1. Your ideal President?
When voting for President, do you think the majority of American voters are more attracted to a candidate’s “style” or “substance?” Explain.
Describe your ideal President. THINK: what “prior job experience,” skills, management style, or personality traits do you think are most important? Explain.

2. John F. Kennedy LiLife in Camelot
“And so, my fellow Americans- ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country.” Inaugural Address January 20, 1961
LiLife in Camelot
John F. Kennedy

3. “Jack” Political “blood” Harvard University WWII hero
House of Reps 1946
Elected to Senate 1952
Pulitzer Prize
1st Catholic President
Pulitzer – Profiles in Courage – book 1957
Profiles in Courage is a 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States Senators throughout the Senate's history. The book profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity because of their actions.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on 29th May, His great grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, had emigrated from Ireland in 1849 and his grandfathers, Patrick Joseph Kennedy and John Francis Fitzgerald, were important political figures in Boston. Kennedy's father was a highly successful businessman who later served as ambassador to Great Britain ( ).

Sent to the South Pacific, in August 1943, his boat was hit by a Japanese destroyer. Two of his crew were killed but the other six men managed to cling on to what remained of the boat. After a five hour struggle Kennedy, and what was left of his crew, managed to get to an island five miles from where the original incident took place.

4. The Torch is Passed
How did Nixon’s 5 o’clock shadow spoil his 1960 campaign for President?
What additional factors impacted the results of the 1960 election?
Debate One

5. The 1960 Election The Great Debates 4-1 hour debates
JFK’s poise, charm, good looks, and ability to answer ?s was seen by millions
Add: African-American vote
Closest election ever!
JFK: 49.7; Nixon 49.5
JFK: 303; Nixon 219

6. “Camelot” Married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
Young family; warm and fun, despite wealth and connection
Glamorous First Couple- grace, elegance, sense of royalty
Mythical figures: King Arthur?
Generated sense of excitement through public and television appearances and photographs

7. JFK’s Inaugural Address
Section A: The opening
According to the opening, what human right is being threatened? To whom is JFK speaking?
Section B: The pledges
Select one pledge Kennedy makes. Explain what the pledge is and to whom it is being made.
Section C: Moving forward in the World
How does Kennedy propose we move forward in the world?
Section D: Moving forward in the Country
How has each generation of Americans given testimony to its national loyalty?
Section E: Closing
According to Kennedy, whose work is this? What is the reward for service?

8. “The New Frontier” Vision for domestic progress Address poverty
Minimum wage raised from $1.00 to $1.25
$4.9 billion in federal grants to cities for mass transit, open spaces, and middle-income housing
Space race! Promises to put man on the moon
Many proposals were NOT enacted until after his death (strong Republican/Southern Democrat opposition in Congress)

9. A model citizen?
Historians writing more recently about JFK have been more critical than those immediately following his death
Alleged reckless affairs, including Marilyn Monroe
Dependency on medical drugs for chronic back pain (Addison’s Disease)
Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

10. Kennedy and the Cold War: Foreign Policy

11. The Torch is Passed
What were the mistakes made with the Bay of Pigs invasion?
How did the failed invasion affect the Kennedy administration, the country’s perception of them, and the Soviet perception of Kennedy?

12. Bay of Pigs: 1961 Background Kennedy The Invasion Fidel Castro
seized private businesses and made overtures to USSR.
JFK learned CIA training troops to invade Cuba and topple Castro.
Advisors were mixed.
Kennedy worried Communism might spread to L. America.
Kennedy gave the OK
Bay of Pigs invasion failed.
Info leaked early.
Air strikes failed.
Castro prepared for land attack.
Invaders captured and ransomed back to US
Strengthened Castro’s ties to USSR

13. The Berlin Crisis: 1961
Khrushchev wants East Germany recognized and US out of W. Berlin
JFK refuses to be bullied; sent troops to W. Germany
8/13/61: E/W Berlin blocked
Berlin Wall built to block East Germans from escaping to freedom in West Berlin.
1963: Kennedy visit-
“ I am a Berliner!”
“A wall is better than a war.”-JFK

14. Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962

15. The Cuban Missile Crisis
Build Up
The Crisis
Managing the Crisis
U.S. actions encouraged Soviet hard-liners
Soviets worried about U.S. invasion of Cuba and U.S. nukes in Turkey
JFK accused of being “soft on communism.”
U-2 spy plane detected USSR surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) in Cuba.
Soviets argue SAMs = defensive missiles: swore they did NOT have offensive ones in Cuba.
Later U-2 flights showed that the Soviets had lied.
JFK assembled advisors= ExComm
air strike, followed by land invasion of Cuba?
naval blockade?
World watched as Soviet ships carrying missile parts approached the naval blockade. They turned back!

16. Effects?
Khrushchev agreed to dismantle the missiles if the United States pledged to never invade Cuba.
They set up a hotline to allow direct communication during times of crisis.
The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed, ending atmospheric and underwater testing of nuclear weapons.

17. Peace Corps and Alliance for Progress
JFK believed in peace that did not have to be enforced with weapons of war
Peace Corps= trained and sent volunteers to Africa, Asia, and Latin America- 2 year service
Alliance= Offered billions in aid to Latin America to build schools, hospitals, roads, power plants, and low-cost housing

18. JFK’s Assassination: Nov. 22, 1963

19. Dealey Plaza, Texas School Book Depository

20. Lee Harvey Oswald

21. The Zapruder Tape- Abraham Zapruder
It’s been called the most important 26 seconds of film in history: The 486 frames of 8-millimeter Bell + Howell home movie footage shot in the midday sun of Dallas on November 22, 1963
Twenty-six seconds that included a historic, horrific, all-too-clear vision of a presidential assassination
Frame 313 kept secret for 12 years- a single frame that changed American history and culture

22. Johnson Sworn In

23. Jack Ruby Shoots Oswald

24. A Family Mourns

25. A Nation Mourns

26. Warren Commission

27. Conspiracy Theory?

28. Eternal Flame

29. The Aftermath
Relate what it would have been like for an American to experience Kennedy’s assassination.
What social and political impact will his death have on the nation?

30. Overview of Assassination:
Trip to TX to smooth over party differences and gather electoral support for reelection
JFK gunned down in motorcade by sniper
LBJ sworn in on Air Force One
Lee Harvey Oswald charged with murder.
National television audience watched Jack Ruby shoot and kill Oswald at point blank range.
Warren Commission: 10 month investigation; Lone gunman responsible; no conspiracy
(link to behind the conspiracy)
(Zapruder film)

31. "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him."
-JFK September 1960
“I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country,” said Santorum in a Sunday interview on ABC News. “This is the First Amendment. The First Amendment says the free exercise of religion.”
- Rick Santorum February 2012