OUTTAKES FROM AN NBC-TV INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT KENNEDY ON SEPT. 9, 1963

[@BForce-gi5oc]

He spoke from the heart more than any president I've heard.

[@jshalom65]

"For in the final analysis,we all inhabit this small planet,we all breathe the same air,we all cherish our children's future,and we are all mortal."

[@airborne8580]

B Force That’s why he was killed he was a wealthy person from a privileged family and saw that he had the tools to do something about helping us ordinary folks Problem was his peers in politics, military businessmen not to mention the mob felt that he was taking away some of the ways that they made money away with their greedy selves so he had to be eliminated Smmfh

[@Gigi1111Layna]

@@airborne8580 LBJ.

[@wiltchamberlainisthegoat13]

@@Gigi1111Layna 💯

[@moohoward]

Watching Kennedy one can see how far we have fallen. In total control without arrogance, or condescension. No teleprompter, no notes. Re-takes yes but such a command of worldly issues. An amazing fellow missed by America. "Who prepares for battle if the trumpet blows an uncertain sound?" I Corinthians. He was a simply wonderful, charismatic man who knew literature, history, politics and women as few men do. When he spoke, men listened. The true sign of a leader.

[@albertmarnell9976]

MAGA! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!

[@PacoOtis]

Wow! Kennedy seemed so "real" and so down to earth. No wonder we liked him so much.

[@Mamadukee1]

Not everyone!!!

[@candy9986]

The three of them articulate, intelligent, comfortable with confidence. When did we last see anything like this ? No scripted answers, no earpieces, no teleprompters. We used to be something better

[@samseaborn2916]

He seems like he was a very likable guy, in addition to being intelligent and fully engaged.

[@gusalthorp6138]

+Lloyd Bonafide Don't compare Jfk to Bill slick Willy Clinton the rapist

[@john1198]

You think disposer did not have a mistresses. Lbj claimed he fucked more girls than jfk. So what . This president talked the truth and cared about the people.

[@Chukad999]

I think sometime lbj not murder to kill him.I think sometime rfk was murdered.

[@pattylevesque2601]

yes...he was extremely charming...and women wanted to be with him and men wanted to be like him

[@johnakerman5428]

Oh that the same could be said for some of his successors.

[@MrsHyde92]

The World needs someone like him now more than ever!

[@patgarrett2152]

WOW! Photography and cameras sure have improved since then!

[@greglawrence1314]

The U.S. and world need someone like Dwight Eisenhower in the White House.

[@247hdjazz]

DEFINITELY....NOT!

[@247hdjazz]

TRUMP IS THE FIRST PRESIDENT SINCE KENNEDY THAT USES HIS OWN MIND!

[@keithchrysler3732]

Gee! He talks about tax cuts. Reagan did tax cuts and got shot too. Trump has done tax cuts! Let's hope that history doesn't repeat itself!

[@rebeccahowell6538]

I think there people had better manners back then.

[@BurnedSpace]

well that’s obvious

[@brholland1975]

I would say having your President slaughtered and your country stolen in front of you and being powerless to stop it, takes a toll on civility huh!

[@thegamingkitchen8429]

Civil rights movement says different

[@cm9859]

John F KENNEDY was so incredibly intelligent, quick witted, handsome, humble, genuine, likeable, handsome. We will never have another President like him. He truly was part of Camelot! So much class!

[@SenorZorrozzz]

Yes, it was a different time. The presidency was still revered.

[@rhondaalexander4674]

Not really they murdered him.

[@kaylaarnold8524]

"I'm surprised by Truman, my God.... they get him on those morning walks" & his giggle(!!!!!) ... the most adorable man:')

[@Saffronlilies]

Aww look at him😍

[@Goodnewsglobal]

He sounds so cool when he said 'lets try it again and see how it comes out this time' at the 2min mark. That's the calm assured president you wanted in charge of the Cuban missile crisis that's for sure.

[@ghassanjenainaty4212]

JFK will not be forgotten for thousand years to come. No word can express how great you are. Shame that the ones who plotted to assassinate you were not punished and they achieved their goals by making our world a miserable place for living because of wars!

