John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning/Day of Drums 

The last of the greatest leader of any country, then and now, he had the looks, charisma, intellect, well informed of every issues of his times and a great speaker.

John Kennedy a ray of sunshine in a world filled with darkness

Those memories always in our hearts. God bless president Kennedy.

First class President Kennedy tribute.

I cry when watching this video. President Kennedy is beautiful,.:-)

I saw this documentary when it was new in the 1960s and remember it as the best on JFK's administration. I am delighted it has been added to youtube. Thank you!

Thank you for posting this excellent film. I had seen it on TV once, many years ago, and hoped to see it again.

He was murdered because he wanted to lift up everyone on this planet and that could not be tolerated. As long as I live I will never be able to get those drums out of my head.

He cared about the people of the world and for that he was hated , I find that troubling

This is a really wonderful film, a wonderful tribute to JFK. The Kennedy administration was the last this country had that its people followed so intensely, supported and actually had faith in. With the death of John kennedy, this country also died in many ways. It will never be the same. So many of us who were very young that fateful day in Dallas remember, and the questions today are many. The world respected us then. How different this nation would be had he lived to serve his term!

When I was little I would see this documentary every Nov 22 then my parents would tell me and my brothers why that date was so special in our family. My mother was having surgery that same day and she loved the Kennedys she could not be told for several days what happened to JFK for fear it would upset her too much (she found out later that day what happened and had no ill reaction) My mother got to shake JFK's hand before the election and 7 years later got to shake Bobby's hand too

One Extraordinary Documentary I was just 11 years old!! Just being a school kid! Then the unthinkable!! I still hold a tear for our loss! My God

2022 - August 27th. A very impressive documentary in honour of a Very Impressive President of the United States of America AND his effect throughout "the world-plateau" 🌹. STILL NOT FORGOTTEN : J.F.K 🌹 & R.F.K 🌹& E.M.K.🌹 Thank you so much for this post. God bless you and your extended ones 💐 Sincere regards in Christ Jesus Our Lord through The Holy Spirit 💖, in His service ✝️🌹, A. DEE WAI 🕊️

Thank you for sharing this. so much was done within three years.

Quote by GREGORY PECK ~ "John Kennedy is now silent and invisible. But so is peace and freedom . And so is love and faith. And so are memories and dreams."

Have any of you noticed whenever a good influential being wants to put the people first and peace always gets bumped off?

No politician gets that kind of welcome, by the man on the street anymore. He was flawed as a human being, but brought hope for a better world for all. That couldn't be allowed to happen. I think he was the last politician most believed in. Now across the world we have no respect or emotions for any of our world leaders.

in the last 250years, Citizens of America have seen many ups and downs and managed to raise whenever it appeared impossible to recover. Great country,Great people and great visionaries who shaped America to be on top of the world.

EXCELLENT FILM ON PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY 🎥🎥🎥 WONDERFUL TO SEE THE PEOPLE FROM 1960S IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD 🌏🌎🌍 PRESIDENT KENNEDY DID GOOD HE WAS A GOOD GUY 🌟🌟🌟IN A BAD WORLD 🌏🌎🌍

The late Bruce Herchensohn did a superb job on the soundtrack! It is so moving. Bravo! Mr. Hershensohn! I was fortunate to find a sealed copy of the soundtrack album in a bookstore in Pasadena, California. I'll treasure it forever. I'm having it placed in an album frame and placing it on my bedroom wall.

Watching this documentary with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes - wandering what JFK and RFK would have accomplished if they had been given the chance. History may have been taken in a completely different path. It was not meant to be and we are left with a promising start that was cut short before it could be proved beneficial to all. Despite the fact that the brothers were all too human - they did what they could to improve world conditions - beginning with their own country.

Extraordinary documentary. Exquisite work by Gregory Peck.

when JFK spoke it was pure 🔥🔥🔥❤

JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS A NATIONAL LOVED MAN, HE WAS THE BACKBONE FOR ALL RACES, HE WAS A SAINT FOR ALL HUMAN KIND,BUT YOU KNOW WHEREVER THERE'S GOOD EVIL IS NOT FAR AWAY, GOD BLESS YOU JFK YOU REALLY DID GOOD FOR US,THE WORLD AND ALL MAN KIND, REST IN HEAVEN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT THIS WAR ANY MORE,AMEN.

Ready for 18 18 Thank you for sharing this video. God bless the Kennedy's for all their kindness, compassion, love and peace around the world. 🌎 🙏 ❤️

JFK and Jackie looked like a couple of movie stars together.

