JFK's Hidden Health Secrets Uncovered - Biographical Documentary

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Жыл бұрын

John F Kennedy was the youngest ever elected president of the United States - brimming with health and vitality - at least that’s what he wanted people to believe.
In reality, he had the most complex health history of anyone to occupy the White House and was taking a crazy cocktail of medication including steroids, barbiturates, opiate pain killers, and testosterone.
This video explores the shocking, but little known medical history of JFK, focussing on his gastro-intestinal symptoms and Addison’s disease and asks the question of what all those pills and injections could have done to the mind of the man with his finger on the nuclear button.
There is a companion video that goes into more depth into his back problems and his Dr Feelgood amphetamine injections: JFK's Crazy Dr Feelgood Shots • JFK's Crazy Dr Feelgoo...
Finding Out More:
Some of JFK’s medical records can be seen online at the JFK Library. Robert Dallek’s biography John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-1963 is a well-researched and detailed conventional biography that describes a lot of JFK’s medical problems.
However, Richard A. Lertzman’s book - Dr Feelgood: The Shocking Story of the Doctor Who May Have Changed History by Treating and Drugging JFK, Marilyn, Elvis, and Other Prominent Figures is a fascinating read even if it seems a little far-fetched at times. Both are available through my Amazon store page: amzn.to/3KlzKNU
Academic References;
Macchia, D., Lippi, D., Bianucci, R., and Donell, S. (2020). President John F Kennedy’s medical history: coeliac disease and autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 2. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 96(1139), 543-549.
Mandel, L. R. (2009). Endocrine and autoimmune aspects of the health history of John F. Kennedy. Annals of internal medicine, 151(5), 350-354.
Copyright Disclaimer:
The primary purpose of this video is educational. I have tried to use material in the public domain or with Creative Commons Non-attribution licences wherever possible. Where attribution is required, I have listed this below. I believe that any copyright material used falls under the remit of Fair Use, but if any content owners would like to dispute this, I will not hesitate to immediately remove that content. It is not my intention to infringe on content ownership in any way. If you happen to find your art or images in the video, please let me know and I will be glad to credit you.
Images:
Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Wellcome Collection
JFK Library
Video produced by Graeme Yorston and Tom Yorston.

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@charliesmith4072 Жыл бұрын

When I met him in September, 1963, his discolored skin was obvious. His illnesses were no secret to any of us.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

How interesting.

@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын

@@professorgraemeyorston The day I saw him in September, 1962, that brown face was striking. I had always read it was a result of the cortisone, not a sign of Addison's. But his face was also puffy, swollen looking, which indicates cortisone use, I understand. In 1974, I saw an interview with a writer named Adela Rogers St John. She was close to the Kennedys, so close they could trust her with secrets. From the Robert Caro book, one learns that later in the 1950s, Kennedy had cortisone pellets ( I don't know the proper name, you will, Doctor ) implanted in the skin of an upper thigh two or three times a year, which replaced the need for shots and also apparently smoothed out the highs and lows of cortisone use. But Adela Rogers St John talked about a day in 1954, when she and Kennedy were talking in his Senate office. For whatever reason, he had not gotten a cortisone shot on schedule, and was waiting for delivery of it. Adela Rogers St John said that as they talked, Kennedy began to halt in his speech, and eventually stopped even trying. He knew she understood what was happening to him. She said he appeared to wither away, second to second, as she watched, struck dumb with dread and helplessness because there was nothing she could do. He had tears welling in his eyes, and finally managed to say, "You see - you see - how I am without it." After the Addison's was diagnosed, everywhere Kennedy went, a valise went with him. It contained cortisone and syringes. His father is said to have had supplies of cortisone and syringes stocked in safe deposit boxes in a bank in every major city in North America and Europe in case Jack lost the valise.

@margaretcollins9382 Жыл бұрын

No, no secret there. I was busily developing autoimmune disease which was impacting my kidneys. I remember feeling a kinship with JFK, as I had the same 'high colouring' of kidney disease which presented as rude good health. Hence his campaign slogan of 'youth and vigour', but the deeper greyish tinge was always there.

@midnightchannel7759 Жыл бұрын

His illness was especially easy to see in his early years in Washington, progressively weak. Probably why the newspapers were always commented in his health. Once he got older and filled out, berore running for President, it was harder to see... But I remember my Mom commenting on how brave he had to be, to keep working, to hide the illness.

@almamedina2902 Жыл бұрын

Oh, wow.

@kenfalloon3186 Жыл бұрын

In my experience, children who suffer throughout their lives develop a particularly fierce resilience which is what l remember him as having. I see the same steely resolve in RFK jnr.

@corki8792 Жыл бұрын

Exactly what God said, through your suffering, comes my strength 💜

@brendalinstra3920 Жыл бұрын

The scarlet fever he had caused damage to his adrenal glands. That's one thing that scarlet fever does. With bad adrenal glands, you can have any number of lifelong conditions.

@jackfitzpatrick8173 Жыл бұрын

I once worked at a hospital where JFK was widely known to have been a *secret* patient of one of our physicians who treated him for Addison's Disease.