[@mattyo9115]

He would be considered too far right for the democrats nowadays! He actually loved America and wanted It to grow and prosper! And also keep peace! That's the democrat party I would have loved, voted for, and been proud to be a part of! He was just a great American and legend of the century! Great comment my friend. Rip JFK, God Bless America!

[@jgowin66]

@Jawz_94. BRAVO ! I realize you posted this 10 months ago, but I applaud your response above. Yes, as a liberal myself, I have noticed more and more of my Republican friends trying to appropriate JFK as some kind of "conservative". It's a pity that most modern-day conservatives do not read and decide for themselves, but merely rely on their propagandists (right-wing radio and FOX "News") to tell them what to think. Several years back Rush and some of the FOX boys began making complimentary statements about JFK, while lamenting what happened to JFK's party (which they all call the "Democrat Party"). One statement really can't be denied by either side: A president Barack Obama would only be possible in TODAY'S Democratic Party, likewise, A president Donald Trump is only possible in TODAY'S Republican Party. Never have I been more proud to be a Democrat !

+Ghassan jenainaty Yes, he will be forgotten. Once those who lived through it die off, his place in history will become an asterisk. His term was short and , as a result, his accomplishments small. Emotions don't fare that well in a historical context.

[@debbiebrantley61]

@ James Godwin I really hope that you are still proud to be a democrat these days with how the country is going

[@Gigi1111Layna]

@@debbiebrantley61 I hope he bows his head in shame to be so boastful of the tragedy that's befallen us all.

[@sunilganji284]

His off the cuff response on that retake to do the final question was incredible and he throws in a proverb at the end.

[@dannyburch2122]

So smart on every issue.

[@1burnman]

this is the way the president in the news media should behave

[@traveler317]

i love his laugh, i wish we could hear more of it

[@CelineTaylerVEVO]

I love his laugh

[@augustamerica3168]

+Sara MP I love his voice

[@CelineTaylerVEVO]

hahahaha that too!!

[@2007Colonial]

Watching this interview with Jack Kennedy and his POSITIONS on the issues that still plague us today, it literally brings tears to my eyes comparing him to Obama, what has happened to the Democratic party I once loved???????????????

[@jln55]

***** By doubling the budget deficit since he's been in office. Wow!. Great job!

[@dannyburch2122]

2007Colonial It went waay left Kennedy couldn't have been a liberal today he was more moderate then Democrats of today.

[@michelleroberts4476]

2007Colonial the democrats are too busy trumpthumping to bother about your country, they need to grow up

[@UrAveragePOS]

JFK's laugh though. XD So cute

[@jackepstein5527]

Rest in Peace

[@mr.ramfan8100]

Trouble is, he can't rest in peace until the truth about what really happened in Dallas is uncovered. ..

[@pekozelenovic1751]

@@mr.ramfan8100 i hope the truth comes out

[@jose9950]

Justice is going

[@joltinjack]

Aside from the British tax cut, JFK had a brilliant economic adviser, Walter Heller. While JFK was not a business or economic student at Choate or Harvard, he was a quick study and with his above average intelligence, connected the dots very quickly. He iterated an old axiom, "A rising tide lifts all boats". However, his tax cut bill never got anywhere with a doubting, difficult Congress - LBJ shoved it through in February following JFK's death [The Revenue Act of 1964]. This 10 billion-dollar tax cut was phased in over the fiscal years 1964, 1965, & 1966, lowering the top marginal bracket from 91% to 65%, but later settled at 70%, and the lower marginal rate from 21% to 14% (or 19 to 14 - memory fails me). While the Kennedy-Johnson era was not the longest economic expansion in 20th century history, it was a period that Americans experienced the greatest increase in real income, as was experienced in the real estate explosion as common folks sold small, modest homes to buy more spacious homes in the suburbs. Lastly, the national debt as a percent of GNP steadily fell from 1961 through 1969. In 1969, we actually ran a small fiscal surplus. Imagine the power of this great economic engine: We funded the conflict in Vietnam, ushered in the Great Society, and sent men to the moon, and topped it off with a surplus in 1969. Amazing.

[@mattyo9115]

Yeah at least he was interested in the American People and not government bureaucracy. That's why he actually proposed a tax cut and not a huge tax increase like modern dems and repubs in the Washington Establishment. The guy is a true legend! Pure Americana! Most gifted politician of the century! I'm a centrist but lean conservative, but I love Kennedy and wish the democrat party had another JFK, I would vote for him in a heartbeat! God bless JFK and America!

