New Frontier & Great Society

JFK

-ran for democratic party, (1960)

-senator from Massachusetts

-43 years old, catholic

-assassinated in Texas (1963)

NASA

-The National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Dallas, Texas

Warren Commission

-established by LBJ to investigate assassination

-concluded Oswald acted alone

-aldo that Jack Ruby acted alone in killing Oswald

Election of 1964

-Dems: LBJ (P) Hubert Humphrey (vp)

-Repubs: Barry Goldwater

PBS

Richard Nixon

-ran against JFK in the election to 1960

Peace corps

-Program where U.S. volunteers go to developing nations

-provide aid in education, healthcare, construction, etc.

Dealey Plaza

-in Texas

-where the book depository is where JFK was assassinated

election of 1960

-dems: JFK (p), LBJ (vp)

-repubs: Nixon (p)

Zapruder films

-film that caught JFK’s assassination on a home film

-313 film?

Hubert Humphrey

-LBJ’s vice president from 1965 to 1969

Sesame Street

-free online teaching to learn the basics for kids before school

-government issued on PBS

Bay of Pigs Invasion

-CIA scheme planned under Eisenhower

-Kennedy inherited; planned to use cuban exhiles to overthrow Castro

-CIA trained them

-Landed in “Bay of Pigs”

-failed to set off an uprising; surrendered to Castros regime

-Kennedy refused to send in troops; political disaster

Governor Connally

-was shot at same time Kennedy was

-seriously injured, but survived JFK’s assassination

Grassy Knoll

-a place where people thought the assasinator shot JFK from

Barry Goldwater

-ran against LBJ in election of 1964

Medicare

-health insurance for elderly (65+)

Televised Debate

-Kennedy appeared youthful, energetic

-Nixon appeared pale, nervous

Fidel Castro

-Cuban revolutionary

Walter Cronkite

-American broadcaster

-a voice who people trusted, reacted to the assassination, very emotional

JFK funeral

-Jackie walked behind casket; even though it was a huge risk

-she wore the bloodstain pink suit

Cuban Missile Crisis

-between the U.S. and the Soviet Union