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...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was the 35th president of the United States. He was the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic ever elected to the presidency. Rich, handsome, elegant, and articulate, he aroused great admiration at home and abroad. His term of office as president was ...

Louisa Tramontano period 6 4~22~99 John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th, 1917 and died on November the 22nd, 1963. He was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, and was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald as his limousine drove by the Texas Scho...

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...

American History 130229 August 2002The Camelot LegacyThe Camelot Era began with the presidential election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in November of 1960 and ended tragically with his assassination three years later. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontier and idealistic programs won the hearts of ...

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 ...

Thirteen DaysThe sixties were one of the most exciting time periods in American history. The ideas of a new generation started a cultural revolution, U.S. citizens enjoyed a high standard of living, and the country was in the middle of the Cold War. The Cold War saw no shots fired, but threatened ...

Relationship between Canada and the US from 1960-1963 As the last years of Diefenbaker as Prime Minister came to an end, the relation between Canada and the US reached an all time low. As the Cold War deepened, the tension between the two countries worsened. It di...

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 ...

John F. Kennedy, president of the United States, was assassinated during his presidency. There were four presidential assassinations in U. S history. Lincoln was assassinated first in 1965, then Garfield in 1881, then McKinley, and our most recent assassination in history was Kennedy in 1963, in ...

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...

History is an important part of our lives and the world we live in. By studying history people can be educated about the remarkable events that have taken place on earth. There have been a number of incidents that have occurred in the past that has changed our way of living forever. One of the mos...

Cuban Missile Crisis JournalRussian government promised you say that than that of the missiles into Cuba. One day U.S. spy plane finds out the missiles actually in the Cuba, so American government gets very said and the size to full force missiles out of Cuba. The letter one comes from Krishev tha...

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 ...

Cuban Missile CrisisJohn F. Kennedy's greatest triumph as President of the United States 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 wea...

Essays on the Cold War-Cuban Missle Crisis One of the most serious Cold War events was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It occurred in a dangerous standoff between the Soviets and the US when the latter discovered the secret deployment of Soviet nuclear missiles in Communist Cuba. Only sensible dec...