The world changed in an instant when President John F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded during a visit to Dallas. A definitive, pivotal, and …
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JFK's Assassination Was Worse Than You Thought...
The world changed in an instant when President John F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded during a visit to Dallas. A definitive, pivotal, and transformative moment in American history, it arguably resulted in the loss of some theoretical American innocence and kicked off the tumult and upheaval of the 1960s. Still, people wanted and needed to make sense of what appeared to be a senseless event — Lee Harvey Oswald's heinous act lent some credence to the idea of the Kennedy curse, and also...
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On November 22, 1963, a sunny, autumn day in Dallas, Texas, turned into one the darkest chapters in American history when President John F. Kennedy was struck down by an assassin's bullet. Riding in an open-top limousine with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, the 46-year-old president was on his way through Dealey Plaza to a luncheon with local businessmen. With an election just a year away, the president hoped to bolster support in the state. Charismatic Kennedy had failed to gain a majority of votes in Dallas in the last election, and he intended to connect with the city's people as intimately as possible.
John F. Kennedy was president of the United States for just three short years, but during that time he made great leaps and bounds and proved himself to be an effective, dynamic, and energetic leader of the country. He oversaw effective economic expansion, developed policies to combat poverty, and supported civil rights, all while dealing with foreign affairs, most notably the Cuban Missile Crisis, which threatened to tip the world into nuclear war.
John F. Kennedy was the youngest person to be elected president of the United States and was one of four U.S. presidents to have been assassinated while in office. From the moment President Kennedy was inaugurated, his time in office was defined by one incident after another, from the Bay of Pigs to the Civil Rights marches, culminating in his assassination. Ever since then, many have wondered what the world would've looked like had President Kennedy lived.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy is one of the most monumental, generation-defining events in United States history. "For those people who lived through it and came of age in the 1960s, it represented a significant shift in American culture," author and historian Stephen Fagin told the Associated Press. Notably, the public's trust in the country's institutions and leaders began to decline, and it's never truly recovered since. In the aftermath of JFK's death, conflicting witness reports and conspiracy theories swirled, and to this day, various accounts continue to be debated and contested.
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