@debraschepers9381 Жыл бұрын

Remember the one movie that's takes place in the ER n that's bout it. His Dr handed them n needle n said Here your gonna need this. I knew he took something every morning. Basically meth (speed) ! Complete exhaustion is horrible. You don't get rested when u sleep n u don't sleep either. It's miserable.

@nickoletteroden1884 Жыл бұрын

@@debraschepers9381🎉🎉🎉

@charliesmith4072 Жыл бұрын

For all his health problems, he was the only president to win a Pulitzer before running. He held weekly press conferences, which no other president has done, and he had a remarkable sense of humor. Regarding the "danger" of erratic decisions during the 1962 Missile Crisis. he was, next to Adlai Stevenson, the strongest voice for minimal reaction.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Thank you - one of themes of my channel is to highlight how people with mental and physical illnesses can achieve at the highest level - I guess you can't get much higher than being president.

@margaretcollins9382 Жыл бұрын

I agree. His health issues never impacted his mental faculties.

@midnightchannel7759 Жыл бұрын

Yes, and he had to go agaisnt his Cabinet to keep the peace.

@luciaconn6788 Жыл бұрын

a commonality is to give underlying causes when there was no erratic behavior in JFK. His only fault was to trust a den of vipers, (campaign staff) and go to Dallas.

@nancyekstrom8409 Жыл бұрын

Someone ghost wrote that book.

@erichottel7783 Жыл бұрын

Robert Dallek covers Kennedy's health problems extensively in his superb biography, An Unfinished Life.

@louise_rose Жыл бұрын

Great book indeed, I have both that one and his (very funny and revealing) book about Nixon and Kissinger during a time when the White House was sliding into paranoia.

@brendawilliams7836 Жыл бұрын

JFK has always been one of my favorite presidents! Compared to what we have in the office now I would consider him one of the very best!

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Judging by some of the comments, many people agree with you and many take the opposite view. I try not to take sides and simply present the facts to let everyone decide for themselves.

@jstasiak2262 Жыл бұрын

JFK was a weasel. He was at best a below average president.

@jakemonster001 Жыл бұрын

@@jstasiak2262This. He murdered a ton of men in his Bay of Pigs fuck up.

@ithacacomments4811 Жыл бұрын

Most likely having scarlet fever so young triggered autoimmune disease in Kennedy. My mother had scarlet fever when young and struggled with autoimmune diseases until her death at age 93.

@phooichunlau7827 Жыл бұрын

Wow what a brave and advanced soul. A fighter to be alife and he made a difference to the world with his life. Thank you JFK❤

@normadesmond6017 Жыл бұрын

what kind of a difference did he made with his life?

@DippyHippie Жыл бұрын

@@normadesmond6017oh,go away! Why do you care?! Does it bring you joy to be argumentative? GROW UP!

@Albertanator 5 ай бұрын

Oh brother....

@midnightchannel7759 Жыл бұрын

They weren't hidden. My mother told me about them in 1968. It was widely known at the time.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

He was long gone by 1968 - they weren't widely known in 1960.

@midnightchannel7759 Жыл бұрын

@@professorgraemeyorston Yes. He was long gone. I am glad you are aware of that. I remember when he was killed. And it might hurt your pride, but it WAS WELL KNOWN by anyone who read.

@happyhatkilinski1457 Жыл бұрын

@@midnightchannel7759 I didn't know and I read.

@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын

@@midnightchannel7759absolute nonsense. If Kennedy's pill intake had been known, especially cortisone for his Addison's, he would have been finished as a presidential prospect before 1960.

@diegesisfreak Жыл бұрын

@@midnightchannel7759I remember too. what a great day. somebody saved the world that day and never even took the credit.

@Taluta394 Жыл бұрын

Isn’t it amazing how barbaric the treatments were in the 40’s - 60’s?!?! I mean it sounds like they might have put leeches on him! Autoimmune diseases are still difficult today, but incredible how they were treated back then! Even if you didn’t like him you have to think, this poor person!! And then to get his life taken by gunshot to his head. 🤦🏼‍♀️ what a strange family of sadness.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

He certainly had a lot to put up with.

@DCFunBud Жыл бұрын

Doctors are injecting male children with female hormones with the intent of casterating them once they become adults. How barberic is that?!

@Rickypaleo1776 Жыл бұрын

How barbaric will today seem 50 years from now.

@charliesmith4072 Жыл бұрын

Doctors did their best with what they had. I have often wondered how different things might be if the importance of blood pressure and its control had been understood in 1944 and FDR had lived through his fourth term.

@bajorekjon 25 күн бұрын

It's still childsplay compared to what they did to his sister, who didn't even need it

@eden_aumakua Жыл бұрын

I can never forgive his parents for pushing his sister to receive a LOBOTOMY. Good heavens!

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Not Joe Senior's greatest moment.

@leslieschott754 2 ай бұрын

Me too!

@here_we_go_again2571 22 күн бұрын

It was Joe Kennedy's idea. He had the lobotomy done while her mother was out of town.

