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JFK Delivers "New Frontier Speech"
-The New Frontier is here whether we seek it or not.
- "The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them."
- Kennedy's acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5WyC_oY8n4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsdomV7giC0
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JFK speaks at Houston Ministers' Conference
- Kennedy addresses his Catholicism and the role that his religion had played in the 1960 presidential election.
- Rice Hotel in Houston, TX
- "No Apologies"
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JFK Debates Richard Nixon on Television
- First-ever televised presidential debate -Centered on domestic issues
- Debate over experience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazmVHAO0os
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JFK wins 1960 election
- Won by 400 votes
- Democrat
- It was one of the closest elections in American history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmOQ54oPb4Y
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Cuban exiles supported by US military landed on the islands couther coast
- Air strike failed to knock of the Cuban air force
- Invaded exiles imprisoned or killed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlnM_n1s1E
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Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama
-The Ku Klux Klansmen attacked the first of the two buses and slashed its tires
- John Seigenthaler was sent to Alabama to calm the situation
- Had an escort to get to Montgomery safely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcuuNr-Ag6o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EDIHPWrVO8
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Berlin Wall is constructed
- Concrete wall topped with barbed wire that severed the city in two
- Later changed too cement and steele
- Stood for 28 years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vXsdaUmG8s
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Cuban Missile Crisis
- a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States
- following the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba by the United States
- The missiles culd reach the US in minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50RNAbmy3M
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Kennedy Adresses the Nation about Civil rights
- first time that a president called on Americans to recognize civil rights
- on radio and tv
- Oval Office
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF2pVadZUOU
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JFK assasinated
- Shot in the car with his wife and the texas governor and his wife
- by Lee Harvery Oswald
- Three shots
- others injured
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR1f6WRRhd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEVfKKjODBg
