410. JFK: Blood On The Streets Of Dallas (Part 4)

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arland. And uh we are on the final part of our JFK mini series. And over the last three episodes we've been following what has been actually a roller coaster life for JFK. Sickly second son, never meant to lead, war hero, um made half by courage itself, half by his father's publicity machine, and reluctant air. In many ways, who who climbed through a Homer.

Uh democratic convention and the closest election contest of the century and makes it all the way to the White House. And a president who, at the most I think dangerous moment in human history kept his nerve. And more importantly, to all of us, kept the peace. Frederick Loqval, our fabulous guest for all of these episodes, is with us again. Pull it's a prize wing winning biographer o of JFK. So I mean in this episode, uh Frederick, we are going to talk about that fateful day in Dallas, uh the wellspring of thousands of theories and alternative theories or conspiracy theories, depending on where you come from, about how John F. Kennedy was killed. But just as a moment

in time, those three shots ringing out. How important, how impactful were they In the American psyche. Well, I don't think I can do better. than uh to quote a great historian who figures prominently in my narrative, especially in volume two and three. uh because he also served as a Kennedy aide, and that is, of course, Arthur Schlesinger Junior, one of the great historians, I think it's fair to say, of the twentieth century in the United States.

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