@darthcaliginous2066 Жыл бұрын

11:46 even all those side effects couldn’t change who Jack was at heart. This man and his brother tried to make this country and the world better

@bajorekjon 25 күн бұрын

Yeah he was such a good president by not blowing up the world

@jackzimmer6553 Жыл бұрын

I was diagnosed with an atrophied pituitary gland in the late 1960’s. This was uncovered because my parents were trying to find out why I was so short compared to kids my age. The pituitary is the master gland in control of all endocrine systems. My condition was called hypopituitarism. I was started on growth hormone and in addition I was given synthroid, hydro-cortisone (exra when I was sick or under stress) and testosterone once I had reached a fairly normal height. I too became easily tired before being administered the cortisone. The endocrine doctor was surprised I hadn’t died when I had my adenoids and tonsils removed!

@daviddowns7552 Жыл бұрын

im glad you got thru that sir.. i have to use synthroid and im curious if thats why i feel fatigued and often depressed feeling but my dr never explains anything to me.

@jackzimmer6553 Жыл бұрын

@@daviddowns7552 Thanks! If you don’t like that your doctor isn’t communicating with you I would recommend finding another one. I’m no doctor so I can only tell you that if I don’t take my thyroid medicine I do get tired more often. The same with my adrenal supplement. Take care!

@goldenlass9488 Жыл бұрын

His life was an extraordinary profile in courage! So much pain and suffering, and the ongoing dread of physical calamity. His accomplishments are amazing, especially while considering the burden of hiding his illnesses and striving to appear vitally healthy.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

That's a very positive interpretation.

@streaming5332 Жыл бұрын

So much infidelity.

@opaulamorgan4265 Жыл бұрын

Human weaknesses aside, he was extroadinarily gifted. We will never know what he could have accomplished had he not been assassinated.

@itsjustme7487 Жыл бұрын

He reminds me of FDR. Rich and determined.

@mchapman132 Жыл бұрын

@@streaming5332- I read he needed sex a few times daily. He said it helped his back and relieved his frequent headaches. I guess that’s called ‘medicinal sex’. 😂

@cassandradelvegablanco5299 Жыл бұрын

He sure could commit serial adultery though

@JenJ2023 3 ай бұрын

That's between him, his wife, and his priest.

@linzieloo1 Ай бұрын

Yes he had most likely a sexually transmitted disease, he slept around massively

@sammiepuppy4196 Жыл бұрын

President Kennedy has been gone for almost 60 years, let him rest in peace.🙏

@jodiecarlson6955 7 ай бұрын

"Stress could kill you." ... "OK, I think I'll run for President."

@cklaurence6414 Жыл бұрын

Have been binge watching your videos. Interesting and informative. Thx.

@SamtheMan0508 11 ай бұрын

Very interesting and informative! I had no idea about any of this.I just subscribed and look forward to watching your other videos.

@professorgraemeyorston 11 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard!

@SamtheMan0508 11 ай бұрын

@@professorgraemeyorston Thank you.

@almamedina2902 Жыл бұрын

Back i the days, Lord knows what they put into your body to ease pains!!

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

He had a lot more than most people!

@scaredy-cat Жыл бұрын

No different than today

@nancywood9027 Жыл бұрын

Apparently we have had a lots of presidents who had physical or mental problems.

@frankgraham1996 Жыл бұрын

Well that certainly explains a lot.

@tinaamador3799 Жыл бұрын

WOW I had NNNNOOO clue😳 I love your content and just found your videos (binge watching) thank you🙏

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you're enjoying them!

@thomasb.smithjr.8401 Күн бұрын

Apparently, doctors examining his body after the assassination thought they were looking at the remains of an 85 year old man - not one who was 46. Had he lived to be re-elected in '64, one wonders if he would have survived a second term, in any case. 🤔 😮

@saraw4683 8 ай бұрын

Wow he had a lot of health issues. The medicine alone he took must taken a toll on his body.

@professorgraemeyorston 8 ай бұрын

Yes, complicated medication regimes can create new problems!

@jillwanlin9558 9 ай бұрын

Thankyou professor for this eye opening presentation on JFK’s health struggles. The one you did on Rosemary Kennedy was not only moving, but also gave some fascinating insight into the family dynamics and upbringing of the Kennedy children. I don’t believe there’s such a thing as a family being cursed, but if I did, the Kennedys would definitely come to mind. Particularly JFK, Jackie and children. For all their affluence and successes, this family has been marred by more than their fair share of tragedy.

@clementreid907 Жыл бұрын

Note that he was quite a rational and thoughtful President, so he must have had his medication under control.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

I'm sure he was....most of the time.

@jacquelinejanz5792 Жыл бұрын

People in constant pain need medication to get through life. He and his wife rose above the obstacles and continued in spite of physical constraints. It’s a mistake to categorize them as sympathetic characters. They continued to break new ground until they were assassinated.

@shirleysarradet9486 Жыл бұрын

I think he did pretty good - all those problems and someone was afraid of him .. He was killed

@takenoprisoners837 Ай бұрын

This was an amazing video. Thank you for this!!

@professorgraemeyorston Ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

@rebeccagandi5258 Жыл бұрын

JFK was extraordinarily Strong but Coped with all these stresses May he had perfect resurrection at the end of this wicked system of Things.

@rebeccagandi5258 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Professor for this documentary on the Late President's health issues Appreciated!

