John F Kennedy
Election
- 1960
- Democrat
- Kennedy vs Nixon
- 303 to 219
- Nixon Kennedy Debates
- "New Frontier"- Domestic and Foreign programs
The Cold War
- Flexible Response- Nuclear defense strategy
- Kennedy and Vietnam- Contain Communism
- -Support South Vietnam
- -Finance South Vietnamese Army
- Cuba- Cuban Missile Crisis
- -Bay of Pigs disaster
- Berlin Wall built- 1961
- - Non aggressive stance
Kennedy and Civil Rights
- Brother Robert Kennedy- Attorney General
- -Imposed Civil Right Laws
- Posthumous- Civil Rights Act of 1964
Kennedy's Assassination
- November 22, 1963
- Dallas, Texas
- 12:30 pm
- Shooter- Lee Harvey Oswald
- Killed Instantly with 3 shots