Reactions to news of President Kennedy's death
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- Reactions to news of President Kennedy's death. (Footage provided by John F. Kennedy Presidential Library)
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“The president of the United States.. is dead”
This quote..
Tuff
what about it lol
@@xijinpingsupremeleader5259 weeaboo L
@@DeclanMeehan2024 -90 social credit
@@xijinpingsupremeleader5259 Nothing happened in 1984. What is thailand? I only have one child and he can only play 1 hour of video games per day
Thing here, is that many suspected at first that the Russians have something to do with it, but it was becoming clear that the Soviet Union were genuinely shocked at the assassination and they sought to help the US in the investigation as a means to simmer down any possible misunderstanding between them.
CIA did it. Kennedy wanted to splinter CIA and is against federal reserve. 12 days before his assassination he wanted to get all documents about their space program and the reason why he was against the federal reserve is because of its illegal taxes. Come on guys.
Even they knew Oswald was off his rocker and didn't want him making waves for them.
It was Israel, anyone saying anything else is a dusinfo agent
@@Raksody lol gotta love the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
@@Raksody No dude, it was the australians for sure
That elderly man just silently crying is heartbreaking.
Pure despair.. heartbreaking
crying over a president that he’s never met…….LOL 🤣
@@KR-mm4el don’t people cry over the deaths of celebrities they haven’t met. i’d argue this is even more justified cause they had no idea what would happen to the country after this
@@KR-mm4el just because someone hasn't met someone, doesn't mean that they don't have feelings for them. i see you don't have much experience from life
@@moonmomyeehaw1207 yes, and all of those people forming these parasocial relationships with celebrities are idiots as well.
Let’s not forget his wife, who was right by his side and held him while he died. His blood was on her shirt and she refused to change out, wanting to let the world know what happened. I felt so bad for her.
(Edit) First off, damn. Didn’t even notice this comment got lots of likes. Second, y’all arguing in the comments have me laughing
@@niel6680 Even if she was, he was still her husband. She was right next to him, he was her husband, the father of her children, & she held his brain in her hands. I can't even begin to imagine how traumatizing that was for Jackie.
@@niel6680 even if it was a stranger, most people will still probably pay some respect
His poor wife…
@@tby3502 run from a moving vehicle?
@@ngari117 watch the video back, as soon as she realized he was being assassinated she climbed up the vehicle and wanted to almost jump off the moving car.
My parents were against on alot of JFK's policies. But when his assasination happened? They both believed that USA was headed downhill from there.
I mean, they ain't wrong. The US was at it's zenith of power in the 50's. The JFK assassination was the moment when the CIA/Wall Street industrial complex usurped the system
@@jacobmuraco4276 China I can see but the 90s was the very definition of a bad time for Russia. And to this day they're still an economic backwater with an even more oligarchic system than the US whose only saving grace is a reliance on natural gases, not unlike the Arabian and Venezuelan reliance on oil to prop up their regimes' cashflow.
Your parents are probably still defending the secret society he was talking about
@@jacobmuraco4276 yeah, but during the 90s Russia was really unstable and could of easily had another collapse
Kennedy tried to stop the federal reserve from existing like Andrew Jackson
you know he was a good president when the citizens are crying real tears.
today it would be tears of relief
@@boog2383 aww I hurt your feelings lmao. It’s okay baby, breathe in and out
@@boog2383 I’m a woman but thanks lmao
@@boog2383 nigga you’re the one that’s Butthurt cause I don’t agree with you lmaooo
@@boog2383 baby you’re butthurt lmao. You started talking shit for no reason
My grandmother was 23 at the time and lived in Madeira: a portuguese island in the middle of the Atlantic. She heard the news on the radio as she didn't own a tv. Such was the impact that she made it her mission to visit JFK's memorial 45 years later upon our first visit to the states. Even with an injured knee she couldn't be stopped to pay her respects to the president.
dafuq.
what a lovely woman.
Isnt that where ronaldo is from
Um português aqui?
@@iesaismail9965 yep
i'm sorry but I can't imagine people crying for a president nowadays
It depends. If someone like Trump all of a sudden dropped we all know his fans would start screaming and pissing and crying over it. Everybody else would probably throw a party though. On the other hand I don't think people care enough about Biden to cry over him. I mean he's basically hanging on by a thread already lmfao
None of the presidents in the last 30 years were worth a shit
If it was Trump, half the population would be getting drunk, partying in the streets and screaming in celebration while the other half would be raging at liberals and democrats and trying to start a war.
Was just about to say the same :/
Especially with the bozos we have in office now lmao. Fuck em
It's chilling to see this. It was an event nobody could have imagined.
