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JFK delivers "New Frontier" Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmiOEk59n8&feature=related- Kennedy said "We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier, upon accepting the nomination for president.
- Kennedy wanted Americans to be "new pioneers" and explore "uncharte areas of science and space,...unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus."
- Kennedy had troubleturning his vision into reality, though.
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JFK Speaks at Houston Ministers' Conference
- Important marker in the history of Catholicism in the United States.
- Many people believed that Kennedy couldn't be president without having divided loyalties because of religion.
- Catholics thought he conceded too much in his profession of belief in an "absolute" separation of church and state
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JFK Debates Richard Nixon on Television
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Xn4ipHiwE&feature=related *Nixon wanted to exspose Kennedy's inexperience with the debating.
* Kennedy was coached by television producers, and he spoke did better than Nixon.
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JFK Wins Election in 1960
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmOQ54oPb4Y- Kennedy's inauguration set the tone for a new era at the White House: one of grace, elegance, and wit.
- Kennedy's inspiring speech called for hope, commitment, and sacrifice. "Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country."
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
- That night, 1,300-1,500 Cuban exiles supported by the US military landed on the island's southern coast at Bahia de Cochinos, the bay of Pigs.
- Nothing went according to plan. The aris trike had failed to knock out the Cuban air force, the small advance group sent to distract Castro's forces never reached shore, and when the main commando arrived, they were faced with more than they could handle.
- The disaster left Kennedy embarrassed and he publicly accepted blame for the fiasco.
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Freedom Riders Attacked in Alabama
- Date is when the first Freedom Ride left Washington D.C.
- When the bus got to Alabama, a mob of Ku Klux Klan men attacked the first of the two buses and slashed its tires.
- The bus was burned, and the doors held shut so that the people inside would burn, but something scared the men away. The people on the bus got away, but were beaten as they made a run for it.
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Berlin Wall is Constructed
- concrete wall topped with barbed wire that severed the city of Berlin in two.
- The construction of the Berlin Wall was to stop the spead of Communism.
- If members from one side of the wall wanted to escape to the other side of the wall, they were killed instantly.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
- On this date, Kennedy warned the Soviet Union that if any missile attack from Cuba would trigger an all-out attack on the Soviet Union.
- Troops were stationed everwhere around Cuba (Florida and Atlantic Ocean) to be prepared for an invasion if a missle went off
- Khrushchev offered to remove the missiles in return for an American pledge not to invade Cuba and the leaders agreed.
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Kennedy Addresses the Nation about Civil Rights
- "not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves"
- Explains that we have become one country and therefore, must treat everyone as one.
- Kennedy explains that discrimination is a problem that must be fixed.
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JFK Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
- John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy
- Died at 12:30p.m.
- When the Presidential limousine turned left and passed the Depository and continued down Elm Street, shots were fired at Kennedy. 3 shots were fired.
