>> we're still seeing intense violence. lynching is still the reality. >> if you were black, you couldn't vote. you couldn't buy property. you couldn't go certain places. >> i said i'm sorry, our management does not allow us to serve niggers in here. >> while jfk is looking at the moon and stars, you see real hypocrisy and contradiction. >> how can the united states be a democracy if its citizens are killing, are hurting, are hospitalizing its other citizens? >> but in the spring of 1961, john f. kennedy and his brother, robert, didn't care that much about civil rights. jack and bobby kennedy grew up rich and privileged. they never saw any african-americans other than people who waited on tables. >> so they didn't get the just terrible, terrible prejudice of southern whites against blacks.