JFK: Reckless Youth

JFK: Reckless Youth is a 1993 made-for-TV movie starring Patrick Dempsey as John F. Kennedy in a revealing portrait of the early years of the man who would become the 35th President of the United States and serve two years until his assassination in 1963. Before the letters JFK were revered around the world for belonging to a man who represented the best qualities of American life and politics, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an ordinary young man from Massachusetts. This film traces Kennedy's development from his childhood in Massachusetts and his early travels around the world, to his career as a student at The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, then his further studies at Princeton University and his eventual arrival at Harvard College in 1936. Following his graduation, Kennedy went on to become a hero of World War II, commanding a patrol torpedo boat in the Pacific theater. JFK: Reckless Youth is an intriguing biopic about the formative years of one of America's greatest political heroes. MORE