Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Lyndon B. Johnson ● Born: August 27, 1908 ● Severed as a Navy Lt. Commander ● Became President after JFK.

Similar presentations


Presentation on theme: "Lyndon B. Johnson ● Born: August 27, 1908 ● Severed as a Navy Lt. Commander ● Became President after JFK."— Presentation transcript:

1 Lyndon B. Johnson ● Born: August 27, 1908 ● Severed as a Navy Lt. Commander ● Became President after JFK

2 Kennedy Becomes President ● Inaugural Adress January 20, 1961 ● Elected during the Cold War ● First Roman Catholic President

3 Foreign Policy ● JFK planned 1,400 CIA exiles to Cuba ● Intent to spur rebellion against Fidel Castro ● Kennedy later met with Nikita Khrushchev ● Soon after the meeting the Berlin Wall rose

4 Caroline Kennedy ● Editor of nine New York Times bestsellers ● President of JFK Library ● Married Edwin Arthur Schlossberg

5 John Jr. ● Born: November 25, 1960 ● Nicknamed John- John ● Died in a plane crash

6 Race to the Moon ● There were no rules ● Goal beat the Soviets to the Moon ● Soviets denied going to the Moon

7 Assassination ● Dallas, Texas ● Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin ● Kenndy shot in the head and neck

8 Lee Harvey Oswald ● Served in the Marines ● Was a sharpshooter ● Became Russian Citizen ● Killed by a night club owner

9 Jim Garrison ● Believed the CIA had JFK killed ● Garrison's conspiracy was politically motivated ● Thought Oswald was innocent

10 “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

11 http://www.history.com/topics/john-f-kennedy http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/index1.htm http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/ faq60-2.htm

12 http://fairfoodfight.com/2011/01/25/state-of-the-union/presidential-seal

13 APA The Headshots. Retrieved November 6, 2012, from http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/index1.htm Jackie Kennedy. Retrieved November 6, 2012, from http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=36http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=36 (18 J) John F. Kennedy's Naval Service. Retrieved November 6, 2012, from http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq60-2.htmhttp://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq60-2.htm Michael Beschloss and Hugh Sidey, (2009) Lyndon B. Johnson. Retrieved November 6, 2012, from http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/lyndonbjohnson/

14 MLA “John F. Kennedy.” 2012. The History Channel website. Nov 6 2012, 9:38 http://www.history.com/topics/john-f-kennedy.http://www.history.com/topics/john-f-kennedy


Download ppt "Lyndon B. Johnson ● Born: August 27, 1908 ● Severed as a Navy Lt. Commander ● Became President after JFK."

Similar presentations


Ads by Google