After Kennedy was assassinated, life acquired the Zapruder film, the clearest footage of the assassination.
His influence continued for decades, spanning the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford administrations as a member of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
It details a top secret request from President John F. Kennedy to CIA director Alan Dulles on June 28, 1961.
Yep, that's correct. And that's the date of a meeting between the CIA director Alan Dulles and President John F. Kennedy.
In the 1960 election, John F. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard Nixon.
While Kissinger is now mainly associated with Nixon's legacy, it is often overlooked that he also worked under Kennedy.
Kennedy's administration was filled with elite thinkers from different political and industry backgrounds, including several who had worked on Rockefeller's Special Studies project like Kissinger.
Despite working on Rockefeller's presidential run, writing speeches and giving advice, he had been approached by the Kennedy team in 1958 to discuss long-range problems and weapons evaluation.
It was also during this period in Kennedy's presidency that the Cold War had reached a boiling point.
It was just two months after the Bay of Pigs in June of 1961 that Kennedy requested a full briefing on MJ-12 activities from the head of the CIA,
What did Kennedy find out and what impact would this have had on his life?
At the end of the 1960s with Kennedy gone, the Johnson administration having run its course, Rockefeller had again run for president.