Kennedy scholar Ken McCarthy challenges narratives about JFK, arguing that he wanted to make peace with the Soviet union and get out of the foreign coup business, and was fighting a secret battle against Israel alongside his brother Robert F. Kennedy.

00:00 Clip: JFK hosts lavish ceremony for President of newly independent Algeria, 1962

02:19 The Algeria Connection: young JFK spoke against aiding France's war crimes

04:15 What Noam Chomsky got WRONG about JFK

05:38 Kennedy "saw what was right and spoke up for it"

07:18 How JFK's approach to the cold war was different

08:23 JFK & RFK's secret battle against the Israel lobby