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JFK Delivers "New Frontier" Speech
-Appeared before a crowd of 80,000 in Los Angeles
-Largest crowd to ever hear a political speech -
JFK Speaks at Houston Ministers' Conference
- Addressed the Greater Houston Ministerial Conference during the 1960 presidential campaign -Senator Kennedy delivers his thoughts on religious freedom and tolerance, the separation of church and state, and the potential influence of the Catholic Church on his presidency, if elected.
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JFK Debates Richard Nixon on Television
-Made appearances on television shows such as Meet the Press and Face the Nation
-First debate was in Chicago -
Cuban Missile Crisis
-Communist leader of Cuba aloud Soviets into nation
-United States went to aid cuba and Soviets promised to remove missles if the United States did not attack -
JFK Wins Election in 1960
-Youngest man elected president
-First Catholic President -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
-Unsuccessful action by the CIA to invade Southern Cuba
-took place on a beach named Playa Girón -
Freedom Riders Attacked in Alabama
-"Freedom Riders" were people who would ride public transportation to the south
-KKK would attack the buses -
Berlin Wall is Constructed
-Seperated East and West Berlin
-East belongs to the Soviet Union
-West belongs to the United States -
Kennedy Addresses the Nation about Civil Rights
-Strongly supported equality of blacks and whites
-First annoucement to all Americans on the topic of Civil Rights -
JFK Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
-He was shot while riding through Dallas
-Lyndon B. Johnson became president
