1. 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”

2. 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

4. Castro and Khrushchev

5. 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” -- ???

6. Khrushchev and Kennedy –
Vienna Summit

11. 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)

12. 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

13. 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

15. The Sit-in Movement and Founding of SNCC - 1960

16. CORE & The Freedom Rides - 1961

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

18. March on Washington

19. March on Washington

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

21. James Meredith
Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett

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

23. 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

24. Kennedy Family at JFK’s Funeral

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