Jfk presentation 2

Remembering JFK

50 Years Later

During the Movie/Ticket Out the Door

• In complete sentences, please describe how the presidents death would effect you if you were:

1. Average American Citizen

2. Vice President

3. Family

4. Enemy

For Homework

• 5 Questions and a summary on the video we watched today in class.

What does this quote mean?

So often we focus on his death…

JFK Accomplished Many Things in His Young Life

Accomplishments

• To this day, John F. Kennedy's call for Americans to serve their country has remained an inspiring and memorable appeal.

• Among John F. Kennedy's most notable and long-standing accomplishments was the establishment of the Peace Corps, an organization that is now responsible for sending thousands of American volunteers around the world to help the needy.

Accomplishments

• John F. Kennedy was committed to landing a man on the moon, and although it occurred after his death, it was his support of space exploration that helped make it happen.

• It was John F. Kennedy's dedication that helped secure the passage of the Area Redevelopment Act, which assisted states that were suffering from high rates of unemployment.

Accomplishments

• Under John F. Kennedy's administration, laws were put in place to end segregation in interstate travel facilities.

• John F. Kennedy helped promote the arts by holding concerts, plays, and musicals at the White House.

• John F. Kennedy issued an executive order prohibiting discrimination in the sale or lease of housing that was financed by federally guaranteed loans or owned by the federal government.

Links to Videos

• Speech video

Overview of assassination

History Channel Video

Civil Rights Speech

Computer Recreation

Letter to Kennedy

• write a one page letter to President Kennedy explaining how American society has changed since his death. Take the opportunity to tell him how much his efforts have helped and effected the American people in 2013.

• Things you may include: Changes in civil rights and discrimination, the space program, the arts in education and the peace corps.

Letter to a President

• Mr President,

• So much has changed in America since the infamous day you left this earth. When it comes to the issue of civil liberties we are now all equal under the law! Your fight against discrimination in housing has become reality…