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JFK Delivers "New Frontirer" Speech
-Kennedy's acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention
-"New Frontier" used to encourage Americans to support him in his way of helping the country -
JFK Speaks at Houston Ministers' Conference
-Spoke at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas
-Spoke about the effect his religion had on the preseidential election -
JFK Debates Richard Nixon on Television
-First televised presidential debate ever
-Television viewers thought Kennedy won because he looked better on television, but radio listeners thoguth Nixon won because he had better points and supporters -
Cuban Missile Crisis
-Crisis was between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union
-United States found Soviet missiles in Cuba -
JFK Wins Election in 1960
-Kennedy became the youngest man elected to be President
-Defeated the Republican candidate, Richard Nixon, by fewer than 119,000 votes -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
-It was a failed CIA mission
-It was an attempt to overthrow Fidel's Cuban government -
Freedom Riders Attacked in Alabama
-Freedom riders were civil rights activists that traveled on buses attempting to segregate the South
-KKK members blocked the Freedom Riders buses, alshes their tires, lit their bus on fire, and held the doors shut so no one could get out -
Berlin Wall is Constructed
-People of East Berlin kept trying to escape and go to West Berlin to get out of Communism
-Concrete wall was built to separate East and West Berlin -
Kennedy Addresses the Nation about Civil Rights
-Kennedy supported equality of whites and blacks
-Laws were passed for schools to be desegregated and welfare to help out the African Americans in poverty -
JFK Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
-John F. Kennedy visited Dalls, TX because he was losing popularity after the involvement he had in the civil rights movement
-While riding in an open hood car, Kennedy was shot in the head by Lee Harvey Oswald