Shut up
@@ABC-ik9vj What is wrong with you?
Except the CIA
You probably don't even know shit nor give a shit
Except the CIA 😉
Not me thinking we would have an interviewer asking everyone what they thought of the tragedy
Where was Nardwuar?!
Do do do do do
Shoot shoot!
@@darkjanggo Mister Oswald;how do you keep your pants up when you're fleeing the police?! It's incredible!
@@chillseekr :/ unfunny
@@nelsonwilkins347 too soon?
The fact that the kremlin nearly shat itself, about the possibility that one of their guys did it, was insane, the mere possibility for them to cause a war made them freak. (Which does make sense)
Why did this make me laugh out loud
Neither party wanted a war against the other lol, crazy times.
what’s the kremlin ?
Just some CIA wet work of course. JFK wanted to get rid of these intelligence groups, he was also critical of the Federal Reserve and "learsI" which are biiiig no nos. Trying to get rid of these types of groups and gaining independence from the central "sknaB" got Ghadaffi killed and played a role in WW2 since "ynamreG" did the same thing and arrested some "sdlichshtoR" and got rid of the central "knaB" in place of their own unique currency
@@c.odubhlaoich2948 you ok?
I had a teacher that was in middle school when JFK was murdered. When she heard the tragic news, she stayed in her room all day (crying on her bed), and didn't eat for the rest of the day. She told me that she thought that the world was ending. It was such a dark day.
I didn't know people love that much their presidents in USA
@@cameram-guy8684 well its the leader, the person who is in control, when they die you should be worried because it can go down hill and its a mess
That's how my generation felt on 9/11
@@cameram-guy8684 different because JFK was actually a good president. Compared to Bush or trump, they were terrible
@@cameram-guy8684 because they probably thought the soviets assasinated him
My grandparents still remember that day like it was yesterday.
my grandfather was in the Air Force at the time and a lady he worked with (I think she was some receptionist or secretary idk) was legitimately crying according to him.
raito
@@ocularzombie6679 The nation loved that man so much, Idk why. The only reasons I'm watching this was because I'm a big fan of Malcolm X and he was "disrespectful" towards JFK's death
@@dudethisusername7285 what’s wrong with john f kennedy? Isn’t he a nice man?
@@gyunic he was a very bad person and husband, but a great president
What really strikes me is how sad and expressive they are vs people now who are very callous and ironically detached from similar national tragedies. Theres no real "mourning period" as a nation and it seems like almost everyone just jumps straight to making edgy jokes and memes.
It's a coping mechanism to distance themselves and remove legitimacy/significance from what's occurring. That and many online are too young and thus lack the maturity to understand the significance of course. This is all what you see online though, if politics now was similar to how it was back then most people today would have a similar reaction to the one you see in this footage. We're still facing the cultural impact from 9/11.
Interesting point. I will say that reactions were like this on 9/11. Lots of public grief and tears. Really, it took many years to even hear jokes about it. Even those first jokes were mostly about how only terrible people would make light of it. (Stuff along the lines of "that guy is such an asshole, he threw a 9/11 party.")
Of course, internet culture then wasn't what it is now. In 2001, the main online reaction was a bunch of (usually over-the-top) email forwards.
Caveat: I was in HS then - it's possible that in some circles, particularly w/ people a few years older, there were edgy jokes made shortly afterwards. I never heard about that, though.
Because these stories happen now every other week, wether it's a school shooting or bomb threats , every week it's something new.
so many tragedies happen in america that its citizens either don't care anymore or they are so used to it that they go numb and ignore it until it blows over.
RichHomieTom LOL NO stories like these do not happen every week...not something of such a big magnitude as the assassination of the president or 9/11
It's sad to think that someone, a human being, could die & the other "side" would cheer. We are desensitized to death, & are filled with too much hate nowadays.
True
Nowadays? Because in the past people didn't cheer their enemy's death?
but isn’t that what happens when there are wars? countries cheering and celebrating their enemies defeat? i’m not entirely sure it’s a new concept
@@sillyguy444 No he's talking about Republicans and Democrats. If Trump died, Democrats would cheer. If Biden died, Republicans would cheer.
@@TheBobiaan You can't deny that both political sides are far more polarized nowadays than in the past.
Just imagine what his wife had to experience sitting right next to him.
same with Lincoln's wife Mary. She has never recovered from Lincoln's assassination until her death... 😢😔
@@musicilya6674 I know but Kennedy’s death was more gruesome from what I know of
@@cuzzo9146 i mean, they were both shot in the head. that's a pretty gruesome way to go no matter the setting.
