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

JFK - How John F. Kennedy Became President of the United States | History Documentary
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The life of John F. Kennedy is so often defined by his death. His assassination in November 1963 came to be seen as a turning point for America, a shift from an age of innocence and hope to one of violence and change. JFK himself was transformed from man into legend.
But that reading of history can disguise the fascinating and contradictory man behind the myth. As we celebrate the centenary of JFK’s birth, this new programme explores the making of a president. JFK’s life inside the Kennedy dynasty. His travels through Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Fighting the Japanese in WWII including swimming for survival to a tropical island. His many different illnesses often hidden from the public. His glamorous marriage to Jackie and his journey to become Senator and finally the run for The White House
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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

[@user-hb2ku5oq5r]

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❤❤

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@mdquaglia]

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

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Avarice

[@iainpaton1865]

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

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

most definitely 👍🏻

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

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

[@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

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

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

[@alexanderdelacruz9249]

on youtube?

[@HistoricalAnalysis12]

great video ! thanks for watching !

[@cahlendavidson2921]

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

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

welcome 🐳

[@sweetesthawaiianprincess8086]

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

[@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.

[@TheGreyLineMatters]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@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?

[@Ghost_Rider_786]

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

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

GOD SAVE THE KING

[@Ghost_Rider_786]

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

[@gagadreams]

Cool! 🇺🇸

[@tatata1543]

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

[@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.

[@cynic2all]

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

[@hisoverlorduponhigh90]

The last real President.

[@user-rc5px1hu9j]

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

[@jordanwilliams8040]

Great head of hair

[@tobygoodguy4032]

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

[@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

[@AnaPaulinacom]

#ForeignPolicy ✨️

[@gracemwende8054]

Thank you soo much my family tongethar ❤

[@manikandank2538]

👍👍

[@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.

[@tupacshakur5368]

❤

[@prinzessindianavonbaden787]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@delorme9]

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

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@delorme9 Jonathan Kydd

[@-khosroemamiahari2883]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@BruceMacDonald-vc3bx]

THINK SHINEDOWN " " THE DEAD DONT DIE :"

[@johnwinthrop2702]

Is this an irish documentary?

[@Quincdooryia]

The Poland and Germany prt also his daddy looks good

[@HenryCasillas]

🌻

[@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

[@lastmexicano]

8:00

[@tjdomerny4847]

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

[@user-gx2fp8ks6d]

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.

[@trainnerd3029]

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

[@rubi588]

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

[@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 🤣🤣🤣

[@BruceMacDonald-vc3bx]

THEY VOTE

[@emermbiemeri]

bota duhet patruar

[@FirstLast-gc1nj]

Albania triangle

[@Mayito_Tamps]

Kennedy 2024 🇺🇸

[@January.]

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

[@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