1. JFK’s Domestic Agenda
His Thousand Days – 19.2

2. Welcome to “Camelot”
Theodore White of Life magazine wrote essay that associated Camelot with the 1000-day presidency of JFK. He said Camelot represented, “a magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers, and poets met at the White House, and the barbarians beyond the walls held back.”

3. The Dark Side of Camelot (or if you read Malory, Camelot proper)
Women – “dated” an East German spy, Marilyn Monroe, a mob boss’s girl (and other actresses)…
Drug Habit – pain killers from Addison’s Disease

4. Domestic Policy The New Frontier
JFK platform to address the economy, education, healthcare, and civil rights
Inspired by Michael Harrington’s The Other America
Keynesian Methods – 1960s economy was sluggish
Middle-Class tax cuts/Upper-Class tax raise – tax revenues actually raise after the cuts
Increase military spending
Tax credits for businesses
High deficit spending
War on Poverty – increases size of welfare state

5. Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
Called to see the effects of poverty and discrimination on women
Led to the Equal Pay Act of 1963
Fails
1st step for the Civil Rights Act of 1964

6. Civil Rights Unsure at first, not wanting to offend Southern Democrats
1963 – introduced limited legislation to aid desegregation and further voting rights
Was prepping for act when he was killed

7. Space…the Final Frontier
Late 50s – looks like the Russians are winning
Sputnik (1957)
Laika (1957)
Yuri Gagarin (1961) - first human in outerspace
Flew in the Vostok spacecraft
Completed one orbit around the earth before (successfully) returning
Valentina Tereshokova (1963) – first woman in space

8. The Mercury Seven From 1961 – 1964 Nasa’s budget increased 500%
Seven test pilots were chosen to pilot the Mercury missions from May 1961 to May 1963

9. …these are the voyages of the starship Enterprise
5 May 1961 – Alan Shepard becomes the second person in space
JFK commits to a moon landing by 1970
1967 fire makes it seem impossible
July 1969 – Apollo 11

10. Kennedy announces Moon Goal
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth.”

11. John Glenn February 1962 - First American to orbit Earth
Orbited 3 times
Friendship 7 was his ship
Also from Ohio…Cambridge to be precise

12. It always affects culture…
8 Sept 1966 – first episode of Star Trek, “The Man Trap” aired

13. Tragedy Strikes
Apollo 1 – Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee burned to death on launch pad while running a flight simulation

14. Saturn V Rocket 1967 – key to the moon program Multi-stage solid fuel
Designed by Wernher von Braun
Used from Apollo 4 on

15. Apollo 11 – 20 July 1969
Columbia (command module) orbits with Michael Collins
“The Eagle has Landed” with Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong
“One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind”

18. The Assassination

19. Dallas – 22 November 1963 President John F. Kennedy
First Lady Jackie Kennedy
Texas Gov. John Connally
First Lady of Texas Nellie Connally

20. Dealey Plaza – the fatal backdrop

21. The Lone Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald Former Marine
Communist sympathizer

22. Oswald Shot by Jack Ruby

23. A New President

24. Funeral for a President

25. Warren Commission Created to investigate the assassination
10 month investigation
Was it a conspiracy?
Said Oswald and Ruby acted alone
Many still believe it is a conspiracy to this day

26. The (Abraham) Zapruder Film

27. Possible Culprits The CIA The FBI Lyndon Johnson The Mafia
Cuban Exiles
The USSR
The Federal Reserve
Lee Harvey Oswald