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John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. Events that occurred during his term in office were The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was assassinated in 1963. Many believe there is a large amount of conspiracy still surrounding this event.
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What would of happened if there wasn't a Mayflower Compact?
If there wasn't a Mayflower Compact, then many people might have stayed in Europe instead of coming to the New World. People had to sign this agreement before they could board the ship in Europe. People would still have found a way to come to the New World on another ship, though.
What did John F Kennedys wife do when he had got shot?
If you mean immediately after, she screamed and went into survival mode, trying to escape out the back of the convertable car they were riding in. It's hard to imagine the horror of that moment for her. The President never really knew what hit him, he fell into unconsciousness almost immediately, but she was fully aware the entire time. I'm sure she must have had nightmares about the moment for the rest of her life.
Was the CIA involved in the assassination of JFK?
There is no proof that there was a conspiracy. There is a convincing, but not conclusively proven case that Lee Harvey Oswald, who had been known to have communist sympathies, could have fired all the shots from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository.
Conspiracy theories vary from the strange to the believable. Most come from the idea that there was at least one other gunman, who might have been hiding behind the grassy knoll by the roadside. Some say that Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination two days later was part of a cover-up. Some theories go deep and may involve the USSR, subversive communists, the Mafia, Lyndon Johnson, the Republicans, etc.
Why did President Kennedy want to overthrow the South Vietnamese government?
Kennedy'supported Ngo Dinh Diem's government because it continued the US policy already established by Eisenhower in Southeast Asia. Eisenhower's focus was on the neutralizaion of Laos, and his administration applied that policy to Viet Nam prior to Kennedy's election. In essence, Kennedy inherited what the prior administration put in place. As for the Ngo government (Note: Diem is the ruler' first name, while Ngo is his last name, just as Ky is the last name for Nguyen Cao Ky, who later followed Ngo Din Diem in governing South Viet Nam), the U.S. lacked confidence in the man and his family to govern. Kennedy did not put him in power. Ultimately, Ngo's removal by the military took place because the U.S. believed it would strengthen the South's effort to curtail the growing insurgency in the country.
What was Kennedy's involvement in the Vietnam war?
President Kennedy believed in the "Domino Theory" that required Communism to be contained in every instance. Therefore in his first speech on becoming president, Kennedy made it clear that he would continue the policy of the former President, Dwight Eisenhower, and support the government of Diem in South Vietnam.
Was one of president Kennedy's achievements?
He is famous for being assassinated on November 22, 1963. He won a Pulitzer Prize and was very young when he served as president. He served during the Space Race, the construction of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What are the colors for John F. Kennedy high school in Fremont California?
in what city & state??????? Bronx and New York
How did Bay of Pigs affect John F. Kennedy reputation?
A small inlet of the Caribbean Sea on the southern coast of western Cuba. It was the site of an ill-fated invasion on April 17, 1961, when a force of 1,500 U.S.-trained guerrilla troops landed in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. On April 17, 1961, an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the BahÃa de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. Trained since May, 1960, in Guatemala by members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the approval of the Eisenhower administration, and supplied with arms by the U.S. government, the rebels intended to foment an insurrection in Cuba and overthrow the Communist regime of Fidel Castro. The Cuban army easily defeated the rebels and by April 20, most were either killed or captured. The invasion provoked anti-U.S. demonstrations in Latin America and Europe and further embittered U.S.-Cuban relations. Poorly planned and executed, the invasion subjected President Kennedy to severe criticism at home. Cuban exile leader José Miró Cardona, president of the U.S.-based National Revolutionary Council, blamed the failure on the CIA and the refusal of Kennedy to authorize air cover for the invasion force, but perhaps more crucial was the fact that the uprising the exiles hoped and needed to spark did not happened. Much later it was revealed that the CIA task force planning the invasion had predicted that the invasion's goals unachievable without U.S. military involvement; it is unclear whether Kennedy or CIA chief Allen Dulles knew of the assessment. In December, 1962, Castro released 1,113 captured rebels in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine raised by private donations in the United States.
Did Lee Harvey Oswald actually kill John F. Kennedy?
In the short time that Oswald lived after Kennedy's assassination, he consistantly denied shooting Kennedy, so it would not be possible that he would give a reason for doing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_harvey_oswald#Assassination_of_JFK says:
Oswald was interrogated several times during his two days of detention at Dallas Police Headquarters. He denied killing President Kennedy or Officer Tippit, denied owning a rifle, said two photographs of him holding a rifle and a pistol were fakes, denied knowing anything about the forged Selective Service card with the name "Alek J. Hidell" in his wallet, denied telling his co-worker he wanted a ride to Irving to get curtain rods for his apartment, and denied he had been seen carrying a long heavy package to work the morning of the assassination.
Oswald wanted to be important and historical. He didn't just keep a diary, he called it a Historic diary! He defected to the USSR, found out he was a nobody there too, made arrangements to come back and planned what to tell the media on arrival... but nobody bothered to cover the story of his return. He screwed up an assassination attempt on a general earlier the same year, and had made plans what to say if captured.
Then, he did manage to become historic, the bad way. He tried to contact a leftist lawyer he'd heard of... clearly he was hoping for a big showy trial. Then the Dallas police dragged him in front of one unsearched crowd after another, until they found what they obviously wanted, a crowd with someone in it who was just as nutty.
