the 1960s part i. the election of 1960 the primary campaign
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The 1960s
Part I
The Election of 1960
The Primary Campaign
The Democrats
Lyndon B. Johnson John F. Kennedyvs.
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
The Kennedy-Johnson Ticket
“He never said a word of importance in the Senate and never did a thing.”– Lyndon B. Johnson on John F. Kennedy
"I accepted the second spot because I'm a gambling man. I did my research and one in four dies in office." Lyndon B. Johnson on accepting the vice-presidential nomination in 1960
Nixon-Kennedy Debates
Bay of Pigs, April 1961
The Space Race
Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, April 1961
The Space Race
Alan Shepard, first American in space, May 1961
The Space Race
John F. Kennedy at Rice University, September 1962
Project Mercury
Project Mercury
Project Mercury
Project Gemini
Project Gemini
Project Gemini
Project Gemini
Project Apollo
Project Apollo
Project Apollo
Project Apollo
Project Apollo
Project Apollo
Project Apollo
Kennedy-Khrushchev summit, June 1961
Berlin Wall, August 1961
Kennedy in Berlin, July 1963
“ein Berliner”
Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962
Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Kennedy and “Camelot”
Mary Pinchot Meyer
Judith Campbell ExnerEllen Romesch
Priscilla Wear, aka “Fiddle”
Jill Cowan, aka “Faddle”
Mimi Alford
Marilyn Monroe
The Kennedy Assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
The Warren Commission