@@boobiesexmachine I know but i was just going off of what I could see vs what I couldn’t see aka the video of Kennedy’s assassination vs there being no video of Abraham Lincolns assassination.
@@cuzzo9146 both were shot in the head, but for what I've read, Lincoln just had a minor injury (the bullet bouncing inside the skull made the worst damage). Kennedy got his head blown open, and Jackie was covered in grey matter and blood from his husband. Both were sad, but Kennedy's was a gruesome death
I was only two years old - but the overwhelming sadness in my family impressed me - the funeral of JFK is my earliest memory : (
Damn ur old asf
@@guberwarri8695 bro rlly went at him eh?
@@guberwarri8695 hes like 60 not that old
Operation Mongoose, kennedy authorized literal terrorist attacks on Cuban civilians. I'm sure the victims families sadness was overwhelming
@@guberwarri8695 well, not quite as old as that, but old enough to remember looking up at the moon when humans were walking on it. Keep breathing, you might get old, too.
My mother worked on JFK campaign & also his brothers , she never got over the deaths of either of them ! RIP MOMMY ...
Yeah, lets name something else after JFK, and pretend he didn't think of women as only vaginas. JFK....THE ORIGINAL PUSSY GRABBER!!!!
Cosmo Kramer Have some respect dickhead
Take no notice of sad troll haters, he who is without sin cast the first stone.
@M K Thank you for putting him in his place appropriately.
@@thelugoffgamecock792 wow, you`re really a piece of shit...
My mom told me my great grandma screamed and started crying immediately after hearing about Kennedy’s death. Chilling to think about
As a person who loves history, this is incredible to watch. I also often wonder how Americans must have felt when Lincoln was assassinated.
A lot of them were definitely happy, given that they’d just lost a war and plenty of “their own” people to his union forces
@@CosmicCreeper99 Who lost a war? Lol. The confederacy? The rebels? The traitors to their nation? No one gives af how those non-Americans felt. I’m talking about the freed slaved and actual Americans.
@@CosmicCreeper99 Yeah, I imagine it was closer to what would happen if Biden or Trump were assassinated today - half the country mourning, the other celebrating
My mother remembers this, she told me it was one of the most vivid memories she has at such a young age. She remembers she walked out of her room because she heard my Grandma crying her eyes out, and then heard the radio announced that the the president of the united states has been shot and killed. Couldn't imagine living in such a time
I am so unpretty 😭 When I go to the bank, they turn the cameras off. At least I am a big star on CZcams. So don't feel too bad for me, dear dax
Its so sad that your whole family heard the president dying😔
A time of grief, but not the time period..of which the United States had been going healthier than ever on.
@@AxxLAfriku 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@AxxLAfriku lmaoooo yo what
Even the young children were saddened by the loss of JFK, it shocked America like never before. I'll never forget that day, Nov. 22
Barry Goldwater Kennedys opponent in Congress openly weeped at the news
Kids cried because they saw their parents cry, not because their 'political hero' was assassinated...lol
@@dutchman063 I mean that young boy at the end probably saw a role model in JFK, and probably marveled at the opportunity to see him, not arrive to hear he's dead. But yea, otherwise pretty much
One of the biggest cover ups by the USA next to 9/11
@@allusivestorm762 found the conspiracy theorist lmao
sad to see back then people actually liked and cared about presidents. these last few, we would be hard pressed to find people who would actually cry, very few people would.
I think many will mourn when Obama passes away, but Trump will be a celebration like that on Endor 😂
@@collegebro85 Except Obama didn't do shit and Trump did. No one cares about your little cooperate hack moron.
@@maskedmarioguy2524 yeah we saw what all Trump did…millions of Americans dead last year from refusing to take Covid seriously and inciting a riot on the capital that are seeing several incarcerated as a result. Such a “high mark” for the ole US of A, wouldn’t you say?? 🤨
can we try not to start a political argument here please...
@@collegebro85 quit watching CNN. More have passed this year to Covid than last year. Still Blaming trump when your nit wit has been in office for 11 months of that year. You should be more concerned of the violence promted bY the BLM movement which many leaders in your side encouraged like Maxine Waters that caused far greater loss than The stroll thru the capital. The recent trial of Rittenhouse proves this. Just the ignorant people like you believe the liberal based media. Pray for wisdom and brains- never to late. Read a book
As a gen z this video feels so alien too me it just doesn’t feel like something that could happen in real life, it really highlights the level of desensitisation to tragedies we’ve all received as a result of the internet.