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@carolyncruse5495 Жыл бұрын

Jehovah will fix this😊

@a.f.7246 Жыл бұрын

We go thru trials *& tribulations but JFK had more of them

@gargould7186 Жыл бұрын

@@carolyncruse5495The resurrection is coming by the Son Jesus ( John 5:28)& (11:25)

@rafalsz1272 Жыл бұрын

Wow, great video

@professorgraemeyorston 11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@sherrymorris5564 Жыл бұрын

Whatever illness he had sure didn’t stop him from having a sexual addiction.

@davidmoser3535 Жыл бұрын

Angie Dickinson supposedly said that her sex experience with him was almost over as it started. Quick on the trigger.

@eunyoungsuh6767 Жыл бұрын

@@davidmoser3535 🤣🤣

@willemfeather2655 Жыл бұрын

So they say. So many lies perpetrated by the media, then and now.

@labadoor2607 Жыл бұрын

He had every sexual disease and passed them on!😊

@Yodasstuff Жыл бұрын

His back problems couldn't have been that bad if it didn't stop him.

@vicariously143 6 ай бұрын

I never knew any of this. Thank you for insightful and informative content.

@professorgraemeyorston 6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@judyevancic4926 Жыл бұрын

This hiding huge medical issues goes back to Woodrow Wilson. He was very ill and it was hidden from the public for a very long time by his wife and possibly others. As time went on for those in the President’s office. Things continued to be handled quietly until recovery was achieved. But JFK was having chronically illnesses. Then he had Addison disease. He had back problems but didn’t stop him from liking the ladies. So he was given certain drugs to help his pain. Life was not as easy as he made it look. So because of certain medications it increased his womanizing… But the media was different back then.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

I guess all politicians want to project a strong healthy image.

@jerryabramson8048 Жыл бұрын

My Mom had Addison's Disease. Before the Doctor's were able to diagnose her she weighed 88lbs and she was about 5 foot 7 in height. Every time she ate she threw it all up. Every time. Before the Drs. diagnosed her she got into her Merck manual( she was an RN) and had diagnosed herself., But, she was afraid to tell the Dr. what she thought. When they just couldn't seem to find out what it was she told the Dr. what she thought that she had. So, he decided to check her for that and sure enough she was right. After an IV of cortisone, she ate like the starving woman she looked like!! Cortisone saved her life and she lived to be a much older woman. I think of that Dr. everyday and praise him for putting aside his self-esteem for a moment and listening to the patient.

@zamyrabyrd Жыл бұрын

I don't believe it about the womanizing.

@ethos1236 11 ай бұрын

@@zamyrabyrd It has been well documented in numerous biographies that JFK was a notorious womanizer.

@here_we_go_again2571 22 күн бұрын

JFK wasn't the first president to hide his chronic illnesses, his addictions or his sex life.

@kellyshomemadekitchen 7 ай бұрын

My goodness, I had no idea JFK had so many ailments. And yet, he made such a positive impact on the world. RIP JKF.

@professorgraemeyorston 7 ай бұрын

Sadly, his health was the best it had been in years at the time of his assassination.

@juannaym8488 9 ай бұрын

I researched his health conditions and I believe he started out as being physically sick from birth, but that his health greatly deteriorated as his family consulted multiple physicians at once and they prescribed him medication for one condition that worsened the other

@janibeg3247 Жыл бұрын

he inspired my friends and I to take long hikes and get in shape. Years later i learned that he was a physical wreck on meperidine, steroids, and amphetamines.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

At least you got in shape!

@carolmountford4170 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video:) regards

@professorgraemeyorston 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@stealthhumor Жыл бұрын

Nice hit piece.

@SolonWilliams-we4oz Жыл бұрын

I'm 72 years old and I remember John Kennedy his back problem was caused from him saving another sailor's life he was a commander of a PT Boat 109 everybody knew about his health problems he had a special Cherry had to sit in

@AfterBurner369 Жыл бұрын

It must have been a big cherry! ❤🍒

@itsjustme7487 Жыл бұрын

Chair.

@leslieschott754 2 ай бұрын

I’m 78, and that’s what I understood about his back problem, too, that it was from his rescue mission during the war. Most likely tho, his back injury probably was aggravated by the Addison’s disease.

@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын

This channel never fails to be interesting. "Choate" is pronounced "chote," not "co - ate."

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Thanks for that - I was thinking Greek!

@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын

@@professorgraemeyorston yup, as in "inchoate," the one thing your wonderful channel never is.

@nadyarossi5102 Жыл бұрын

"Shote?"

@cecilialeon6588 Жыл бұрын

All l can say about all this? His family musta have had a lot of money in those days!!!???? For a child, young man to be so sick on/off in those years and be cured? Not everyone was that lucky!!!...My real grandma died of Meningitis, in the 1940s... because of no medicines money or to pay for a doctor to come, see & treat her? She was only 25 yrs old...😢😢😢😢

@patriciabailey2315 Жыл бұрын

Poor antibiotics at that time though could have been viral... No way back the to differentiate.

@bella57644 Жыл бұрын

I never knew he went through all this so ssd but i never noticed i liked him as a prisident.

@scaredy-cat Жыл бұрын

How did Kennedy pass a physical and get an officer commission? Could it been Joe Kennedy influence?

