Using primary sources, audiotapes and first-hand accounts from staff and family, this program follows the life of the nation's magnetic 35th president - from the Cuban Missile Crisis through his tragic assassination in 1963. Also includes an A & E Home Video program on the personal side of JFK and a program aired on the television show "Biography" on Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of this American dynasty. Includes rarely-heard recordings of JFK and RFK, interviews with personal confidantes, insiders and highly-placed sources, and home videos of the Kennedy family.

On loan from BOCES.

Disc 1. JFK : a presidency revealed (2 hrs., 18 min.) -- Disc 2. JFK : a personal story (1 hr., 28 min.) / produced by Rhys Thomas ; host, Harry Smith ; Narrator, Jim Ward ; produced by Greystone Communications, Inc. for A & E Network ; an A & E Home Video (1996) -- Joseph Kennedy, Sr. : father of an American dynasty (45 min.) / produced by Edward Mallory ; host, Jack Perkins ; narrator, Sanford Orkin ; produced by Greysone Communications, Inc. for A & E Network ; an A & E Home Video (1997).