1963: PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S cousins in IRELAND | Tonight | Weird & Wonderful | BBC Archive

Alan Whicker reports from the Irish ancestral homestead of US President John F Kennedy in Limerick and Wexford.
Distant relations of the President are interviewed about their famous cousin.
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One, Thursday 18 April, 1963.
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[@mybookfacetube]

I loved Whicker's World. He was one of a kind.

[@frankbrennan1619]

Sir Alan Whicker or should have been...

[@JonBaldie]

Astonishing to think his assassination was 60 years ago today.

[@GallagherGeotecminning]

Whicker,the coolest man ever

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

This is brilliant

[@Jmbl0255]

Sound quality is good

[@johngreene7911]

That Fitzgerald farmer is the spit of JFK’s grandfather and the 4th cousin at the end is an absolute ringer for the man himself, same charming subtle nuances

[@Muninman]

Lucan Ice Creams - perhaps the 7th Earl John Bingham was hiding out there!

[@mc-yt2rc]

Clutching at straws a little bit...god bless them.

[@dougie1968]

Is Alan Whicker himself related?

[@mickmackem1479]

Kennedy had decent milk round

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No he is not

[@jasonayres]

In 1963, people who were excited to claim any attachments to the then President.
About 🤔 twenty years later, there was a popular song on the radio called "Glad I'm not a Kennedy."
Kids now would probably ask you,
"Ken.. who?"

[@marine4lyfe85]

Also a punk group called the Dead Kennedys.

[@jasonayres]

@marine4lyfe85 Oh yeah.
My brother was a fan.
I think the "singer's" name was.. Jello?
Long time ago.
Probably another reason why the "Glad I'm not a Kennedy" song makes sense.