John+F.+Kennedy


 * __John F. Kennedy[[image:jfk.jpg width="330" height="453" align="right" caption="John F. Kennedy"]]__**

On November 22, 1963 the world was stunned when President John F. Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, Texas and from that point on the 1960's became one of the most turbulent decades in American history and Kennedy's assasination brought on: war in Vietnam, the Beat Generation, and the decline in the need for foreign policy the Kennedy Administration had created in the United States.**
 * __Thesis__


 * __Life and Accomplishments__**


 * Born in Brookline, Massachuesetts on May 22,1917.
 * Graduated from Harvard.
 * Joined the NAVY in 1943.
 * Lead soldiers from their sunken PT boat from a Japanese Destroyer.
 * Became a Democratic Congressman in Boston
 * Won the Pullitzer Prize in 1955 for his __Profiles in Courage__
 * Became senator in 1953.
 * In 1960 won the Democratic Nomination to run in the 1960 presidential election.
 * In the 1960 Presidential Election Kennedy ran against Republican Richard Nixon.
 * In the first televised presidential debate TV viewers felt Kennedy won the debate while radio listeners thought Nixon won the debate, it was evidence that the appearance of a candidate actually matters and would continue to influence the elections as long as television is around.
 * Kennedy defeated Nixon in the 1960 Presidential election.
 * Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic U.S. President.
 * Kennedy was also the youngest president elected into office.
 * Worked to maintain peace in the world and created the Peace Corps.
 * Understood the importance of American involvement in the Space Race to the Moon.
 * Prevented a Nuclear War during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
 * On November 22, 1963 Kennedy was assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.




 * __Turbulent 60's Events after Kennedy Assasination__**


 * **__1965__**- Malcolm X is assasinated
 * **__1965__**- Trrops sent to Vietnam
 * **__1966__**- Black Panthers established
 * **__1966__**- U.S. draft sparks mass protests
 * __**1968**__- Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated
 * **__1968__**- Robert F. Kennedy assasinated
 * **__1968__**- Tet Offensive
 * **__1969__**- First Man on the Moon (Kennedy's dream)

  J. Edgar Hoover: Three. Lyndon Johnson: Any of them fired at me? J. Edgar Hoover: No. Lyndon Johnson: All three at the President? J. Edgar Hoover: All three at the President and we have them. Two of the shots fired at the President were splintered but they had characteristics on them so that our ballistics expert was able to prove that they were fired by this gun... The President - he was hit by the first and third. The second shot hit the Governor. The third shot is a complete bullet and that rolled out of the President's head. It tore a large part of the President's head off and, in trying to massage his heart at the
 * ** __Primary Source__ **
 * ** (F3) [|J. Edgar Hoover] made a telephone call to President [|Lyndon B. Johnson] on 29th November, 1963. **
 * Lyndon Johnson: How many shots were fired? Three?

> hospital on the way to the hospital, they apparently loosened that and it fell off onto the stretcher. And we recovered that... And we have the gun here also.

Lyndon Johnson: Were they aiming at the President? J. Edgar Hoover: They were aiming directly at the President. There is no question about that. This telescopic lens, which I've looked through - it brings a person as close to you as if they were sitting right beside you emocratic nomination for president


 * __APPARTS

Author__**- Just a telephone conversation between Lyndon B. Johnson and John Edgar Hoover.


 * __Prior Knowledge__**- John Kennedy was assasinated, Lyndon B. Johnson stepped into presidency, and after Kennedy's assasination America spiraled into chaos.


 * __Place and Time__**- In the United States on November 29, 1963 soon after Kennedy was assasinated.

__**Audience**__- An audience was not intended it was just Lyndon Johnson trying to learn more about Kennedy's assasination, how he was killed, and possible motives.

__**Reason**__- The reason is President Johnson wants to learn the details about what occured to President Kennedy in Texas.


 * __The Main Idea__**- The main idea is for the details of the Kennedy assaination to become known to President Johnson for his own knowlege and possibly for him to tell the American people what occurred.

__**Significance**__- It is significant because it shows Johnson's reaction to the assasination as well as some of the common questions and concerns that most people had at this point in time. Also, Kennedy was assasinated on November 22, 1963 and even Kennedy's own Vice President didn't understand the full details until a week later and even then he did not receive that much information.


