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Aug 2020
42m 3s

John F. Kennedy: The Playboy

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The youngest president ever elected had a golden boy aura, but his legacy is down-right salacious. Sex, drugs, near-fatal illnesses… JFK was a womanizer whose ego almost started a nuclear war.


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