Very Special Episodes: JFK's Forgotten Summer as a Journalist (with Rob Reiner)
16 August - 45 mins
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Noble Blood
Eighty years ago this summer, a young John F. Kennedy took a job as a journalist for Hearst newspapers, filing dispatches in the final days of World War II. Even the most seasoned JFK scholars often overlook this chapter.
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Fred Logevall and legendary director Rob Reiner join Dana Schwartz to explore the forgotten summer that helped shape Kennedy's worldview.
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Check out Fred Logevall's excellent book: JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century.
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