JFK (PowerPoint)

							JFK
   Schlesinger, A
    Thousand Days (1965)

   Reeves, A Question of
    Character (1991)

   Bernstein, Promises
    Kept (1991)

   Hersh, The Dark Side of
    Camelot (1996)
The end of the Fifties……
 Economic Recession
 Civil Rights
 Sputnik and ‘kaputnik’
 Cuba
 May 1960 U2 Incident
Joseph Kennedy (1960)
JFK Harvard College Class, 1940
JFK Aboard PT 109, 1943
           President Kennedy
   A balanced ticket
   Youth and the new
    middle class
   Defending America
   TV Debates
   The African-American
    vote

                           JFK Inauguration, 20
                              January 1961
JFK Inauguration Ball
‘Camelot’
Pablo Casals at the White House
JFK and Marilyn Monroe
   Reported affair with John
    F. Kennedy began in late
    1961.
   Sang ‘Happy Birthday at
    JFK's gala birthday
    celebration in Madison
    Square Garden on May
    19, 1962.
   Robert Kennedy affair
    with Monroe before she
    died (5 Aug 1962, Age
    36.)
Jackie Kennedy in the White House, 1962
Press
Conference,
1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis
22 November 1963 - Route
22 November 1963
22 November 1963
Public disquiet about the shooting