Book: America's Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy by Monika Wiesak

Get the book here: Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook, Scribd, Barnes & Noble

June 11 1963, JFK's landmark Civil Rights Speech: Video, Text

How Monika got interested in the JFK presidency

Understanding the root causes vs. supressing the symptoms

The world JFK envisioned vs. the world we ended up with

The Bay of Pigs operation was Kennedy's introduction to the world of intelligence

NSAM 55 (FRUS)

NSAMs 55, 56 and 57

Kennedy fired Allen Dulles, Richard Bissel and Charles Cabell from the CIA

Kennedy cut CIA's budget by 20%

President Kennedy's actions in the Congo

UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's death in a suspicious plane crash

Documentary: Cold Case Hammarskjold: Stream on Amazon, iTunes, Directv, Microsoft, Verizon, Vudu

Book: Who Killed Hammarskjold? by Susan Williams: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle

Edmund Gullion told JFK that Hammarskjold's death was suspicious

In 2 years and 10 months, Kennedy personally met with 28 African heads of state

Whereas Eisenhower met with 8 African heads of state in 8 years

G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams was one of Kennedy's first appointees

Kennedy supported "Africa for the Africans"

Kennedy supported Angola over Portugal and Algeria over France

Full text of JFK's Algeria speech in the Senate, 1957

The Alliance for Progress

Jackie Kennedy said that JFK would have never done what LBJ did in the Dominican Republic and Brazil

Book: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy

(interviewed by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.): Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook

FREE Borrowable Ebook: Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy

Philanthro capitalism or philantro imperialism

Video: President Kennedy calls out the steel companies (1962)

"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it until now,"

President Kennedy famously said when he felt steel executives had double-crossed him by raising prices

FREE Borrowable Ebook: Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson

Kennedy amended the rules to make sure that the FDA does both safety and efficacy studies

The FDA ended up removing 600 drugs from the market after they did retroactive efficacy studies

Thalidomide and the pharmaceutical industry

The four basic consumer rights: the right to safety, be informed, choose and be heard

JFK's consumer rights speech (March 15, 1962)

World Consumer Rights Day is celebrated every year on March 15

Stockpile investigation

Military is the biggest pollutor on the planet

Kennedy chose peace over war repeatedly during his presidency

Kennedy was working towards ending the cold war

June 10 1963, JFK's American University commencement address titled 'A Strategy of Peace': Audio, Video, Text

Kennedy hoped to visit the Soviet Union in his second term

JFK sought good relations with all Middle Eastern countries

"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market

is a nation that is afraid of its people" - John F. Kennedy

CIA document titled Countering Criticism of the Warren Report

Jim DiEugenio interviews Monika Wiesak: please listen to episode 1112