The United States of America has had many great presidents. One of the most influential and skilled ever was struck down before he was able to accomplish his goals. America lost the opportunity to have a great president running the country for an additional five years when John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was assassinated. President Kennedy was loved by the American people. If Kennedy had not been assassinated on that fateful day this world would have been completely different. He would have changed the Cold War, the tensions with Cuba, and the war in Vietnam.
President Kennedy is still widely believed to have been one of the nation 's best leaders. A recent poll found that seventy-four percent of Americans considered him an …show more content…
On Friday, November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was shot in the head while riding through Dealey Plaza. The president was very poorly protected and there were some poor decisions that were made that led to this tragic event. The decisions were so poor that some were led to believe it was a conspiracy. James P. Duffy and Vincent L. Ricci, who wrote The Assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1992, wrote the following in their book.
“The Extremely poor performance of the president’s bodyguards has led some people to
suspect the Secret Service was somehow involved in the conspiracy to kill Kennedy, although there has never been any proof that this was so.” Some examples are that there was no top on the car in which he was riding; plots to kill the president that were reported to the Secret Service months before were taken too lightly; buildings around Dealey Plaza were poorly inspected and evaluated beforehand; and the Secret Service did not take their duties seriously enough. It was reported that the night before the assassination some of the members of President Kennedy’s Secret Service had been drinking (Wilkes). All these decisions led to Lee Harvey Oswald having the opportunity to assassinate President Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book …show more content…
John Kennedy started off poorly by raising tensions with a battle called the Bay of Pigs. It was a plan to assassinate a new, young dictator named Fidel Castro. Castro scared American officials, and they wanted him out of power. The American government’s plan was thwarted with ease by the Cuban government. Castro knew of the raid and the invaders were outnumbered. Within 24 hours the invaders had surrendered. There were other attempts to assassinate Castro and all were unsuccessful. This did not help the tensions between America and Cuba. In 1962 tensions rose even higher because of the Cuban missile crisis (Bay). The Cuban missile crisis made American citizens worry about nuclear warheads from the Soviet Union placed in Cuba. The American people became upset even more when President Kennedy made an announcement that the United States of America was on the brink of war because of the proximity of Cuba to America. President Kennedy stated in this announcement to the country that if any missile was launched from Cuba it would be treated as a Soviet attack on the United States (Randall). These tensions needed to be settled. Americans and Kennedy could not keep worrying about how Cuba could severely hurt Americans because of how close Cuba was to America. Kennedy would have succeeded at his job had he been able to do so. There are a few reasons to believe that statement. One is found in
President Kennedy is still widely believed to have been one of the nation 's best leaders. A recent poll found that seventy-four percent of Americans considered him an …show more content…
On Friday, November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was shot in the head while riding through Dealey Plaza. The president was very poorly protected and there were some poor decisions that were made that led to this tragic event. The decisions were so poor that some were led to believe it was a conspiracy. James P. Duffy and Vincent L. Ricci, who wrote The Assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1992, wrote the following in their book.
“The Extremely poor performance of the president’s bodyguards has led some people to
suspect the Secret Service was somehow involved in the conspiracy to kill Kennedy, although there has never been any proof that this was so.” Some examples are that there was no top on the car in which he was riding; plots to kill the president that were reported to the Secret Service months before were taken too lightly; buildings around Dealey Plaza were poorly inspected and evaluated beforehand; and the Secret Service did not take their duties seriously enough. It was reported that the night before the assassination some of the members of President Kennedy’s Secret Service had been drinking (Wilkes). All these decisions led to Lee Harvey Oswald having the opportunity to assassinate President Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book …show more content…
John Kennedy started off poorly by raising tensions with a battle called the Bay of Pigs. It was a plan to assassinate a new, young dictator named Fidel Castro. Castro scared American officials, and they wanted him out of power. The American government’s plan was thwarted with ease by the Cuban government. Castro knew of the raid and the invaders were outnumbered. Within 24 hours the invaders had surrendered. There were other attempts to assassinate Castro and all were unsuccessful. This did not help the tensions between America and Cuba. In 1962 tensions rose even higher because of the Cuban missile crisis (Bay). The Cuban missile crisis made American citizens worry about nuclear warheads from the Soviet Union placed in Cuba. The American people became upset even more when President Kennedy made an announcement that the United States of America was on the brink of war because of the proximity of Cuba to America. President Kennedy stated in this announcement to the country that if any missile was launched from Cuba it would be treated as a Soviet attack on the United States (Randall). These tensions needed to be settled. Americans and Kennedy could not keep worrying about how Cuba could severely hurt Americans because of how close Cuba was to America. Kennedy would have succeeded at his job had he been able to do so. There are a few reasons to believe that statement. One is found in