JFK
Background
- Born in Massachusettes
- Had Scarlet fever when he was a kid... He was also very sick as a child and adult
- He wrote a book called Why England Slept
- Graduated from Harvard in 1904
- Served in WW2 (Navy)
- Was a great leader during the war,... he was a hero
- Congressmen, then senate
- Married Jackie on in 1953
- Youngest pres to be elected, but the second youngest president
- Only Catholic President
- Won the Pulitzer Prize
Election
- Richard Nixon (R) vs. JFK (D)
- JFK won with 303 electoral votes to 219
- JFK won 23 states and Nixon won 26
- JFK promised that he would "get America moving again"
- Nixon promised he would continue "peace and prosperity"
- Popularity was 70.1%, many people liked him
New Frontier
- Domestic program promising federal funding for education, medical care for the elderly, economic aid to rural regions, and government intervention to halt the recession of the time.
Accomplishments
- abolished the federal death penalty
- Signed executive orders prohibiting racial discrimination and laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Act of 1864
- Initiated project Apollo as the first manned expedition to the Moon
- Peace Corps
- Signed the partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- Security ties with Israel
- Stop communism
- Kind of began involvement in Vietnam
Assassination
- Kennedy was shot at 12:29 p.m. by Lee Harvey Oswald
- Shot on Elm St.
- Brought to Parkman Memorial Hospital
- Governor Connally hit by same bullet
- James Taque was hit (bystander)
- Oswald shot an officer
- He was shot by being escorted to court
- A study shows that 59% of people believe that there was more than one guy involved in the murder
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