New Frontier

1
New Frontier

• Chapter 20
• Section 2

2
Progress

• Kennedy
• Broad vision of progress
• We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier
• Called on Americans to be New Pioneers
• Science and space
• Ignorance and prejudice

3
Cont.

• 1960s ---- Recession
• Use of deficit spending
• Prime the Pump
• Lower taxes
• Gov. spends more than it is taking in
• 1961
• Proposals to Congress Increased spending
• Department of Defense --- 20 budget increase
• Nuclear missiles, nuclear submarines
• Expansion of the armed forces
• Increase minimum wage to 1.25
• Extended unemployment insurances

4
Poverty Abroad

• Peace Corps
• Program of volunteers created by Kennedy
• Giving assistance to developing nations
• Asia, Africa, and Latin America
• Kennedys Kiddie Korps
• College students
• 1968 --- 35,000 volunteers around the world

5
Race to the Moon

• April 12, 1961
• First human in space --- Soviets
• Less than a month --- U.S. duplicated
• NASA
• Created new launch facility in Cape Canaveral,
  Florida
• Mission Control Center Houston, Texas
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vg25G1M4EXrQ
• July 20, 1969
• Neil Armstrong
• Took first steps on the moon
• http//www.history.com/topics/apollo-11/videos/jfk
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6
Tragedy

• November 22, 1963
• Dallas, Texas
• Mend political fences
• States Democratic Party
• Parade Openair limousine
• In the frontTexas Governor John Connally and his
  wife

7
Kennedy Assassinated

• Approached Texas School Book Depository
• Few second later rifle shots range out
• Kennedy shot in the head
• http//www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-f
  -kennedy/videos/john-f-kennedy-assassinated
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vSqk3sdfXFkc

• Kennedy died after arrival
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Became the president of the United States

8
Shooter??

• Lee Harvey Oswald
• 24 year old ex-marine
• Briefly lived in the Soviet Union
• Supported Castro
• Oswald being transported between jails
• Night club owner Jack Ruby
• Broke through the crowd shot Oswald

9
Questions

• 1963 --- Conspiracy
• Warren Commission
• Investigated / concluded Oswald shot the
  president on his own
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vDSBXW1-VGmM
• 1979 Private Reinvestigation
• Concluded that Oswald was part of a conspiracy
• 2 people may have fired at the president
• Communist plot by anti-Castro Cubans?
• Communists sponsored attack?
• Conspiracy by the CIA?
• Johnson?