LBJ-JFK

To Kill a Mockingbird

written by Harper Lee is a Southern gothic novel. It was published in 1960

Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Seuss

Valley of the Dolls

Jacqueline Susann

Gilligans Island

TV show Williams composed, silly and lighthearted

Rod Sterling

twilight zone

Johnny Carson

He hosted the Tonight Show from 1962-1992 and helped establish the late night talk show as one of TV's most successful formats.

Muhammad Ali

Heavy weight champ

Wilt Chamberlain

Only NBA player to score 100 points in a single game

Arnold Palmer

golf, got famous off the field

UCLA Basketball

Dominated the era

Wilma Randolph

Runner

Roger Maris

He was the first player to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record when he hit 61 of them in 1961, despite playing through unbelievable pressure from the media and the fans

Alfred Hitchcock

Psycho Director

The Sound of Music

Famous of this musical songs: "My Favorite Things," "Do Re Mi," "Edelweiss," and "Climb Every Mountain"

Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick

Planet of the Apes

Pierre Boulle

Richard Nixon

Republican in 1960s election vs JFK

JFK

democratic candidate in 1960s election

ISSUES:

1. Cold War is still an issue

2. Kennedys age, elected at 43

3. Civil rights

4. Television (Nixon challenges JFK to a debate on TV).. Nixon thought he would win, JFK had Hollywood "look" JFK WON FINALLY

McNamara

Secretary of Defense for JFK (r)

Rusk

Sec of state for JFK (d)

Rob Kennedy

Attorney General for JFK (r)

LB Johnson

Vice president for JFK

4 Events in JFKs foreign policy

1. Space race: Yuri Gagrin, first in space

2. Bay of Pigs: involves Cuba, go kill Castro, planned got leaked and Castro is waiting

3. Cuban missile arises

4. Berlin War

Allen Shepard

First American in space

John Glenn

first American to orbit the earth

Mercury Program

Getting up into space

Gemini program

Space walk and in and outta capsule

Ed White

First American to walk in space

Apollo Program

Project initiated by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to surpass the Soviet Union in space exploration and send a man to the moon. Takes 2 weeks

Apollo 11

1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became first people to walk on the moon

Kennedy names it flexible response instead of foreign policy

All comes to containment

Vienna Conference

N. Khrushchev demands the US to get outta Berlin, the response is the Berlin Wall

Iron Curtain August 12,1961

"Ugly symbol of community"

"Ich Bin Ein Berliner"

JFKS I am a Berliner speech

Viet Cong (VC)

Activity in south, Green berets

Peace corps

Help pit community, teach English, make world a better place, purpose capitalism and democracy

Ed White

First man to walk in space

Apollo 1

Disaster, 3 of them die in the capsule

Apollo 8

Orbit moon, first pic taken on moon

Apollo 11

Armstrong Aldran and Collin's

Apollo 13

James Lovell, explosion otw to moon

Apollo 17

6 moon landing

Apollo 18

Gets cancelled

Ross Barnett

Creates riot

George Wallace

Stops integration, blocks door, "segregation now, tmr and forever"

Bull Connor

Sherif of Birminghams

Medger Evers

Leader of NAACP in OleMiss, shot and killed same night as JFK

John Connelly

Gov of Texas

JFK assassination

Nov 22, 1963

Lee Harvey Oswald

Kills JFK, bad reputation

Abraham Zapruder

Business who films the whole assassination happen

Warren Commission

Investigates Kennedys death

JD Tippit

Oswald gets nervous and shoots him bc he thought he knew he shot JFK

Dealey Plaza

location of JFK's assassination - specific place, not the name of the city

Lee worked at…

Textbook production place

His 3 shots

First shot hits Connelly, 3rd is headshot

Arlen Specter

3 bullets, one assassin. "Single bullet theory"

Jack Ruby

Killed Lee Harvey Oswald

Tinker Case

Supreme Court ruled that armbands are a form of speech protected by the 1st amendment, protesting Vietnam war

Engel vs. Vitale

case that said organized prayer is unconstitutional in school, dealt with first amendment

Baker vs. Carr

The Supreme Court ruling that all state districts must be equal in population., required that voting district needed to be reapportioned. "One man, one vote"

Gideon v. Wainwright

A person who cannot afford an attorney may have one appointed by the government

Escobedo v. Illinois

1964--Ruled that a defendant must be allowed access to a lawyer before questioning by police.

Miranda v. Arizona

Supreme Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police.

1965 achievement, 1967 Apollo

Passing the USSR, Apollo 1 tragedy

Bay of Pigs

Failed CIA operation in April 1961to overthrow Castro and take over Cuba using Cuban exiles. Someone leaks..

Aug 13,1961

Berlin War built

Warren Court

Supreme Court of the 1960s under Chief Justice Earl Warren, whose decisions supported civil rights

Mapp v. Ohio

States and federal govt can not use illegally siezed evidence in court (exclusionary rule) according to this court case decision.

Barry Goldwater

1964; Republican contender against LBJ for presidency; platform included lessening federal involvement, therefore opposing Civil Rights Act of 1964; lost by largest margin in history

24th Amendment passed

Poll tax (which had been used to prevent blacks from voting) outlawed. Black voter registration increases and candidates begin to turn away from white supremacy views in attempt to attract black voters

Freedom Summer

1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi

Malcolm X

Preacher in Islam, takes over Muhammad

Elijah Muhammad

Leader of the nation of Islam from 1945 to his death in 1975. He helped many people and was a strong advocate of civil rights, but was involved in some shady activities and lost the favor of Malcolm X, who went on to form his own civil rights group.

Carmichael

leader of Black Panthers

leader of SNCC

Bobby Seale and Huey Newton

Founders of the Black Panther Party

"Burn Baby Burn"

1965 riot in Watts, LA after a guy killed

1967 Riots

In Newark

Tommy Smith and John Carlos

olympic medalists who gave the black power salute on stand, kicked out of olympics

April 4, 1968

The date MLK was assassinated

Betty Friedan

wrote The Feminine Mystique, begins NOW

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Linked to JFK

Cuban Missile Crisis

Linked to JFK

Peace Corps

Linked to JFK

Nasa goal

Linked to JFK

Great Society

LBJ

War on Poverty

Linked to LBJ

Medicare and Medicaid

LBJ

Voting and and Civil rights

Linked to LBJ