I think some of it was acting for the cameras honestly
@@scholaroftheworldalternatehist At that point this isn't about being "desensitized", this is people just being wholly ignorant to widely known information. If you actually talked to people face to face about this moment in history, you'd know that what you see in this video most likely ISN'T just "playing it up for the camera". The American people of this time really did give that much of a crap about the Kennedy's, and President Kennedy's death. The White House wasn't nicknamed "Camelot" without good reason during this era, dude. So much for being an "Alternate History" channel no less lmfao.
I couldn't agree more. I already see the effects desensitization is having on this generation and I'm very concerned how that will translate as time progresses.
The only thing closest to Gen Z experience was Kobe Bryant..
CNN before that
Even though I’m a Republican I still think John F. Kennedy was the best president ever.
@Second-Hand Videos stopped WW3.
@Second-Hand Videos I know, but still. If those missiles stayed because a stupid president didn't care - then welp, this world would be a shitty one.
Damon yeah democratic meant something different back then
Kennedy invaded South Vietnam. Kennedy was a war criminal.
James for Safe Streets The GOP under Trump has turned into a Cult.
JFK and his brother paid the ultimate price for trying to do the right things. They could have just done nothing like most politicians
JFK was the last great president. The last one to fight for a decent world. And there likely will never be another in this country.
@@sailcvl3976 Fighting for a decent world by almost singlehandedly causing WW3 and escalating the war in Vietnam. Sure thing.
@@peterpetersen1589 Didn't the Kennedy's deescalate the Cuban Missle Crisis? And Johnson was the first one to actually deploy combat troops in Vietnam. Although, Kennedy did approve an increase in military advisors, still different from actual combat troops
@@ArchTazer He basically started the crisis by backing the failed bay of pigs invasion. This worsened the relationship between the US and Cuba, made Castro a national hero and pushed Cuba closer to the UdSSR.
He didn't only send military advisors but also special forces. During his presidency he expanded the number of US military personnel in Vietnam from 900 to 23000. He also authorized flying combat missions and the use of Agent Orange (basically chemical warfare).
@@ArchTazer no lol, JFK illegally invaded Cuba
Only months before JFK's death, Jackie gave birth to a baby boy. The baby lived for 39 hours before he died.
Imagine losing your infant son, then losing your husband within a short span of time. While the whole world watches.
I, as an outsider, have huge respect for 3 US presidents, no more and no less. Those are: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and JFK
Rest in Peace, all three of them✝️
What about George Washington?
@@yuto_specs1106 what about him?
@@yuto_specs1106 eh he was in the middle Abraham lincoln super respect tho
( in my opinion )
I think Carter deserves credit, and even Biden on a couple things
@@psych0536 every president deserves credit on a couple things but he’s talking about ones that were basically exceptional
Imagine reactions to news of President Lincoln's death.
Lincoln ended slavery people will love him and then he died so people must be very sad
@@roxxonsnowball8146 Not only that, Lincoln wanted to try and unify the country through respect and forgiveness so that America could be restore for all Americans.
@@gaelanwhite8842 also, Lincoln has strengthened the federal government and has modernized the US economy.
@@gaelanwhite8842 also, Reconstruction would've been much better if Lincoln wasn't assassinated and we wouldn't have to have Civil Rights Movement of 1950-1960s.
@@musicilya6674 is that when you think it started.
You see tears from men and women.
From young and old.
From black and white.
From businessmen and simple workers.
His death ripped something from people all over the world apart.
Something very precious and important.
Doubt they cried because they loved him, it was rather the sudden shock of someone as important to a country as a president getting assassinated, also the thought of what now and possible chaos breaking going through your mind at the same time and overwhelming you
@@Milan-qu5ut That too but he was a very loved President.
He was Catholic and wanted peace 2 things people higher than him didn't liked
Joined 10 years ago 🤡
@@anti8378 You're
Damn, even the kids are crying. The kids knew what was going on, they knew who died, and they feel sad because that guy passed away. These kids have an emotional connection with their country’s president. Back when I was a kid, I didn’t cared jack shit about the PM of my country, or any political figure or news at all, other than their names and post.
My mother’s father did not like Kennedy as a president. My mother said the house was in mourning after he passed. My Grandfather was always respectful of all the presidents even if he didn’t agree with them.
Your grandfather is a good man.
Nowadays only one side of the country would cry. That’s how divided we are it’s sad.
And the whole other side would have likely tried to kill him.
Yeah. It's sad how utterly shot politics is right now.
And the other side would cheer
Divide and conquer is in affect right now in all aspects of society.
When parties was all they cared for in campaigns nowadays they only divide the people. Washington tried warning us about this
The way the narrator says "The president of the United States is dead" is very eerie.