@davidmoser3535 Жыл бұрын

Yes JFK didnt undergo any physical. He simply reported for intelligence duty in DC. No basic training or anything.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

The advantages of a powerful father!!

@nadyarossi5102 Жыл бұрын

Yes, Addison's Disease was terrible, but JFK was also a drug addict (as was Jackie) and a philanderer. Both regularly got "energy shots" from "Dr. Feelgood," Max Jacobson. It was speed! JFK contracted Chlamydia on Sen. George Smathers' yacht, gave it to Jackie and their son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy. The poor child died soon after birth.

@grissomnumber1 Жыл бұрын

Whoo. This was EXCELLENT 👍👍👍👍👍

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@Irene-qe5hu Жыл бұрын

Im from the Uk ,and i was 8yrs old when President Kennedy was shot...ive never forgotten watching it on TV, also the grief stricken first lady Jackie , Caroline and the salute from John -John, i liked the President very much, and have always felt if he had gotten a second term who knows what he would have done, he also appeared to be for the poor, and the CRM...there has never been a decent one since in my view he would have changed America for the best...a lot of people always mentions his infidelities but hey he was a good looking man, doesnt that behaviour come with the job ? Its just that some Presidents didnt get found out, with one exception Bill Clinton, none of them left their wives and children, so they were just flings, no one is perfect in this World, but as i got older i would have liked to have spent time talking to JFK...the man...

@pennymorson9475 Жыл бұрын

Don't trust drugs or doctors

@waistgunner3930 Жыл бұрын

He did, in fact, have Addisons disease (why he looked like he had a deep suntan quite often), and was taking cortisone for his back - it was helping him with that...

@equine2020 Жыл бұрын

Get real. We knew about his health problems of him. War injuries didn't hell his delicate condition. He worked thru pain. Wore a back brace. But he was a man who carried his pain. The last decent Dem. He was a people person, as Trump is. They love the average person.

@MaryMorley-eo5uh 9 ай бұрын

His Mother called him her littleelf, due to being a sickly child. Despite his broken back, due to rescuing his men ( PT 109) addisons disease, look at the love and compassion he and brother Robert poured out. The dream will never die ( Teddy Kennedy words)😢

@Claytone-Records Жыл бұрын

Horse serum? Wouldn’t that be for a horse? Of course of course.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Serum from the blood of horses.

@suellensheppard9734 Жыл бұрын

Horse serum is used in tetanus shots.I am very allergic to it

@Claytone-Records Жыл бұрын

@@suellensheppard9734 Well I’m pretty sure the horses can’t be very happy about them either : ).

@davidrpriest Жыл бұрын

This is really fascinating. I knew he has a lot of health issues. Thanks for sharing.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

My pleasure.

@powers1217 Жыл бұрын

His gut problems could also be explained by Crohn’s disease (an autoimmune disease) and his back problems could have been ankylosing spondylitis, which can occur alongside Crohn’s.

@hollyphilhower Жыл бұрын

that's what my husband has....hes on humira

@davidmoser3535 Жыл бұрын

He had osteoporosis due to steroid use, in fact he had it in 1944 when he first had back disease.The Navy Dr noticed his bone loss during the surgery/

@SMcCaskill Жыл бұрын

His back injuries were caused when PT109 was hit by a Japanese ship during WW2. The fact he was able to tether his men together on a strap and then put the strap in his mouth and swim them all to safety in the south Pacific speaks very well of his fortitude and moral strengths.

@johnfury6481 Жыл бұрын

That’s what I thought as well. Also, Crohn’s disease was more commonly known as regional enteritis back then and JFK knew it was a possibility. Eisenhower also suffered from it.

@here_we_go_again2571 22 күн бұрын

Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert is believed, nowadays, to have suffered from Crohn's disease. Or perhaps stomach cancer since he had a lot of stomach pain for two years before he died of Typhoid fever Victoria wasn't very sympathetic (she was every inch a narcissist) until the end when the Typhoid fever was diagnosed.

@shonmoody1706 Жыл бұрын

Now I know why RFK Jr. is so against pharmaceuticals.

@cherylruley9965 Жыл бұрын

If only medicine was farther along back then 😢

@mikemondano3624 Жыл бұрын

Good job. Facts with little speculation. This could easily have been hours long.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Thank you - I was astounded by the complexity of his issues.

@tominnis8353 Жыл бұрын

What a revelation for me; i never knew sny of this. Even more remarkable that he presented such a cool professional facade.

@professorgraemeyorston 11 ай бұрын

He endured a lot.

@laraoneal7284 Жыл бұрын

He and Jackie both took speed.

@corki8792 Жыл бұрын

And through all those health problems, he was a phenomenal president!!!!♥️🇺🇸♥️

@florenceflorence598 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I was 8 years old when he was assassinated 😢

@kyleethekelt Ай бұрын

Interesting that Addisons was so treatable so early. I had an aunt who died of addisons in 1973 because it was not diagnosed in time.

@professorgraemeyorston Ай бұрын

Because many of the symptoms are so vague it is still missed even today.

@lyndatrones1787 Жыл бұрын

I've ALWAYS known this..my mother raised us knowing everything about John Kennedy..so obviously this information was out there in 1960 when John Kennedy was running for office. this man was a hero in every way folks.

