The Assassination of JFK: Explained

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🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Everyone who was alive at the time remembers the day President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas on the 22 November 1963. On this anniversary Dan gives a moment-by-moment account of the day that shocked the world and speaks to Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post journalist and leading authority on the subject. They discuss the aftermath of the assassination and what the public was never told by the White House and the CIA. To this day, Jefferson is still fighting for the release of all of the classified documents about the JFK assassination, many of which are still being withheld. Archive courtesy of NBC. 'Measured Paces' and 'Unanswered Questions' composed by Kevin Macleod.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dance Know's History Head.
0:03.4	Anyone who was alive at the time
0:05.9	seemed to remember with great clarity where they were
0:09.3	when they heard that John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States,
0:13.6	had been shot dead in Dallas.
0:16.3	It's one of those extraordinary waypoints in US 20th century history.
0:21.6	He'd been elected in late 1960 in a very close run election.
0:25.8	He was young, he was charismatic,
0:28.3	he was the first Catholic President of the United States.
0:31.7	He seemed to embody the idealism of a new generation of Americans.
0:34.9	Americans that grown up following the First World War
0:38.1	had served often during the Second World War.
0:40.0	And it lived through one of the most extraordinary
0:42.8	revolutions in household prosperity in the history of the world.
0:47.9	America had launched itself into a position of global
0:51.3	hegemony, extraordinary superpower status
0:55.0	backed up by revolutionary technology.
0:57.9	Not least the new technology, but also things like ballistic rockets
1:01.6	that would see man, that would see humans reach the moon within a decade.
1:06.7	Also the beginnings of a computing revolution.
1:09.3	He seemed like a new president from a new generation
1:12.8	for a new era of history.
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