I ate 19 benadryl
@@WOLFM0THER Eat 30 tomorrow
@@WOLFM0THER don't eat 30
I wanna hear something like that in my lifetime!
@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr hope they get the orange one!
Wow. What an incredible capture of the grief, shock, and distress of our nation at that moment.
I was a teenager. I remember how hard I cried... I loved President Kennedy.
Damn, everyone back then dressed so well
Well then again I’m pretty sure they were all there to see JFK so they wanted to look nice
@@user-bg1ls5cd1h No, people just generally dressed nicely back then
And were slender.
i prefer 70s fashion more but it was nice how everyone's clothing kinda complimented each other back then.
@@boobiesexmachine I feel like 60s was much more traditional than 70s, what people wore in the 60s was much more reflective of the 50s and the older generation born in the early 20th century. The 70s saw all the revolutions in various fields of life, so a lot changed.
JFK must have been that great if the whole country was mourning, now I feel like 80% of our population don't care who's in the office so long as they share the same political party
true dat XP.
People would still totally care and if it had to happen the president in question would be a martyr aswell.
Because when that kind of event happens, you don't just target a man, you target the representant of the republic and its values.
Yeah People today are so retarded and think it´s a team sport and totally lost common sense.
He was much greater, the whole world world was sad. I'm a Bulgarian, my father told me stories how even the soviet soldiers were shocked, although they saw him as an enemy the respect they had for him was remarkable.
I don't like any current politicians at this time. The two party system is just a facade anyway people are too focused on fighting for one side or the other rather than putting aside their differences and focusing on the real problems
My grandmother was in 10th grade at the time when the news broke. She said everything went dead silent, and eventually what broke the silence was the teacher crying. One of our only presidents ever to have a disapproval rating below 10%. Obviously I wasn't alive at the time, but I still find it sad. Even Nixon, his main political opponent, was borderline in tears when he was talking about his death, sadly times have changes since then. No matter how much you hate the president, or anyone for that, you don't have to take their life.
JFK died because he opposed the millitary industry. For the ones in charge; meaning the men and women at the top of millitary fascilities and their connections, JFK was the first true danger to them that ever existed. While other presidents may have talked about advocating for peace, JFK actually did cause peace and actively advocated for a change of perspective regarding the soviet union in order to stop the arms race and stop wasting money on millions of guns and bombs.
The millitary hated JFK beyond believe and his peace-speech in Washington was the last straw for them. In their views, the USA could not have a president that will choose negotiation over warfare, and they made sure that JFK couldn't cause lasting damage to their money-printing machine by connecting with the other large opponent of JFK - the CIA, who existed largely of ex-millitary guys who still held large financial interest in war and directly profited from every bomb that was sold.
And so, JFK had to go. The man responsible for overseeing the safety of JFK within the CIA, directly after the assasination took place, was promoted to become the "Director of the CIA", despite 'failing' at his one and only objective right before. Who was that man? George W. Bush. When asked where he was at this fateful night, his answer was "I don't know, I can't remember" despite being not far away, "overseeing" the safety of the motorcade.
Though most Americans today do not realize it this was the day that America stumbled, and we have yet to regain our balance.
According to Evelyn Lincoln ((his personal secretary)her boss was warned to stay out of Dallas, his response, ‘if they want to get me they can get me in church, I’m still going to Dallas’. Very sad.
One of my favorite presidents of all time is JFK. I wish I was born earlier to hear and see this man's speeches in action. His death always remind me that no matter if you do good someone will always want you gone
But by that token, if you do good for others like he did, you will be missed.
Most importantly, many, many more will want you back.
I am not a religious man.
But if the story of Jesus Christ tought me one thing than it is the unfortunate fact that they want you gone especially when you do good.
@@belgiumcomics2537 Then in that light, it's better to be humble and accept the things you cannot change. In any case, that could also mean you did the right thing. Not alsays, but often enough.
He tried to expose corruption and got killed before he could do it. His plan was to destroy the C.I.A and they didn’t like that. Kennedy valued freedom too much
@@LauraR0ckzLolz I've heard of him doing that
Its alien nowadays to see someone cry over a politicians death.
God I feel like today you’d have half the country cheering and celebrating and the other half angrily sharing news videos and stuff.
it only happens in north korea nowadays
I can’t believe it’s almost been 60 years
Nobody messes with the FED, nobody.
Even the Joker was afraid of the IRS, that should tell you a lot.
One the greatest presidents ever I’ve been studying about him since 2007
he isnt even in the top 10 of "Greatest"
america doesn't have great presidents
Then study punctuations too.
