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• Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime but was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby before any trial . • Today, Kennedy continues to rank highly in public opinion ratings of former U.S. president
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Do You Know?
• He was a decorated naval officer in World War II. • He received the Pulitzer Prize for his book, “Profiles in Courage”
• He served exactly 1,000 days in office. • He was the first president born in the 20th century and the youngest president ever elected. •He is the only Roman Catholic president •He could read 1600 words a minute.
John F. Kennedy 1961-1963
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. • Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43, and the first president to have been born in the 20th Century. Kennedy is the only Catholic and an Irish American president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize.
Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
Kennedy was the youngest person ever to be elected president. His youth helped provide the theme to his inaugural address: “Let the word go forth… That the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans… The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it…And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for You ,ask what you can do for your country.”
And to promote civil rights.
• Events during his presidency included the (Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement and early stages of the Vietnam War).
In the fall of 1963, public opinion polls showed that Kennedy was losing popularity because of his advocacy of civil rights. On November 22, 1963, President and Mrs. Kennedy went to Texas to mend political fences with members of the state’s Democratic Party.
The New Frontier
President Kennedy’s legislative program to provide medical care for the elderly….
To rebuild blighted urban areas….
To aid education….
To bolster the national defense….
To increase international aid….
To expand the space program.
To provide volunteer assistance to developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The Camelot Years
With JFK’s youthful glamour and his talented advisors, the Kennedy White House reminded many of a modernday Camelot（卡麦洛 特）, the mythical court of King Arthur.