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

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024

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  • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
    @FreeDocumentaryHistory  8 місяців тому +30

    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
      @joet8931 8 місяців тому

      Qwq a q sad moment that

    • @ELIOSANFELIU
      @ELIOSANFELIU 7 місяців тому +1

      Really nice documentary¡¡Thank you¡¡

    • @StevenKeery
      @StevenKeery 7 місяців тому +3

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

    • @Mackenzie-p4e12boom
      @Mackenzie-p4e12boom 5 місяців тому +1

      RIP❤❤

    • @tjdomerny4847
      @tjdomerny4847 15 днів тому

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

  • @ThePatrick4840
    @ThePatrick4840 8 місяців тому +40

    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
      @tatata1543 8 місяців тому +1

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

    • @danwright1794
      @danwright1794 8 місяців тому

      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
      @paulsimon6544 7 місяців тому +2

      Even the adultery inspires you?

    • @ThePatrick4840
      @ThePatrick4840 7 місяців тому +12

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

    • @paulsimon6544
      @paulsimon6544 7 місяців тому

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

  • @geraldhillard2146
    @geraldhillard2146 3 місяці тому +16

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

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  3 місяці тому +2

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

    • @ThePatrick4840
      @ThePatrick4840 Місяць тому

      And CLASSIER.

    • @swalls48
      @swalls48 24 дні тому

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

  • @chrise.2666
    @chrise.2666 8 місяців тому +61

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

    • @katehughes1860
      @katehughes1860 8 місяців тому +2

      Nixon was I’ll

    • @anthonyfrias5533
      @anthonyfrias5533 8 місяців тому +5

      I would have voted nixon in 1960

    • @AA-ke5cu
      @AA-ke5cu 8 місяців тому +4

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

    • @davidharper8500
      @davidharper8500 8 місяців тому +5

      Smoke and mirrors. Cult of personality

    • @real.mir_
      @real.mir_ 8 місяців тому +7

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

  • @faunwillow
    @faunwillow 8 місяців тому +27

    ❤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.❤

  • @francis802us
    @francis802us 8 місяців тому +20

    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
      @HistoricalAnalysis12 8 місяців тому +2

      Old men with old thinking, right?

    • @SueTucker-ub4pc
      @SueTucker-ub4pc 8 місяців тому +5

      Exactly old old old. We need a new JFK

    • @January.
      @January. 8 місяців тому +2

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

    • @johntillotson4254
      @johntillotson4254 7 місяців тому

      Agreed

  • @EmoNiezsche31
    @EmoNiezsche31 8 місяців тому +11

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

    • @helenachase5627
      @helenachase5627 7 місяців тому +5

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

  • @mdquaglia
    @mdquaglia 8 місяців тому +27

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

  • @Ckom-Tunes
    @Ckom-Tunes 8 місяців тому +39

    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
      @greggprice3609 3 місяці тому +4

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

    • @duplicitouscanadian3073
      @duplicitouscanadian3073 2 місяці тому +1

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

  • @sirandrelefaedelinoge
    @sirandrelefaedelinoge 8 місяців тому +8

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

  • @TheGreyLineMatters
    @TheGreyLineMatters 8 місяців тому +8

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

  • @iainpaton1865
    @iainpaton1865 8 місяців тому +11

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

  • @johntillotson4254
    @johntillotson4254 7 місяців тому +6

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

    • @January.
      @January. 7 місяців тому

      *President Kennedy

    • @helenachase5627
      @helenachase5627 7 місяців тому

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

  • @kmcneely94
    @kmcneely94 8 місяців тому +9

    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?

  • @cahlendavidson2921
    @cahlendavidson2921 8 місяців тому +10

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

  • @HistoricalAnalysis12
    @HistoricalAnalysis12 8 місяців тому +5

    great video ! thanks for watching !