Bruh all he did was die. People out here saying Kennedy was a good president because of the apparent sadness of the people after his assassination. Were the Germans crying when Hitler died? I’m only using the “HiTlEr card” because I don’t expect anyone in this comment section praising Kennedy to be competent in history. If you reply to this comment with a grammar correction, your argument is already invalid.
What did he do that was so good?
It truly means something that even in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, black men and women across the country were as inconsolable over this event as white men and women. Despite living through nationwide segregation, that black woman was first and foremost an American. This faith in a united identity is what we need to restore among everyone.
JFK had proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 mere months before his assassination. The pain you see in the faces of black Americans in this video is not from a blind reverence for authority, it is from the pain of knowing a powerful ally to Civil Rights died - and fear that his plans for greater equality may have died with him.
My grandfather was from Puerto Rico and raised his family in New York City, fully loved being an American. When I was a kid, he told me he was said he was 26 years old when Kennedy was assassinated. I remember he ended it saying "Jack Kennedy didn't deserve that."
I was 4 or 5 years old...I remember the funeral. And watching my Mom and Grandmother crying...
I was only two… but the overwhelming sadness in my family impressed me - the funeral of JFK is my earliest memory : (
I cried when the furhrer was dead 😢
@@rlm2933 You were born in 2007 stop cappin
@@monkus4382 You were born in 2012
@@rlm2933 yeah im 9 years old. so what?
When black ppl in that era cried that’s how you know he did a lot❤️
Especially for a rich white guy.
He did not rlly much for black people lol
@@mauricefriedrich8524 Kennedy had plans for the equal rights act, but due to congress not liking him that much he couldn’t get much though, when LBJ got into power he carried those responsibilities and fought dirty to get them passed.
@@fortunatebum dont get me wrong i liked kennedy aswell he dont liked the Army or the Behaivor of the rich ppl. But tbh he was also a big Opportunist.
@@fortunatebum LBJ pretty much ruined black families with the bills he passed, it's why there's so many fatherless black families today since the bills encouraged it with increased benefits for single black mothers, basically allowing for women to have an incentive to kick the father out. I doubt JFK, being a man who was surprisingly conscious of every Americans plight, regardless of ethnicity, would have agreed with his plans. Hell, he probably would have been furious considering LBJ was only his VP so he could win some of the conservatives over. America would have been much better off without LBJ, he was a slimy opportunist who only thought of elections and votes, not the people, listen to his leaked phone calls if you're at all doubtful.
I've always wondered about what would've happened if he was never assassinated.
We all do.
I imagine relations to the former SU / today's Russia would be superior. Perhaps there would've even been a path where Putin (who undid pretty much everything Gorbatschow achieved regarding a more free and open Russia) never made it to power.
The Vietnam-War likely would never have taken place / been a short conflict at most. Afghanistan, Irak and the middle-east as a whole would've not been sold as many weapons and bombs as they had been. JFK didn't care for the Millitary-Industry and it's leaders, so the sale of arms to generate profit and cause proxy wars would've never taken place on such a large and devastating scale.
Many also cried with Lincoln's death, I saw some of the old photos and even a train in front of his image, here we can see the same with Kennedy
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
Leonardo da Vinci.
I don't understand cheating in a relationship, yet I know I hate that shit.
@@perra7749 You don't understand that someone can betray another person? Are you like five?
@@medusa8617 yes, I am five. And you can’t read.
JFK would be ashamed of both his Democratic party the Republican party of today.
Any past President would be ashamed.
so would washington. washington did not want political parties bc he thought it would be way too divisive. he was right.
@@raychulle wasn’t the old system that the runner up would become Vice President? That just makes more sense to me. Having different leaders with different world views be forced to work together to find middle ground.
I am
@@raychulle most of all he didn’t want a federal bank
The last president that actually mattered and cared about his citizens.
✝️🇺🇸 Rest In Peace, Sir. 🇺🇸✝️
Well probably Obama after him also did
Edit: Ok I get it,Obama sucked.
The last president? Far from it.
@@callen34659 🤔
@@zoinks8868 🤨
@@callen34659 Obama was horrible
that black lady looked better than anything i've seen in the past 4 decades in fashion
my dad was 4 years old when jfk was killed. my grandma was kneeling infront of the gc crying and he asked what was wrong, she said “a very bad man hurt the president”
The only other time we grieved like this as a country was 9/11. And we all remember exactly where we were when it happened…just like these ppl when JFK died.
Exactly!
This is super depressing and enlightening, but which CZcams employee decided this was the video we all needed to get recommend?
It’s so cool just seeing back in the day of old footage and hearing the voices of the audio. RIP the people in that video
Herbert Hoover was still alive when Kennedy was killed.
