Introduction

Historian Aaron Good explains the rise of US President John F. Kennedy, the First Cold War, his criticism of European colonialism, and how the CIA's Bay of Pigs attack would later reverberate in the 1963 JFK assassination. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5N5bs1IGLQo This is from the Empire and the Deep State series that Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. This is part 1 of our historical analysis of the JFK administration. (This episode was recorded in November 2022.) PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL