gagadreams]

Cool! 🇺🇸

[@CalCaines]

He turned history in a new direction….

[@-khosroemamiahari2883]

He was not a legend, he was very much like his father Joseph P Kennedy!

[@hisoverlorduponhigh90]

The last real President.

[@prinzessindianavonbaden787]

Best President ever ! And a good friend of 🇩🇪… ❤🥀🥹🇺🇸🗽🇩🇪

[@angloaust1575]

Being a ww2 hero helped plus good looks and family connections charisma Fine speaking voice Able to captivate listeners Unfortunately didn't combat Access to firearms!

[@gracemwende8054]

Thank you soo much my family tongethar ❤

[@bikramshrestha9371]

❤❤❤Vote Mr. Rfk jr 024 with Vp Nicole Shanahan for peace justice N prosperity 🎉🎉

[@StrangeThing22]

I don’t understand why independents run when they know they won’t win.

[@jennifer_m.8613]

My dad remembers 11/22/63, still has the prayer card that the nuns passed out. My mom's mother (though a dyed in the wool Catholic) did not vote for JFK.

[@sandranorman5469]

My Grandmother had two pictures hanging on her wall-JFK and Pope John XXIII. I read somewhere that the vote from Catholics was split pretty evenly between JFK and Nixon.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Deus Vult

[@tobygoodguy4032]

In an alternate reality, he might have started out in Hollywood. After all, it has been done.

[@MsVanorak]

i think he would have been a frst class journalist and author.

[@jordanwilliams8040]

Great head of hair

[@jamestharp7880]

I was twelve when he was murdered. Forty years later in my dental office an old lady who was an election judge in Chicago for the 1960 election told me a very interesting story. She has since passed on so there is no one to cooberate her story. She said to me “ Doc, I knew your grand father. And I know that he voted for Jack Kennedy. “ The only problem with this was that my grand father had died a year before the election. My grandfather was also a life long Republican. Like the original mayor, Daley, one said, “in Chicago we vote early and we vote often. “

[@January.]

*corroborate *grandfather *lifelong *once said

[@sweetesthawaiianprincess8086]

Without even watching- the answer is the elder Mayor Daley in Chicago 💪🏼

[@BruceMacDonald-vc3bx]

THINK SHINEDOWN " " THE DEAD DONT DIE :"

[@winstonsmith935]

Yes but who took him out?

[@JavierValverde-dw7cy]

Bush Senior. Lyndon Johnson, Allen Dulles, the Mafia and CIA were the ones behind the assassination.

[@AlexXxsID]

Robert Kennedy is the fundamental salvation of forgotten American freedoms. We believe in you! We see in you a lost past, an honest present and a prosperous future for the whole country! And he is an honest patriot. This time, the population is ready, but for choice with the same sincere and reasonable direction, they will receive more honest trust and sponsorship.

[@williambillmulholland4799]

I can help.

[@lastmexicano]

8:00

[@hopaideia]

What intrigues me is why he took Lyndon B Johnson as his racing partner?

[@umm521]

Its hard when you try to convince your children what it was like and they don't believe you because they think its in dinosaur times

[@umm521]

But I remember those days in history

[@Quincdooryia]

The Poland and Germany prt also his daddy looks good

[@AnaPaulinacom]

#ForeignPolicy ✨️

[@tupacshakur5368]

❤

[@dwseawell]

Kind of blew right by (buy) that 1960 election with the highly questionable votes in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. There was much talk of Joe buying union support in several states.

[@sandranorman5469]

Why do you suggest West Virginia? JFK entered the WV PRIMARY to prove to the party leaders that a large majority of Protestants would vote for a Catholic President

[@StevenKeery]

Dwseawell: I think even JFK made a joke of that rumour by saying his Father, Joseph, was damned if he was going to pay for a landslide victory.

[@MsVanorak]

lyndon johnson had a hoard of dead people vote for him - so politics is corrupt through and through.

[@michaelirizarry2276]

what coukd have been,in those yrs.we will never,never,get them back.

[@manikandank2538]

👍👍

[@HenryCasillas]

🌻

[@tjdomerny4847]

The real problem with this doc is that the "experts" are all British!

[@MsVanorak]

are they or is it just a british narrator. but bear in mind that british intelligence services would have dug and sifted the dirt on joe.

[@tjdomerny4847]

@@MsVanorak Joe Biden? Or are you talking about the President's father, about whom all dirt is known? Either way , your reply makes no sense. The "experts" are anything but, even the vauntedMI6, about which you know only George Smiley.

[@rubi588]

Looking a bit like Marilyn Monroe 19:41 And found where jfk got his wonky eye 21:07

[@trainnerd3029]

0:57 when is the last time you heard a Democrat say something even remotely close to that?

[@emermbiemeri]

bota duhet patruar

[@BruceMacDonald-vc3bx]

THEY VOTE

[@boomerang0101]

1st 🥇

[@633ohioc]

You are far from first buddy buddy 😂

[@boomerang0101]

@@633ohioc I was the first one to comment. What do you mean?

[@633ohioc]

@@boomerang0101 you were not the first comment buddy buddy 🤣

[@boomerang0101]

@@633ohioc no I was. It’s a KZbin error.

[@633ohioc]

@@boomerang0101 🤣🤣🤣

[@KennanLandon-b4b]

White Island

[@Mayito_Tamps]

Kennedy 2024 🇺🇸

[@January.]

Someone you know extremely well is obviously a graduate of the University of Social Media, Gullibility, and Conspiracy Theories.

[@rad4579]

His daddy bought it.

[@huangtom9940]

Go JFK! Go Republican! Go for Trump❤

[@FirstLast-gc1nj]

Albania triangle

[@delorme9]

Who is the narrator? He sounds like the guy who narrated the 'Haunted History ' series on the History Channel.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@delorme9 Jonathan Kydd

[@barbarashrader27]

watching this reminds me of what the left calls a occult today, and how I know a real Democrat from a regional Democrat. Pure Elijah 💗 same Spirit with USA today ❤

[@JoanVanPelt]

JFK was in the process of making the world a better place. RFK Jr. can continue that process when he is president. RFK has already accomplished making water ways better, healthier. He has more to do but he needs the title President 2024.

[@johnwinthrop2702]

Is this an irish documentary?

[@oldstyleanalog6459]

God bless u Mr Kennedy

[@SaltyChips-dh3mp]

I believe it’s too late for that, people in hell are not blessed.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

​@@SaltyChips-dh3mp Divine Mercy

[@user-mr2um7iz3l]

Hiw he git in was his pops unkeashed his mob connections to ensure hus victory, and that thus iscwhy the mob took him out because hiw he and bobby went after hoffa and the mob, in short kennedy bit the hand that feed him and they took him out, i think kennedy was highly overrated

[@MsVanorak]

i think he is remembered for the words of his speeches which were just what americans needed to hear at that time.