Robert Dallek: Inside the Kennedy White House

Fifty years after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, distinguished presidential historian and bestselling author Robert Dallek provides a striking portrait of the iconic president and his inner circle of advisers in this one-hour interview with National Constitution Center president Jeffrey Rosen.

[@spockboy]

8:28 Actually JFK knew Ted Sorensen VERY well. He was with JFK for 11 years in total, and helped him become President. He referred to Sorensen as his "intellectual blood bank" Great video by the way. : )

[@charlessomerset9754]

Rose must have suffered more than any Kennedy. Imagine her tragic losses and crushing grief. The only person who could possibly understand would have been Aletta Sullivan.

[@jb-vb8un]

ya leave out the lobotomizf daughter and MARY JO KOPECHNE

[@charlessomerset9754]

@@jb-vb8un true.

[@karanveersingh6367]

Audio problem in between.

[@robertfeinberg748]

The 1960 election was stolen, and I don't believe the Warren Commission. There are some videos that present the Mob's POV, and I think they're more credible.

[@vernpascal1531]

Good points. A lot more than The Mob...

[@PJ2437]

There's always that "what if" about JFK and "what could have been. Honestly, I can see how any historian could rank him over Reagan or Obama. He simply was President long enough and/or didn't have the achievements. A tragedy he was killed before he could achieve more.

[@jermainecade6282]

he said jfk jr killed in plane crash

[@karanveersingh6367]

How can Oswald shoot more than 3 bullets in less than 3 seconds?

[@daveobrien6797]

8-9 seconds

[@432b86ed]

The more problematic issue is the fact that the bullets were overlapping (according to many witnesses immediately following the incident) in a manner that is impossible from a bolt action rifle. bang-- bang-bang.

[@JBevan85]

@@432b86ed I think it’s safe to say eye witnesses are wrong a lot of the time. Could the sound haven ricocheted off of the over pass? Maybe. Could they have heard the crack of the round passing near them after it was fired? Also more than possible.

[@432b86ed]

@@JBevan85 I'll give credence to the first hand witnesses that heard 2 shots almost overlapping, and heard gunfire from the fence line. The WC invited none of them to testify. And there were _many._

[@JBevan85]

@@432b86ed we all have our opinions, but two shooters with a signal enough to overlap is a little stretch for me. Plus ballistics and trajectory. Plus other witnesses not corroborating what you’ve said. But we all have our own thoughts I guess.

[@dstorm7752]

Democrats think the Constitution is merely a blank slate on which they can write their ideology.

[@nightowl5475]

D Storm You’re right. They think everybody loves the democrats. The democrats betrayed the forgotten Americans. That’s why we stopped voting for them bums. I stopped supporting the democrats when I grew up and started to question their policies. I call it my age of reason. I haven’t voted for a Democratic in over 20 years and have no plans to ever vote democratic ever again.

[@robertfeinberg748]

@Brenda Rawlins Many years ago a poll was taken and most people didn't believe the report, a minority did, while 2% thought LBJ did it, and 2% had never heard of JFK.

[@davidpallin772]

And the current Republicans think it’s ok to overturn an election and riot in the US Capitol?

[@jb-vb8un]

'believe' murder @ CHAPPAQUIDDICK

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[@hardnewsvegan2069]

Pleasant guy; great soft-ball parlor conversationalist. But either a dope or instrument of disinformation. The official story on assassination is a joke blinking red. He'd rather dish out the pablum spiked just right with un-scandal. People like him always get the mainstream media microphone. His type always perpetuating easy swallowing untruths and laughing all the way to the next insiders's cocktail party.......

[@wally1452]

Tuber...You nailed it! If he gave any hard truth as Mark Lane or Jim Marrs, (& maybe this Daniel Sheehan I just came across, who sounds awful good) the big NBC, ABC, CBS, etc, will not have Mr Sheehan on...look him up. I was amazed at what he lays out with the facts/& support.) BUT...I read Dallek's stuff, then saw him everywhere to sell his books and he reminds me of many who just have others collect some stuff they can piece into a book and never, ever give us a damn thing...he is a waste of time. This Daniel Sheehan said in video on KZbin that Gerald Posner and this Bugliosi are full of it, they always support the Warren Commision...they are CIA stooges as most media is. Just think of all the damn fools who get filthy rich and never cared about the brilliance of JFK and make money off his name. Bastards.

[@uncletony6210]

@@wally1452 Lane was controlled opposition.

[@denniscassley2569]

EXACTLY!! Goodness gracious, it WAS a conspiracy. LIFE magazine was set to run the expose on LBJ on the 24th, with material given to them by RFK. They WERE going to drop LBJ from the ticket for Terry Sanford of North Carolina, right? They would HAVE to have dropped him from the ticket, because he would've been mired in scandal. This segment here is a damn FAIRY TALE.

