Part Two -
JFK: american experience

Fri, Jul 17 9:00 P.M. NHPBS (11.1)  

Follow Kennedy into the White House through his assassination and the unfulfilled promise of his presidency. Offering fresh assessments of the successes and failures of his tenure, this episode features frank appraisals by administration officials, including John Siegenthaler, Thomas Hughes and Harris Wofford, civil rights leaders Andrew Young and Julian Bond, and journalists Evan Thomas and Richard Reeves.

Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 102

All broadcast times for this episode: (show all)

Fri, Jul 17

9:00 P.M.

Part Two     NHPBS (11.1)

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About JFK: American Experience:

This biography provides a fresh look at an enigmatic man, who remains one of the nation's most beloved and mourned leaders.

Beginning with Kennedy's childhood years as the privileged but sickly second son of one 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 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-20th 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.

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