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American Experience: JFK DVD & Blu-ray

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American Experience: JFKIn this probing biography, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. Beginning with Kennedy's childhood years as the privileged but sickly son of one of the wealthiest men in America, the film explores his early political career as a... ... More
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American Experience: JFK

In this probing biography, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents a fresh look at an enigmatic man who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders, John F. Kennedy. Beginning with Kennedy's childhood years as the privileged but sickly son of one of the wealthiest men in America, the film explores his early political career as a lackluster congressman, his successful run for the U.S. Senate, and the game-changing presidential campaign that made him the youngest elected president in U.S. history. With the benefit of recently opened archives, the film recounts his struggles with life-threatening illnesses, and his efforts to keep them hidden from the public.

JFK offers a new perspective on his complicated private life, including his relationship with his wife, his close connection to his younger brother, Robert, and his complex bond with his powerful father. It also reevaluates Kennedy's strengths and weaknesses in the Oval Office as he navigated some of the most explosive events of the mid-twentieth century - the disastrous failure at the Bay of Pigs, the urgent demands of an increasingly impatient civil rights movement, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the escalating conflict in Southeast Asia.

Producer: Susan Bellows
Production Year: 2013
Copyright Year: 2013
Narrator: Oliver Platt
Discs: 2
Subtitles: Y
Subtitle Language: English (SDH)
Audio Format: 5.1 Surround
Aspect Ratio: 16x9 Widescreen


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Jill L. reviewed American Experience: JFK DVD & Blu-ray
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JFK American Experience
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JFK American Experience ---- one word will do: SPECTACULAR
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Dottie reviewed American Experience: JFK DVD & Blu-ray
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History with a human heart
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I wasnt born in this era, but this program helped me to understand what it was like. It did a great job of telling the whole story of JFK not just the myth. Well made and presented. I would highly recommend.
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Review by Miriomnibus review stating American Experience: JFK DVD by PBS
For anyone who wants to see shots of the Kennedy presidency this is it. You cant beat the TWO disc set from the PBS. You get all the history from when he first started dating Jacqueline Bovier to running for the Senate to his Presidency with the Bay of Pigs and of course, the assignation and the end is the outstanding funeral that his young wife put together in less than a week, while she was moving out of het home, the White House, due to an edict from Johnson to MOVE OUT so WE CAN MOVE IN! With a message that...if you need anything let us know, we care deeply for you. Talk about speaking out of both sides of your mouth, this is it! I honesty think he was responsible for joining the men who killed OUR President but there is no proof yet, at least we now have more information released to us from the file that were kept in a vault for the fifty years since the Presidents assassination. So in my humble opinion this two disc set of JFK and his wife, JBK, this is a must if you truly want to know the Kennedy history.

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