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um 8 місяців тому +10

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

  • @-khosroemamiahari2883
    @-khosroemamiahari2883 7 місяців тому +2

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

  • @Ghost_Rider_786
    @Ghost_Rider_786 8 місяців тому +9

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

  • @MaryPoppins-d1k
    @MaryPoppins-d1k Місяць тому +3

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

    • @Kerwin-Kendell
      @Kerwin-Kendell Місяць тому +1

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

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 15 днів тому +1

      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
      @Kerwin-Kendell 15 днів тому +1

      @@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 👓 & 🕶️ 🙂

  • @hisoverlorduponhigh90
    @hisoverlorduponhigh90 8 місяців тому +14

    The last real President.

  • @弘历爱新觉罗
    @弘历爱新觉罗 8 місяців тому +7

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

  • @Tin-Trump
    @Tin-Trump 7 місяців тому +1

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

  • @Ghost_Rider_786
    @Ghost_Rider_786 8 місяців тому +10

    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

  • @tatata1543
    @tatata1543 8 місяців тому +4

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

  • @Green_Roc
    @Green_Roc 8 місяців тому +6

    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
      @MsVanorak 15 днів тому +1

      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.

  • @cynic2all
    @cynic2all 7 місяців тому +2

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

  • @jacquelinejanz5792
    @jacquelinejanz5792 25 днів тому

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

  • @jordanwilliams8040
    @jordanwilliams8040 8 місяців тому +5

    Great head of hair

  • @shawnastephens1536
    @shawnastephens1536 7 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @Barbie72-MAGA
    @Barbie72-MAGA Місяць тому

    great video 👍

  • @tobygoodguy4032
    @tobygoodguy4032 8 місяців тому +3

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

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 15 днів тому

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

  • @gagadreams
    @gagadreams 8 місяців тому +7

    Cool! 🇺🇸

  • @prinzessindianavonbaden787
    @prinzessindianavonbaden787 8 місяців тому +2

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

  • @jennifer_m.8613
    @jennifer_m.8613 8 місяців тому +1

    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
      @sandranorman5469 8 місяців тому

      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
      @SuperGreatSphinx 3 місяці тому

      Deus Vult

  • @BruceMacDonald-vc3bx
    @BruceMacDonald-vc3bx 8 місяців тому +1

    THINK SHINEDOWN " " THE DEAD DONT DIE :"

  • @CalCaines
    @CalCaines 22 дні тому

    He turned history in a new direction….

  • @timgallagher9229
    @timgallagher9229 20 днів тому

    Just his war story is remarkable!!!!

  • @jamestharp7880
    @jamestharp7880 8 місяців тому +2

    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.
      @January. 8 місяців тому +1

      *corroborate *grandfather *lifelong *once said

  • @winstonsmith935
    @winstonsmith935 8 місяців тому +2

    Yes but who took him out?

    • @JavierValverde-dw7cy
      @JavierValverde-dw7cy 8 місяців тому

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

  • @AnaPaulinacom
    @AnaPaulinacom 8 місяців тому +2

    #ForeignPolicy ✨️

  • @bikramshrestha9371
    @bikramshrestha9371 7 місяців тому +3

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

    • @StrangeThing22
      @StrangeThing22 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @gracemwende8054
    @gracemwende8054 7 місяців тому

    Thank you soo much my family tongethar ❤

  • @sweetesthawaiianprincess8086
    @sweetesthawaiianprincess8086 8 місяців тому +3

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

  • @angloaust1575
    @angloaust1575 8 місяців тому +4

    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!

  • @trainnerd3029
    @trainnerd3029 8 місяців тому +2

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

  • @williambillmulholland4799
    @williambillmulholland4799 8 місяців тому +1

    I can help.

  • @AlexXxsID
    @AlexXxsID 8 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @dwseawell
    @dwseawell 8 місяців тому +2

    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
      @sandranorman5469 8 місяців тому

      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
      @StevenKeery 7 місяців тому +1

      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
      @MsVanorak 15 днів тому

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

  • @tupacshakur5368
    @tupacshakur5368 5 місяців тому +1

  • @tjdomerny4847
    @tjdomerny4847 3 місяці тому

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

    • @MsVanorak
      @MsVanorak 15 днів тому

      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
      @tjdomerny4847 15 днів тому

      @@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.

  • @umm521
    @umm521 11 днів тому

    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
      @umm521 11 днів тому

      But I remember those days in history

  • @lastmexicano
    @lastmexicano 5 місяців тому +1

    8:00

  • @Quincdooryia
    @Quincdooryia 8 місяців тому

    The Poland and Germany prt also his daddy looks good

  • @emermbiemeri
    @emermbiemeri 7 місяців тому +1

    bota duhet patruar

  • @michaelirizarry2276
    @michaelirizarry2276 2 місяці тому

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

  • @hopaideia
    @hopaideia Місяць тому

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

    • @junosake
      @junosake 8 днів тому +1

      Johnson was from Texas. Winning that state was strategic.

  • @BruceMacDonald-vc3bx
    @BruceMacDonald-vc3bx 8 місяців тому

    THEY VOTE

  • @HenryCasillas
    @HenryCasillas 8 місяців тому +1

    🌻

  • @manikandank2538
    @manikandank2538 8 місяців тому +1

    👍👍

  • @KennanLandon-b4b
    @KennanLandon-b4b 2 місяці тому

    White Island

  • @huangtom9940
    @huangtom9940 2 місяці тому +2

    Go JFK! Go Republican! Go for Trump❤

  • @Mayito_Tamps
    @Mayito_Tamps 8 місяців тому +1

    Kennedy 2024 🇺🇸

    • @January.
      @January. 8 місяців тому

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

  • @rad4579
    @rad4579 29 днів тому

    His daddy bought it.

  • @rubi588
    @rubi588 8 місяців тому

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

  • @JoanVanPelt
    @JoanVanPelt 4 місяці тому +1

    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.

  • @oldstyleanalog6459
    @oldstyleanalog6459 8 місяців тому +10

    God bless u Mr Kennedy

    • @SaltyChips-dh3mp
      @SaltyChips-dh3mp 8 місяців тому

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

    • @SuperGreatSphinx
      @SuperGreatSphinx 3 місяці тому

      ​@@SaltyChips-dh3mp
      Divine Mercy

  • @jduarte7321
    @jduarte7321 5 днів тому

    Is it just me or is his father the real main character of the legend that is JFK? Seems like daddy paid for his fancy high schools that he didn’t do great in. Paid for his way to Harvard. Influenced him to sail the safer waters in WW2 (although his story is really wild), basically paid for his Congress position with 90 billboards. Dad didn’t let him marry his original lives cuz they didn’t match up. And his connections with Hollywood made him look all great with make up. Even though the content with Nixon spoken was a tie. His image won him the Presidency. Than when JFK becomes president. Botches the Bay of Pigs. Now I see he created the Peace Corps, influenced the space race, and made tax cuts. But for some reason when learning about him. He seems like a male Kardashian who made it because of dad. Is it just me?

  • @Barbie72-MAGA
    @Barbie72-MAGA Місяць тому

    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 ❤

  • @FirstLast-gc1nj
    @FirstLast-gc1nj 8 місяців тому

    Albania triangle

  • @boomerang0101
    @boomerang0101 8 місяців тому +2

    1st 🥇

    • @633ohioc
      @633ohioc 8 місяців тому +1

      You are far from first buddy buddy 😂

    • @boomerang0101
      @boomerang0101 8 місяців тому

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

    • @633ohioc
      @633ohioc 8 місяців тому +1

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

    • @boomerang0101
      @boomerang0101 8 місяців тому

      @@633ohioc no I was. It’s a UA-cam error.

    • @633ohioc
      @633ohioc 8 місяців тому +1

      @@boomerang0101 🤣🤣🤣

  • @johnwinthrop2702
    @johnwinthrop2702 8 місяців тому

    Is this an irish documentary?

  • @delorme9
    @delorme9 3 місяці тому

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

  • @user-mr2um7iz3l
    @user-mr2um7iz3l 7 місяців тому +2

    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
      @MsVanorak 15 днів тому

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