Kennedy
The Election of Kennedy
When:
- November 8, 1960
Candidates:
- Republican: Richard Nixon
- Democrat: John F. Kennedy (winner)
Election:
- Close race
- Had majority of electoral vote
- Carried 23 of the states (Nixon 26)
- Had 49.7% of popular vote (Nixon had 49.6%)
The Cold War
- Flexible response
- A defense strategy by JFK in 1961
- Used to address the Kennedy administration skepticism of Eisenhower's New Look and its policy of Massive Retaliation
Kennedy & Civil Rights
- Made it look like he was for civil rights
- 1961 did not help push forward civil rights
- Eventually took a stand and pressured federal government into hiring more blacks in America's Equivalent of Britain's Civil Service
- 1963 2 African American boys couldn't get admitted into the University of Alabama
- JFK became fully involved and outline a general civil rights bill
- The movement began shortly after
Kennedy's Assassination
- November 21, 1963
- JFK and wife came to Texas for a 5 day tour
- November 22, 1963
- JFK and wife were riding through the streets of Dallas in an open limousine
- JFK was shot twice
- He died instantly
- Killer: Lee Harvey Oswald