Videos of John F. Kennedy shows the president sunbathing, playing golf and cuddling with daughter, Caroline, while the family vacationed in Cape Cod 50 years ago. Footage comes from a 15-minute silent film that was released by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
John F. Kennedy smiles and gestures an okay while playing golf, in video capturing the final summer before his untimely death in 1963.
John F. Kennedy smiles and gestures an okay while playing golf, in video capturing the final summer before his untimely death in 1963.
In the last four months of President John F. Kennedy's life he was seen laughing, golfing, and intimately cuddling with his little girl in what would unknowingly become his final summer alive.
Never-before-seen footage taken 50 years ago this weekend remarkably captures the glamorous young family's vacation as they and their guests are seen boating and splashing off the coast of Cape Cod.
JFK Library The president is seen teeing off, among his guests joining him being Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, lifelong friends Lem Billings and Charles Spalding, and British Ambassador Sir David Ormsby-Gore.
JFK Library John F. Kennedy chats with daughter Caroline during the family’s 1963 vacation to Cape Cod.
Now seen in happier times on July 27-29, Jack and his wife Jacqueline lay out in the sun as their daughter, Caroline, in her pale pink swimsuit, laughs and plays with her cousin Maria Shriver.
JFK Library In a tender moment, John F. Kennedy cuddles with daughter Caroline during his family’s trip to Cape Cod 50 years ago.
JFK Library Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy (right) is seen talking with her daughter Caroline. John F. Kennedy and his family are then-later seen taking a golf cart to the Honey Fitz for a cruise around Squaw Island, offering a firsthand account that's reminiscent of many American home movies.
JFK Library Stills from the video show a festive gathering some four months before Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
JFK Library Like perhaps any American home video the president is seen at various times shirtless as he sunbathes around his friends and family.
As the day heats up the sun-soaked passengers take a dip in the water — Caroline jumping straight in after her father who bathes at a distance. The ladies follow behind Caroline, however gracefully, and a bit timidly, by using the boat's ladder.
JFK Library Friends and family of President John F. Kennedy joined him aboard his boat.
In a later clip the presidential couple's youngest child, John F. Kennedy Jr., also makes an appearance, wearing a pair of blue overalls as he cheerfully chases a dog while a helicopter lands behind him on dry land.
On November 22, almost exactly four months after the remarkable footage was taken, the nation's 35th president was publicly assassinated while driving in a motorcade in Dallas.
JFK Library A still from the video shows John F. Kennedy’s daughter and neice, Maria Shriver, kicking their legs as they eat sandwiches and make faces at the camera.
JFK Library The two girls dive into the water from the Kennedy's boat. Caroline's father already out in the water before them.
JFK Library John F. Kennedy Jr. plays with the family dog.
JFK Library President John F. Kennedy stands with guests outside the family home in Cape Cod. 