The New Frontier

President Kennedy called his legislative program the “New Frontier” Wanted to improve education Wanted to fight poverty Had trouble getting anything done in Congress Conservative groups did not want major reform Kennedy did not have a mandate because he won a very close election

Write a short summary of each of the following topics in Kennedy’s New Frontier Deficit Spending (Page 886) The Peace Corps (Page 886) The Alliance for Progress (Page 886-887) The Space Race (Page 887) Fighting poverty (Page 888) Civil Rights (Page 888)

On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine, was charged His palm print was found on the murder weapon He had spent time living in the Soviet Union and had been a public supporter of Fidel Castro Two days after the assassination, while being transferred between prisons, Oswald was shot and killed by a nightclub owner named Jack Ruby There have been a number of theories surrounding the assassination The Warren Commission, the official government investigation, found the Oswald had acted alone in shooting the president An investigation in 1979 said that Oswald had acted as part of a conspiracy, and there may have been a second shooter Various conspiracy theories, blaming everybody from the Soviet Union to the mafia to the CIA, still exist Kennedy’s Vice President, Lyndon Johnson, was sworn in as President on Air Force One on the same day the Kennedy died