#35 John F. Kennedy- New Frontier President

#35 John F. Kennedy- New Frontier President

Kennedy started out in the U.S. Navy (1941-1945) as a reserve during World War II, after that he got into politics joining Massachusetts house of representatives (1947-1953) then as Senator (1953-1960)

1961;

• Kennedy becomes the 35th President of the United States at the age of 43. Lyndon B. Johnson is his VP
• Kennedy issues an executive order creating a temporary Peace Corps and asks Congress to authorize the program permanently.
• Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space

• Kennedy takes responsibility for a U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs that ended in disaster

BAY OF PIGS INVASION, CUBA

• Black and white youths supported by the Congress of Racial Equality set out on the “freedom rides” to test the enforcement of ICC rules against discrimination in interstate travel.

FREEDOM RIDERS

• Alan Sheppard Jr. becomes the first American in space

• In an address to Congress, Kennedy pledges that the Unites States will land a man on the moon by the end of the decade
• Kennedy meets with Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev in Vienna. The conference fails to resolve conflict over the status of Berlin
• East Germany, supported by the Soviet Union, begins construction of the Berlin Wall, halting the flow of refugees to the West

BERLIN WALL BEING BUILT

• The Geneva conference, with the United States, Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom participating, adjourns without reaching an agreement on a nuclear test ban
• Kennedy halts virtually all trade with Cuba

1962;

• The U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation in transportation facilities is unconstitutional
• Astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth

JOHN GLENN GETTING IN THE COCKPIT

• Kennedy announces the reduction of U.S. import duties as part of an agreement to promote international trade
• Marilyn Monroe is found dead
• The U.S. Supreme Court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James H. Meredith, its first African-American student. After Governor Ross Barnett attempts to block the admission and an Ole Miss riot breaks out, U.S. Marshals escort Meredith to campus while Federalized national guardsmen maintain order

MISSISSIPPI’S LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR CONFRONTS THE CHIEF MARSHALL JAMES MCSHANE AS HE ESCORTS JAMES MEREDITH TO REGISTRATION

• Kennedy is informed of the existence of Soviet missile installations in Cuba

U-2 PHOTOGRAPH OF SOVIET MISSILE INSTALLATIONS IN CUBA

• Kennedy announces Cuban Missile Crisis and addresses the American people about the situation in Cuba, ordering a navel quarantine of Cuba to prevent further shipments of weapons

• After thirteen days, the Cuban Missile Crisis is resolved. The United States pledges not to invade Cuba (and secretly agrees to remove missiles from Turkey), in exchange for the removal of the Soviet weapons
• Kennedy lifts the naval blockade of Cuba
• The Supreme Court rules in Gideon v. Wainwright that states must supply counsel in criminal cases for individuals who cannot afford it

1963;

• Martin Luther King Jr leads a civil rights drive in Birmingham, Alabama. Police Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor orders the police to use fire hoses and dogs on demonstrators

POLICE SICKING DOGS ON PROTESTERS

PROTESTERS BEING HOSED DOWN

• Medgar W. Evers, NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, is assassinated outside his home in Jackson
• The March on Washington attracts 250,000 demonstrators to the nation’s capital in support of civil rights legislation. At the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech

• Kennedy signs a limited nuclear test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom
• South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated in U.S.-supported coup
• Kennedy is assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested and accused of the crime. Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as the thirty-sixth President of the United States following the assassination

JFK ASSASSINATION

• Jack Ruby shoots and kills Lee Harvey Oswald

• Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, VA

To this day, nobody knows for sure why Kennedy was assassinated but there are many conspiracy theories out there to make you wonder.

Famous quotes;

“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.“