"JFK" (1983) - 20th Anniversary TV News Special with Peter Jennings

[@chalklounge]

There’s something so relaxing, calming about watching an ABC Friday evening 1983 documentary program straight through with commercials exactly as it originally aired.

[@donna25871]

Now we are a couple of months away from the 60th anniversary.

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

Rip President Kennedy and Peter Jennings.

[@Bobby-bp2ok]

Great job on the time frame

[@TangledUpInBlue631]

Thanks to the late Peter Jennings for this extraordinary retrospective. Both of you taken too soon.

[@TheHeavensFellen]

how about that 2003 edition they did? boy was that a hatchet job on oswald

[@patrickmccarthy7877]

Peter Jennings is also a memory.

[@Lyndanet]

Peter Jennings is one of the best memories I have .

[@carolchamberlin460]

Great President in our History. So sad. He gave a Raise to all the ArmForces. No other President has ever done it since. Thats why he is great.

[@sambrown3320]

I’m not a political person as fat as party is is involved. Not a G W Bush fan but as a veteran I can and will say that he has given us a raise on disability every year his whole time in office.

[@bobma6342]

@@sambrown3320 JFK or GWB?

[@nomadicgringo9312]

TRUE. I AM FROM THAILAND. I LOVE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY So much. DURING HIS PRESIDENCY SO MANY COUNTRIES ON THIS PLANET EARTH WERE RAPIDLY,DEEPLY AND LARGELY DEVELOPED IN WHICH NOBODY COULD DO. JFK HELPED UNDERDEVELOPMENT COUNTRIES,ESP. THAILAND,MY COUNTRY. THE FIRSTEVER LARGE UPCOUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT AND Rural Universities established ,namely, Khonkaen University(KKU) founded in 1962 by Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat upon Support of President John F. Kennedy,USA., Peace Corps in a large scale set up, Rural accelerated organization initiated, all laterite roads that had caused a high rate of fatality resulting from road dust blown up, poor visibility occurred inevitably. Thailand has been in debt to John F. Kennedy. Thai people will never forget you and your family. Farewell and R.I.P. Mr. President. We know now who killed the US young, handsome,charismatic President of the USA. The ghost faced lbj, the poppy bush, mr.watergatescandal nixon, all killers of our beloved President,JFK. R.I.P. JFK.

[@vonSoest]

Reagan gave huge raises to service members.

[@botboy6977]

Got us in a war we couldn’t win, and as morals go he had none!

[@deemariedubois4916]

I was in elementary school when someone motioned our teacher to leave the room. When she came back she was crying. Only time I ever saw a teacher cry. She told us we were leaving school early and had no homework. Barry asked why? I was confident he would ask as that was his way, questioned everything; this time I was happy to have a Barry in class. Mrs Steppenwolf told us the President had been assassinated. He was dead. A lot of us were military brats and on the bus the older ones openly discussed how this could affect our dads. War was even mentioned. My dad had been on a remote duty for months. I was looking forward to him coming home and didn’t want him to have to stay away even longer especially at war. Funny how our lives as kids gave us different perspectives of this horrendous event in history.

[@Wally-m9y]

Peter Jennings did the most fair assessment of the Kennedy years I have seen. Thank you.

[@romienomie]

What he gave us was a hope for the future which was greatly needed at the time.

[@jimmyflanagan5938]

RFK JR is running as a independent candidate in 2024, give him a chance to heal this great nation

[@roxannemoser]

​@@jimmyflanagan5938 I would, but he'll lose. He just hasn't campaigned enough.

[@michaelward944]

@@jimmyflanagan5938 TRUMP 2024

[@pedenmk]

Wow. I remember 83 as if it were yesterday. Ĥow fast time passes us all. Great presentation. Thanks for sharing.

[@denarenee3198]

Good documentary. I also enjoyed the old commercials, too.

[@alliematt1016]

Me too. Apparently IBM is the ancestor of Zoom? 🙂

[@dinagillette1625]

JFK was an amazing author, leader and speaker. He had a fine mind and served our country well.

