1. Chapter 20 Section 2 Notes The New Frontier

2. Kennedy’s Goals = New Frontier
Increase Funding of Education
Mainly Math/Science/Technology
Provide Universal Health Care
Especially to elderly
Eliminate Poverty in U.S.
The Other America
Book by Michael Harrington
50 million people in poverty
25% of U.S.
Help Other Poor Countries
We should act as a world leader
Fund Space Exploration
Can’t let Soviet Union be better
Remember Sputnik?
Pass Civil Rights Legislation
More next chapter on this

3. Congress disagrees with Kennedy
Congress mostly Republican
Opposite of JFK
JFK doesn’t have a mandate
Overwhelming public support
Barely won 1960 election
Result = most goals not accomplished
during his Presidency
Civil Rights protections
Many in Congress still racist
Affordable, Quality Health Care to elderly
Too expensive to do
Eliminating Poverty (same as above)

4. JFK & Congress attempt to improve economy
Used deficit spending
Borrowed $$$
Why?
to get out of recession
Slowdown of the economy caused by
People not buying stuff
Rising unemployment
Increased minimum wage
from 75 cents to $1.25
Signed Equal Pay Act
Made it illegal for women to make less $$$ than
men for doing the same job
Wanted to cut taxes (doesn’t happen)
Provided unemployment assistance
Increased military spending
Bigger size, modernized it

5. JFK Humanitarian Efforts
Founded the Peace Corps
Focus on poor Asian and African countries
Volunteers (most young) helped with
agriculture, education, & health
Founded the Alliance for Progress
U.S. govt. invests $12 billion in Latin Am.
Improve living conditions
Contain Communism
prevent another Cuba

7. Kennedy focuses on Space
Soviet Union had taken the lead
1st Satellite = Sputnik
U.S. Satellite (Explorer) 3 months later
1st man “walking” in space = Yuri Gagarin
U.S. sends Alan Shepard a month later
JFK and Congress increase spending a lot
Telstar = 1st TV satellite
NASA gets much bigger
Jet Propulsion Lab in California at 1st
State of the Art Facilities for manned missions built by late 1960s
Shuttles launched from Cape Canaveral, FL
Mission control in Houston, TX

8. Kennedy’s Space Goal = Man on the Moon
Goal set early in his presidency (1961)

9. U.S. Lands on the Moon Neil Armstrong was 1st man to walk on the moon
The Goal was set to do it by the end of the decade
Apollo 11 succeeded on July 20th, (JFK is dead by then)
Neil Armstrong was 1st man to walk on the moon
500 million people watched on TV
Largest audience ever at that time

10. Results of Space Program
Extreme National pride
Interest in research and development in all fields
Colleges expand offerings
Businesses figure out new ways of doing things
Better Understanding of the Universe
Better than 1,300 documented NASA technologies have benefited U.S. industry, improved our quality of life and created jobs for Americans. The Space Shuttle Program alone has generated better than 100 technology spinoffs that are incorporated into the tools you use, the foods you eat, and the biotechnology and medicines you use to improve your health. Some of the contributions are shown to the left

11. JFK Assassination (Nov 22, 1963)
occurs in Dallas, TX
shot twice by Lee Harvey Oswald
former Marine
Had lived in Russia
Openly supported Castro
Was there a bigger conspiracy?
Film of the event leaves ?’s
Most famous = Zapruder

12. Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) Becomes President
Sworn in on plane back to White House
Happens less than 2 hrs after JFK Killed

13. Oswald Killed Gets shot 2 days later
Being transferred to a more secure prison
Jack Ruby is killer
Said he liked JFK… did it for the U.S.
Oswald’s death fuels more rumors
that he didn’t act alone

14. JFK Remembered Country mourns
People remember where they were when they heard of JFK’s death
Funeral Broadcast live

15. Warren Commission Report
Govt. investigates assassination
Warren Commission
Led by head of Sup. Court (Earl Warren)
Concludes Oswald did it by himself
A lot of people don’t buy it… other theories include
More than one person shooting
Cuba sponsored Oswald
Soviets sponsored Oswald
Parts of our own Govt. sponsored Oswald
Many didn’t like JFK due to
Being Catholic
His pushing for Civil Rights
No other theory ever proven