Kennedy to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on September 12, 1960. Kennedy, who was guided by his Catholicism, addressed issues regarding religion as a personal and private matter instead of a campaign issue. In the 2008 presidential elections, it is noted that there were candidates who...
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...
That campaign, according to scholar John Hellman, marks the “true beginning” of the Kennedy legend. Thanks to Hersey’s evocative portrait and Joe Kennedy’s machinations, Hellman writes, the real-life Kennedy “would merge with the ‘Kennedy’ of Hersey’s text to become a popular myth.”...
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...
This is the second part of a two-part story on the history of Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack and their dealings with the 1960 presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy, his inauguration in January 1961, and his early Administration.
CBSN's Josh Elliott and "Face The Nation" moderator John Dickerson take a look at John F. Kennedy's campaign and how he pulled off his win in the fall of 1960, in a series you'll only see on CBSN.
John F. Kennedy - 35th President, Cold War, Assassination: Kennedy did not disappoint his family; in fact, he never lost an election. His first opportunity came in 1946, when he ran for Congress. Although still physically weak from his war injuries, he c
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
Biographies up to and including his presidential campaign are James MacGregor Burns, John Kennedy: A Political Profile (1960); Theodore H. White, The Making of the President (1961, reissued 1988); Herbert S. Parmet, Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy (1980); and Nigel Hamilton, JFK:...
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