Mitch Miller on his political activism and John F. Kennedy's assassination 03:53 Newton N. MinowView Interview Newton Minow on Presidential-candidate John F. Kennedy's early meeting with Adlai Stevenson 03:07 Don MischerView Interview Don Mischer on JFK's assassination and starting in television...
“[C]ontrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for president,” Kennedy said on live TV in hisnow famous address. “I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters, and th...
Contends that candidates in the 2000 elections in the United States should emulate the politics of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy concerning the separation of the church and state. Significance of the selection of Jewish Senator Joe Lieberman as the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate; ...
In the 1960 presidential election campaign John F. Kennedy argued for a new Civil Rights Act. After the election it was discovered that over 70 per cent of the African American vote went to Kennedy. During the first two years of his presidency, Kennedy failed to put forward his promised leg...
presidential candidate debates. On November 8, 1960, Kennedy defeated Nixon for the presidency by an estimated two-tenths of one percent of the vote in one of the closest races in American history. In 1961, at 43 years of age, John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the...
Joe Jr. After Joe Jr. died in combat in 1944, John Kennedy became the subject of his father's goals of having a son in politics who would ultimately be a realistic presidential candidate. John Kennedy obliged his father and ran for the congressional seat in Massachusetts's eleventh district...
John F. Kennedy - 35th President, Cold War, Assassination: Kennedy had nearly become Stevenson’s vice presidential running mate in 1956. The charismatic young New Englander’s near victory and his televised speech of concession (Estes Kefauver won the v
John F. Kennedy served as president from 1961 to 1963, when he was assassinated. Read about his family, education, Naval and congressional careers, and more.
Not until the presidential election of 1960 when John Kennedy intervened for the release of Martin Luther King, who was jailed by local Democrats two weeks before the election in Atlanta following a non-violent protest, did the majority of Blacks begin voting Democratic en bloc. His brother, Ro...
While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight, I want to emphasize from the outset that I believe that we have far more critical issues in the 1960 campaign; the spread of Communist influence, until it now festers only 90 miles from the coast...