@professorgraemeyorston 11 ай бұрын

Some of it was out there, but not many people listened.

@voyaristika5673 8 ай бұрын

That poor man! Odd to think how much easier hiding truth was back then, right down to his constant sexual affairs. None of us knew how unsafe we were when he was US president. But politicians have been lying since time out of mind. I would hope that today a politician with such an incredibly sick body and an addiction to prescription drugs would be kept out of the White House. Thanks again for another great video!

@professorgraemeyorston 8 ай бұрын

My pleasure.

@linzieloo1 Ай бұрын

He had the energy to sleep around so really don’t feel empathy for him and they would have covered up if that made him sick

@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын

I don't know the Dallek book, but the best reporting I have ever read about Kennedy's health is not in a book about Kennedy. It's in The Passage of Power, volume 4 of Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I have a read.

@DeniseEggertwaterlily Жыл бұрын

I truly believe there was a very good reason why President Lyndon Johnson was the only U.S. President that Queen Elizabeth II never met from Truman to Biden.

@kenclayton5088 Жыл бұрын

Best president in my 76 years....by far

@maryannemelenka9250 Жыл бұрын

He was sicker then we thought. In office he looked healthy at events, but privately must have been agony

@professorgraemeyorston 11 ай бұрын

He certainly had a lot of health problems throughout his life.

@linzieloo1 Ай бұрын

But he slept around so if your that I’ll you wouldn’t feel the energy

@jamesanthony4034 Ай бұрын

Joe Biden: Hold my beer.

@hussainanoordeen5754 Жыл бұрын

So sad

@lesliewells-ig5dl 8 ай бұрын

Your Amazon store page link took me a book about marilyn. Can you give me a l8nk to the whole thing, i would love to explore your book selections. Thanks!

@dianabasile2592 6 ай бұрын

This man had the mind of a dreamer and the heart of a warrior ❤️Rip What a brave and advanced soul ❤️

@JanetBailey-bs1kb Жыл бұрын

Hi Dr. Yorston, thanks for your video on John Kennedy. He was indeed a very sick man! All of this at the time was very well hidden from the public. I very much doubt that in today's social media age that he would have won the presidency. I think the thing that strikes me most about him was his tenacity and determination throughout his life. No doubt this was fuelled by familial expectations. A lesser man might have taken a different course in life. Perhaps? Thank you for all your videos which are both informative and entertaining.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

My pleasure - it is interesting to speculate how he would have stood up to the intense media scrutiny of today.

@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын

@@professorgraemeyorstonTrump, whom I will vote for if he's the alternative to Biden, has astonished me constantly with his crudeness and vulgarity, but it's beyond depressing that Trump voters are not appalled by this. Nonetheless, in our crass age, Kennedy's terrible health would have deep sixed him.

@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын

Kennedy will always be a hero to me because of his courage and tenacity. To have overcome all he had, only to die as he did, is extremely disheartening. Whatever his personal failings were - according to his friend and procurer, Dave Powers, at least 1,500 women - there was nonetheless greatness there. And the spirit rebels at the fact that a lifeless little psychopath, 24 years old, killed him. Yet there is no credible evidence which points to a second assassin or to a conspiracy. None. Not one bit. Life specializes in breaking the heart.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Gosh, I hadn't realised it was quite that many! It is an interesting issue as to how we should regard people who have done great things...but also done bad things.

@janiscureton4076 Жыл бұрын

@@professorgraemeyorston most of us have. No matter how good or bad it was. Kennedy and Trump both were good presidents despite their transgressions. I was enamored with the “Camelot” of the Kennedy presidency and impressed with the “unfiltered” taking care of business with Trumps’ 😊

@rhapsody794 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like he may have had Ankylosing Spondylitis

@carolyncruse5495 Жыл бұрын

My goodness YES! Wow you just may be right

@davidmoser3535 Жыл бұрын

@@carolyncruse5495 No

@eileenhetherington3704 Жыл бұрын

Yes. Caused by an inflammatory auto-immune reaction to incurable chlamydia.

@user-zy3zd3sx2d Жыл бұрын

How could someone plagued by chronic illness have the endurance of someone hypersexual?

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

I asked myself the same question - if his back was that painful.... One can only speculate how he managed.

@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын

@professorgraemeyorston, cortisone and testosterone. I'm American. Kennedy is real to me in a way he can't possibly be to 99% of the world's population: in 1962, when I was 10, I saw him from maybe fifteen feet away. He was the most amazing looking human being I have ever seen, and I have never seen a photo which does him justice. About the sexual matter: everything I've read is that his coitus was performed in the female superior position. Every woman who ever spoke about her entanglement with Kennedy said the same thing about him: he was a completely selfish lover, little interest in foreplay, a slam - bam - thank you, ma'am type.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that insight!

@user-zy3zd3sx2d Жыл бұрын

@@bobtaylor170 He used the White House pool every chance he got with Secret Service guarding the entrance while Jackie was in the building. As much as I liked Kennedy as president, betrayal is just that. Betrayal is a hurt that runs deep.