[@sunnyseacat6857]

Vietnam was another rich man's war. Kennedy did NOT want to stay in Vietnam. All Wars Are Banker's Wars. Kennedy was very astute, and yes, a fast study. He was the last great US president.

[@libertomakhno6385]

Do you consider "amazing" the genocide in Vietnam, the lost of the Great Society, and spending 8 million S in the moon, while nobody was paying atention to the deplorable conditions of the blac people and latin, and native? Amazing

[@judyteague3667]

P

[@tomwellman1757]

I am from Michigan and my parents used to vacation in Florida every year. At the airport near Miami there when you drove out you passed a huge black settlement that was literally tin shacks. No running water and appalling poverty. Looked like the tin shack towns in Africa today.

[@ldchappell1]

The press had more respect for the office of the Presidency in those days than they do now.

[@thehistoricalgamer]

ldchappell1 Vietnam and Nixon had a lot to do with destroying that.

[@ldchappell1]

***** FDR, Kennedy and Johnson would have never stood a chance with today's media. Especially Johnson who probably would have ended up dying in prison. .

[@thehistoricalgamer]

ldchappell1 no president from 40+ years ago would survive today's media. Hell Regan wouldn't either, he joked around about nuking Russia on a hot mic. Then again those men operated in a media environment they were trained for. Give them all the knowledge we have today and they would do fine today. The only exception to thag would be FDR because he was physically incapable of adjusting his disability to something acceptable to today's media.

[@tracymitchell4010]

+thehistoricalgamer I think you are underestimating Reagan and other past presidents. Also the so called knowledge we have today is nonsensical, as I see more stupid people these days with smart phones. Seems technology has made more people lazy and truly as duped by what they read on phones, computers, youtube, online encyclopedias which can be altered by anyone, people are more influenced now by media and this technological age probably more so now than ever...Which seems there is just as much if not more pure pressure due to all this that leads this generation and others so easily duped to bow or be convinced for fear that if they DO NOT GO ALONG with what they deam POLITICALLY CORRECTNESS that they will be socially osterisized! Seems there is more a need as much now as ever for those that seem to feel the need to belong and be socially acceptable, that they are even more easy to bend, Kiss ASS, hypocritical, CLICKY, Live in FEAR, and on and on...because they are just to chicken shit to stand up alone and be counted! The entertainment field, Musicians, and just about everything lately is a great example...including putting some peoples rights above and before others constitutional rights, when it comes to religious beliefs or freedom of speech, and rights to pursuit of happiness in general! I could go on and on, but very tired here so will end this!

[@GManataolcom]

+ldchappell1 Not just that, they had a commitment for bringing TRUTH, not entertainment, to the people.

[@GregJay]

That ladies and Gentlemen and I use that term loosely, is how a real president talks and acts. It is hard to look at JFK though and not feel sad for what happened to that great mind in broad daylight in a major US city, the bastards were plotting his demise even before this.He was better than all of them by a hundred miles, they knew it and hated him for it. He made every other politician look like a poor plum.Name one President that came since or before for that matter that was as good. Yet he dies a thousand deaths every day on youtube in that film I refuse to see again, and then there are all the autopsy photos, I never remember seeing one LBJ dead photo but who would care anyway. But I much prefer to see him like this.Would love to go back in time and thwart it. To think he spent every day in that contraption he had to wear from his war injury and never once showed it.

[@adriang6259]

Greg Jay absolutely right. The conspiracy is not a theory any more. Really hate knowing that the great evil won that day.

[@AF-hi1tg]

Couldn’t agree more Greg.Jay. The evil bastards killed him but his ideas and his hope for what this country could be live on.

[@Chris6719]

JFK is in my mind from the interviews I've seen and speeches he gave was one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century. He fought for civil rights and kept the country from getting into a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis plus many other things he accomplished during his brief time as president

[@sue7621]

The best is yet to come! 🤗🥰🙏🌏

[@Gigi1111Layna]

@@sue7621 How so!? Please don't say you think Jr is alive.

[@docadams7099]

I love hearing him speak because he meant what he said, and accomplished so much in important areas, like you said.

