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52 Cards in this Set
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the president of the soviet union during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Nikita Krushchev |
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Director of the CIA during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Allen Dules |
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President Kennedy's Chief of Staff during the Bay of Pigs Crisis |
Maxwell Taylor |
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President of Cuba in 1959 when the communist takeover occurred |
Fulgencio Batista
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writer of "profiles in courage", which is about his experiences on the PT 109 Gunboat |
John F. Kennedy |
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JFK's running mate in he 1960 election |
Lyndon Johnson |
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Richard Nixon's running mate in the 1960 election |
Henry Cabot Lodge |
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Led the communist revolution in Cuba |
Fidel Castro |
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Mafia Boss who delivered the votes from Cook County that led to JFK's victory in Illinios |
Sam Giancana |
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the 3rd party candidate in the 1960 election |
Harry Byrd |
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American Attorney General who made a deal with Anatoly Dobrynin that solved the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Robert Kennedy |
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Soviet Ambassador who made a deal with Robert Kennedy that solved the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Anatoly Dobrynin |
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Secretary of State during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Dean Rusk |
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Security Advisor during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
McGeorge Bundy |
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American U-2 pilot who was that only death in the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Rudolf Anderson |
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American Representative at the UN during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Adlai Stevenson |
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Special assistant to JFK, played by Kevin Costner in the film "Thirteen Days" |
Ken O'Donnell |
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Secretary of Defense during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Robert McNamara |
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Air Forces Chief of Staff who disagreed with the handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Curtis LeMay |
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Governor of Texas who was also shot when JFK was shot |
John Connally |
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Chief of Justice of the Supreme Court put in charge of investigating JFK's assassination |
Earl Warren |
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charged with killing JFK |
Lee Harvey Oswald |
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FBI director who told Bobby Kennedy about JFK's assassination |
J. Edgar Hoover |
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Dallas Patrol who shot Oswald after JFK assassination |
J.D. Tippit |
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The Secret Service agent who was on the back bumper of the presidential motorcade |
Clint Hill |
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CBS anchorman who announced JFK"s death |
Walter Cronkite |
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Secret Service agent in command of JFK's motorcade through Dallas |
Roy Kellerman |
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Soviet Foreign Minister at JFK's funeral |
Andrei Gromyko |
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retired general who Oswald tried to shoot prior to the Kenndy assassination |
Edwin Walker |
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JFK's 3 children |
Caroline, John Jr., and Patrick |
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Main spokesman for non-violence in America |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Leader of the Black Panthers |
H. Raft Brown |
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Public defender in the "Brown Vs. Board of Education" case |
Thurgood Marshall |
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Mafia figure who shot Oswald |
Jack Ruby |
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Creator of the "rockabilly" music style in the 1950's |
Elvis Presley |
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Founder of the Beatles |
John Lennon |
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Killed John Lennon |
Mark David Chapman |
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the first to introduce American audiences to the Beatles |
Ed Sullivan |
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the only two Beatles still alive |
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr |
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Manager of the Beatles that made them famous |
Brain Epstein |
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Creator of "American Bandstand" and major promoter of "Rock and Roll" |
Dick Clark |
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Leader of Communist North Vietnam |
Ho Chi Minh |
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Leaked pentagon papers to the press |
Daniel Ellsberg |
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deposed leader of South Vietnam |
Ngo Dinh Diem |
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secretary of state at the Paris Peace Talks |
Henry Kissinger |
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killed Martin Luther King Jr. |
James Earl Ray |
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killed Bobby Kennedy |
Sirhan Sirhan |
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Commander of American Forces in Vietnam |
William Westmoreland |
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democratic candidate in the 1968 election |
Hubert Humphrey |
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Chicago Mayor at the Democratic Convention |
Richard Daley |
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North Vietnam's foreign secretary at Paris |
Le Duc Tho |
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President who started america's commitment to Vietnam in the 1950's |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |