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Kennedy

Kennedy

—The remarkable life, enduring legacy and ambitious leadership of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.
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Season 18 of 8 Episodes

  • Kennedy navigates his formative years, including his time in school, his relationship with his family, and his early interests in history and politics.

  • After the United States joins the war against Nazi Germany and Japan, Jack joins the Navy and is deployed to the Pacific.

  • Coming home after the Second World War, Kennedy begins a career in politics, running for the House of Representatives in Massachusetts.

  • Kennedy embarks on an unprecedented 5-year campaign for the presidency, revolutionizing modern campaigning and the use of television.

  • The youngest president ever elected, Kennedy faces the height of the Cold War and a national civil rights crisis.

  • After nuclear weapons are placed 90 miles from the Florida coast in Cuba, Kennedy faces his ultimate trial, the most dangerous moment in human history.

  • Bringing the country back from the brink of nuclear war, Kennedy pursues diplomacy with the Soviets and decides to address civil rights in a way no president has before: as a moral issue.

  • The final months of John F. Kennedy's life and the legacy he left behind.
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The remarkable life, enduring legacy and ambitious leadership of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.

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Peter Coyote

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