1. The 1960s

2. THE TURBULENT ’60s

3. The Election of 1960
Democrats nominated John F. Kennedy while the Republicans nominated Richard M. Nixon
For the first time, the nation got to see candidates as they campaigned on television

4. Kennedy beats Nixon -- John F. Kennedy Inauguration Speech, 1961
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
-- John F. Kennedy
Inauguration Speech, 1961

5. JFK was a very popular president with the American people.
Camelot
JFK was a very popular president with the American people.
People often refer to Kennedy’s presidency as “Camelot” because of the potential and promise for the future, and the period was symbolic of hope
His youthful energy, looks, glamorous wife Jacqueline, and their young children led to constant coverage by the media.

6. The Kennedy White House
JFK’s closest confidant was his brother Bobby
Robert Kennedy was appointed to the position of Attorney General

7. Peace Corps
One of Kennedy’s first presidential acts was creating the Peace Corps
Americans volunteered to help underdeveloped nations in areas such as education, farming, health care and construction
The main purpose of the Peace Corps was to fight poverty in less developed countries.

8. The United States in the 1960s
President John F. Kennedy, the youngest elected president the United States (43 years old), was assassinated in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Lee Harvey Oswald will be murdered two days later by Jack Ruby.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson became president and was elected in a landslide victory to another term in 1964.

10. Conspiracy Theory
Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from the Sixth Floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building
The Warren Commission
investigated his assassination, but concluded that Oswald acted alone
Many people believe there was a second shooter on a grassy knoll

11. Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald

12. LBJ becomes President
Hours after JFK’s assassination, vice-president Lyndon Johnson of Texas was sworn in as president

13. President Johnson’s Great Society
President Johnson’s Great Society programs included health care for the elderly, measures to fight poverty, and aid to education.
The U.S. civil rights movement began in with the Supreme Court ruling that made racial segregation in public schools illegal.

14. In 1963 the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. ,
In 1963 the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader of the civil rights movement, led a march on Washington, D.C., for equality.
He advocated the use of passive disobedience in gaining racial equality during his famous “I have a dream” speech. .

16. President Johnson worked for civil rights.
In 1964 the Civil Rights Act helped end segregation and discrimination in the workplace and in public places.
The Voting Rights Act of made it easier for African Americans to vote in southern states.

17. E. In 1968 protest broke out in over a
E. In 1968 protest broke out in over a hundred cities over the continuation of the Vietnam War and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

18. James Earl Ray Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN

19. The Hippie Movement
In the 60s, thousands of teenagers became part of the “counterculture.” These “hippies” rebelled against the traditional American culture.
The hippie look was long hair, tie-dyed shirts, and use of drugs
like marijuana, LSD and heroin.
Hippies believed in a world free of war and hate and full of peace and love

20. The Counter-Culture

21. Music played a large part of the Hippie Movement
Famous music groups of the Hippie Movement
Music played a large part of the Hippie Movement
Jimi Hendrix
The Beatles
Jim Morrison and the Doors
Jefferson Airplane
Bob Dylan

22. of the greatest moments in pop music history
Woodstock
Music festival held in upstate
New York in 1969 that exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s
Thirty-two of the best-known musicians of the day performed in front of nearly half a million concert-goers
Woodstock is
regarded as one
of the greatest moments in pop music history

23. 26th Amendment ratified
Anger over the draft led to debates about the voting age. Demonstrators held public rallies and marches.
The average age of a American soldier in Vietnam was 19. Because you had to be 21 to vote, many people called for changes in voting laws, saying that if you’re old enough to fight in war, you should be old enough to vote.
In 1971, the 26th Amendment was ratified, lowered the legal voting age from 21 to 18

24. Election of 1968
Republicans nominate former vice-president Richard Nixon as their candidate
Nixon makes a campaign promise to get the United States out of the Vietnam War