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JFK Wins Election in 1960
-Kennedy gained votes among Catholics almost neutralized the new votes
-Kennedy's campaigning skills outmatched Nixon's.
-34th American presidential election -
JFK Speaks at Houston Ministers' Conference
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-Kennedy addresses his Catholicism and the role that his religion had played in the 1960 presidential election -Presented in Rice Hotel in Houston, TX -
JFK Debates Richard Nixon on Television
Kennedy vs Nixon
-Kennedy was elected with a lead of 112,827 votes
-The election was so close
-Nixon gained among Protestants and Kennedy gained amoung Catholics -
JFK Delivers "New Frontier" Speech
-JFK immediately speaks after taking the presidential oath of office
-It was the speech of a lifetime for the young presidential candidate
-JFK's words were put to the test when several Cold War crises tried his leaership -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
bay of pigs invasion
-unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba,
-launched in April 1961, less than three months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency
-The main invasion landing took place at a beach named Playa Girón -
Freedom Riders Attacked in Alabama
-Violence in Alabama was organized by Birmingham Police
-made plans to bring the Ride to an end in Alabama
-the mob would have fifteen minutes to attack the Freedom Riders without any arrests being made -
Berlin Wall is Constructed
-provide a physical barrier between East and West Berlin
-two major reasons for building the wall: Economics and Political
-a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic -
Cuban Missile Crisis
-The October Crisis in Cuba or Russian
-Kennedy concluded that attacking Cuba by air would signal the Soviets to presume "a clear line" to conquer Berlin
-On October 18, President Kennedy met with Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrei Gromyko, who claimed the weapons were for defensive purposes only. -
Kennedy Addresses the Nation about Civil Rights
-addresses the nation on Civil Rights from the Oval Office of the White House
-talked about Alabama
-talked about American issues -
JFK Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
-was shot while traveling with his wife
-the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
-John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy
