JFK 35th president 1961-1963:
- Background:
- Brought up in a rich family
- Served in ww2
- US Representative and senator from Massachusetts before becoming president
- Married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
- First and only Catholic president
- youngest elected president and second youngest president
- assassinated in 1963 in Dallas Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald
- Wouldn't have become president without his father
- father wanted his oldest brother to become president
- oldest brother died in ww2
- was a womanizer, liked to party, not the most smart, or athletic
- 1960 Election
- went against Hubert Humpery for the democratic nomination
- went against Nixon
- Johnson was asked to be vice president
- won over Nixon
- closest election
- Kennedy wanted Johnson for the southern and Texas votes
- New Frontier was his platform
- Debates
- first time they had televised the debates
- Kennedy looked better
- Nixon had baggy eyes and a really bad 5 o'clock shadow
- Kennedy looked into the camera
- Nixon looked at the audience instead of the camera
- Joesph Kennedy did everything he could to get his son into the oval office
- Mob Boss James Koney was promised that JFK wouldn't ever go after Koney
- Koney told labor units to vote for JFK
- went against Hubert Humpery for the democratic nomination
- Assassination
- assassinated on November 16, 1963 at 12:30 in the afternoon
- shot in Texas
- was going to a lunch-in
- shot while driving to the lunch-in
- Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK
- Oswald acted alone
- Governor John Connolly
- Senator Ralph Yarborough
- Governor and senator where in an argument
- people in Texas didn't like JFK
- Connolly was also shot on that same day
- TSTB was where Oswald was at when he shot JFK
- JFK was shot on Elm St.
- Zapruder Film was the film of JFK's shooting
- Lyndon Johnson was in the car behind JFK
- Lyndon Johnson was sworn in on the plane back to DC
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- was in the Marines
- loved communism
- Discharged b/c he wanted to go to USSR
- Married Marina
- had child June
- joined Fair Play for Cuba
- worked at the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD)
- shot from the 6th floor
- Co-worker gave him a ride to work
- took a paper bag to work with the rifle in the bag
- Killed Police officer JD Tippet
- Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theatre
- wouldn't go easily so he was beat up
- A. H. Ladle was one of Oswald allises
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