[@mr.sherlockholmes6130]

The Greatest President we ever had.

[@Plektrud]

And that your greatest allies killed. 😂

[@michaelward944]

Installing his brother as att gen and his failure to send in air support with the bay of pigs prompted a lot of future problems

[@jokerz7936]

Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, FDR, and Ulysses S. Grant were all better than Kennedy IMO.

[@patrarus6097]

Thanks for a professional and unbiased report.

[@yogi9631]

Love the ads as well. Great nostalgia. People are savages. Can’t believe the turmoil between humans still present.

[@bluecollarlit]

People are horrible.

[@michaelward944]

Communists suck

[@MattHandy8577]

This is a Wonderful Documentary About JFK I Remember Getting This Video From The Library It Was Called JFK Rememberd Thank you so much for sharing this Documentary I really appreciate it ☺️

[@nome5123]

I've been looking for JFK Remebered it was out before the Like No Other 2013 version.

[@MattHandy8577]

@@nome5123 The JFK Remembered I’m referring to was A VHS Tape from 1988 it was from vestron Video it was one of the first videos I watched when I started my Hobby learning about President Kennedy and it was this exact documentary here hosted by Peter Jennings

[@rentslave]

It was cloudy in New Jersey on that day.

[@mckernan603]

Definitely, definitely..

[@angieheitz5466]

That is why he is great. It is also an example other president's should have tried to copy. Sad we elect, and keep people in office.

[@michaelward944]

Reagan was much greater and brighter

[@tundrawomansays694]

@@michaelward944You’re entitled to your opinion, my friend.

[@bobma6342]

"Mr. President you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you," Nellie Connally. Seconds later the limousine turned left from Houston Street to Elm Street

[@michaelstacey8303]

Lol

[@wilmamcphail4686]

It wasn't Dallas that killed the president. That quote, was in no way humorous! How could anybody watch this documentary and find that humorous?!

[@Croatian-Knight.]

Lee Harvey was from New Orleans.

[@bobma6342]

@@Croatian-Knight. Nawlins

[@ChristopherJoseph35]

1:43:34 The hurt in that man’s voice - a man just a bit younger than JFK, symbolic of that generation that just felt like they just suffered a blow that could never be recovered from

[@owensalter227]

Fascinating documentary of actragic time. Also look at the computers from the ads. Also a very young kevin costner. Also am mistaken , but is one of the ads voiced by john huston? Anyway keep up the good work🙊🙉🙈👍

[@jchow5966]

I remember watching this when it originally aired -it is amazing to watch it again. Back then, although 20 years had passed since he had been killed it seemed like 50 years had gone by because so nany things had happened in the interim. Now that over 60 years have gone by - I can more clearly see what a huge loss the entire world suffered. It would be a better world had he lived. RIP JFK ☮️💟

[@GermanShepherd1983]

I was more upset on the 20th anniversary of his death than I was on the actual day. On November 22, 1983 my girlfriend broke up with me. I actually thought my life was over. I've since moved on from Cindy and am happily married but that night I was just numb with pain.

[@babycakes1402]

I'm also enjoying the old commercials, in comparison to the commercials of today. I remember both 83 & 88 with the programs on TV about the Kennedys. The interesting part is that the family always said 'we want to remember his life, not his death, which is understandable, yet these shows were always in November, rather than May, food for thought I guess.

[@wilmamcphail4686]

It just struck me how old JFK Jr. would have been now. Whoever was responsible for JFK's death did a great disservice to our country.

[@TheHeavensFellen]

they do like to manipulate our country in order to prop there's up don't they? and we all know who they are, they are fighting a big war as we speak.. and its not in Russia.

[@mr.sherlockholmes6130]

In Memory of JFK : O Captain! My Captain! BY WALT WHITMAN O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths-for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

[@cliftonbowers6376]

Peter was a great friend I miss...😢

[@cindymaceda2999]

Such a gentleman. Had a drink with him once in Manila in 1986.