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Even children were crying
This was when everyone was united
When the thrones of nations are shaken by the death of a single person, know that person was of the Greats.
@IWillBeRichSomeday That really doesn't challenge anything of what the original commenter stated.
At the age of 9, I thought this was shocking but never thought about crying. At that time, I thought you would only cry if you personally knew the person who'd died. I was surprised when my brother and sister who were older than me said that other students in their grades had cried.
My mother was 13 when President Kennedy was killed. She was sick that day and had stayed home from school; by complete chance she was watching the TV when it happened. She and my grandma were alone in the house together, my grandma was in the kitchen and my mother yelled to her to hurry and come to the TV, something's happened to the president! Apparently after the announcement was made, you could hear a pin drop. Neither one of them could even move, they were so deep in shock. NO ONE saw this coming.
I honestly don’t know what the reaction would be if something similar happened today (regardless of the party affiliation), but I suspect sentiment wouldn’t be even
My grandparents really liked JFK and my grandpa had a picture of him with a quote. They were both really upset when he died and believed the US went into a lot of issues afterwards.
These images - though used in many documentaries - are so penetrative. They never cease to invoke emotion.
Those people...they really are the faces that encapsulated the shock, sadness, loss, helplessness and despondency of an entire nation - and, essentially, a world - that lost their trusted and gallant hero.
These pictures are frozen in time; permanently burned into history, along with the memory of a legendary swordsman who dreamed of a Utopian future.
On November 22, 1963 not only a great man fell.
Our world did, too.
Nov. 22 1963. I was only 5 years old. But I remember everything clearly of that day. Always will.
R.I.P.
RIP to all the cubans he murdered with operation mongoose
Same here..
This event still breaks my heart & I wasn't even alive during the time
0:25 black folks loved Kennedys
60 YEARS AGO
At least he gave us his nephew. *He's a good pearson.*
Thank you for *coming to Italy to protest with us.*
You are Italian
@@peachywe4310 I am
Do not pray for easy lives my friends. Pray to be, stronger men.
We all remember exactly where we were that day. Rest in peace our dear John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
And we still haven't recovered from it! We've been through a lot!
Big respects to mr. Kennedy, good cooperation with Khrushchev, Carribbean crisis settled nicely
0:24 seeing that man smirk while the women is in tears is very heartbreaking 💔
The world was never the same after this.
Legend says that his mind was all over Jackie's dress when he was shot.
hilariously sick
"We asked this man, a worker at a local book repository, what he thought."
"Whooh, yeah, sheesh, uh, g-goddamn, um, yep, shame, a, uh, y-yup, real tragedy, uh-"
I get the impression that the shock and despair, while partially due to the loss of the man himself, was also in large part due to the sudden realization of what the country was turning into and about to go through. Tension over Civil Rights, Vietnam, and other burgeoning social liberation movements were surely taking a large space in the collective American consciousness, but maybe most people assumed, or at least hoped, all such issues would be resolved in an orderly, peaceful, democratic way through established institutions and customs. But it seems people took that this assassination was evidence that this wasn't "Ike's America", and The United States was in fact a country where this sort of thing can and will happen (the upcoming RFK and MLK assassinations further proving this). With these kind of thoughts that swimming through peoples' minds when the news broke, I can see how this event could be forever remembered as a historic, transitional moment that acts as a good historical marker for the beginning of what people now just call "The Sixties"
But those are just my thoughts as a millenial. Perhaps someone who was actually alive at the time could actually inform me better. I've always been fascinated by the sixties, and the historical reverence for JFK, and these are just thoughts I've come up with to help me make sense of it a little bit more.
I was alive then when it happened and it did not occur to any of us what this was issuing in - we all thought it was a horrible fluke. The secret powers that be behind the scenes did not want Kennedy or his broth Bobby in power because they put the people first and stopped the bad guys from profiting from their exploits and so both had to be killed to get them out of the way but of course at the time none of us knew what was happening really. Our innocent love of this country was shattered when we realized that people were horrible enough to kill these honorable men - the country that I knew back then is not alive anymore and so it was a slow decline from 1963 and none of us knew it. We most certainly know it now!!!!!
@@community1949 I can't help but think of this supposed JFK quote:
"I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind."
Eisenhower's warning of the military industrial complex is probably the last time a President spoke with real honesty to the American people.
