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President Kennedy placed his arm around his beautiful wife Jacqueline Kennedy

“This must not be the 62 percent that voted for Nixon in 1960 Kennedy jokes to his wife.

Wow! Jacqueline thought to herself, so many people came to thee the 35th president of the



United States. The two year’s ten moths of the president’s presidency had gone from
Crisis
To crisis...
.
The administration had faced the “ole” miss. Crisis the Cuban missile crisis

The rise of the Berlin wall went up in 1961. Also, events in south East Asia was taking

Up Kennedy’s time. And this would be an issue in his second term.


As for now Kennedy needed to win the south. . In 1963, segregation laws

That had been in place since reconstruction was dividing civil rights activist and people

Who wanted to keep the old laws even the democrats in the south in presidents own party.

The excitement of the day was quickly interrupted by a loud gunshot sound.
Governor Connelly an experienced deer hunter knew the sound all to well. It was the sound
A rifle going off... The governor turned around to see president Kennedy shot in the chest. The next shot Kennedy in the right arm.
Got of the vehicle behind the presidents car and immediately ran towards the president’s car... Agent Blaine shelled the president. The secret service agent boldly acted as a human shield taking two bullets for the president. One struck Blaine fatally in the head, another in the back.

The cause of this assassination was a misfit, a loner, while many people witnessed the shooting believed there was more then one gun man. The culprit was an ex military man.
After, shooing the president from the view of the book depository now fled as far on foot as possible to a
Abandoned hotel.
Oswald did not fit in American society but now the American history books would always have a place for him. Oswald broke a window with his hand. In a fit of desperation, after authorities sounded the hotel.


He then took out a pistol and began firing at the authorities.
Within ten minutes Oswald had died in a hail of gunfire.

While the capture of Oswald had taken place. Secret service responded quickly with no time to mourn the loss of agent Blaine, Vice president Johnson was taken to safety. He would spend the day taking phone calls from foreign heads of state wishing the president well to reporters trying to get a story before deadline.
Attorney General Robert Kennedy had received a call from F.B>I director J .Edgar Hoover saying his brother had been shot then hung the phone without saying goodbye. The two men never the best of friends and disagreed on many things and Hoover thought initially his appointment to attorney general was nepotism. However, he was very effective attorney general hover had to admit to himself.

Shortly after the president had awakened on the operating table. President Kennedy had learned the sad news that Gerald Blaine died saving his life.
Gerald Blaine had been on the secret service detail of President Eisenhower. and continued onto Kennedy’s detail since the start of his administration.
Event date
1-15-1964
“This Is my first public appearance since my assai nation attempt. Today flags at the white house will be at half staff. In honor of secret service agent Gerald Blaine. The man I humbly must say, I owe my life too. His death will not be in vain.



Event date
6-5-1964
Doctor Martin Luther King. Vice president Lyndon Johnson
Watch, as President Kennedy signs the 1964 civil rights bill into law. The president then gives pens to vice president Johnson and martin Luther king.
Event
6-30-1964

“I am voting for Barry in 1964. The star many general electric fans know as Ronald Reagan tells a huge crowd of Arizona senator Barry Goldwater at an Alabama republican rally. The endorsement of Goldwater by Reagan raises the eyebrows of Republican Party boss’s. In 1964.

Event Date

9-2-1964




In the president Kennedy and gold water debate, two men from opposing parties head off in the second televised debate in U.S. history.
Barry Goldwater defends his civil rights record saying he did not vote for the 1964 civil right bill because he believes it is a state issue not federal, while Kennedy says he signed

The 1964 civil rights bill because he believes the black community and white community can’t be two separate groups but in two country but integration is the best way to go.
As for defense, concerning the cold war


R Goldwater believes we should build more weapons while the president says a test ban treaty will cool down the cold war, and keep it getting hotter.

Event date
7.1964


President Kennedy and his staff sit in the oval office and watch the election returns.” Either we win or we apply for jobs at j.c. pennies Kennedy says to his staff.
Walter Cronkite comes on the air to announce the winner.
“While Goldwater has won many democratic strong holds in the south as well as his home state. President kennedy has won relection.

President
John . Kennedy
Vice President
Lyndon Johnson
Electoral Vote
400
Popular vote
57,141.16

Senator , Arizona
Bary Goldwater
William Scrantron Pennslyvania
128
Popular vote
27,141.16

Robert Kennedy campained very vigouly for the new york senate seat and won it,defeating senaor keating ina landslide. He wil not return to his brothers cabinent but make a name for himself as a u.s.senator.
However, for barry gold water who would earn the tile of mr. conservative,this would be the last ime he would ever run for president.perhaps Nixon or someone else would runin 1968.
“ I wish to congralate president kennedy on his win tonight and wish him the best of luck,the next four years, Goldwater very gracefully conceded defeat like the gentle man he truly is.


Event date
1-20-1965
‘Today we will embark on a brave adventure as a country. We will make discoveries in space, defend freedom in places that threaten freedom.historiasns will look at the 1960s and say people in that era were not afraid to change but rather embraced it.
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