JFK

Helped JFK but hurt Nixon in the Election of 1960 (JFK = polished & relaxed)

TV debates

State John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born & elected from

Massachusetts

Served as JFK's VP

LBJ

Provided Washington D.C. with 3 electoral votes

23rd Amendment

Name given to the idealistic image of the Kennedy White House

Camelot

MLK Jr

Gave the famous "I have a Dream" speech in D.C. in Aug. 1963 while JFK was POTUS

RFK (Robert Francis Kennedy), served in this capacity in his brother's Cabinet

Attorney General

Group that investigated the JFK assassination & in 1964 determined there was only one lone assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald

Warren Commission

Name of JFK's Domestic Program dealing with the economy, poverty, civil rights, and space

New Frontier

Name of JFK's foreign policy, especially when dealing with the USSR

Flexible Response

Alleged JFK assassin on 11/22/63

Lee Harvey Oswald

Dallas strip club owner who shot & killed JFK's alleged assassin on 11/24/63

Jack Ruby

Famous building where shots were allegedly fired on 11/22/63

Texas School Book Depository

For conspiracy theorists, bullets allegedly came from this location (i.e. the fatal one)

Grassy Knoll

Texas Governor who was also shot, but not killed, on 11/22/63 while riding in JFK's limo

John Connally

Failed attempt to oust Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1961

Bay of Pigs Invasion

To end this, the US promised to never invade Cuba (also ended quarantine and later removed missiles from Turkey)

Cuban Missile Crisis

JFK went to this European city in June 1963 to announce that the US would support them against the Russians

Berlin

JFK's Russian adversary; the Soviet Premier

Nikita Khrushchev

Established by JFK to spread American goodwill & democracy w/o military force

Peace Corps

Constructed to stop E. Germans from going to W. Germany in August 1961

Berlin Wall

The option JFK chose to handle the Cuban Missile Crisis

Quarantine (Blockade)

JFK sent "military advisors" here…there were about 16,000 by Nov. 1963

South Vietnam

Group that concluded there was probably a 2nd gunman involved with the Kennedy Assassination

House Select Committee in 1979

Name given to JFK's Cabinet

Best & the Brightest or The Harvard Gang