John F. Kennedy: The ‘Severe Pain’ That Took His Life

John F. Kennedy suffered from crippling back pain — with doctors providing shocking new evidence of the ailment that could have cost him his life!

Two physicians at the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Arkansas have reported on their troubling new analysis of JFK's legendary back pains — applying modern methodology to discern that the 35th President's secrets included more pain than anyone ever imagined!

Dr. T. Glenn Pait and Justin T. Dowdy have published a new paper that claims "the most surprising finding was the overall amount of severe pain JFK endured throughout his short life — and, frankly, how he was able to hide his pain and medical ailments from the general public so well." But in a tragic twist, that secret could have won JFK the Presidency and cost him his life!

Kennedy became a World War II hero after the legendary  PT-109 rescue, when JFK swam for five hours while using his teeth to haul a wounded crewman to the safety of a Pacific atoll. The ordeal was deeply damaging to his spine, and JFK was wearing a back brace that kept him from surviving his assassination in Dallas!

The deadly shooting on November 22, 1963, showed Kennedy initially being shot with one bullet — but remaining upright because of the brace that ran up his thighs and to his ribcage. There remains speculation that Kennedy would have survived if the brace hadn't kept him upright as Lee Harvey Oswald delivered a second fatal shot.

But the President's pain also had him relying on Max Jacobson as his personal Dr. Feelgood — who gave him a shot full of drugs that helped him make history while debating Richard M. Nixon in 1960. The ailing candidate had grown reliable on the drug-dealing doc's "vitamin cocktails," and got a special shot on the night of the debate.

"This time," wrote Richard Lertzman and William J. Birnes in a biography of the doctor, " Jacobson inserted his needle directly into Kennedy's throat and pumped methamphetamine into his voice box." The results had an animated JFK easily dominating Nixon in the final debate before winning the White House!