Thank you so much for posting and sharing such a great leader like PRES. John Fitzgerald KENNEDY is a hero, and fr. generation to generation he will never be forgotten, his leadership demonstrated his loved for his country and to all mankind..God bless him and may he rest in peace now and forever...

JFK's legacy by sending Peace Corps in our country the Philippines made us humble Filipinos for Americans great contribution. I still recall our town Mabini , Bohol benefitted on peace corps program from the U. S. A. Thank You JFK. Thank you U.S.A. God Bless

What we gained. And what we lost.

You don't see Documentary like this but this is one of my Favorite John F Kennedy Documentary Cleveland Public schools didn't teach about John Kennedy

I remember when this presentation was on TV in the late '70s.

JFK and Rfk will never be forgotten

Although there are some stretches of the truth in this film because this film was intended for overseas, it nevertheless is accurate about most of the accomplishments and the impression that people had of JFK and the magnitude of the loss and how it affected people all over the world. One of the unfortunate results of his death was what happened to the Alliance for Progress after he died as it became of shell of what he had intended before it faded away.

Today is the 58th anniversary of JFK's assassination. I still miss him...

He mattered........he really, really, mattered.

I get choked up at 1:14:31! I was at school when this tragedy took place. I was in First Grade and my teachers were crying. We went out to the playground and our flag was lowered to half mast. Our Principal said that our President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas,TX and that we were free to go home. We were told to return to school on Monday morning. Mr. Peck was absolutely right. It was two hours earlier in California when this horrible event took place. I'll never forget it.

Quote by ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY ~ "When I think of President Kennedy I think of what Shakespeare said in Romeo and Juliet: When he shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun."

so Sad to see anyone murdered like he was, our president waving to a crowd he did not really know.

Even though I was alive when Kennedy was assassinated, I was only 5 years old and I remember my TV cartoons were preempted by the live coverage of the Presidents funeral, which I did watch and remember the horse drawn coffin. My parents explained to me what had happened and to a certain extent I understood and vividly remember to this day.

This is Gregory Peck narrating, correct? He had the perfect voice for this. Thank you for posting!

That drum march

United States the glory day!

I HAD THE GREAT PRIVILEDGE OF SEEING HIM IN MY HOMETOWN CORK CITY IRELAND 🇮🇪 ON JUNE 28TH DURING HIS HISTORIC IRISH VISIT I WAS STANDING ON THE SOUTH MALL STREET CORK CITY HE PASSED BY HE WAS SMILING AND WAVING TO THE MASSIVE CROWD THAT TURNED OUT TO GREET HIM HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO CITY HALL TO MEET THE LORD MAYOR OF CORK CITY SEAN CASEY AND OTHER DIGNITARIES A WONDERFUL HAPPY SPECIAL GOLDEN MEMORY FOR ME LATER ON THAT YEAR 1963 CAME THAT AWFUL DAY IN DALLAS TEXAS U S A BLACK FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22ND WHEN HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD BY A PERSON OR PERSONS ??? WHO ARE NOT WORTHY OF MENTION J F K 1917 TO 1963 R I P AMEN ❤

Bruce Herschenson who wrote, diected and composed the music of this outstanding documentary was a conservative Republican. He worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations. He taught at Harvard and was a television commentator. I had the privilege of working on his 1986 Senatorial campaign. Bruce was an absolute genius and one of the nicest, most genuine people I have ever met.

Jan 9 2024 - President JFKennedy is still the greatest American President who ever lived. RIP JFK 🙏❤️🌺 from New Zealand 🇳🇿.

Ohhh yesss! These good old days!!!

It has now been 60 years since that fateful day...JFK is still missed!

Silný je to a plné naděje, protože nic jiné nezbejvá. Vzdávám vám hold, pane prezidente Kennedy. Uvědomuji si, že jsem ze stejnýho století jaký vy a tudíž věřím co jste začal a budu se snažit žít poctivě a s nadějí.

He is in our hearts til we join him! It seems like yezterday!

Hi best statment truly speech thanku so much❤

WE ARE JFK AND WE WILL BARE ANY HARDSHIP TO DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION.

Hi tru spoken very nice thanks❤

I know Henry Fonda was the narrator at the beginning but that voice could easily pass for William Dafoe. But watching these Kennedy speeches leaves you wondering on what could've been.

I think if the world respected us wholeheartedly then, this film would not have been produced. The mission of the USIA was to manage America's "image problem." They were selling the character of the American people through Kennedy. It was one of their more successful projects, admittedly. This was a brilliant hagiography.

JFK', my hero! Thanks for inspiring the youth.

thank you. a great overview.

Thirty Five was/is Heaven sent.

