Transcript TE 831 JFK PowerPoint

By: Mrs. Hammoud
TE 831
July 27, 2007
•JFK was the thirty-fifth President
of the United States.
•JFK served as President from
1961 until his assassination in
1963.
•In 1960 JFK became the
youngest person ever to be
elected President of the United
States, and the second youngest
(after Theodore Roosevelt), to
serve.
•The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the
Cuban Missile Crisis, the building
of the Berlin Wall, the Space
Race, the American Civil Rights
Movement and early events of the
Vietnam War all took place during
his presidency.
•John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born
in Brookline, Massachusetts on May
29, 1917.
•Young Jack Kennedy was the
second child in a family of nine
children: Joe Jr., Jack, Rosemary,
Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert,
Jean, and Edward (Teddy).
•His great grandfather, Patrick
Kennedy, had emigrated from
Ireland in 1849 and his
grandfathers, Patrick Joseph
Kennedy and John Francis
Fitzgerald, were important political
figures in Boston. Kennedy's father
was a highly successful
businessman who later served as
an ambassador to Great Britain
(1937-40).
1919 - Father and Sons - Joseph
P. Kennedy holds sons Joseph
Patrick Junior (left) and two year
old future president John
Fitzgerald Kennedy.
•Throughout his elementary
education, Kennedy went to
Brookline's public Edward Devotion
School.
•In September 1930 (8th grade),
Kennedy was sent fifty miles away
to Canterbury School, a Catholic
boarding school for boys in New
Milford, Connecticut.
•Throughout his high school
education (9th through 12th grade),
Kennedy attended The Choate
School, which is an elite private
university preparatory boarding
school for boys in Connecticut.
John’s older brother, Joseph, was
two years ahead of him in the same
school.
Picture of Joseph Patrick
(left) and John Fitzgerald.
•Kennedy graduated from Choate in June 1935:
Kennedy's classmates considered him as a
person who would "Most likely become
President.”
•In September 1936, Kennedy enrolled as a
freshman at Harvard.
•During his studies in 1940, Kennedy
completed his thesis, "Appeasement in
Munich," which was about British participation
in the Munich Agreement. He initially intended
his thesis to be private, but his father
encouraged him to publish it as a book.
•Kennedy graduated cum laude from Harvard
with a degree in international affairs in June
1940. His thesis was published in July 1940 as
a book entitled Why England Slept, and
became a bestseller.
Picture of Kennedy’s
graduation day at Harvard.
•In September, 1941, Kennedy
joined the U.S. Navy.
•JFK participated in various
commands in the Pacific during
WWII.
Lt. Kennedy in
his uniform.
•Kennedy earned the rank of
lieutenant, commanding a patrol
torpedo (PT) boat.
•John becomes discharged from the
U.S. Navy in 1945.
•Young John Kennedy hadn't really
considered becoming a politician
because the family had already
pinned its political hopes on his
older brother, Joseph P. Kennedy.
•Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee
Bouvier on September 12, 1953.
JFK &
Jacqueline
get married.
•JFK’s brother, Joseph, was killed in
World War II, making John tops in
seniority to run for office in the
family.
Kennedy campaigning in a small hall,
which is crammed with supporters.
•When in 1946 US Representative
James Michael Curley vacated his
seat in an overwhelmingly
Democratic district to become mayor
of Boston, Kennedy ran for the seat,
beating his Republican opponent by a
large margin.
•Kennedy represented the state of
Massachusetts as a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
1947 to 1953.
•In 1952, he defeated incumbent
Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
for the U.S. Senate. Kennedy served
in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until his
inauguration in 1961.
Kennedy
working as a
senator in his
office.
•On January 2, 1960, Kennedy
declared his intent to run for
President of the United States.
•In the Democratic primary
election, he faced challenges from
Senator Hubert Humphrey of
Minnesota and Senator Wayne
Morse of Oregon.
John and Jackie Kennedy
campaigning in Wisconsin in
March 1960.
•On July 13, 1960, the Democratic
convention nominated Kennedy as
its candidate for President.
Kennedy asked Lyndon B. Johnson
to be his Vice Presidential
candidate.
•In September and October 1960,
Kennedy debated Republican
candidate and Vice President
Richard Nixon in the first televised
U.S. presidential debates in US
history.
•At only 43 years of age, Kennedy
defeated Republican candidate Richard
Nixon in one of the closest presidential
elections in American history.
•John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the
35th President at noon on January 20,
1961.
•In his inaugural address he spoke of
the need for all Americans to be active
citizens, famously saying:
"Ask not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for your
country."