 * __Primary Source__**

** (B9) [|S. M. Holland], //[|The Warren Report]//[|: //Part 2//], CBS Television (26th June, 1967) **

Just about the time that the parade turned on Elm  Street, about where that truck is - that bus is now, there was a shot came from up-the upper end of the street. I couldn't say then, at that time, that it came from the Book Depository book store. But I knew that it came from the other end of the street, and the President slumped over forward like that and tried to raise his hand up. And Governor Connally, sitting in front of him on the right side of the car, tried to turn to his right and he was sitting so close to the door that he couldn't make it that-a-way, and he turned back like that with his arm out to the left. And about that time, the second shot was fired and it knocked him over forward and he slumped to the right, and I guess his wife pulled him over in her lap because he fell over in her lap. And about that time, there was a third report that wasn't nearly as loud as the two previous reports. It came from that picket fence, and then there was a fourth report. The third and the fourth reports was almost simultaneously. But, the third report wasn't nearly as loud as the two previous reports or the fourth report. And I glanced over underneath that green tree and you see a - a little puff of smoke. It looked like a puff of steam or cigarette smoke. And the smoke was about - oh, eight or ten feet off the ground, and about fifteen feet this side of that tree.


 * __Analysis of Primary Source__**

This primary source comes from a first hand witness of the Kennedy assasination. It seems like this witness believed there was more than one shooter and it seems like there was someone behind a bush. It is also one of the first accounts of a conspiracy theory with the Kennedy assasination and shows that the American people would be susceptible to conspiracy theories such as this one when a great tragic event occurs, it is just another reason why Kennedy's assasination changed the coarse of the nation.

October 22,1962 Dear Mr. Chairman: A copy of the statement I am making tonight concerning developments in Cuba and the reaction of my Government thereto has been handed to your Ambassador in Washington. In view of the gravity of the developments to which I refer, I want you to know immediately and accurately the position of my Government in this matter. In our discussions and exchanges on Berlin and other international questions, the one thing that has most concerned me has been the possibility that your Government would not correctly understand the will and determination of the United States in any given situation, since I have not assumed that you or any other sane man would, in this nuclear age, deliberately plunge the world into war which it is crystal clear no country could win and which could only result in catastrophic consequences to the whole world, including the aggressor. At our meeting in Vienna and subsequently, I expressed our readiness and desire to find, through peaceful negotiation, a solution to any and all problems that divide us. At the same time. I made clear that in view of the objectives of the ideology to which you adhere, the United States could not tolerate any action on your part which in a major way disturbed the existing over-all balance of power in the world. I stated that an attempt to force abandonment of our responsibilities and commitments in Berlin would constitute such an action and that the United States would resist with all the power at its command. It was in order to avoid any incorrect assessment on the part of your Government with respect to Cuba that I publicly stated that if certain developments in Cuba took place, the United States would do whatever must be done to protect its own security and that of its allies. Moreover, the Congress adopted a resolution expressing its support of this declared policy. Despite this, the rapid development of long-range missile bases and other offensive weapons systems in Cuba has proceeded. I must tell you that the United States is determined that this threat to the security of this hemisphere be removed. At the same time, I wish to point out that the action we are taking is the minimum necessary to remove the threat to the security of the nations of this hemisphere. The fact of this minimum response should not be taken as a basis, however, for any misjudgment on your part. I hope that your Government will refrain from any action which would widen or deepen this already grave crisis and that we can agree to resume the path of peaceful negotiation. Sincerely, John F. Kennedy
 * Letter from President Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev**


 * __APPARTS

Author__** - John F. Kennedy


 * __Prior Knowledge-__** President Kennedy is trying to avoid confrontation with the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.


 * __Place and Time-__** October 22, 1962, written probably in the White House.


 * __Audience-__** The audience is Nikita Khrushchev and //other// Soviet leaders.


 * __Reason-__** To settle tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

__**The main idea-**__ The world is at a dangerous point towards nuclear war and Kennedy wants to end things before war occurs.


 * __Significane-__** It shows Kennedy's want for peace in the world and how his impact on the world is still with us today.


 * __Works Cited__**

1) Holland, S.M. "The Warren Report: Part 2." __Spartacus Educational__. 1982. CBS. 19 May 2009 .

2) Kennedy, John. "Letter from President Kennedy to Nikita Khruschev." __PBS__. 22 Oct. 1962 .

3) "TImeline of the Twentieth Century: 1960-1969." __About.com__. 20 May 2009 .

4)"The 1960's: Introduction." __SIRS Decades__. 21 May 2009 .