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JFK

MK

Mason Karp

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Background

JFK

  • John F. Kennedy(JFK) was the 35 president of the united states
  • He was married to his wife Jacqueline Kennedy
  • They had 3 kids together

Presidency

President

  • JFK was president from January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963
  • He was known for confronting cold war tetions in cuba and veitnam
  • He also fought to expand equal rights by propsing the equal pay act in 1963

Continued...

Continued...

  • JFK was able to get the first man on the moon
  • He also annoced on June 11, 1963 that he would send the civil rights bill to Congress.

Assassination

End of his presidency

  • November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas JFK was assinated on his way to Trade Mart where he was goin to speak at a luncheon.
  • The bullet entered through his neck and exited through his head
  • The assassination was done by a man named Lee Harvey Oswald

Motives

Motives

No one knows 100% why Lee Harvey Aswald followed trough with this but it is assumed that it was because he didnt like the change and was a hard beliver in communisum

The bullet

Magic bullet

  • A single bullet Aswald fired made was theroized to have down all the damage in the assination
  • it was said to have entered through JFK shoulder blade area, trhe exiting tnrough his neck before it made it way into the arm of govener connally.
  • from ther it exited out and through his writs and then through the rist landing in his thigh.

Contined

Countined

  • After this was down, they found the bullet on govener Connallys strecher, but it was nearlly untoched
  • Many people think this throry is false is because the bullet was in such good condition
  • Its thought that there hd to have been more tyhen one bullet shot to do all thsi damage

LBJ

what now?

  • The vice president for JFK was amdeitlly brought into office
  • Lydon B Johnson was seen standing with the first lady momets after JFK was pronouced dead
  • He was very diffrent type of president tha JFK was.

Presidency

What did he do?

  • He passed many acts during his presidetcy
  • some examples of these are tax cut act, the Clean Air Act, and the Civil Rights Act
  • He contuned out his presidency until Richard Nixon takes over

work cited

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/november-22-1963-death-of-the-president

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-7.html

Work cited