@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын

@@user-zy3zd3sx2d some writer for Newsweek back in the 1990s, in addressing the matter of his promiscuity, referred to Kennedy as "pond scum." It's hard to disagree. Yet this pond scum was capable of such outrage at the newsfilm of civil rights demonstrators being set upon by water cannons and by police dogs in Birmingham, in 1963, that he told his staff to cancel his schedule for the day and to inform the networks that he wanted a half hour in primetime that evening to address the nation about civil rights. The staff ( and this included Robert, of course ) begged him to cool off, and wait while together they and the President put together a deliberated speech. Kennedy said, more or less, f*ck off, I'm going tonight. He wrote the speech himself, improvising some of it as he spoke. You wouldn't think that such a sexually selfish man would be capable of such incensed moral outrage, but humans are strange creatures. It's a marvelous book which I urge everyone who is curious about Kennedy to read: The Passage of Power, by Robert Caro. It's a part of his biography of Lyndon Johnson, but there is as much about Kennedy as there is about Johnson in that book. Kennedy's heroism in rescuing his crew after their PT boat had been rammed by a Japanese destroyer in the South Pacific in 1943 is astonishing. You wouldn't expect that of a man as sexually selfish as Kennedy, either, but again, humans are strange creatures.

@misst.e.a.187 Жыл бұрын

4:05 guy to the left looks like Treat Williams

@plantsoverpills1643 Жыл бұрын

What a mess…no wonder Jackie kept miscarrying. How did a man that sick have such a veracious appetite for sex. And what a tragic irony to survive all those health issue to be shot dead.

@patriciabailey2315 Жыл бұрын

Cortisone increase sexual appetite.

@drbobcaster Ай бұрын

How did Kennedy ever manage to get into the Navy - and then serve on PT109 during WWII with all these ailments? Something doesn't compute.

@professorgraemeyorston Ай бұрын

Connections.

@drbobcaster Ай бұрын

@@professorgraemeyorston Connections do not explain four years in the navy and his heroics with PT 109.

@dancalmpeaceful3903 Жыл бұрын

Oh my heaven......this guy was a damn mess. He'd be dead if it wasn't for all his parent's money to keep him alive....

@terryr.t.2113 Жыл бұрын

WOW!

@carolking6355 11 ай бұрын

Incredible. Poor man but I also think poor Jackie. I wonder if she knew he was so unwell when she married him. Seeing his records could not be found, could a lot of this be hearsay.

@professorgraemeyorston 11 ай бұрын

Some of it, but most of his physical health records are available for anyone to see on the JFK archive.

@GeneralKenobiSIYE 9 ай бұрын

Sounds like Crohn's Disease to me.... I have it and it's all too familiar....

@joyceadair3003 Жыл бұрын

I don’t think we had a thing to worry about as far as him not being able to carry on his duties as president. We’ve got a true problem in the White House now and it’s scary.😢

@davidmoser3535 Жыл бұрын

No, scary 16-20

@elizabethgregory6364 Жыл бұрын

What planet were you on in 2016 to present????

@deborahschumann8286 Жыл бұрын

The scary in the ass who is twice impeached and twice indicted….. we all pray that he is finally held to account for an entire life of a THUG

@Yodasstuff Жыл бұрын

At least Trump kept us out of wars. We have soldiers in the Ukraine and Syria right now. Why?

@JamesWilliams-ld2hq Жыл бұрын

interesting how when a legitimate point is made about the elder care patient at the assisted living facility in DC .. the immediate and only response is to ignore it and deflect and suddenly turn and point a finger at DJT .

@fizzao1342 Жыл бұрын

Jane Austen is supposed to have had Addison's Disease but retrospective diagnosis is dodgy.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

I didn't know that, I'll look into it, but yes it was hard enough to diagnose for JFK in the 1940s.

@Mahoney2866 Жыл бұрын

It was hard to diagnose for my husband in 2007. One doctor laughed when we told him we thought Addisons was causing his issues. More tests showed.....Addisons was causing his issues

@nonaknight9491 Жыл бұрын

@@Mahoney2866 ⁠🇬🇧NHS Dr’s ignored my 59yr knowledge of living/coping with my spinal paralysed husband! Sent home with untreated hospital acquired wounds. Now dead.

@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын

@@nonaknight9491 I am so sorry, Nona. I think he had a marvelous wife.

@bobtaylor170 Жыл бұрын

@@Mahoney2866 you can't imagine how giddy this makes me!! Good for you for standing up like that. There is a Substack newsletter, Unofficial Pediatrics, which is written by Dr Adrian Gaty. It's free. Dr Gaty charges nothing and I believe him when he said he never will. On Friday, he responded to a comment of mine with his view that medicine is overrun with dumbness, generally low standards, and dishonesty. ( Dr Gaty is, like me, American. ) He was not being sarcastic. He meant every word.

@Dietconsulting 10 ай бұрын

My Grandfather had Addison's from the early 1970s. He had Tuberculosis of the adrenals in the 1940s.

@professorgraemeyorston 10 ай бұрын

Interesting - classic Addison's disease.

@rachelsremedies2602 Жыл бұрын

Bull,we all knew he wasn’t that healthy!😡😡😡 well maybe he was healthy from the waist down!😱😱😱

@plushman3685 Жыл бұрын

He would claim that all of his extra-marital affairs helped alleviate the pain

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

And does that sound believable?