[@kimmartin6160]

@@wally1452 If thats who you believe Good Luck and welcome to the church of beleiving anything The conspiracys fool you guys when they dont agree with each other

[@kimmartin6160]

@@wally1452 Youre not a historian he is and too f bad he dont agree with that BS

[@jerrymcgrath3662]

Daleck continues to attack JFKs,character

[@wannawatchu66]

Like those who continue to attack Trump's character.

[@kimmartin6160]

As well he should we know more than we did then Using the CIA TO KILL CASTRO Probably alot more Warren commision had to steer away from that and alot was because of the wishes of the Kennedy family

[@jb-vb8un]

JFK, reckles serial predator

[@patrickmurphy4572]

5 words, Back and to the left. Kennedy's brains end up on the truck. Watch the Zapruder film. It's Irrefutable. The death shot came from the grassy knoll. The Warren report (or should I say the Dulles Report) is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated. Why do some historians not get it?

[@vernpascal1531]

Absolutely. If you don't tell us The Magic Bullet Theory is garbage and an insult to the world...you are not any Historian. Same with JFK pulling out of Vietnam a fact! and the fatal head shot from The Grassy Knoll. Are you gonna tell us seriously that a Neurospasm can overcome a bullet going some 2500 feet per second? The Bullet is already through JFK's head before there could be any opposite reaction.

[@jb-vb8un]

HA HA HA HA HA HO HO HO HO HO HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE

[@leeweisbecker6048]

check out max Taylor's online memoirs as to whether we were close to nuclear war in 1962, wasn't so; the Kennedy team myth

[@chenyilee9771]

This interview focused too much on JFK personal life and his medical problems. Tell me, were those problems affected JFK's Presidency? As a writer or historian, Mr. Dallek imprudently offer his opinion on hypothetical questions such as JFK's second term performance....... He also got it wrong on the assignation bullets. I do not believe he practices sound journalism..... get the fact, doing your research....

[@karanveersingh6367]

Yes Kennedy's are real Dynasties.

[@jb-vb8un]

elitist megalomamiacs financed thru oganised crime

[@EtherealAriel]

They're jump-ups.🙄

[@celticlofts]

I guess Robert Dallek is a republican...

[@jb-vb8un]

since ya present NO FACTS, keep 'guessing'

[@wayofthinkin]

Dallek is another sold out " historian ". He has been drinking the Kool Aid , and is not to be believed , let alone trusted. He is so afraid to tell the truth about the coup d'e tat , that not only murdered our President, but destroyed our democracy. Shame on him.

[@irvingr.fatback886]

wayofthinkin dallek is a historian who deals in facts not wacky unproven conspiracy theories

[@vernpascal1531]

@@irvingr.fatback886 -Well the Magic Bullet farce is as far from a fact as you can get!

[@rockintetster]

Vern Pascal 3 shots. The first shot missed. The second shot shot hit Kennedy in the back of the neck, pierced his throat, and then pierced Connaly’s torso, hit his arm and Ricocheted into his thigh. The bullet was recovered on hospital stretcher. It showed some deformation, but since it was a full jacketed bullet, a whole range of deformation or lack thereof, is possible. The third and fatal shot hit Kennedy in the back of his head, it pierced his skull and exited the front of the head. That’s it, that’s how it happened. X-ray and autopsy photos have proven entry wounds from behind the victims and exit wounds in the front. Ballistic tests prove that the bullets came from Oswald’s rifle to the exclusion of all other weapons. No other bullets, bullet fragments or traces of impact by bullets were discovered at the scene. This has been reported by the Warren commission, substantiated by the house select committee on assassinations, by the Clark panel, and by the Rockefeller commission. CBS News (twice), ABC News, NBC news, and PBS (twice) have all produced studies and documentaries, over four decades, concurring with this conclusion. The case has been solved. If you draw a different conclusion, by definition you must believe that all of these investigations have been willfully fraudulent and that all engaged in a giant conspiracy to deceive the American public. That is absurd position. Oswald acted alone. Dallek Is a logical and intelligent historian. If he suspected fraud or incompetence in all of the investigations of the assassination, why wouldn’t he blow the whistle? Who is he protecting?

[@vernpascal1531]

@@rockintetster -Not true. Both FBI Agents at Autopsy did not believe it, nor both Autopsy Assistants,nor the X-Ray Tech,Nor many other Doctors and nurses.

[@rockintetster]

Vern Pascal Yeah? Please sight your source.

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[@dend1961]

another ignorant, no rigor in research, again and again and again, truth seems to have no value to those people, faulty reason again

[@jb-vb8un]

since ya have NO FACTS, that assessment lacks validity

[@dend1961]

@@jb-vb8un thats true, but the official version contains tons of contradictions, so the reason should questions, evidences, when a serious and deep research is applied, point in a direction, the official version contradict that direction