[@bimalrai21]

I was born the next day 10 September 1963 in Singapore.

[@wholeNwon]

In Nov. 1963, I stood facing him at a dedication. We were about 8' apart.

[@joanholliman673]

I was so young, but looked up to him...

[@imeidamoraa3966]

@Joan Holliman, how old were you then?

[@roseg.4354]

It’s called respect towards our President ... 🤗👍🏻

[@gerardleon2884]

Our last real president.

[@depaola63]

Indeed!

[@gusalthorp6138]

That's what I just commented.

[@ulyssgrant3178]

President Reagan was a great man, in every way. I miss him--he also had great Irish wit.

[@christopherbryanrenevdacio3549]

@@ulyssgrant3178 fuck Reagan.!

[@subadrasankaran4148]

From India I admire him so much

[@joecleveland2338]

This video breaks my heart. Such a great man--- a wise, thoughtful, well-informed leader. I turned 10 years old the day after this interview and my childhood innocence was shattered 11 weeks later on November 22, 1963.

[@pAusten]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@alfredfreedomjones5105]

Goodness he has the cutest laugh! Such an attractive and charismatic man ♥️

[@faded17383]

what a guy

[@lyndatrones1787]

One of a kind..💔

[@bt10ant]

How times have changed. Here the slips or mis-statements of the President are allowed to be re-recorded before broadcast. Now they pop up immediately as embarrassing sound bites.

[@jalisam8084]

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS SO SO ADORABLE AND HE HAD CHUBBY CHEEKS HE WAS VERY INTELLIGENT AND SMART AND IT'S WAS VERY ASHAMED OF THE CIA TO TAKE HIS LIFE AWAY LIKE THAT AFTER TWO YEARS HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT

[@jalisam8084]

+Dani Said bitch please

[@jalisam8084]

Oh ok

[@jalisam8084]

+Dani Said oh OK my bad i didn't know

[@jalisam8084]

+Dani Said ok what that mean

[@kennywebb7932]

Thank you so much for posting these I was born after he was killed but remember my kindergarden lunchroom had a blk.and white tv. playing his funeral and teachers still distraught....once again Thank you.

[@Xfranman]

Just watching brings back such memories. Only a later time would focus in on this president with the cold eye of historical reality. But in his day and in his time, he was a delight to watch and listen to. Our nation and our world changed on the day he was murdered. We would never be the same.

[@cm9859]

President John F Kennedy was my favorite President. Second would have been Bobby, he too would have been another great President. Hard to see this in 2023 still, outcome of JFK and RFK.

[@johnhayes7872]

It’s not transparent I seem to like it better when It was like this….Maybe it’s Kennedy, as we all know he’s got that way about him

[@kevinfitzmaurice4072]

From Sept. 9, 1963, the day NBC's "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" expanded from 15 minutes to a half-hour. Walter Cronkite interviewed JFK when the "CBS Evening News" went to 30 minutes a week earlier.

[@OysterHuman]

Kennedy had quite a head on his shoulders

[@markkeener569]

He did until 11/22/63

[@jonchaney]

Ironically, he would laugh at this comment. He had a sense of humor.

[@cm9859]

Robert F Kennedy Jr for President 2024

[@stunninglad1]

Mr. President is also the director in this show. There's no end to this man's talents. I must admit live TV is very hard and without scripts. editing and retakes, I would never complete a video. There's some very interesting policies being discussed here.

[@Airsoftcleaner]

That's why I say if he lived after The White House he would have owned The Patriots

[@stunninglad1]

Airsoftcleaner Yes he was the kind of man who wouldn't just stop at being President. He would have achieved much more.

[@RJN8580]

Airsoftcleaner Might be true....Jackie said he would have bought the Boston Globe as well

[@carlamoss1227]

he was a smart man and very cute

[@johnf.kennedy7540]

Thank you MS. Moss!

[@alessiasalzano8660]

So handsome and charming and smart! :D

[@jonchaney]

He was so damn sexy. That smile.

[@ferabra8939]

For all his glamour and iconic status, you can tell he's a shy guy. I think he said it himself and people close to him, that they never imagined him being a politician. Not the back-slapping, gregarious type at all. More a cerebral, reflexive person. Also, for all his youth, apparently looked quite old in person. As for the tax cut, he was a millionaire, his dad was a millionaire, he spent all his life among millionaires. Apparently he only found out about the Great Depression when he read about it years after it had passed. However, I think he would have been appalled with neocon economic policies.

