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Event date 22.1963


president Kennedy came to Dallas because he needed desperately to win the south in order to win his reelection campaign In 1964 dixicrats

Were against the civil rights movement. while civil rights activist wanted to change segregation

laws that had been in place since the era of reconstruction. Also, many saw President Kennedy as a mere bystander in the civil rights movement. Taking up the president’s time was the berlin wall

crisis, Cuban missile crisis; .Kennedy risked losing many democratic strongholds in the south by



supporting civil rights.
President Kennedy placed his arm around his beautiful wife jacueline.this must not be the 62%

that voted for Richard Nixon in 1960.

The president joked to his wife. The happy mood of the day was interrupted by gun fire.

Governor Connolly a experienced deer hunter ,knew the sound all too well it was the sound of

a high powered rifle.as the governor turned his head, he saw the president shot in the left

shoulder.

Governor Connolly was then shot in the throat.

Both elile Connolly and Jacqueline Kennedy grabbed their husbands to the side.

Secret service agent Gerald Blaine climbed on top of the limousine then acted as a human shield

for the president.
Blaine took the final shot for President Kennedy. Gerald Blaine had served on the Eisenhower

detail and been on the Kennedy detail since the inauguration. Lee Harvey Oswald was a bitter

young man, he served in the military. Then briefly left the United States to live in the u.s.s.r

once there he took a wife and returned to America

Marina Oswald once had to lock her husband in his

room when he threatened to kill former vice president Richard Nixon. Now Oswald had joined the

ranks of john Wilkes booth the man who killed President Lincoln. Oswald fled to the abandon

ware house not too far from the book depository. Once there he had a shoot-out with police and

within fifteen minutes he layed dead on the floor of the warehouse.

Usually on a Friday night in Dallas Texas people would watch a sports game or go to the movies.



Today however people all over the country and most of the world as well, watched the latest news bulletin as the 35th president of the United States fought for his life at the parkland hospital.

Vice president Johnson told Walter Cronkite over the phone America will endure and overcome

this tragedy. The vice president was visibly shaken after the loss of his dear friend john Connolly.
Event date 26.1963
Acting press secretary Malcolm kilduff announces president Kennedy will be returning to D.C. soon.
January 12. 1964


I wish to express my heartfelt condolences to the family of governor john Connolly, the secret service agent that saved my life Gerald Blaine who will be given the highest honor for a secret service agent.
From the spring to the early summer, the admiration attempts to pass a civil rights bill.
Senator Hubert Humphrey is a proponent of the civil rights bill, while Carolina senator, storm


Thurmond makes a record for the longest filibuster on the senate floor, is a harsh critic of civil rights legation.

Sometime in June 1964

New York governor nelson Rockefeller wins the California primary but, when happy Rockefeller

gives birth to nelson junior it brings back charges of adultery on the governors part, marrying so soon after his first wife>s devorce.even personal friend Connecticut senator Prescott bush

tells his friend in public and private he should withdraw from the race. Despite a draft Scranton movement at the group convention Arizona senator Barry Goldwater wins the republican national convention picks Jim Rhodes Ohio governor as his running mate. As expected the Democratic Party nominates President Kennedy and vice president Johnson for a second term, George Wallace, governor of Alabama tries to take the nomination away from President Kennedy but only wins Carolina and Alabama primary.


President Kennedy and Senator Goldwater participate in a series of town hall debates. Senator Goldwater was popular among voters who believed civil rights was a state issue but Goldwater was not a racist extremist like many believed at that time.
1964
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Vice president Lyndon Baines Johnson
e.v. 400
Popular
57, 613, 19
Senator Barry Goldwater
Governor Jim Rhodes
e.v. 128
Popular, 36,115.18
Shirley chisum was elected first black female of New York. Charles Percy elected governor of ilionoise. Senator Humphrey defeats Robert forsighyth in a landslide in minnosotta.republican Paul laxalt won a Nevada senate seat in a landslide.
President Kennedy personally called Senator Humphrey and congregated him on election night, then called senator elect chisum to congrelte her.on her historic win in New York. I Look forward to working with you, president Kennedy told both chi sum and Humphrey. On the night of his reelection victory. At home nelson Rockefeller looked at the election night returns hell! That’ll teach them not to put in extremists as a candidate, Steven Rockefeller had never seen his farther so angry before. Now the republicans will put in a knucklehead in 68.
Feb. 16.1965
After much delay, the civil rights bill is passed
President Kennedy gives the pen he used to sign the bill to doctor martin Luther king, Robert Kennedy attorney general, vice president Johnson, Senator Humphrey stand beside Kennedy as the civil rights bill is passed.
John _john is sitting at the presidents table at the oval office, Lyndon Johnson holds up his hands give me your best shot kid! John john punch’s the vice president in the nose. Robert looking on covers his face, to keep from laughing.
I believe the Kennedy admiration is a failure on many levels.althought president Kennedy has the best of intentions he is letting the American people down. Says former vice president Richard Nixon on meet the press.
An actor running for president? What’s next?
Personal diary of john Fitzgerald Kennedy


1966- Ronald Reagan is elected governor of California having defeated governor brown in his bid for a third term in a landslide, governor elect Reagan promises to overhaul the state. And do something about the states budget once he enters his first term
1980
Interview with David Brinkley
Brinkley; whom do you think would of been elected president,had event:s turn out differently in 1963, that November?
Kennedy-I think still the same person that actual y was my succesor. 1968 say"s former president Kennedy tells David Brinkley
September 16. 1966.
Corps of peace debuts on n.b.c television. Series is about the peace corps and its world wide mission.

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