1:15:10-1:15:43 That shiny Lincoln Motorcade glad i can always look at my 2 collected diecast models i bought the 61' lincoln then the bubble top x100 fixer upper. but at 1:15:24-1:15:32 i love they were able to record JFK in his happy time there in the motorcade wavin to the crowd up on the windows of the buildings or sittin on the roofs of the buildings, a straight smooth shot of him & his secret service men lookin up to the waving crowd.

President Kennedy is number 1 with me. God Bless all the Kennedy family.

By far, the best most complete doc i have ever seen on JFK. He was truly the last of his kind in DC. Not a perfect man by any stretch, not even close..... but a uniter. Unlike the Great Divider we have today. A huge part of us Americans died that Nov day in 63. I was a month shy of three yrs old that day. The division and unrest today and viciousness and conspiracy and efforts at supreme control (aka Socialism) are horrendous. Right now i declare i am absolutely ashamed to be an American. In two short yrs we have de-volved into a third rate country run by a corrupt good ole boys network of crooks only content on fillling their own pockets. Come January, maybe then the committees will finally find the Diaper Filler and his entire corrupt family out and lock every one of them up, and take half their crooked administration with them. One can only have such an errant wish for the New Year.

Don't watch a lot of old movies and did not know Gregory Peck had such an excellent speaking voice.

Can anyone identify the music playing during the trip to Ireland?

I lived through this tragedy and it scared my soul.

One Time reviewer called this film "a legend for export, smoothly put together, fiercely partisan and as heedless of history as a love letter written in sand."

Richard Basehart narrated a similar documentary about JFK "Four Days In November".

when i was a foreign student in the US in ‘70’s I was told that USIS films could not be exhibited in the US by law.

It is nice to think Prof. Snape is the one narrating this tale of both promise and tragedy.

This is really old. Good post!!

Fifty three (53) years ago, today.

Because nobody stepped up and finished the job he started, it’s a shame! The greatest of all the Presidents in lifetime. Magnificent Mind!

gregory peck goat = narrating voice .. or up there with the best at the least

Today we have no presidents just flunkys

Hi story art of index very nice good me very nice

Does anyone know what's the theme song called at 1:05:43 ??

Well it still relivant

Those drums really stay with ya, haunting, when he was in Ireland was he received so enthusiastically by the Protestant Irish or was this in Northern Ireland,? I wonder cuz Don't they hate each other viperously ? President Kennedy's driver was protestant Irish btw, just sayin' we lost so much, never been the same never will be heartbreaking to the core

who in hell is going to click and sit for two hours?

My Generation Is So Dumb & ignorant I Taunt myself about Civil Rights after I graduated from School By Books Movies libraries & PBS & RU-vid videos & internet

No The Kennedy's weren't Saints but What happened to the Kennedy's is Tragic Had the Oldest Brother not been killed he would have been president of united States John Kennedy didn't really have interest for politics it was after his oldest brother was Killed Else Wise John Kennedy could have been involved as a writer. Already. Wrote his first Novel & in his own right He was scholar Kennedy could have been whatever he wanted This family has had their share or tragedy before & after John & Bobby were Assassinated. Who knows what John & Robert Kennedy could have done if They weren't involved in Politics & if They both didn't come from a wealthy background? ??

Bobby Junior for President: 2024!

I thought Joan Rivers was gonna do it as she had it going on (& as foxey as she was at 58 in '64 ‽)!! Rroarr, hmm?

Says it

Why haven't the Jfk files been released, I still believe Lbj was involved

I wonder if I actually got in touch or contact with the Kennedy that is related to their family these days wonder what would happen

If he wasn't doing truly good things for humanity he would have not been assassinated, period. Oh I forgot , it's never " a lone nut ".

I just want to know who murdered this great man and his brother!

How can a Nation kill its own president. ???

HE IS RISEN 106 YOU'LL FIND OUT 174

This has been a CIA Production

The Illuminati...

"To often we...enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." Joe, aside from being hurtful and the work of a "degenerate illuniati rat," your comment proves that opinion really does not require thought.

This is great all these people watch this video but no one saw it, perhaps this is why the cover up was such a success, only stupid people can live in America.

haha. damn that was funny. I almost spit up my drink.

Leave Cuba alone.

Not bad propaganda. But the Kennedy's were not plaster saints.

Within 90 seconds the singular in assassin reveals the single shooter narrative is at play. There were 4 teams at play in this detailed planning to take JFK out. The music is loudly mixed (I know its a tribute) so anyone watching here don't look for even a hint of viewpoint in criminality. I get it. But I also pass...