Thousand Days of Camelot?: The Presidency of JFK BG: Words of Transition, from Ike & JFK The Young Hawk Goes Forth Ike’s final acts Peace Corps Alliance for Progress Flexible Response Bay of Pigs Cuban Revolution A “perfect failure”

Thousand Days of Camelot?: The Presidency of JFK “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan” -- John F. Kennedy, referring to the Bay of Pigs fiasco

Castro and Khrushchev

Thousand Days of Camelot?: The Presidency of JFK The Young Hawk Goes Forth Vienna Summit Khrushchev, the Bully Nuclear anxiety heightens Berlin Crisis Berlin Wall – Aug. ’61 Sept. – both sides resume nuclear testing “Ich bin ein Berliner” -- ???

Khrushchev and Kennedy – Vienna Summit

Thousand Days of Camelot?: The Presidency of JFK The Young Hawk Goes Forth Cuban Missile Crisis – “Thirteen Days” U-2 discovery Assembling ExCom JFK’s Options Air strikes & invasion (LeMay) Negotiation / compromise (Stevenson) Blockade / “Quarantine” (RFK, McNamara) The World Exhales Vietnam (see later notes)

Thousand Days of Camelot?: The Presidency of JFK Meanwhile, back in “Camelot” … (JFK and domestic affairs) The New Frontier Mixed results w/ Congress Executive Action Unemployment

Thousand Days of Camelot?: The Presidency of JFK Meanwhile, back in “Camelot” … (JFK and domestic affairs) Tale of two “Kings”: MLK & Civil Rights in the Kennedy Years Seeds of a new militancy Lunch counter sit-ins Formation of SNCC CORE and the Freedom Rides MLK ascendant Birmingham 1963: “…the dogs and the hoses…” March on Washington – “I Have a Dream” Role of the Kennedys – positives & negatives

The Sit-in Movement and Founding of SNCC - 1960

CORE & The Freedom Rides - 1961

“The Dogs and the Hoses” Birmingham, 1963 “The Dogs and the Hoses”

March on Washington - 1963

March on Washington - 1963

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. March on Washington - 1963 “I Have a Dream”

James Meredith Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett

The “tawdry melodrama in the doorway” -- Gov. George Wallace attempts to stop integration at Univ. of Alabama

Thousand Days of Camelot?: The Presidency of JFK The Death of Innocence Dallas – November 22, 1963 A Nation Shocked Many theories, none that convinced everyone Spiritual Void in America

Kennedy Family at JFK’s Funeral

LBJ takes the Presidential Oath of Office on Air Force One returning to Washington, D.C.