 Between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon  First presidential TV debate (on test)  Kennedy Wins Video

 Kennedy hope to increase aid to education, provide health insurance to the elderly, create a Department of Urban Affairs, and help migrant workers. (on test)  Kennedy was unable to push through many of his domestic programs.

 The Bay of Pigs  On April 17, ,400 armed Cuban exiles landed an invasion in which became a disaster.  It failed because the popular uprising in Cuba that was expected as a result never happened.(on test) Video

 SU wanted to stop the flood of Germans pouring out of Communist East Germany in West Berlin.  Khrushchev retaliated by building a wall through Berlin.  JFK goes to Berlin and gives His famous “I am a Berliner”I am a Berliner Speech. (on test) Video video

 American intelligence agencies learned that Soviet technicians and equipment had arrived in Cuba and military construction was in progress.  Kennedy announced on television that American spy plane U2 had taken aerial Photographs showing that the SU Had placed long-range missiles In Cuba. U2 spy plane On test

 13 days The kill zone SS-4 missile rang of 1000 miles

 The naval blockade stopped the Soviets from delivering more missiles, and warned that they dismantle existing missile sites, and warned that if any weapons were launched against the United States, he would respond fully against the SU.  The naval blockade worked Show the movie 13 days

 Cuban Missile was resolved by The U.S. agreed to never invade Cuba. The U.S. agreed to remove its missiles in Turkey six months later. The Soviets agreed to remove all missiles from Cuba.

November 22, 1963

Why was JFK in Dallas? CAMPAIGNING FOR 1964 ELECTION What happened?  SHOT TWICE, HEAD AND NECK, BY SNIPER WHILE RIDING THROUGH DOWNTOWN DALLAS IN OPEN LIMOSINE

Who did it? LEE HARVEY OSWALD Why?  HE WAS A COMMUNIST  HE HAD DEFECTED TO THE SOVIET UNION  HE SEEMED A BIT “OFF”

 MANY HAVE ARGUED THAT ONE SNIPER COULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE FIRED 4 SHOTS (JFK’S HEAD, NECK, TEXAS GOVERNOR CONNELLY, AND A MISS)  HEAD WOUND SEEMED TO COME FROM FRONT (VIDEO SHOWS HEAD JERKING BACK)  SOME WITNESSES SAW POSSIBLE GUNMAN ON GRASSY KNOLL

“Magic Bullet” Theory: ONE BULLET PASSED THROUGH JFK’S NECK & INTO CONNELLY, SO ONLY 2 SHOTS NEEDED (THREE INCLUDING THE MISS), WHICH WAS POSSIBLE

What happened to Oswald? SHOT & KILLED BY JACK RUBY Who was Jack Ruby? NIGHTCLUB OWNER WHO WAS TERMINALLY ILL; NEVER REVEALED REASONS FOR KILLING OSWALD; MANY ARGUED IT WAS EVIDENCE OF A CONSPIRACY

 Communists -Fidel Castro: REVENGE FOR ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE (BAY OF PIGS) -Soviets: COLD WAR  Cuban Refugees: ANGRY ABOUT FAILURE OF BAY OF PIGS  Mafia: JFK’S BROTHER (ROBERT KENNEDY) HAD BEEN FIGHTING MAFIA

 CIA: JFK HAD BEEN THINKING ABOUT MAKING BIG CHANGES AFTER SEVERAL CIA FAILURES (BAY OF PIGS)  U.S. Government: JFK HAD RESISTED GETTING MORE INVOLVED IN VIETNAM— SOME IN GOVERNMENT WANTED MORE INVOLVEMENT & V.P. JOHNSON WOULD GIVE IT TO THEM  Lyndon Johnson: WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT

 Warren Commission: FIRST GOVERNMENT GROUP ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE ASSASSINATION -Two important findings 1.) OSWALD WAS THE SHOOTER 2.) NO EVIDENCE OF A FURTHER CONSPIRACY

 1976 House Commission: AMERICAN PUBLIC DID NOT ACCEPT FINDINGS OF WARREN COMMISION, SO A NEW COMMISSION WAS FINALLY ESTABLISHED TO RE-INVESTIGATE -Two important findings 1.) OSWALD WAS SHOOTER 2.) MAY HAVE BEEN OTHERS INVOLVED BUT NO IDEA WHO Vice President Lyndon Johnson became president

 What was the name of the government group that investigated the JFK Assassination?  Who did they say shot JFK?  Who killed the alleged assassin?  What did the government group that investigated the assassination determine that few in the public believed?  What was the “Magic Bullet” Theory  What was the place JFK was shot at called?