@mizellcommunity901 Жыл бұрын

Pending cases of Justice ⚖️

@glengrieve544 3 ай бұрын

Rest in eternal peace President John Fitzgerald Kennedy from Melbourne Australia 😢❤😢

@JPJ740 Жыл бұрын

... who in heaven or hell wouldn't groove w/ a sardonic shrink ...?

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@katherinekelly5380 9 ай бұрын

I was born in the 60’s and grew up in the 70’s and distinctly remember talking to friends in Grade 3 and we came to the conclusion the world would be blown up before we made it to 30 years of age Glad we were wrong but still, that was the childhood a lot of my peers remember

@LarryP248 7 ай бұрын

Excellent material here. A similar book became my manual for life-changing decisions. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze

@professorgraemeyorston 7 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@PeriwinklePotter Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Thanks Periwinkle!

@kevingave748 Жыл бұрын

An overdramatization of the psychological effects of those medicines, particularly when taken habitually, Professor.

@Kittyhawk1214 Жыл бұрын

Why did you use an image of JFK looking like 70 year old man?

@cdbutler1204 Жыл бұрын

It’s interesting to see what he would look like old. 🤷‍♂️

@Wilt8v92 Жыл бұрын

It far from ideal when a Japanese destroyer rams your MTB PT-109.Who would have thought Nixon would get up to dirty tricks..!

@professorgraemeyorston 11 ай бұрын

Strange that!

@barbaraboyer8909 Жыл бұрын

My brother died of Addison disease he was 21 and the doctor didn't diagnose him

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

It isn't the easiest diagnosis to make.

@nadyarossi5102 Жыл бұрын

I am so sorry.

@diane9656 Жыл бұрын

My mum had Addison's, classic symptoms, fatigue, weight loss, pigmentation, diagnosed in her 50's died in her 90's

@diane9656 Жыл бұрын

So sorry not being diagnosed, no age. Bless him

@eringatewood5062 Жыл бұрын

It took two trips to the hospital and an advocate for me before doctors correctly diagnosed my Addison's. I was about 50 then.

@opaulamorgan4265 Жыл бұрын

Why bring this up, it's not newsworthy! Let his soul "rest in peace." Requiesce in Pace.

@rawbacon Жыл бұрын

Why study and discuss any history? Beyond that how does talking about someone after their death prevent them from resting in peace?

@opaulamorgan4265 Жыл бұрын

@@rawbacon I am responding to your comment about "rest in peace", but you tube keeps deleting it! This burns me up!

@rawbacon Жыл бұрын

@@opaulamorgan4265 RIP Your Comments.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Mine isn't a news channel - it's history!

@opaulamorgan4265 Жыл бұрын

Why is my comment to raw bacon deleted, twice!! Why do you think this "history"of John Kennedy's medical condition is newsworthy sixty years after his death aside from gaining viewers on your "history channel"? John Kennedy's life has been dissected enough, and we do not need any more "Kennedy" old" news!

@pattisonpattison3639 Жыл бұрын

Hitler also had a similar kind of Private Doctor.

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

Yes Hitler was given all sorts of similar shots.

@sandrachisholm2310 Жыл бұрын

So what do you think of the old, senile man with his hand on the button now? JFK was brilliant, clear, thoughtful, and analytical in his speech.

@brucethomson3512 Жыл бұрын

That old senile man doesn't actually exist. It's various actors wearing masks. The real one, was Gitmorized and executed in early 2019. The real JFK died in 2021 aged 104. A body double (perhaps a robotoid) was shot in Dallas in 1963, NOT the real one.....was too smart for them. Entered the Federal Witness Program aka Gone With The Wind. Many other well known names on that list too 😊

@johncashler3611 Жыл бұрын

Alot better than having traitor rump soon to occupy a prison cell for life

@Madasin_Paine Жыл бұрын

Practice, ghost writers, acting chops ans big time Hollywood help, a a galaxy of daily drugs, licit and illicit. He speaks so well (on TV) is NOT a deep compliment. All Prez are hired for acting chops yet somehow with Drumph and OBiden the Execution Branch remains an unbelievable Sh*t Show of global proportions and lacking much if a filter and no sign of hitting the moral nadir. The ambition for those seeking that office is beyond suspect. A thorough screening process effectively eliminates anybody with impeccable character, merit, lawfulness or care, via a review of it, IMHO. Look at the results before and after election . Look at the image before any public awareness to run, when they run and 20 years + afterwards. More BS than reality about who they actually are.

@jandrews6254 Жыл бұрын

I assume you’re referencing President Biden, a man battling a lifelong stutter? As opposed to the criminal orange buffoon, who can’t complete a thought or sentence without filler words? I suppose you wouldn’t allow Buttigieg, because he’s gay, or any candidate who didn’t pee standing up?

@deborah3912 Жыл бұрын

he had syphilis?

@professorgraemeyorston Жыл бұрын

He may have had, but it was treatable with antibiotics in his era.

@eileenhetherington3704 Жыл бұрын

No. He had chlamydia, incurable at that time. The medical and surgical diseases of John Fitzgerald Kennedy nah.sen.es/vmfiles/vol8/NAHV8N2202056_67EN.pdf

@patriciabailey2315 Жыл бұрын

chlamydia... No TX then