1. Kennedy’s Thousand Days
Chapter 27
Section (1 &) 2
The New Frontier & the Great Society
Riddlebarger

2. The Great Debates Legacy of this debate?
Legacy of this debate?

3. Kennedy Becomes President
Contrasting candidates
JFK
Nixon

4. New Frontier “New Frontier” campaign falling behind Soviets?
poor left behind?
Nixon-IKE
Catholic effect
Election

5. 1960 Election Results
Harry Byrd wasn’t even on the ballot; Southern problem for JFK
Electoral:
JFK: 303
Nixon: 219
Byrd: 15
*less than 120,000 popular votes separate the candidates out of 69 million

6. Kennedy’s New Frontier: Image & Reality
Use of media
Reality
Family; wife role
Politically
Successes
Failures

7. Space Program symbolize New Frontier April 1961 John Glenn
Soviet claims

8. Kennedy’s Response US will put a man on the moon
“This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single project …will be more impressi
0.ve to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space…But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon…it will be an entire nation.”
- May 25, 1961
Kennedy’s Response
US will put a man on the moon
Funding for unmanned space exploration

9. The Warren Court Supreme Court rulings impact Earl Warren
individual rights & freedoms:

10. The Kennedy Assassination
Upcoming election
build Southern support,
open motorcade.

11. Zapruder Film

12. Aftermath
fatally wounded
LBJ
Impact
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby

13. “The legacy of hope died with him
“The legacy of hope died with him. You never had that same sense again that we were moving forward.”
Helen Thomas: White House Press Correspondent

14. Warren Report Investigation lasting legacy
Finding
lasting legacy
Funeral
relations with Soviets; Peace Corps
A program that trained and sent volunteers to poor nations to serve as educators, health care workers, agricultural advisors and other jobs.
LBJ