1. Camelot
-”ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.”
-special focus on American culture
-Jackie Kennedy
fashion
-The Best and the Brightest
-feelings of hope and prosperity

2. Camelot
-”ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.”
-special focus on American culture
-Jackie Kennedy
fashion
-The Best and the Brightest
-feelings of hope and prosperity

3. Camelot
-”ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.”
-special focus on American culture
-Jackie Kennedy
fashion
-The Best and the Brightest
-feelings of hope and prosperity

4. New Frontier
-name of Kennedy’s legislative program
-medical care for the poor, urban renewal, education
-Congress resisted his programs like Truman’s
-Kennedy took very few political risks
- did very little for poverty or civil rights in first years

5. New Frontier
-deficit spending to boost economy
-increased defense spending
-Peace Corp created, 1961
volunteer program to help poverty stricken nations
-Alliance for Progress- program designed to give aid to poverty stricken Latin American nations
- Berlin Wall – built by Soviets to stop people from leaving East Berlin
-1963 saw a new Kennedy that pushed for civil rights, end to poverty, lower taxes

6. Race to the Moon
-Sputnik satellite started space race in 1957
-1961 USSR sends first man to space
-Kennedy challenges national leaders to get us to the moon
-creation of NASA
Alan Shepard-first in space
John Glenn -first to orbit
-program had several setbacks
-goal of the moon reached July, 1969
Neil Armstrong- first on the moon

7. Race to the Moon
-Sputnik satellite started space race in 1957
-1961 USSR sends first man to space
-Kennedy challenges national leaders to get us to the moon
-creation of NASA
Alan Shepard-first in space
John Glenn -first to orbit
-program had several setbacks
-goal of the moon reached July, 1969
Neil Armstrong- first on the moon

8. Race to the Moon
-Sputnik satellite started space race in 1957
-1961 USSR sends first man to space
-Kennedy challenges national leaders to get us to the moon
-creation of NASA
Alan Shepard-first in space
John Glenn -first to orbit
-program had several setbacks
-goal of the moon reached July, 1969
Neil Armstrong- first on the moon

9. Race to the Moon
-Sputnik satellite started space race in 1957
-1961 USSR sends first man to space
-Kennedy challenges national leaders to get us to the moon
-creation of NASA
Alan Shepard-first in space
John Glenn -first to orbit
-program had several setbacks
-goal of the moon reached July, 1969
Neil Armstrong- first on the moon

10. Race to the Moon
-Sputnik satellite started space race in 1957
-1961 USSR sends first man to space
-Kennedy challenges national leaders to get us to the moon
-creation of NASA
Alan Shepard-first in space
John Glenn -first to orbit
-program had several setbacks
-goal of the moon reached July, 1969
Neil Armstrong- first on the moon

11. Tragedy
-Nov. 22, 1963 Dallas
-Kennedy assassinated while riding in a parade
-Texas School Book Depository
-Lyndon B. Johnson became president
-Lee Harvey Oswald arrested for the crime
rifle with fingerprints
shady past
-Jack Ruby kills Oswald just days after his arrest for Kennedy’s assassination

12. Tragedy
-Nov. 22, 1963 Dallas
-Kennedy assassinated while riding in a parade
-Texas School Book Depository
-Lyndon B. Johnson became president
-Lee Harvey Oswald arrested for the crime
rifle with fingerprints
shady past
-Jack Ruby kills Oswald just days after his arrest for Kennedy’s assassination

13. Tragedy
-Nov. 22, 1963 Dallas
-Kennedy assassinated while riding in a parade
-Texas School Book Depository
-Lyndon B. Johnson became president
-Lee Harvey Oswald arrested for the crime
rifle with fingerprints
shady past
-Jack Ruby kills Oswald just days after his arrest for Kennedy’s assassination

14. Tragedy
-Nov. 22, 1963 Dallas
-Kennedy assassinated while riding in a parade
-Lyndon B. Johnson became president
-Lee Harvey Oswald arrested for the crime
rifle with fingerprints
shady past
-Jack Ruby kills Oswald just days after his arrest for Kennedy’s assassination

15. Tragedy
-Nov. 22, 1963 Dallas
-Kennedy assassinated while riding in a parade
-Lyndon B. Johnson became president
-Lee Harvey Oswald arrested for the crime
rifle with fingerprints
shady past
-Jack Ruby kills Oswald just days after his arrest for Kennedy’s assassination

16. Unanswered Questions
-Conspiracy theories
lone assassin
Government Conspiracy
Grassy Knoll
-Warren Commission
investigated the event and pronounced Oswald the lone assassin
-later Congressional investigation suggested other involvement by unknowns