His last act on this Earth was to raise his (handcuffed) fist to his head in the well known Communist "Knuckle-Head" sign.
Who was the head of the FBI during John F. Kennedy's administration?
J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the FBI during Kennedy's administration. The two were not happy with each other, and there were rumors that Kennedy was planning on getting rid of Hoover by his second term.
I just saw a history channel program on Hoover. He blackmailed JFK. JFK had an affair with a woman who turned out to be an East German Agent and Hoover found out, so he used it with JFK. His big fear when Kennedy won was that he and Robert would get rid of him, but with this bit of information the Kennedy brothers were afraid to sack Hoover.
What were the Vietnam policies of President Kennedy and Robert McNamara?
The plan was to help the non-Communist government to stay in power via virtually every way except direct military action on their behalf.
What was John F Kenedy's opinion on the Vietnam war?
JFK was against sending Troops to Vietnam. After the Bay o Pigs debacle, JFK want to avoid a new conorntation with the Communists. Military men always want to fight, that is what they are trained for, but JFK could not afford a second bad decision and expext to be reelected. If JFK had not been ambushed, when his motorcade was turned at the last minute, he was ambushed by a member of our government that had the referent power to get the route changed and stall both the Secret Service and Military Presidential Security. Somebody would need to have the unquestionable control of an organization like the FBI. No one would believe a person could do that unless the motorcade could be rerouted into an unsecured, enemy controlled well armed traitors that had nothing to do with the government, but wanted JFK assinated for illegal monetary gains. The government traitor had to have a very severe personal hatred of JFK as well. I wonder who that could be?
What did JFK say on his speech about civil rights?
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Was Joseph Patrick Kennedy nicknamed Jack?
'Jack' is a common nickname for someone whose name is 'John.'
Why is Lincoln's Gettysburg Address still significant?
The Gettysburg Address is important because it brought our country back together as one nation Interesting thing about the Gettysburg Address, it was such a short speech (in a time when many speeches went on for hours) and Lincoln was on and off the stage so quickly, at the time people didn't realise he had finished his speech when he left the stage - the speaker before Lincoln had talked for 2 hours - and some even missed the speech entirely. Newspaper reporters printed the speech and it was printed over and over again.
The Address seemed to speak to a people divided by a civil war - brother against brother, father against son. The worse type of war. His few words returned to the war weary people a belief in what they were fighting for and that it was worth the struggle. The simple elequence of the words seemed to address a pain and sooth some of it. Lincoln reassured the American people that although this was a catastrophic war, somehow the democracy would endure. As the previous poster stated: it brought our country back together as ONE nation.
In 1961 president Kennedy took action to prevent the Soviet Union from what?
forcing west berlin to become a part of east germany
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Why is it important that John F. Kennedy became a president?
John Kennedy was the first ( and only) Roman Catholic to be elected president. This fact is important to Catholics and may still have some bearing on the theory of how electable a candidate is. At one time, being a Catholic was a huge liability for a presidential candidate, but that handicap may have disappeared before Kennedy ran. There are still people who would not vote for a Catholic, but there are also a lot of Catholic voters. John Kennedy was the first president from Massachusetts since John Adams and John Q. Adams.
His election may have revitalized Massachusetts politics, since at least three candidates from Mass. have run since, although none have been elected.
Every US president has considerable influence on the country and in the world while they are in office , so the choice of the president is important. However, Kennedy was not in office for even one full term, so I can not see any exceedingly great importance to his election.
What motive did Lee Harvey Oswald have to kill President Kennedy?
He worked at the Texas School Book Depository warehouse where the shots were fired from. He was seen carrying a long thin package into the TSBD which he claimed were curtain rods. He was seen on the sixth floor of the TSBD 30 minutes before the assassination. He was left alone there. He did none of his assigned work for the day. A witness on the street saw the gun being fired from the sixth floor and gave a description of the gunman which matched Oswald. He left the building minutes after the assassination. He was the only person to leave the TSBD between the assassination and when the police surrounded the building. He killed a cop on the same day, in front of witnesses. And he left his gun and fingerprints at the crime scene. He tried to shoot the arresting officers; an odd thing for an "innocent patsy" to do!
Oswald had no need for curtain rods. His rented room already had them, as did the house where his wife lived. And of course, no curtain rods were found in the TSBD, although the empty package was. Obviously, the rifle was in the package.
Did he do it? Lee Harvey Oswald did do it. He was a man who never fit in; no matter what he tried, he always ended up alienating himself from the "group". The likelihood that he could cooperate or coordinate this activity with another person or persons is very remote. He had the training, the skill, and the means to carry it out all by himself. Most of all, after all of his failures, he had the motivation to make this grand gesture that ensures that his name would always be a part of American history.
Did John F. Kennedy wrote the civil rights act of 1964?
No, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in November of 1963. While the civil rights act wasn't passed until 1964.
Who killed President John Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Who was Jack Ruby and why did he murder Oswald?
Jack Ruby was a nighclub (read strip joint) operator who claimed that he killed Lee Harvey Oswald to spare Jackie Kennedy the pain of a long and complex jury trial where she would probably be called as a witness for the prosecution.
That chivalrous action on his part led to a host of new conspiracy theories that included the Mafia and a stash of unsavory La Cosa Nostra "want to be's."