[@freeguy77]

+Fer Abra He looked older (?) because he was using steroids to fight one of his illnesses, Addison's disease. It made his face fill-out, making him look much better than the skinny guy he was when in the House at 29 (Jan. 1947), or in the Senate (Jan. 1953 at 35). He was still only 46 and after 2 2/3 years in office, he had only 2 1/2 months to live. He was far more skeptical of the military and CIA after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion they suckered him into despite his correct instinct and misgivings on it. It was an Eisenhower-Nixon plan. After the BOP, he never again trusted the military brass or CIA's advice fully, and used his own knowledge and those of others he trusted. A smarter president the U.S. has never had since his passing, and never has there been one who inspired the nation as much since JFK. He saved the world from nuclear destruction in Oct. 1962 from the Cuban Missle Crisis, and we should always be grateful he was president and not Nixon.

[@ferabra8939]

freeguy77 All true, except apparently (I didn't meet him in person, only read about it) he actually looked old for his age, apart from his addison's disease treatments, and the many drugs he took for his back problems. Lots of wrinkles and grey heair. The Presidency took a toll on him. You can tell by the videos and pictures too. It's not just that he gained weight and his face was fuller. At around 1959 he didn't look 40 years old (he was 42), and around 1963 he looked at least 50.

[@freeguy77]

+Fer Abra You are the first person I've heard who said he looked 50-ish. Lots of wrinkles and grey hair??? Where do you see that on him? I'm sure he 'aged' a little in the 3 years since his election day, but not as much as you suggest. The films of him are (except for one) in black-and-white, further discrediting your view of him having grey hair. Here is the one example I've found of a film of him in color, but no date mentioned on when it was taken: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZ-Tn31oo6xrjLM The uploader person is quoted on a comment in saying, "Film was originally in color. Just did a little bit of color correction before uploading." I see maybe the beginning of wrinkles, but definitely no grey hair. I wish there was a date on when that film was made.

[@donfawcett8460]

+Fer Abra Presidency is a physical and mental killer. He was taking a lot of drugs administered by doctors, including a amphetamine cocktail. He was in poor condition, but presidency ages someone 20 years .

[@freeguy77]

Don Fawcett But he wasn't in office long enough to get grey hairs and looking older as the POTUS have after him. He barely aged at all, much less your 20 years. He was not in poor condition, except for his back because of his war injury.Yes, he took a lot of different drugs, but that doesn't prove he was about to go to the hospital in serious or worse condition. The present POTUS looks like he aged 10 years in less than his 8, now 54.

[@pcsbeat]

…And no teleprompter!

[@LenHummelChannel]

A brilliant politician and articulate idealist. Terrible that we lost him to the Deep State/CIA and mafioso.

[@jackmackenzie2482]

I have never missed a President or Man so much who was not a Family Member!! He was a Brand of a Government Employee that do me was unlike anyone since him. Shame on the people who surrounded such a Brilliant Leader. To think that none of those who planned his execution didn’t try and hide it. It was committed in broad daylight and no one was ever held accountable. I just turns my stomach when I think of that. Then a few short years later his Brother Bobby was Killed in broad daylight. And like his older brother in from of millions of people both a present and viewing audience. We lost 2 men whom no doubt made a difference and would have continued to do so. To think that such Hateful People could exist in this Country ( and I trust that there had to be some Americans Involved ) is positively disturbing!! RIP Mr. President!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@carlamoss1227]

Jackie was a lucky girl

[@freeguy77]

Carla, good one! She got a player, so that wasn't so lucky. But she got fame and fortune from him.

[@SuperLittleman101]

The last real President of our time. What if?

[@andrewconlow5627]

What he couldn't do in life, he has tripled what he has done in death. November 22, 1963 will always be a crummy day.

[@marilynlarosa6507]

WE were Never the Same after his Violent death and the political waters have become muddier and polluted

[@LB-ty6ks]

It was a very different country at that time.

[@charleshonig7080]

What a real President sounds like ❤😊!

[@MegaTriumph1]

He's being forced to answer to Truman, it seems like a snare for JFK he just keeps swatting them away in hope of some real questions. What an intelligent guy.

