1. Quick Write
How is your generation going to view
the election of 2008?
What were the feelings of what it was
like when President Obama was
declared the winner.
What do you think your children will
think about President Obama?

2. What makes a President Great?

3. The Presidency of
John F. Kennedy
Presented by:
Mr. Gil

4. 1960 Election

5. 1960 Election
JFK, Democrat Nixon, Republican
• Senator from • Served as VP under
Massachusetts Eisenhower
• Promised to get • Promised to continue
peace and prosperity
America moving again
• Thought JFK was too
• Catholic young and inexperience
• Concerned with the • Did not want to get
arrest of MLK in involved in the
Georgia movement

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7. 1960 Debate
• September 26th, 1960 was the first televised
presidential debate
• Vice President Nixon was sick. He also
refused to wear T.V. make up
• JFK appeared to be healthy, tanned, and
confident
• 80 million people watched the debate and
thought JFK won- ratings improved
• Those who heard the debate on the radio
thought Nixon won
• 3 more T.V. debates occurred, less audience

8. 1960 Election Results
JFK Popular Vote Nixon
Electoral Votes 34,220,984 34,108,157
Blue 303 Red 219 49.7% 49.6%
Difference of 112,827 votes

9. Inaugural Speech
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10. Peace Corps

11. Peace Corps
• One of JFK’s first orders
• Created to send young
Americans to 3rd world
countries to promote World
Peace and promote America
• Education, Farming, Health
Care, Construction
• www.peacecorps.gov
• 1-800-424-8580 ext. 1470 or
202-692-1470

12. Space Race

13. • April 12, 1961, Yuri
Gagarin became the first
person to enter space
“No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can
expect to stay behind in this race for space.
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other
things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
-JFK September 1962

14. Americans Catch Up
• On May 5th, 1961, aboard
Freedom 7, Alan Shepard
became the first American in
space
• On February 20th, 1962,
aboard Friendship 7, John
Glenn become the first
American to orbit the earth

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16. JFK Vs Congress

17. Economic Stimulus
• Economic recession
• “Get America moving again”
• Tax cut = more money in pocket
• Conservatives did not agree with JFK
- feared the National Debt would increase

18. E.E.O.C. Begins
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• JFK established a committee that would later
become the E.E.O.C.
• Ensured all races had access to government
jobs
• Investigates complaints of all discrimination

19. Civil Rights
• Wanted to end all
racial discrimination
• The televised
violence against
peaceful protesters
in Birmingham
sparked JFK to
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broad Civil Rights
bill to Congress
• Conservatives
blocked the

20. Cold War Continues

21. Bay of Pigs - April 17, 1961
• Fidel Castro comes into
power in 1959
• The US accused Castro of
being a Communist
• Castro builds ties with Russia
• Castro’s government takes all
• JFK approves invasion
• Cubans don’t join
• Cuba Wins
• Latin America criticized JFK

22. Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962
• The US feared Soviet Communism spreading
• Cuba felt that the US would invade
• Cuba received missiles from the Soviets
• The US discovers the missile launching sites

23. • JFK created the Executive
Committee for National
Security (ExCom)
• Bomb or blockade
• JFK demanded the Soviets
remove all missiles
• Soviet ships continue to
head toward Cuba
• Heading toward WW III
• Nikita Khrushchev agreed
to remove missiles if the
US promised to never
invade Cuba

24. Berlin Wall
• After WW II, Germany was
divided by 4 zones along with
Berlin
• Western Germany became a
capitalist country, improving
their living standard
• 25,000 people a day would
leave Soviet-ruled Germany
• Khrushchev warned JFK that
he would not allow the flow to
continue
• JFK was willing to defend
West Berlin
• Aug 13, 1961, Soviets begin
to build wall

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26. Assassination

27. JFK in Texas
• November 22, 1963
• Campaigning for
reelection
• Visits with TX Governor-
John Connally
• Rides in a motorcade
through downtown Dallas

28. National Tragedy
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30. • President Kennedy was
shot twice by Lee
Harvey Oswald
• Oswald was arrested but
denied he killed JFK
• 2 days later, Oswald was
killed by Jack Ruby

31. LBJ Sworn In
• 2 hours after JFK was
killed, Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson was
sworn in as President
• Created the Warren
Commission to
investigate the
assassination of JFK

33. Was JFK A Great President?
• Good • Not So Good