Kennedy
The "New Frontier" Spirit
Election
Election of 1960:
- Tuesday November 8, 1960
- Kennedy (Democrat) against Nixon (Republican)
- Kennedy won the popular vote by 112, 827 votes
- Kennedy won the electoral vote 303 to 219
The Cold War
- African Congo independent from Belgium 1960
- 1961 ordered "military advisers" into South Korea
- 1961 Alliance for Progress
- April 17, 1961 attempt to topple Castro "The Bay of Pigs"
- Met with Khrushchev in Vienna, June 1961
- Khrushchev threatened to cut off western access to Berlin through making a treaty with East Germany
- Soviets constructed Berlin Wall August 1961
- Trade Expansion Act 1962
- Kennedy Round tariff negotiations 1962-1967
- 1962 Geneva Peace Conference over Laos
- 1962 Soviets install missiles into Cuba
- October 28, 1962 Soviets removed missiles from Cuba
- Nuclear test ban treaty signed 1963
- 1963 Charles de Gaulle vetoed Common Market membership
- 1963 Moscow-Washington hotline installed
- 1963 Kennedy gives speech to Americans to change view of Russia
Civil Rights
- "Ink for Jack" protest letters sent to Kennedy
- May 1961 Freedom Ride bus in Anniston, Alabama torched
- Kennedy wire-tapped King's phone in 1963
- SNCC inaugurated voter education project
- 1963 Kennedy told black leaders "I may lose the next election...I don't care"
- October 1962 James Meredith attempts enrollment at ole miss
- 1963 MLK Jr attempted to desegregate Birmingham, Alabama
- June 11, 1963 Kennedy directly states attempts to end segregation and racism through new civil rights legislation
- June 11, 1963 white gunman kills Medgar Evans
- August 1963 King led March on Washington
- September 1963 bomb kills 4 black girls in Birmingham church
- Kennedy made little headway
Assasination
- November 22, 1963 Kennedy shot in brain by rifleman
- Lee Harvey Oswald accused of shooting Kennedy
- Jack Ruby shot Oswald
- Chief Justice Warren conducted investigation, still unsure
- VP Johnson sworn in as president