[@sandygray3546]

Very well said done documentary, thank you

[@zombiefulci3301]

Something dreary and deathly about JFK, like the 60's

[@chalklounge]

This special aired on ABC, Friday November 11, 1983.

[@adrianlyord5300]

Kevin Costner @ 31:00 minute time for Apple 🍎 computers.

[@laurapalmer7120]

Kind of funny because he plays Jim Garrison in JFK (Oliver Stone).

[@aafife499]

Could you imagine explaining to him back then that the company he is shooting this commercial for will have a 2 trillion market capitalization in 2023? Oh yeah Kev and btw you’ll be worth $400 million before your divorce that same year.

[@pam0626]

Good catch!

[@sideburn]

First time I’ve seen that commercial within an actual tv show…

[@randomneutral4250]

I remember in Bull Durham, Costner as Crash Davis says, “I believe Oswald acted alone.”

[@firstlove7619]

I live in dallas I think it's crazy that he got here. I passed bye the place we're he got killed alot of time life is weird n erre

[@Badlighter]

Such a sad event. I’m sorry Dallas will forever be marked as the place of the murder of President Kennedy.

[@JordanBahrPian-UkePlayer]

I really do wish there was a higher quality version of the KLIF air check as heard at the start of the special.

[@janetginger8571]

Sant Kirpal Singh of New Delhi, said He was a great soul. He sent American helicopters to stop China taking over India

[@Wally-m9y]

JFK was a great man, a strong president, dealing with Cuba, Soviets, Integration, he did greatly for a young Senator elected leader of his country considering how he had to deal with the warmongering Ike/Nixon years of piling up wars to come, building up nuclear weapons (all the while Eisenhower "warned of military build-up," he was the one who did it,) and he supported his fascist team, the Dulles brothers...Allen & John Foster.)

[@sandygray3546]

So sad my heart to watch his sailboat go pass without our President smiling on it.

[@michaelward944]

Trump is our president

[@patrickmccarthy7877]

JFK would be 106 this year, death comes for us all. 💀

[@Rl082992]

Thata was a good documentary about President Kennedy.

[@TonyPete2024]

There’s Kennedy Now People Come on Vote Now

[@rocioaguilera3555]

What a coward conspiracy. Rest in peace all of the fatalities, including Lee Harvey Oswald, a patsy 😢

[@bobkuster5811]

Oswald pulled the trigger.

[@atomicspid2129]

You have sympathy for Oswald. What the actual fuck?

[@MaxTheSaint1885]

@@bobkuster5811you’re deluded

[@richardwariner5886]

@@bobkuster5811 🤣🤣

[@johnwalker4329]

​@@bobkuster5811Oswald didn't pull any trigger

[@m2chan]

🙏🙏

[@chuckersimsII]

JFK was the greatest president

[@scottrobinson9752]

How so? What were his actual presidential achievements?

[@JohnWest-zq5gs]

Are you kidding me he never did anything when he was in office LBJ got more legislation passed than any president in our nation's history

[@JohnWest-zq5gs]

Lyndon Johnson was a real president he was a hillbilly and a hillbilly showed the Kennedy's how it was done

[@TangledUpInBlue631]

@@JohnWest-zq5gs I don't think allowing the United States to become mired in Vietnam upstaged the Kennedys. Indeed, RFK lost his life campaigning against the Vietnam War in 1968.

[@TangledUpInBlue631]

@@scottrobinson9752 Consult a history text for a primer on the subject. Perhaps his most enduring legacy, after the turbulent Cuban Missle Crisis, was to seek peaceful alternatives to complicated questions. You might also listen to his Commencement Address at American University on 10 June, 1963 for context.