I was 9 when he was killed. And IMO the 60s was the most violent decade w all the assinations war riots protests and the the 'hippies' u can't really describe it. U had to b there
@@marshamariner7897 Oh yeah the counterculture movement
@@marshamariner7897 50's and 60's was brutal the amount of assassination's was just a usual Tuesday to them
The USA was never the same
I was in study hall when it was announced on the intercom system that our president was dead and I felt my heart sink to the floor
Accordng my grandma on my moms side, she was in high school iirc and she had to run to the bathroom with everyone else and they cried in there. According to my grandma on my dads side, she was working and I guess she left work after the news. terrible time for everyone.
"Do you ever stop and think who it is we kill? Its always people who told us to live together in harmony. And try and love one another." George Carlin
it's chilling seeing this. You'll...times have REALLY changed. It's crazy.
Put the fear of God on every President that came after.
My grandmother (born in 1940) used to speak very highly of JFK. She has Alzheimer’s now and is no longer herself, but I remember finding it interesting how fond she was of him. My grandfather (born in 1938) is the same for him and other people, like Sharon Tate. I think back then there was so little tragedy, because there was so much order. But our generation now live in a world where skyscrapers collapse and no one is safe anymore.
This wasn't long before the Cuban Missile crisis nearly sparked a nuclear war. Kids were doing nuclear attack drills at school and people were building shelters at home. I find it strange that young people seem so oblivious to the threat of nuclear war.
@@Tracymmo Yes, to be honest with everything happening at the moment with China wanting to invade Taiwan and Russia wanting to invade Ukraine I think people today should at least be more aware of conflict in general. We’ve been asleep at the wheel since WW2, I know the Cold War was going on but it was more like a potentiality than and actual conflict. Plus, in many ways the Cold War ended up preventing large-scale conflicts that would have happened without the threat of MAD. But today I think the threat is overlooked, and it’s becoming increasingly more intense.
It was a time when both people and politicians were genuine.It is evident from their reactions...
Not “politicians” but JFK and an ever-shrinking few others. He was rare among politicians, even in his day, which is why some of them likely were involved in his death.
Not quite. Remember Hitler and Stalin
I am almost 73 years of age. A former Democrat and now a Conservative/Republican. As a youngster it was a shock to hear of President Kennedy's Death. To this day I feel the sharp pain a reminder how the night,mare never ends. Than the assassination of Martin Luther King followed by Senator Robert Kennedy's passing. As a senior in high school myself, and a couple were supposed to be in a school play. We decided to go to Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Since we were living on Long Island we had to go. Took the train etc stood in a line that took us over 20 hours to get to view the Senator's coffin. To this day trios are in our hearts and we re live their passing. We are definitely in belief The Lord has given them a great external life in Heaven.
I don’t think america would cry for a president like this again.
What a terrible tragedy! I’m sure Mr. Oswald had a similar reaction when the CIA told him that he was the one who killed him!
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CIA were the ones that took out JFK cause he actually tried to make change
@@niavellir7408 JFK was going to de-fund them and during those years was also a time where the Red Scare occurred and the FBI loved to crack down on potential suspects. It was like a power trip to them and since the president decided to lower funding they didn't take that too kindly
@@F0rever.B0red the alphabet boys strike again
My Grandma and my aunt are the two ladies standing behind the elderly gentleman at the 11 second mark. My Grandma would always talk about how they were there and how sad and shocked everyone was. We will never know what kind of an impact he would have had not only for the US but the world.
Goes to show how good of a leader Kennedy was. I can’t imagine this country looking up to president like this again. It’s a shame.
Back then when people had some empathy left. Nowadays, this news would be opposite, people would be laughing and celebrating over someone's death.
Especially at Donald Trump. Even though he's not John F Kennedy and he doesn't act nor talk like him, but he did what he could to make America great again like JFK. People are like this towards amazing people that would change the world because of the devil's manipulation by using the media's lies that these people live in
having empathy towards a criminal like kennedy? lol nah
@@KR-mm4el you just made my and this person's point
@@Ray_Shabaz exactly right, i celebrate a criminal’s death.
@@Ray_Shabaz and also, the exact same thing should be done to every living us president.
JFK was similar to President Grant. Both of them supported black people and wanted equal rights.
Thank your new president for keeping those documents locked even longer
It's burned into my memory ...... I remember ..... Then they got his brother .... ☹️.... Those were crazy days.... I was in kindergarten .... We said the pledge of allegiance every morning at school🇺🇸
“Then they got his brother...?” RFK’s assassin was caught, confessed, convicted, and is STILL ALIVE TODAY. This just goes to show how gullible you are when it comes to conspiracy theories. You’ll believe anything, no matter how stupid the logic.
He was the first modern president. He really brought a youthful spirit to the White House, and it clearly shows by how many young people were devastated by the tragedy