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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 4 sec.) ; 314360816 bytes |
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An explosive new biography that reveals the real John Fitzgerald Kennedy - a President who was prepared to risk his political career and, at the height of the cold war, his country's security, for sex. In a terrible instance of irony, the Kennedy assassination in Dallas in November 1963 took his life, but saved his reputation. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is still regarded as the most charismatic US President, an icon of modernity cut down in his prime. We focus on his relationships with four 'dangerous' women during his Presidency. All four were seen as security risks by the FBI, three because of alleged Communist connections, and one because of her close links to senior Mafia bosses. During the war he had a relationship with a Danish journalist, Inge Arvad, who was suspected of having Nazi connections. He was warned to stop the affair, but he persisted. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover kept tape recordings of JFK's love-making to Arvad. During his campaign for Presidency in early 1960 Kennedy began a relationship with, Judith Exner Campbell. Campbell was an intimate of some of America's powerful Mafia bosses. The film reveals evidence that eye-witnesses believed the meeting between Campbell and Kennedy was engineered by the Mafia, as a way of gaining influence over a potential future President. Using new documentary evidence, interview material, and recently-released FBI files, the film debunks the hagiographic myth of JFK and Camelot.In Britain, in the summer of 1963, a sex and spying scandal caused the resignation of John Profumo, British Minister for War. One of the women involved in the Profumo scandal, Mariella Novotny, claimed to have had a relationship with JFK. She had also been sleeping with the Soviet naval attache linked to the Profumo scandal. An American newspaper picked up the story and published an article with coded references to the President, suggesting he was involved in a vice scandal. (From the US, in English) (Documentary) |
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Broadcast 2010-06-11 at 19:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
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Presidents -- Biography.
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Presidents -- Paramours.
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Relations with women.
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Sex customs.
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U.S. states -- Politics and government.
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United States.
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Streaming video
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Hill, Bernard, cast
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Lilley, Harvey, director
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