[@BigDaddy-xp1vf]

🙏✌💖💪🏁🇺🇸 I was born in 1958 and I had the good fortune and growing up in a small farming community in northwest Ohio Did not realize the impact at the time My mother and my aunt Crying My uncles were going and coming from Vietnam Relax at the time that... Till I walked into the 1st grade the next year Seen the globe And the boxes bibles they were sneaking out the back door When I went in the front door like we always say if I only knew now what I didn't know then Everything for a reason Prayer and meditation keep the faith we're living in some Greatest times of our lives , , each generation gets stronger we have the power Keep the faith God be with you all much love To all my My brothers and sisters My brothers and My brothers and sisters 👽👀🌅🙏✌💖💪🏁🇺🇸⏳⌛

[@mikemakofske3511]

Everything changed that day. Everything.

[@baberRuth]

Will always remember Charles Degaulle in uniform, walking w others.

[@TonyPete2024]

Come Mr Kennedy

[@evelynmangahas5144]

😢yet they wanted to eliminate him as he was trying to work for peace

[@floydburney6060]

..... LBJ, Dulles/Helms/Angleton, Hoover, James Rowley, Kellerman, Greer, Connelly & the Cabell brothers, Marcello, Gienconna, Ruby & then LHO. All involved but LBJ, Hoover, Dulles & Angleton were at the top of the operation. LHO was the patsy, the fall guy & Ruby was tasked (and paid) with eliminating him ASAP

[@buffalorick5598]

Very interesting. Maybe not quite as complicated as JFK but many mysteries remain. So Engstrom is your Oswald? I didn’t hear how Patterson died? The 60 year anniversary of JFK is approaching. It is forever sad and there are many mysteries and suspects of a big conspiracy that I believe did happen.

[@Croatian-Knight.]

Oswald shot him! Case closed. Explain the other 224 suspects.

[@bluecollarlit]

And so convenient that Ruby killed Oswald before he could talk Case re-opened.

[@ATLcentury334]

Was that a very young Kevin Costner in the apple commercial?

[@bluecollarlit]

Yes. Ten years before he was in the film, "JFK."

[@botboy6977]

I wonder if he was a Republican if they would’ve done this? Don’t see many Reagan or Eisenhower programs on network tv!

[@baberRuth]

You have to cry harder

[@botboy6977]

Facts

[@Mark-yy2py]

During Ike’s terms in office, it was called “complacent”, if prosperity, freedom, and peace defines complacency, then sign me up. The 50s were the safest decade of the century; the 60s were the most tumultuous decade of the century.

[@baberRuth]

Only 3% of Blacks in Dixie could vote leading up to WWll in 1940. Millions served & many died. What did Ike do for them fr 1953-60? At least JFK got the ball rolling in Civil Rights.

[@Croatian-Knight.]

Yep! Safe for Catholic Priests, husbands who beat their wives, blacks in the South, gays, lynchings in the South. Safe!

[@donovanmorgan640]

Prosperity, Freedom, and Peace for whom???

[@deniserogers2467]

No freedom, peace or prosperity for people of color . Just wasn’t there. And we still have a long way to go . 😢

[@Bobby-bp2ok]

Great job 😮

[@jamestyrer6067]

JFK WAS A GREAT PRESIDENT !

[@CheerfulApron-sx9gh]

Yeah there's some new buildings up especially around Pearl Street, but the skyline was already so full that you can't tell much difference

[@DruChestnut]

Nothing could be further from the truth. In the very last speech he ever made on November 22, 1963 Kennedy said that without the United States South Vietnam would fall.

[@FordMustangry-wu7mh]

JFK and Jacqueline and the kids visited the battlefield at Antietam(Sharpsburg) and at Gettysburg. When they visited Gettysburg their were pictures of JFK driving a mercury convertible with Jackie and the kids in car looking at the monuments and having a battlefield guide describing the battle, one place they stopped was the eternal light peace memorial dedicated by FDR, uniting the north and the south they say jakie got the idea for JFK's eternal flame from it

[@bryanmacinnes]

this is a glossy magazine titbit account of President John F. Kennedy. The narrative on Vietnam is incorrect for a start. He was a truly great leader bound for greatness. RIP.

[@BigLebowski324]

I miss real journalists.

