Lee Harvey Oswald and U.S. Intelligence By Philip H. Melanson The thesis of this book is, "...Oswald's links to CIA- related persons, projects, and contexts appear far stronger than do those to any other U.S. intelligence agency..." (p. 4) This book is all about the allegation...

The 1960's I picked this historical period of time because many crazy and wild things happened. This decade contained many political social musical and business aspects. The hippies were a main part of the social aspect of this decade. If you were a freethinking individual who did many m...

The havoc and devastation wrought in World War II caused serious damage to the affairs of the world. The late President Franklin D. Roosevelt fashioned a new conglomerate of nations, in an attempt to straighten out nations' interactions. This group was called the United Nations (UN). President ...

The theory most discussed during the Vietnam era seems to have been the so-called domino theory. This theory held that if one small nation fell to Communism, then so would its neighbors. The theory was a linchpin of high-level government discussions as early as 1954, when Secretary of ...

It was a beautiful November morning when John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie flew from Fort Worth to Dallas Love Field. As they stepped off of Air Force One and moved to the motorcade, they greeted the crowd that had gathered there. They got into the car and left for the Presidential parade through ...

It's the most controversial cases in American history. Did Lee Harvey Oswald in fact kill President Kennedy alone, or was there a conspiracy involved? And if there was a conspiracy was Oswald involved? Most Americans believe that indeed there was a conspiracy and there is more to the story than what...

In the chapter of the 1900's called the Cold War, there is one clear and undeniable climax. October 16, 1962, and the twelve days that followed, the world came to a standstill over an event known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. This conflict was an inevitable wake up call to all involved that provided...

The Use of Presidential Power by Johnson and Nixon Presidents Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1968) and Richard Milhous Nixon (1968-1974) will be remembered for the different ideals, goals, and failures within their administrations. Johnson was immediately appointed President foll...

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States in 1960. He was the youngest man to ever be elected to that office at age forty-three. After serving just over one thousand days in office, he was killed November 22, 1963, ...

In Irwin & Debi Unger's book Turning Point: 1968, chapter 7, there were several conflicts, which aroused during the Presidential Election of 1968, which was one of the most chaotic in American history, reflecting a time that was in many ways equally chaotic. There was the conflict, which arouse...

The world will never be the same after the events of October of 1962, now known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The United States learned that the Soviet Union was building nuclear missile bases in Cuba. Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev wanted to shift the balance of power more favorably towards the S...

Profile of Power:Why Did He Have It&How Did He Use ItJoe EberlyProf. FrazierHON 338 - Director's Symposium12/12/01There have been an ever-growing number of Presidents to call the White House their home and claim the highest leadership position in the free world. Each one has left his mark on histor...

People say that the world has never come closer to destroying itself than in October, 1962. There has not been another time in history in which two superpowers with nuclear abilities challengend each other,that could have brought a premature end to the world. With the threat of muclear warfare, nev...

In the year 1965, the United States sent troops to Vietnam to aid the South Vietnamese against the communist Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. As the fighting increased, the United States was in need of more troops in order to support its commitment to South Vietnam. Therefore, thousands of Sele...

JFK-by Oliver Stone Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) is about the assasination of United States president John F. Kennedy as he passed through Dealy Plaza in Dallas Texas on the 22nd of November, 1963. This film seeks to raise concerns that had been building up for some time about the nature of Kennedy's ...

A nagging question still haunts the minds of many Americans. Did LeeHarvey Oswald really act alone, as the Warren Commission's report stated,or was there a conspiracy, hatched by the Mob, the CIA, the FBI, or someother organization, to kill President John F. Kennedy at the height of hispoliti...

Cold War Propaganda The Cold War never presented any real threat on America. It was nothing more than the propaganda of two battling super powers. The two super powers involved in the Cold War were The United States of America and The Soviet Union. The two countries were constantly battling over ...

In the beginning, John F. Kennedy's invasion of Cuba seemed as though it would be a major victory for the United States. Kennedy's involvement in Cuba soon turned into a crisis, not only with Cuba, but also with the Soviet Union. Although there was no real evidence that the U.S. would be successfu...

At the end of World War II in 1945, The United States government was, seemingly, intent on eradicating Communism from the world. The government was, in a Machiavellian but sometimes inept way, using any means necessary to achieve this goal. In the process, the United States nearly engaged in nucle...

John F. Kennedy's greatest triumph as President came in 1962, as the world's two largest superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, edged closer and closer to nuclear war. The Soviet Premier of Russia was caught arming Fidel Castro with nuclear weapons. The confrontation left the worl...

J.F.K. AssassinationIf Lee Harvey Oswald killed J.F.K. and it wasn't a conspiracy, then why is the government still withholding reports done on the assassination from the public's eyes, in the FBI's possession?President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 on November 22. He was elected president in 1...

Term PaperJohn F. Kennedy's New FrontierIn the Presidential campaign of 1960, John F. Kennedy broke through American complacency with a call to get America moving again. It had not occurred to most American citizens that their country was not meeting its challenges; indeed few thought about what tho...

Statesman and thirty-fifth United States President (1961-63), John Fitzgerald Kennedy, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917 was the first president born in the 20th century, the youngest man ever elected to the Presidency and the first of the Roman Catholic faith. He was the second of ...