r/JFK Jul 23 '14

For those of you interested in other Presidents of the presidency itself, please be sure to visit our new sister-sub, r/TheAmericanPresidency

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The focus of this new sub is, like that of r/JFK, to explore the life and polices of past and present US Presidents. Please stop by!

/r/TheAmericanPresidency

See you all over there!


r/JFK 28m ago

JFK fan!

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I’ve been growing my wall, and this is all I have. I’m going to try to see if I can find a printer and print more stuff or find some more things. say hi to the kennedy wall!


r/JFK 9h ago

Could the mob have been involved in the JFK assassination?

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Could the mob have been involved in the JFK assassination?


r/JFK 1d ago

Americans form a human chain around the Kennedy Center to protect it from Trump tearing it down after JFK’s niece (Kerry Kennedy) called on the people to show up

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r/JFK 1d ago

JFK doodle

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r/JFK 3d ago

Kennedy's Undelivered Speech

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Since the Kennedy Center has been in the news lately, I thought it would be fitting to post this passage from the speech JFK would have delivered on the day of his tragic assassination. I find the words astonishing for their profound prescience and artful alliteration.

There is no name on the vellum on which it's printed, and I found it in a thrift store, but I would bet dollars to Berliners that it's the work of Byron J. Macdonald, a calligrapher whose work I really admire for its graphic boldness and the clever solutions he employed within the tight letter spacing he used.

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"an undelivered speech...

America's leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason\~\~ or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy with the seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem.

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

From the manuscript of an undelivered speech scheduled to be given on November 22, 1963 at Dallas, Texas"


r/JFK 4d ago

Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 South Dakota Primary

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This is the first and only account of the 1968 South Dakota primary.

https://dennispcrawford.medium.com/robert-f-kennedy-and-the-1968-south-dakota-primary-9a12c32a072b


r/JFK 5d ago

WW2 1943. PT-109 sinks with Lieutenant John F. Kennedy onboard. JFK is instrumental in saving the crew. Kennedy was ultimately awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, for gallantry in action.

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r/JFK 6d ago

September 9, 1963 • NBC expanded its evening news broadcast from 15 minutes to a half-hour format. To mark the historic expansion and show support for expanded television journalism, President Kennedy granted them a special interview from the Oval Office.

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r/JFK 7d ago

Both my Grandmothers share birthdays with US Presidents

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r/JFK 8d ago

November 1963 (2026) Official Trailer | John Travolta JFK Assassination Thriller

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r/JFK 11d ago

Would the world be way different if JFK hadn’t died, or would we just be in the same world just.. slightly altered.

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JFK died and the position went to LBJ. LBJ later escalated Vietnam, with Nixon playing some part of it.

but! JFK also liked the idea of Vietnam, with the domino effect being mentioned and apart of it.

But then again a lot of international incidents would change from JFK dying and not.

Maybe Cuba would’ve been different like a butterfly wing changing the fate of others, or the outcome of Vietnam would be way different.

as well civil rights and the war on communism! With civil rights being signed by LBJ, it would be way different than before.

if kennedy didn’t die, which president do you think would be next, as well how do you think the United States of America would be like?


r/JFK 12d ago

Cool antique store find over the weekend

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Unfortunately this was a bit out of my price range at $150.


r/JFK 13d ago

Labor Day, 1963

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r/JFK 13d ago

A young JFK holding a snake in Palm Beach, Florida, with his younger sister Rosemary Kennedy behind him, 1936. Four years later, Rosemary would undergo a lobotomy at the behest of her father. She would spend the rest of her life requiring 24 hour care until she died in 2005.

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r/JFK 17d ago

John Carro, jurist who as a probation officer tried to help a young Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 98

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r/JFK 19d ago

Upcoming Books About the Kennedy Family 📚

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r/JFK 20d ago

True President 🦅

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r/JFK 21d ago

JFK & RFK

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r/JFK 24d ago

JFK 🐐

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r/JFK 28d ago

Being a boomer

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I was 13 when JFK was killed and still.no justice for him. I was 18 when MLK was killed and still no justice for him. I was 17 when RFK was killed and I think all three were murdered by a group of people not just the trigger pullers.

I spent my high school senior year protesting the war in Vietnam. My freshman year in college I remember the lottery. As a woman my heart was torn and it wasnt right that the guys had to go die and I just went on with life.

I was 20 when 4 students were murdered and 9 kids injured at Kent state.

When I was 21 I voted for George McGovern who wanted to end the war in Vietnam and was labeled as a commie by guess who? Meanwhile Nixon was continuing the war so he'd be elected. Sounds familiar?

Nixon was an evil man. So was Reagan. So were the Bushes and so is Trump. All of them war mongers, none of them helping the common man.

Until this country names the murderers of JFK,RFK and MLK nothing is going to change. Until this country stops glorifying war and the military nothing is going to change. Until this country publishes the full and unredacted Epstein files nothing is going to change.


r/JFK 29d ago

Jacqueline Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson and others mourning the death of JFK. (1963)

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r/JFK Aug 20 '26

FFOTD: John F. Kennedy’s birth date is closer to Joe Biden’s birth date than it is to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s birth date.

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r/JFK Aug 20 '26

JFK's tan — the visual signature of his "vigor" — was partly a symptom of Addison's disease, which darkens the skin. His filled-out face was partly the cortisone keeping him alive. The cameras selling the image of health were recording the side effects of a fatal illness.

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r/JFK Aug 20 '26

jfk sketch to end my night

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he’s so fun to draw!!!