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1 THE EARLY 1960’s: Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon,
Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, Great Society,Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Castro, Hippies, and more…

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3 KENNEDY-NIXON DEBATES
IN 1960

4 DO I LOOK LIKE I NEED A SHAVE?
RICHARD NIXON: IKE’S VICE PRESIDENT

5 JOHN KENNEDY: SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS

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7 DUDE!! NIXON NEEDS A SHAVE!!

8 STOP

9 KENNEDY WON BY 100,000 VOTES. IN HIS INAGURAL
ADDRESS HE SAID “ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU, ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY!”

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11 CAMELOT

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16 FIDEL CASTRO OF CUBA MEETS WITH NIKITA KHRUSHEV OF THE SOVIET UNION

17 Fidel Castro: Cuban revolutionary who overthrows the American backed Batista regime and makes Cuba communist.

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19 Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.

20 worked closely with the
Dictator and former President of Cuba Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar who worked closely with the Mafia in Cuba

21 MEYER LANSKY HEAD OF THE MAFIA IN CUBA

22 LANSKY’S RIVERA CASINO AND HOTEL

23 Santo Trafficante OTHER MOB CASINOS

24 PREPARING FOR THE BAY OF PIGS
INVASION

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26 CAPTURED CUBANS AT THE BAY OF PIGS

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32 Secretary of State Adlai Stevenson shows U.N. Cuba photos

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34 KENNEDY’S CABINET MEETS

35 STOP

36 U.S. ship intercepting a missile-carrying
Soviet ship during the Cuban missile crisis, 1962.

37 13 DAYS IN OCTOBER FILM

38 THE SOVIETS AGREED TO REMOVE THE MISSILES FROM CUBA IF WE REMOVED OURS FROM TURKEY.

39 KENNEDY AND SOVIET PREMIER NIKITA KRUSHCHEV

40 AFTER THE MISSILE CRISIS A DIRECT PHONE OR HOTLINE WAS CONNECTED BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND MOSCOW

41 SOMEONE FOLLOWS THE PRESIDENT AT ALL TIME CARRYING THE NUCLEAR ATTACK CODES IN A BRIEFCASE.

42 GREEN BERET: SPECIAL FORCES
PEACE CORP GREEN BERET: SPECIAL FORCES

43 BERLIN WALL CONSTRUCTED IN 1963

44 The Berlin Wall separated free Berlin from communist

45 THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT STARTED IN 1962 WHEN RACHEL CARSON PUBLISHED “SILENT SPRING” ABOUT PESTICIDES SUCH AS DDT KILLING BIRDS.

46 THE KENNEDYS AND TEXAS GOVERNOR CONNOLLY AND HIS WIFE IN THE MOTORCADE IN DALLAS…NOVEMBER 22, 1963

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48 ZAPRUDER FILM: 1st SHOT HITS KENNEDY IN THROAT AND TEXAS GOVERNER CONOLLY IN THE CHEST AND THEN WRIST.

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50 ZAPRUDER FILM: MOMENT OF THIRD SHOT HITTING KENNEDY IN THE HEAD.

51 ZAPRUDER FILM: JACKIE FREAKS OUT WHEN SEES DAMAGE TO KENNEDY’S HEAD

52 ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER FILM http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/zapruder.htm

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54 JOHN-JOHN AT FUNERAL

55 DEALEY PLAZA IN DALLAS…SITE OF THE SHOOTING…WITH THE TEXAS SCHOOLBOOK DEPOSITORY IN THE BACKGROUND.

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57 OSWALD HERE

58 OSWALD SUPPOSEDLY SHOT KENNEDY FROM THIS WINDOW IN THE TEXAS SCHOOLBOOK DEPOSITORY

59 THE INFAMOUS GRASSY KNOLL WHERE THERE WAS SUPPOSEDLY A SECOND SHOOTER

60 Oswald’s Mannlicher-Carcano Rifle.
MAGIC BULLET

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62 LEE HARVEY OSWALD

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64 JACK RUBY: KILLED OSWALD

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66 OSWALD’S FUNERAL AND HIS WIFE MARINA, BROTHER ROBERT,
MOTHER MARGUERITE, AND HIS TWO CHILDREN JUNE AND RACHAEL. THE OTHER DUDE IS A MINISTER.

67 VICE- PRESIDENT LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON (LBJ) IS SWORN IN ON AIR FORCE ONE AS THE NEW PRESIDENT

68 The WAR ON POVERTY created a series of bills and acts, including programs such as Head Start, food stamps, work study, Medicare and Medicaid, which still exist today. The programs initiated under Johnson brought about real results, reducing rates of poverty and improved living standards for America's poor.

69 MANY FACES OF PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON 1963-1968

70 JOHNSON AND HIS WIFE “LADY BIRD”. HER REAL NAME WAS CLAUDIA.

71 JOHNSON SIGNS INTO LAW THE WAR ON POVERTY LEGISLATION.

72 Johnson’s political programs to help the country were known by the title “Great Society”

73 HEALTH CARE FOR THE POOR HEALTH CARE FOR THE ELDERLY
Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched during this period. MEDICARE MEDICAID HEALTH CARE FOR THE POOR HEALTH CARE FOR THE ELDERLY

74 JOB CORP

75 HEAD START

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77 JOHNSON SIGNS INTO LAW THE
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 It prohibited discrimination in public facilities, in government, and in employment, eliminating Jim Crow laws in the southern U.S.

78 VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices such as poll taxes and literacy tests that had been prevented African Americans from voting.in the United States.

79 LARGE PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS WERE BUILT

80 THE SUPREME COURT IN THE SIXTIES EXPANDED
THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF PEOPLE THE WARREN SUPREME COURT

81 FAMOUS WARREN COURT CASES
Racial segregation: Brown v. Board of Educatio Criminal procedure: Mapp v. Ohio, Miranda v. Arizona, Escobedo v. Illinois, Gideon v. Wainwright Free speech: Tinker v. Des Moines School District Establishment Clause: Engel v. Vitale CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN

82 1967 NEWARK RIOT

83 NEWARK

84 LOS ANGELES, 1965 WATTS RIOTS

85 DETROIT RIOTS OF 1967

86 DETROIT RIOTS

87 1968 KING ASSASSINATION

88 ASSASSINATION OF BOBBY KENNEDY IN 1968

89 VIETNAM WAR PROTESTS

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92 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS

93 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKLEY DEMONSTRATION

94 THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT STARTED IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA KNOWN AS H HAIGHT-ASHBURY

95 THE SUMMER OF 1967 WAS CALLED THE SUMMER OF LOVE…THE HEIGHT OF THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT

96 THE FANCY NAME FOR THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT IS “COUNTER CULTURE”

97 In Haight-Ashbury, hippies favored long hair, tie-dyed clothing and slogans such as "Make love, not war" and "Turn on, tune in and drop out."

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