Discussing John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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Jordan Madden                                                                                                          11D

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1. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the youngest president of the united states and was also the youngest to die. He was killed while sitting in an open top car passing through Dallas, Texas. JFK(John Fitzgerald Kennedy) joined the USA Navy in 1940 and served 3 years before his boat was sunk by a Japanese destroyer. JFK led the survivors of the attack through perilous waters, back to safety. Back from the war, JFK became a Democratic Congressman for the Boston area, and later in 1953 advanced to the senate. Following this in 1960, he was nominated for president and defeated Nixon in the election by a narrow margin. JFK was the first Roman Catholic, Irish president.

JFK was very controversial and had many idealistic plans for America. He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. JFK’s father allegedly hired members of the mafia to apply pressure and help to secure the vote of the people for JFK. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations. But the hard reality of the Communist challenge remained. Shortly after his inauguration, JFK permitted a band of Cuban exiles, already armed and trained, to invade their homeland. The attempt to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro was a failure. Soon thereafter, the Soviet Union renewed its campaign against West Berlin. JFK replied by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and increasing the Nation's military strength, including new efforts in outer space. Confronted by this reaction, Moscow, after the erection of the Berlin Wall, relaxed its pressure in central Europe.

JFK is also very famous for how he dealt with the Cuban missile crisis. Russians sought to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. When this was discovered by air reconnaissance in October 1962, JFK imposed quarantine on all offensive weapons bound for Cuba. While the world trembled on the brink of nuclear war, the Russians backed down and agreed to take the missiles away. The American response to the Cuban crisis evidently persuaded Moscow of the futility of nuclear blackmail. JFK reached an agreement with the soviet union via a series of letters from him to and from Khrushchev, e managed to get the communists to remove their missiles form Cuba and in exchange he would remove the American missiles form turkey. Although he did not state this in the letters. JFK was quite famous for his celebrity lifestyle, where he was seen as a fashion icon and he had a very admired wife in the public eye. The main cause for the fame of JFK was his assassination and the conspiracies that followed, and in the years to come still no definite conclusion to his death.

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2.(a) Source A is The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as The Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963, by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy. The Commission's findings have since proven extremely controversial and have frequently been challenged.                                                   ...

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