John F' Kennedy The 35th President

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John F. KennedyThe 35th President

• By Grant W. Murray

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Background

• Born May 29, 1917
• Graduated from Harvard in 1940
• Joined the Navy
• PT Boat was Sunk in 1943 by Japanese Destroyer
• Kennedy Led Survivors to Safety
• Married Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953

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Prelude to a Presidency

• After the War, Kennedy became a Congressman.
• He was elected to Senate in 1953.
• In 1955, He wrote Profiles In Courage, which won
  the Pulitzer Prize for History in that year.
• In 1956 he nearly gained the Vice-President
  nomination for the Democratic Party.
• Four years later he would be nominated for
  President.

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The 35th President

• Inaugurated January 20, 1961
• Youngest Man Elected President
• Defeated Richard Nixon by Narrow Margin
• First and Only Roman Catholic President
• One of the Most Memorable Inaugural Addresses
  Ever Given

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Key Events

• Civil Rights Struggle
• Called for New Civil Rights Legislation
• Cold War At Its Height
• Bay of Pigs
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Issues in Vietnam

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Cuban Missile Crisis

• Soviet Missiles in Cuba
• The Missiles Were Discovered By American
  Reconnaissance
• Kennedys Negotiating Powers
• Communicating With Krushchev Through Whole Ordeal
• Krushchev Looked To Take Advantage of Kennedy
  Being Weak

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Vietnam

• Concessions towards American involvement
• Had no intentions of sending ground forces to
  save South Vietnam
• Plan to have ALL American troops removed by 1965
• Assassination on November 22, 1963

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The Assassination

• Kennedy Visited Dallas, TX on November 22, 1963
• Shots Rang Out as the Motorcade Rolled Down Elm
  Street
• Lee Harvey Oswald Was Charged With Assassination
• Many Speculations On Who Was Behind the
  Assassination and Who Actually Did It

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The End

• Viewed as Weak Leader by Krushchev and Others
• Great Communicator and Negotiator
• Who knows what happens in Vietnam if he is not
  assassinated?
• Who actually killed JFK?