[@PM-1819pm]

Mr. President JFKs IQ was 159.8. Just wondering whats the IQ of Trump??? JFK was also the only president to win a Pulitzer Prize.

[@Paul5520]

What a President. That’s the sort of guy you need in the Driving seat.

[@roadrules3671]

Last TRULY Great President this country had.

[@irish89055]

+Road Rules I loved this President... but you Mr. Reagan was the last great President of the US...

[@irish89055]

You wouldn't say that to my face, I can assure you.. Punk...

[@FerraraM98]

Ron H horrible b8.

[@mojolightnin6846]

Road Rules Bullshit. Ronald Reagan.

[@mojolightnin6846]

Ronald Reagan. Fuck all democraps

[@dcbdiscerns7617]

Oh what could've been, America..😢

[@buckeyefarmboy107]

A Democrat wanting a tax cut unbelievable,

[@MrsHandyRU]

9:40 JFK makes an "Air Q"! 13:00 host explains JFK (still on video) speaks to Huntley and Brinkley about ELLA FITZGERALD and new movie starring AUDREY HEPBURN and CARY GRANT in CHARADE. Remember this when we see them ALL back again! Including our glorious Savior JFK as our 46th POTUS.

[@traseag5793]

✊🇺🇸... #218 ThankQ!

[@ChrisDutch]

That’s some good shit you’re using!

[@krisharper7481]

They're history, alright... The Trumpet. 99. Big. Deed. "Very Happy", Sir~ Welcome back🙏🇺🇸

[@carlamoss1227]

I like looking at him on you tube he's so handsome

[@kiwi_kini]

@Jimin Luv00 same

[@mortensenegbert6619]

(2:06) "I'm surprised at Truman, God. They get him on those morning walks..." Pretty funny, like dealing with a cranky old coot. Truman was a handful. He strongly backed LBJ in 1960 and gave a presser right before the convention criticizing the "strong-arm" tactics of the Kennedy's. JFK promptly gave a speech crisply asserting he had the delegates and that was that.

[@DaftSwank]

"We're not recording, huh?" . . . Is there other outtake footage from this interview with a good shot of Brinkley's smoldering pants?

[@subadrasankaran4148]

How super man and his English is very great

[@mikesmith7176]

In the top ten of U.S. Presidents, with Abraham Lincoln , Woodrow Wilson , and Eisenhower.

[@captainkavern]

Kennedy didnt think the movie Charade was any good...

[@williamgrear7467]

A great president!

[@jamesburgmann977]

No question a great president. And they murdered him on a Dallas street.

[@johnf.kennedy7540]

Speaking of economic growth, how is the economy today? And are _United States Notes_ still being issued? Hated the constant battle with the _Fedral Reserve_ ....

[@williamgrear7467]

I will NEVER forgive the United States Government for having JFK killed.

[@alfredoibarra4592]

Mr. Kennedy was a fantastic guy, full of energy, always wanting to make of this a better world, and that was the reason why the merchants of death ordered their murderers to silence him. In Latin America people of that time, we always have fond memories of him for his abundant help to us through his initiative: "Alianza Para El Progreso".

[@KaberleeTV]

I had an interesting thought today, Which is that a nation's future is dependent upon the vision laid out for it. But if there is no vision, then there is no hope. And if there is no leader, then there is no vision.

[@josephweaver335]

what's ur point!

[@makthnife]

a very interesting thought...but I would add that it isn't that there is no vision, just no cohesive vision. We have people beckoning Reagan's vision, fmr Defense Sec. Cohen (sic)...but I get your point. We are just "here" when we should be leading. It'll happen. Not soon enough....

[@mnbalfour1985]

What an insightful comment by senator Hubert Humphrey at 7:01.

[@burnttoast982]

The only true president i ever liked

[@zyxquark]

In South Vietnam at this time the President's name was Diem. He was a Roman Catholic and he began persecuting the Buddhists. In response one or two Buddhist monks sat down in the lotus posture, poured gasoline over themselves and lit themselves on fire. Just after this Diem was overthrown and he and his brother were killed. Six weeks after that JFK was assassinated. Five years after that HIS brother was killed just after winning the California primary in June as an anti-war candidate. This was the era I grew up in, so I remember it all clearly. Now I'm a Buddhist. Crazy, crazy times.

