JFK - A Presidency Revealed (History Channel)

Starring:John F. Kennedy, JFK
Studio: A&E Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Forty years after his death, the legacy and mystery of John F. Kennedy continues to grow. From secret liaisons to the details of cabinet deliberations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK: A Presidency Revealed provides the most in-depth look at the man and his administration ever filmed. Peabody® Award-winning producer David Taylor (The Johnson Tapes) and host Frank Sesno draw on an extraordinary array of never-before-released source material, including JFK s White House audiotapes and Soviet footage from Kennedy s sole superpower summit, to write new chapters in the story of America s 35th president. This exclusive DVD collection includes two acclaimed, feature-length episodes of A&E s award-winning seriesBIOGRAPHY®.

Format: DVD MOVIE
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JFK: A Presidency Revealed delves unflinchingly into the presidency of John F. Kennedy, examining the political crises, social unrest, and personal intricacies that marked his administration. What makes this three-part series stand out is its willingness to admit Kennedy's faults--in particular his troubled marriage, his infidelities, his illnesses, and his sometimes-excessive use of painkillers to cope with the pain of his bad back--as well as the missteps of his presidency, providing a strikingly balanced and human portrait of this all-too-often-mythologized president. Particularly revelatory is how the inexperience that resulted in the bungled Bay of Pigs operation led, in turn, to a far more skilled and careful handing of the Cuban missile crisis, in which the world came closer to nuclear war than ever before and perhaps ever since. A wealth of film, video, photographs, and previously unreleased secret recordings provide new insights into Kennedy's political and personal life (Kennedy was, as this documentary makes clear, the first president to really use the media to achieve his goals, launching an entirely new political forum).

Product Description

Forty years after his death, the legacy and mystery of John F. Kennedy continues to grow. From secret liaisons to the details of cabinet deliberations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK: A Presidency Revealed provides the most in-depth look at the man and his administration ever filmed. Peabody® Award-winning producer David Taylor (The Johnson Tapes) and host Frank Sesno draw on an extraordinary array of never-before-released source material, including JFK s White House audiotapes and Soviet footage from Kennedy s sole superpower summit, to write new chapters in the story of America s 35th president. This exclusive DVD collection includes two acclaimed, feature-length episodes of A&E s award-winning seriesBIOGRAPHY®.

Format: DVD MOVIE

Amazon.com

JFK: A Presidency Revealed delves unflinchingly into the presidency of John F. Kennedy, examining the political crises, social unrest, and personal intricacies that marked his administration. What makes this three-part series stand out is its willingness to admit Kennedy's faults--in particular his troubled marriage, his infidelities, his illnesses, and his sometimes-excessive use of painkillers to cope with the pain of his bad back--as well as the missteps of his presidency, providing a strikingly balanced and human portrait of this all-too-often-mythologized president. Particularly revelatory is how the inexperience that resulted in the bungled Bay of Pigs operation led, in turn, to a far more skilled and careful handing of the Cuban missile crisis, in which the world came closer to nuclear war than ever before and perhaps ever since. A wealth of film, video, photographs, and previously unreleased secret recordings provide new insights into Kennedy's political and personal life (Kennedy was, as this documentary makes clear, the first president to really use the media to achieve his goals, launching an entirely new political forum).

Accompanying JFK: A Presidency Revealed are two episodes of A&E's Biography series--one a considerably more hero-worshipping profile of Kennedy that nonetheless provides worthwhile background information about his childhood and early career; the other a profile of JFK's father Joe P. Kennedy that explores the drive and ambition that set the entire Kennedy family on its political path. All in all, a valuable and informative document. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

Very warm look at the man JFK.......2007-04-18

JFK - A Presidency Revealed (History Channel) is a very warm look at John F. Kennedy. It certainly tells about a man, not the myth that has become associated with JFK. If one has been focusing on only the assassination, one should make a point of seeing this. The country lost a President that day, but it also lost a special man. See this and get to know the man.

5 Stars for footage - 2 Stars for the rest.......2006-03-28

I'm sick of the parasites that try to make a living off a great president. Where did David Taylor get such details? I'm sure in his mind. I would like to know the references in which he got his information, maybe from Jack's brother Frado (Ted). It's sad that instead of making a documentary with the focus of the inspiring way he was changing The United States for the good and involving the youth who would eventually run it, the focus instead is somehow he was HIGH the whole time he was in office. This is a crock of crap. I just bought this and watched it, and it's going in the garbage now.

Amazing 40th anniversary documentary on President Kennedy.......2005-12-24

I am very impressed with this documentary on JFK, as I feel I have seen and heard it all before. Well, I was wrong---this 40th aniversary documentary is amazing; never-before-or-rarely-seen films and photos and good, balanced analysis. Get this a.s.a.p.!!!!!!!
Vince Palamara-JFK/ Secret Service expert (History Channel, author of two books, in over 30 other author's books, etc.)
Pittsburgh, PA

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Excellent!.......2005-02-21

I would highly recommend this item for any JFK enthusiast. It is a very detailed account of Kennedy's Presidency. The three-part series includes interesting interviews with many of Kennedy's staff, family and others who were close to him. The series also includes countless video clips of Kennedy, including press conferences, speeches, home movies and more. In my opinion, one of the most interesting parts of this series is the recorded phone conversations and audio from cabinet meetings. Kennedy, sensing that he was in a historic position, had these items recorded.

To sum it all up, this is an excellent series that is jam-packed with information on Kennedy and his term in office. If you are looking for detail with respect to his assassination, this item is not what you are looking for.

Very Good Except For 2 Things.......2004-12-11

This Documentary features many outstanding color newsreels of JFK and that era. Everything but the last 20 minutes or so is thorough, fair,& quite impressive, but Vietnam was handled very poorly. The thrust of the film being that JFK would have had to have sent ground troops at some point to bolster American Prestige is pure speculation at best. When Kennedy signed NSAM 263 in Oct. 63- he didn't do it for the hell of it,it was the first phase in withdrawing all troops by the end of '65. Though, the Diem Coup of 11-1-63 complicated matters, there is no evidence JFK ever considered putting in ground forces.The Assassination is just hardly even touched on- , but paraphrasing- the back brace is supposed to have kept Kennedy in place when Oswald's shot him in the neck. First of all JFK was shot in the back- The Autopsy Face Sheet- The Death Certificate-The 2 FBI Agents report, and the Clothes and Jacket all put the wound in the back at 5-6 inches below the neck line.It was the Warren Commission who moved this up to the Neck to make the Single Bullet Theory Viable.Secondly,- a metal plate was put in his lumbar spine in Jul. 53 to alleviate pressure, this is what so sadly kept him immobilized during the shooting,the man had no mobility.

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