Kennedy Curse

The lead up to the Vietnam war is very significant to why the U.S started to get involved in the war. Once the U.S became a big role in the war and now that Johnson had became President the U.S begun to changed. How the U.S got out of the war was a significant thing that the whole world knew about. Now that the U.S had gotten out of the war, there were things in the war that are just now effecting the U.S. There are many different and significant important reason on why the U.S began to get…

Guatemala and the Bay of Pigs invasion. These four men were called the “plumbers” because there jobs was to fix the leaks coming out of the government. The Plumbers mainly focused on leaks like the Pentagon Papers but also worked to discredit President Kennedy and his work.  In 1972 Nixon ordered that a new committee be formed. This new committee was called CREEP. CREEP stood for Committee to Re-elect the President. CREEP and its members took part in many of the operations that they believed…

Union, the Soviet Union could now easily launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. Instead of the U.S. dominating, the United States and Soviet Union were evened out. This began the Cuban missile crisis. President Kennedy made a group called ExCom. ExCom was simply members within the white house who Kennedy went to for advice. It was now up to them to deal with the…

Platoon is the first film written and directed by Stone that can be used to examine and explain his thesis and perception towards the Vietnam War. In this film, Stone gives a generalized few of the Vietnam War but uses a lot of symbolism. In the “Platoon” Stone depicts the Vietnam War as having been quite gruesome and deadly (Richman, p. 45). This description, contrary to what the world was made to believe, is in fact, the truth about the war, according to Stone. However, some Vietnam veterans,…

On the morning of January 28, 1986, at 11:39 a.m., President Ronald Reagan sat in the Oval Office with his team of advisors putting the finishing touches on his State of the Union speech, which was slated to occur that evening (Cannon, “Challenger Disaster”). At this same moment in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the space shuttle Challenger began its launch. However, this spacecraft would never exit our atmosphere; 73 seconds after liftoff, it exploded, killing all seven passengers (“Challenger…

Dallas, Texas had stopped, and thousands of people lined a ten mile route that would take President John F. Kennedy from the Dallas airport to the Trade Mart where he was scheduled to speak. At approximately 12:30 pm, the Presidential motorcade turned off Main Street and entered Dealey Plaza. As the limousine passed the Texas School Book Depository, shots rang out in the plaza. President Kennedy was hit in the head and neck shattering a large portion of his skull and killing him. That…

The presidential election of 1960, touted as the first modern campaign (Donaldson), was one of the tightest races in American history. Massachusetts 's John F. Kennedy and Texas 's Lyndon B. Johnson held the presidential and vice-presidential spots on the democratic ticket, respectively, and California 's Richard Nixon and Massachusetts 's Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. occupied the positions on the republic ticket. This tight race involved battles related to appearances, religion, and political…

In front was a beautiful water fountain tribute that had a quote from John F. Kennedy that said, “For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace.” The fountain was long and beautiful…

On May 4, 1961, a group of six whites and seven African Americans departed from Washington D.C. to begin their fight for Civil Rights. Their goal was to end segregation in bus terminals and in all transportation stations. These people were called the Freedom Riders. They fought to prove that “separate but equal” was not truly equal. They wanted to end the Jim Crow laws, and this was just one of the many ways they fought. In 1986, the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case enacted the “separate…

things they believed in. During this time period they were going through so many changes. At the beginning of the 1960s the first president born in the twentieth century was John F. Kennedy. For many Americans, John was a symbol of a spirit of hope for the nation at this time .But, everything crumbled when Kennedy was murdered in 1963. Many Americans believe this was the end of hope for the country forming into better thing. This was very true of young people, and members…