JFK Site

Hello. My name is Joseph Walker, and my partner is

Josi right for the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

Project. And for this presentation, I'll be explaining a little

bit about John F.

Kennedy and his historical and economic importance and the National

Historic Site that was created for him to to honor

him and remember the things that he did.

And so first off will be looking at what the

PSY actually is.

And, um, what it looked like in John F.

Kennedy's time versus what it looks like now.

So this site is John F.

Kennedy's first home that you have done until you is

three years old.

It focuses a lot on his childhood and talking about

the things that, um that led Teoh his development into

the into the president that he became later on.

Uh, so first, uh, just Teoh explain a little bit

more about how the site came to be is it

was actually John F.

Kennedy's mother, Rose Kennedy, that, um, that bought that the

home and gave it to the National Park Service is

so that people could go there and remember John F.

Kennedy's life and ah, this map just shows a little

bit better A where the site is actually located, located

over here where the where the red dies.

And, uh, now, going back into, um, talking about what

it looked like back then versus what it looks like

now. And John F.

Kennedy. I grew up in a home just like any

other home.

It had furniture, uh, couches, bad tables, Uh, and you

find pretty much the exact same things that you would

find back then in his home today.

Uh, a few of the things are a place, though,

and they aren't the original items that they had in

the house.

But John F.

Kennedy's mother tried to do her best when she bought

the home once again to replace the furniture that they

had originally.

And it, structurally is about the same that it was

back then.

Now, to give a little historical context about John F.

Kennedy in what he did during his life.

First talk about his birth.

Uh, John F.

Kennedy. He was born in 1917 uh, drain World War

One, which ended in 1918 and, uh, after World War

War. There are a few important events that happened a

few changes in America, such as the prohibition of alcohol

in 1920 to 1933 and you were in suffrage in

1920 where women and gain the right to vote in

1929 the Great Depression hit and later on, ER, FDR

introduced the New Deal to America to bring America out

of the Great Depression.

Assume there after World War Two.

Hit in 1939 with America joining in the world in

the World War after the pro Harbor attack and John

F. Kennedy himself actually joined in the war on the

U. S.

Naval Reserve later on after the war, there are a

lot of things going on with civil rights movements such

as the Brown versus Board of Education that desegregated the

schools. Another important thing that happened to desegregate schools was

the little Rock nine.

Later on.

John F.

Kennedy was elected president in 1961 and was in office

until 1963 when he was assassinated, and when he took

office, America was in the middle of a Cold War

with Russia, and now to talk about the historical importance

why it's so important that John F.

Kennedy has his own national historic site.

Um, and he isn't a very important historical figure for

America, one of the, uh, most well known presidents and

one of the favorites of all Americans.

And this place was given to him as, ah, a

place where people could go to remember him and remember

the sacrifices he made for his country and the things

that he did for them.

And there are a lot of, uh, really significant things

that he he changed and accomplished during his life as

president, such as on creating the Peace Corp.

The Civil Rights Act.

The Tax Reduction Act is well, and a few other

things. He he did a great job in dealing with

the Cuban missile crisis and, as mentioned, the Cold War

as well.

Um, he was able to deal with that and minimalized

the conflict that it could have been.

So that is why he is deserving of a national

historic site because of the great things he did and

the change that he made on America.

And not only did he change some policies, but he

also made a great change in the economy and in

his personal life and in America as we're talking to

our park ranger, he mentioned that JFK and his personal

life didn't make a huge impact.

Economically, Uh, he he did write a few books and

waas in Congress, but other than that, he didn't really

have ah, real source of a great source of revenue.

But he made his significant impact during his presidency, especially

with the GDP growth.

As you can see on this first draft, JFK is

represented by this green line right here.

And the average GDP growth is represented by this line,

the average since 1953 as you can see JFK as

well above this line.

So he did a great job during his presidency to,

um, better the American economy.

Man was among one of the best presidents to ever

do it here stands third on this list of average

annual GDP growth in America over his presidency, and those

are a few things.

Oh, there's one more.

I forgot Teoh.

I forgot to mention was the revenue act that he

proposed. It's cut the federal income tax by 20% and

led to the unemployment rates to drop more, um, than

they had before, So that was something you really good

that he did.

And it was something that a lot of Americans loved.

So now, after talking about all of those historical and

economic impacts that he made on America and on many

wives, um, why is it important that we that we

still understand these things that we learned about this and

that we have the National Historic Site and, uh, Jack

A, uh, this home is really important so that we

can truly come to understand what made JFK, um, the

kind of person that he was and the kind of

leader he waas in this site.

We learn about his childhood and how his family raised

him and how he was able to get his humor,

his wet, his leadership skills and how he was able

to I develop a sense of hard work.

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for now.

Um, but just to talk a little bit about the

importance of his family as well the importance of us

knowing about this is er family was a really important

thing to him.

His parents taught him well to be close to his

brothers sisters.

And he had a great relationship with his older brother

that taught him a lot of things and that was

able to to shape him for the rest of his

life and the kind of president he was able to

be. So, by knowing these things, we can understand, uh,

the history of America, the impact that John F.

Kennedy had, and we can't understand how we can also

implement some of these things in our own lives to

become as great leaders, is he?

He was.

And just to end your a few of the sources

that we used the primary sources, the NPS sources and

also the other sources that were used during this project.

So thank you for watching this video.

I hope that you learned a little bit more about

John F.

Kennedy in his importance to America, and that one day

you'll go visit the John F.

Kennedy National Historic Site.

JFK Site

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