Essays on John F. Kennedy

For over thirty years the people of the United States were led to believe that a single gunman shot and killed Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. However I am going to try and make a good case as to why this might not...

Former President John F. Kennedy in his Presidential Inaugural Address, delivers a hopeful, inspiring speech about the actions he will take and the actions he expects citizens to take to achieve world peace. Kennedy’s purpose is to impress upon readers the idea that to achieve...

On November 22nd of 1963 tragedy struck the United States and made global headlines. John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, had been assassinated while on a motorcade through Dallas, Texas – accompanied by first lady Jacquelyn Kennedy and Governor John Connally....

The Vietnam War was way beyond a conflict between the North and South Vietnamese governments. With the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China’s very involving role in the war, it became necessary, in the eyes of Kennedy and the United States to have...

On September 12th, 1962, John F Kennedy – the United State’s 35th President – stood before a crowd of 35,000 people at the stadium of Rice University, Houston, Texas, and presented an inspirational speech that pushed America forward in the space race. The context of...

June 26, 1963, post WWII, a time were the United States and the Soviet Union were the world’s superpowers. The two powers fought a war of different government and economic ideologies known as the Cold War. During the time of the speech, Germany was a...

This investigation will explore the question: How responsible was John F. Kennedy for causing the 1963 Cuban Missile Crisis? The years 1962 & 1963 will be the focus of this investigation, as well as any post-crisis or pre-crisis evidence that can be used in this...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) was the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 while travelling through Dallas, Texas in a motorcade. Throughout his presidency JFK was involved in many major historic events. Inauguration On the 20th January...

John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States of America. He served for 2 years and on the day of his inauguration, he gave an inaugural speech in Washington D.C. In this speech, he used many rhetorical strategies to get his point,...

The 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in his first Inaugural Address, aims to inspire Americans by outlining his plans for the future as he is being sworn into office. Kennedy’s purpose is to gain the support of more Americans, considering that...

Are the United States of America officially getting on the back of the tiger? In JFK’s inaugural speech found in Norton Reader, he famously said, “those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside” . The tiger represents power,...

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States of America, from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963; Kennedy was a supporter of civil rights and set many changes for civil rights in motion before his assassination on 22nd November 1963,...

Introduction The Second World War was an international conflict fought from 1939 to 1945 involving Germany, Italy, and Japan, who were known as the Axis powers, and France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, who were known as the Allies. The war...