[@gwalbert]

Lol. I’m glad Jack Schlossberg doesn’t have the Kennedy last name. He doesn’t deserve it after what that impulsive brat did to RFK Jr. -a storied and accomplished environmental lawyer. Key quote: “a quick note that they did not swim the full three miles. Instead they swam just under a mile.”

[@kylerrodriguez9706]

Jack Schlossberg is more of a Kennedy than RFK Jr will ever be.

[@krikvalk1776]

Jack Schlossberg is a woke brat!

[@elizabethselby9396]

Forgotten history even in the immediate family

[@pattyvanpilsum9897]

​@@elizabethselby9396horrible

[@pattyvanpilsum9897]

​@@kylerrodriguez9706schlossberg's a little weanie

[@firstlove7619]

It's crazy how life goes bye .house too cell phones

[@rosario508]

Wasn’t this aired on the same night as The Day After?

[@alliematt1016]

No. This program was aired November 11, 1983. The Day After was aired on November 20th.

[@sammylewy7413]

Capitol Records ABC NEWS

[@gaylegardinerankerry12123]

AND EVERY AUSTRALIAN PETER

[@grimmertwin2148]

I've sent a copy of Oliver Stone's JFK to Mara Lago. There's a note inside. Do you feel lucky punk? Well do you? Tick tick tick they're coming to get you boy lol

[@MrCountryboy615]

What type of comment is this?

[@reddeserted13]

The narrator from the song 19.

[@alliematt1016]

Paul Hardcastle?

[@reddeserted13]

@@alliematt1016 the song by Paul, but there is a voice-over narrator who sounds very official in the song. Same guy as in this video.

[@williamwells1862]

It is said sailors on watch were sleeping when the attack occurred.

[@baberRuth]

It's said "trump is the greatest Prez ever". JFK still saved that crew.

[@donnaking7439]

He wouldn’t be alive today because he’d be too old. It would play some of his late 90s I don’t think he’d be alive because he had health problems so he wouldn’t be alive today anyway but he was the best president.

[@michaelward944]

He was WEAK

[@AshaAbukar-yd9mz]

Jfk not live 1983 he dead befor

[@bluecollarlit]

Yes, he was killed in 1963.

[@lisaposey6450]

3 shots????

[@cindymaceda2999]

Imagine how low we have come from dedicated men like Kennedy to narcissistic Trump. 😮😢

[@EddieDawkins-o3z]

You are delusional

[@bluecollarlit]

We are living now in a trend where psychotic, evil people run for office. We must investigate and root out corruption in Congress and the Supreme Court And vote for good, public - spirited people.

[@michaelward944]

Trump is the best prez ever

[@ОльгаЧервякова-о8й]

Что же про Байдена умолчали? У власти в США президент - преступник.

[@karencarter8292]

Hegelian Dialectic

[@emermbiemeri]

familjen kenedi shum. shummm kini kujdes

[@steventaylorscott6636]

He wasn't the greatest. Bay of Pigs disaster. Got us deep into Vietnam. The Cuban missle crisis was because Khruschev saw him as weak. Almost had nuclear war.

[@cantonathegreatestnumber7618]

Know your history before making statements of that kind

[@williewest2998]

I can tell you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about

[@freduklernas3637]

Blessed are the Ignorant .. The kingdom of Stupidity will be theirs..

[@baberRuth]

You're a child

[@michaelward944]

@@cantonathegreatestnumber7618 He was WEAK

[@kimthomas8717]

I think he would’ve withdrawn our troops from Vietnam ☹️🩷 and saved thousands upon thousands of lives

[@jamesstewart8377]

He was actually ramping it up to be honest. It just wasn’t something that was widely reported on at the time.

[@kimthomas8717]

@@jamesstewart8377 really? Where could I find this info

[@deemariedubois4916]

Idk. John Kennedy viewed communism as a spreading evil that must be stopped.

[@AkakaDomenjer]

But you gotta spread some freedom and democracy for the 👃

[@mikesantos8318]

He Absolutely was preparing to pull out of Vietnam those saying different don't know what they are talking about.

[@emermbiemeri]

ehhhh. kenedi. diamant.