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call recording so be good be on your best behavior now let's talk about JFK John Fitzgerald Kennedy JFK came from wealthy family his father Joseph Kennedy  had made his great fortune in the 1920s he started out selling illegal liquor during prohibition he owned a chain of pharmacy stores in around New England and he legally sold out all through those doors and he made a great Fortune early in the 1920s he took that fortunate he put it into the stock market and he was quite good at that too and he made a lot of money stock market and then I don't know he had enough foresight or wisdom what are you going to call it he took his money out of the stock market a few months before the great class so as most families struggle through the Great Depression the Kennedys did not struggle at all  the Kennedys in the Great Depression lived in their compound at Hyannis Sport and they had a net worth of about a hundred million dollars so they were one of the wealthiest families in America  spell Joseph P Kennedy he had this vision that he was going to be the first Irish Catholic President of the United States that was his goal but because of the skeletons in his background and also because as War to approach he was our ambassador to England and he took a very much in a psers stance he didn't believe England could beat the Nazis and that's going to end up making him fairly unpopular  so that how much ends in e chances he has of ever becoming president so during World War II he changes his goal his goal is no longer for himself to become president goal is for one of his sons to become president he had four sons and I want to say  four or five daughters I can't remember how many but he had a bunch of yet his oldest son was Joseph Kennedy jr. and that was the son that he intended to become president  so what are you doing was he told Lowe's of Anna and Jack were just two oldest boys he told them okay in the war you've got to get a record  you've got to go out and get a serious record right now  you got to do something Brave got to do something Valiant  so both of them went out with the war volunteer for Dangerous Duty Jose junior was he was flying a bomber over the Bay of Biscay south of England and it was an experiment go ahead and spearmint weapon on it and something happened and that bomb exploded and just vaporized him in that plane  killing immediately they didn't find enough of them to bury as a matter of fact so that's why Joe Kennedy jr. never became president cuz he died during the war well John or Jack is a calling he volunteered for the Navy and he went out and what they called PT Boat Duty and these were these fast small boats made out of plywood and use them to carry out torpedo attacks on larger crafts and they were very dangerous this was this was something dangerous and daring that you volunteered for will JFK who have a lot of experience operating small boat sailing things like that JFK was a natural as a commander of the PT 109 he was out of the South Pacific fighting in the war and they were near Guadalcanal and they got involved in a night fight with some Japanese troyer's the pt-109 was rammed in sliced into and the survivors and JFK all made there JFK's the tall skinny guy here on the right the survivors and JFK all made their way to a tiny uninhabited Island and tonight JFK we go out on the coral reef and try to Signal a passing American ship with a flashlight  which was incredibly dangerous he could have been picked up by the Japanese could have been attacked by a shark I mean it was just there was all kinds of bad things that can happen to him doing that  but he did that for several nights and finally there were a couple of play this coming by in a Dugout canoe and they flagged them down and they carved a message on a coconut they've carved a message on a green coconut that said Lieutenant Kennedy and how many others were within native knows where well the natives took the coconut to the American base and they came out and rescue them pull Kennedy in his men off that Island later when Kennedy was President he kept that coconut on his desk in the Oval Office as a souvenir as a reminder of the war which is pretty interesting now JFK comes back from the war he is a natural pilot he's handsome he's Charming he's articulate he went to have it and he spoke with that habit brogue I'm JFK if I'm having how are you today and he's also got his father's money backing him up  so he gets elected to congress in 46 he gets elected to the in 58  he's got this rapidly ascending political career he's kind of the Y the hill the young boy wonder of the democratic party in the 1950s and he's got this very successful trajectory now one thing that he is missing JFK like women okay lots and lots of women and there's all kinds of stories that I will leave you to read on your own JFK and his romantic Conquest both before and after he was married marriage didn't really slow him down very much naughty can you president's loading down you know his famous affair with Marilyn Monroe and others but his father decided hate he needs a good political marriage he needs a wife that will look good beside him and help people vote for him  so is Father kind of picked out a wife for a man can I put them together and said how you need to marry and he picked out her name was Jacqueline Bouvier Jacqueline Bouvier was from an old money family in New York and she was actually working as a fashion model in New York at the time and she was a stunningly beautiful woman well Kennedy married Jacqueline buffet and they ended up having a couple of very beautiful children together as you know two beautiful people are after have and that's why when they were present in Kennedy was the youngest man we were like it 43 when he's elected his wife was quite a bit younger than him and they're seen as this young glamorous couple and they got these children and they just Kennedy was the first man we elected president born in the 20th century  Udo Eisenhower been an old guy Truman him in an old guy he was this this was doing is a Changing of the Guard you know that the new generation that the generation that had fought in the War was building the suburbs they viewed Kennedy is there guy now interesting me enough and I will tell you about the election in the next video interesting the enough Kennedy wasn't as popular as we did the having being now  the interesting thing about Kennedy is if you take an ass people on the street if you ask people to straight who was the greatest president history on alarming number of them will just immediately say oh John F Kennedy  Evan you say why and they say cuz he was shot and that's that's how it enters into our psyche and remind compliment but he wasn't particular that successful as president he had some failures to I would give you man score of maybe average or slightly above  but he gets rated so highly among people in American history because he was a the night because he was assassinated right in front of us  because we have it on film  it was just such a shocking thing for the baby boomer generation can it was the turning point it was a most pivotal moment they all remember where they were with Kennedy shot  so when the next video we're going to continue on with the election  and how Kennedy gets to be president but we're going to stop for

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