•He also asked the nations of the world
to join together to fight what he called
the "common enemies of man: tyranny,
poverty, disease, and war itself."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy takes the
oath of office and becomes the 35th
President of the United States of
America, January 20, 1961. At age
43, he is the youngest man and the
first Roman Catholic ever elected.
Since Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline, and son, John Jr., were very young during his
presidency, Kennedy always found time to be a dad and a husband. These
pictures show how normal he was as a family man, regardless that he was a
President.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
(1961-1962) was a
confrontation during the
Cold War between the
Government of the United
States, the Government
of the Soviet Union, and
the Government of Cuba.
This crisis is generally
regarded as the moment
when the Cold War came
closest to escalating into
a nuclear war.
President Kennedy in a crowded Cabinet Room
during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Shortly after taking office, the
President created the Peace
Corps. Kennedy hoped to inspire
young Americans to serve
overseas in developing countries.
Through this program, Americans
volunteered in underdeveloped
nations in areas such as
education, farming, health care
and construction. Today, the
Peace Corps still exists in our
country and has helped improve
our relations with other nations.
The President meets with eager young
Peace Corps volunteers before they
depart for Africa.
Under opposing pressures from
other nations, Germany was divided.
The Berlin Wall separated West and
East Berlin, the latter being under
the control of the Soviets. On June
26, 1963, Kennedy visited West
Berlin and gave a public speech
criticizing communism. In his
speech, Kennedy used the Berlin
Wall as an example of the failures of
communism: "Freedom has many
difficulties and democracy is not
perfect, but we have never had to
put a wall up to keep our people in."
In Berlin, the President speaks
to an enormous German crowd.
Kennedy was eager for the
United States to lead the way in
the space race.
Kennedy first made the goal for
landing a man on the Moon in
speaking to a Joint Session of
Congress on May 25, 1961,
saying: "First, 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 the earth.”
President Kennedy looks at
the space craft Friendship 7,
which made three earth
orbits. The space craft was
piloted by astronaut John
Glenn in February 23, 1962.
The United States Supreme Court had ruled in
1954 that racial segregation in public schools
was unconstitutional. However, segregation on
buses, in schools, restaurants, movie theaters,
bathrooms, and other public places remained.
Kennedy supported racial integration and civil
rights.
On June 11, 1963, President Kennedy intervened
when Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked
the doorway to the University of Alabama to stop
Attempting to block
two African American students, from enrolling.
integration at the University of
That evening Kennedy gave his famous civil rights
Alabama, Governor George
address on national television and radio. Kennedy
Wallace stands defiantly at
proposed what would become the Civil Rights Act
the door while being
of 1964.
confronted by Deputy U.S.
Attorney General Nicholas
Katzenbach.
•President Kennedy arrives in
Dallas, Texas on November 22,
1963.
•It was decided that Kennedy and
his party, including his wife,
Jacqueline Kennedy, Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson,
Governor John Connally and
Senator Ralph Yarborough, would
travel in a procession of cars
through the business district of
Dallas.
•The presidential motorcade then
leaves for a 45 minute trip
downtown where the President is
scheduled to speak to a meeting
of the Citizens Council.
Dallas. Arrival of the President
and First Lady at Love Field,
November 22, 1963.
Here is President Kennedy,
Jackie, and Governor John
Connally in the Presidential
limousine shortly before the
assassination.
Around 12:30 p.m., Kennedy
was fatally wounded by
gunshots while riding with his
wife Jacqueline through
Dealey Plaza. Look carefully
to see how Kennedy got shot.
•
After the burst of gunfire,
First Lady Jacqueline
Kennedy cradled her dying
husband as the limousine
sped to the emergency
room at Parkland Hospital.
•
At 1:38 PM, White House
press secretary Malcolm
Kilduff announced that
President Kennedy died
from a gunshot wound to
his brain.
•
A few hours later, Vice
President Lyndon B.
Johnson was sworn in as
the 36th President of the
United States.
Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested
later that day on suspicion of killing
the president and Dallas police
officer J. D. Tippit.
Oswald denied any responsibility for
the murders.
Two days later, before he could be
brought to trial for the crimes, while
being transferred under police
custody from the police station to
jail, Oswald was shot and killed by
Jack Ruby on live television.
Although most Americans believe
that Oswald had some role in the
assassination, some believe he was
part of a broader assassination
conspiracy that has been subject to
an official cover up.
JFK:
Gone, but
will never
be
forgotten
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkennedyJ.htm
http://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/early.htm
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