- Jack Ruby said he killed Oswald so that Mrs. Kennedy wouldn't have to go through and face him in trial
- Warren Commision= organization put into affect to find out what really happened on the day of Kennedy's assassination; it was designed to put all the conspiracy theories to rest (but it didn't)
Conspiracy Theories
- Magic Bullet Theory = the bullet that went through bone and muscle of Kennedy and the senator and was not dented or ruined at all, which is should have been.
- Who Might Have killed him? 1.
- The Cubans (from Bay of Pigs Invasion)
- THe KGB (USSR)
- The US Maffia- for betraying their deal about not messing with them when Kennedy became president
- The CIA (governement) - thought he was too weak and wanted Johnson as president
- The Zero Game- every president who was elected during a year ending in a zero, dies or gets killed
- Nixon (with help) = he thought that JFK messed up the Bay of Pigs Invasion that he came up with
Space Race:
Summary: United States Vs. Soviet Union competeing against one another (ultimately main goal was first country to get to space)
- Sputnik = Soviet satellite that was sent into space in 1957 (before the U.S. did) United States feared this because we were falling behind them in the race. This pushed our country to push science, engineering, and math in school so kids would grow up to be scientists so we don't fall behind.
- Soviets sent the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin.
- Moon landing (by U.S.) in 1969- Louis Armstrong/Buzz Adlin
- Sally Ride was the first female in space
- In 1960, Kennedy gave his "moonshoot speech" saying we would have a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
- Space shuttle (started in the 70's)
- Challenger in 1985 blew up at takeoff
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