[@laureen96]

How intelligent he is, I guess .

[@amexjam55]

Kennedy proposed lowering the top tax rate from 91% to 74/%. But also raise the capital gains rate and the closing of all the loop holes on dividend withholdings and expense accounts so that the rich could pay their share of taxes. And in doing so more taxes would actually be collected bringing in more money that could be used on education, housing and other social programs and also have a balanced budget.

[@pauldurkin6770]

He was the best

[@nathonics]

Would’ve been so much different had he’d been re-elected and served two terms. I believe we’d have been so much better off. He seemed very down to earth, very approachable, and easy to talk to. He was so on point with every question and didn’t hesitate to get to the point. We lost such a great leader on November 22, 1963. Still haunting to think it happened only about 17 miles from where I live! We lost another great leader on Apr. 15, 1865. Would’ve been very interesting to see where we’d be if Lincoln had lived to see another term as well. Between him/JFK, I think we’d be better off to this day. RIP to both. They were awesome leaders.

[@nthrasher04]

There is a reason he is popular among Republicans today. Listen to him talk, It truly blows me away because I am so used to the ideology of todays democratic party. R's or D's this is the kind of talk we need in Washington.

[@attaboi8110]

The press and president were so chummy here, like golf buddies. No wonder 70-80 percent of Americans at the time believed the government would never lie to them. The news media were clearly doing a poor job reporting what was going on in D.C.

[@traseag5793]

When a Democrat cared about their country... AND its people! 💚JFK - 27!

[@willdrucker4291]

Our last great president....😢😢😢😢😢

[@BladedHorizon]

2 months later......

[@teresamacey7039]

Back when our President made us proud. Back when presidents knew how to lead and when the two parties actually worked together to solve our nation's problems.

[@RandomDudeOne]

This is early days of videotape, that's why they recorded this candid stuff. It they'd been shooting film they most likely would have turned off the cameras between questions to conserve the film.

[@stewartj3407]

And this is back when the media were respectable. Not out solely for some gotcha moment. The media today would be waiting for him to screw up so they could have their headlines.

[@etniks69]

Diem the South Vietnamese dictator was assassinated on November 2 1963 in a US plot, and this interview is from September 9, 1963, which means Kennedy knew of it (such plots take a lot of work and time to execute) at the time of this interview.

[@0907oliv]

In listening to the tapes, the American government had known for some time that the Vietnamese generals wanted to overthrow Diem. The very last tape on this subject of a meeting that happened a day or two before the coup, the general consensus was that a coup probably will not happen, but if it does, the U.S. will not do anything to stop it. It was not a U.S. plot, but that does not mean that the American ambassador to Vietnam and/or the CIA operatives on the ground were not supporting it or part of a plot.

[@RJN8580]

After some research...the CIA went over Kennedy's head and allowed the coup on Nov 2....20 days later the CIA had another Coup....and LBJ was installed as President.

[@RJN8580]

0907oliv You are correct....Jack Kennedy was scheduled to fire Henry Cabot Lodge on November 25th after the Texas trip in which he and Mrs. Kennedy was scheduled to stay at the LBJ Ranch..in which we know he never made it.

[@TedH.]

etniks JFK was revolted when he was informed of Diem's Assassination. He had nothing to do with it.

[@ChrisDutch]

Kennedy was as shocked as anyone when Diem was murdered.

[@lmullin1000]

This is hard to watch, knowing that he had 2 more months to live....

[@jshalom65]

When JFK was shot my Mammaw got the news from NBC and Huntley & Brinkley,from their San Angelo,Texas affiliate

[@markkeener569]

He sought the same things then, that Trump is solving today.

[@tsjonathan]

anyone know what that knot is called? on his tie

[@mepperganfortas]

Trumps policies are nearly identical to those spoken about by JFK today. Makes you think.

[@samspade3227]

Wow, a tax cut to stimulate the economy. He sounds more Republican than Democrat.

[@roypiper581]

I adore Kennedy but am NOT impressed by the fact that the press, which is supposto be objective, openly helped him re-do questions so he looked good.

[@nickcurran3105]

WOW!! A Democrat president advocating a tax cut? Shocking.