John F. Kennedy

was switched to DEFCON 2, president Kennedy had 50 nuclear bombers all the time in the air in any case the Soviet and Cuban Government launched their first strike. So these bombers were constantly refueling and flying about 48 hours (2 days aprox) constantly in the air. On October 27 - 1962, a U2 spy plane was shut down by the Cuban army. The commanders of the United States Army and the majority of the ExComm members, demanded an offensive response, but Kennedy decided to solve it diplomatically…

Mary Meyer’s murder has remained unsolved for almost half a century. On a fall day in 1964, Mary, best known for her affair with John F. Kennedy, was murdered in a Washington DC neighborhood, Georgetown. In Lance Morrow’s, “Woman, Interrupted”, he describes the first-hand account of the murder scene and offers two possible theories of why Mary was murdered. He also provides insight to some of the most powerful women in Washington. Lance, a young reporter for the Washington Star, heard the…

plan, outlined in the Paris Peace Accords, was finalized with North Vietnamese officials in Paris on January 27, 1974. One provision of the Paris Peace Accords was the release of non-Vietnamese prisoners of war; one important prisoner, future senator John McCain, was released on March 14, 1973. Hundreds of POWs were released, but many, almost 1,800, POWs were unaccounted…

part in during the twentieth century (Fog). These events are seen and told through the eyes and first hand experiences of Robert S. McNamara. Robert McNamara served as the United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968, serving under President Kennedy and President Johnson (Fog). Mr. McNamara was able to describe the aforementioned events of the past in which they occurred, and he was able to introduce his hindsight to these events. I believe the documentary was honest, and here…

however, some believe that Diem would have changed Vietnam for the better. Although Diem was appointed into his chair as President, he was a dictator. Prior to his term as President, he visited the United States and met influential people like John F. Kennedy during the French-Indochina War. Diem opposed communism and French rule, declaring…

her cause of death. This was one of the most tragic deaths at that time because she was only 26 years of age and shocked the world. The thing that really shocked them was at the time of her death, she was thought to be in a relationship with John F. Kennedy and/or his brother. With a life like hers also comes with a big legacy. At her time and even today she is viewed as an amazing actress and beautiful woman but got into some trouble and ended up dying. Ask people and they still remember her…

biggest inspiration for protest music in the sixties, even greater than the Civil Rights Movement, was the Vietnam War. Starting around 1957 and lasting till 1975, standing as America’s longest war, Vietnam was first established when US President John F. Kennedy showed support of South Vietnam, whose neighbor, North Vietnam, was trying to take over and convert them to communism. Three different presidents were in office over the entirety of the war, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon.…

The issue I will discuss is spies by Lewis H. Lapham. My whole life I’ve wondered if there are people who live in the shadows that gather information on our country’s enemies and even spy on the average citizen. I think every person should be concerned with being spied on it’s an invasion of privacy and breaks the rights we have as humans. It bothers me that there is a group of people that knows everything yet we only get told what they want us to know. The two main articles I will discuss are…

Out of all the Inaugural ceremonies and speeches given to follow, none have been as well executed and well composed as President John F. Kennedy’s. In JFK’s Inaugural Address, he confronts the main idea simply and poetically. In the essay, “Inaugural Address,” John F. Kennedy uses all three tactics of persuasion: ethos, pathos, and logos to effectively persuade the audience of his true purpose of unifying, protecting, and improving the United States of America. The year was 1961, and the newly…

Watergate as defined by most historians, is one of the most prominent scandals that erupted in the years of Richard Nixon 's second term involving the break-down of Nixon 's administration amidst a very dangerous political scandal that shocked the beliefs of the American people and changed the view of the commander-in-chief 's position forever. Watergate is known as the largest abuse of power by an executive office in modern American history. President Nixon and his administration were not the…