Video biography john f kennedy

America's 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, embodied many contradictions. Born to great privilege and exuding personal vigor in public, he privately suffered relentless physical pain.

Video biography john f kennedy

A champion of progress and science, he navigated the nation through one of the most frightening incidents in world history—one in which science might have enabled destruction and death on an unprecedented scale. Admired for his youthful energy and fresh vision, he was robbed of the chance to fulfill his presidential potential, felled by an assassin's bullet at the age of only

The videos below include vintage newsreels and footage that reveal Kennedy as the first president perfectly suited to the TV age.

They showcase not only his camera-friendly looks, intelligence and charisma, but the vision and hope he inspired in Americans—and the immense national grief they shared upon his death.