ROCK! PRESENTATION

JOHN KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

"ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU - ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY" John. F. Kennedy

JOHN KENNDY ASSASSINATION

INTRODUCTION

The country was in the middle of the Cold War, competing with the Soviet Union and facing the threat of nuclear war.

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Problematic : To what extent John Kennedy’s murder changed American society and American policy ?

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Index : I / Events of kennedy's life and his assassination II / The society and policy consequences

I / EVENTS OF KENNEDY'S LIFE AND HIS ASSASSINATION

KENNEDY'S LIFE

May 29, 1917, in Brookline - November 22 1963 in Dallas, Texas.

He was the second of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.

John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953.

Kennedy with his family

KENNEDY'S POLITICAL CAREER

In 1946 JFK began his political career, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Then he was elected to the U.S. Senate

KENNEDY'S POLITICAL CAREER

Kennedy and Richard Nixon participate in the first televised presidential debate, septembre 26 1960

Space Race

Cuban Missile Crisis

• In 1962, U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, close to U.S. shores.

US intelligence map showing their estimates of the range of the missiles stationed in Cuba

HIS ASSASSINATION

Lee Harvey Oswald Suspect number 1

Moments before the desaster22 november 1963 in Dallas

Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in as president hours after the assassination.

II / THE SOCIETY AND POLICY CONSEQUENCES

THE SOCIETY CONSEQUENCES

Trust in Government Declines :

Conspiracy theories

The warren commission report

THE POLICY CONSEQUENCES

Civil Rights

Vietman War

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CONCLUSION