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Hace 2 días · On Monday, October 22, 1962, President Kennedy appeared on television to inform Americans of the recently discovered Soviet military buildup in Cuba including the ongoing installation of offensive nuclear missiles.
- The City Upon a Hill Speech
On January 9, 1961, President-elect John F. Kennedy returned...
- American University Commencement Address
President Kennedy began to feel in the spring of 1963 that...
- Address to The Greater Houston Ministerial Association
Although Irish Catholics began to play a major role in local...
- Address to The United Nations General Assembly
President Kennedy’s address to the United Nations General...
- Address at Rice University on The Nation's Space Effort
When John F. Kennedy became president in January 1961,...
- Televised Address to The Nation on Civil Rights
In 1963, Civil Rights protests became increasingly...
- The City Upon a Hill Speech
Hace 4 días · Cuban missile crisis, major confrontation at the height of the Cold War that brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of a shooting war in October 1962 over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. The crisis was a defining moment in the presidency of John F. Kennedy.
Hace 2 días · On 22 April 1961, President Kennedy asked General Maxwell D. Taylor, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Admiral Arleigh Burke and CIA Director Allen Dulles to form the Cuba Study Group, to report on lessons to learn from the failed operation.
Hace 2 días · On November 10, 2022, NASA announced that a 20-foot (6 m) piece of the shuttle had been found near the site of a destroyed World War II-era aircraft off the coast of Florida. The discovery was aired on the History Channel on November 22, 2022.
Hace 1 día · RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 ( ship's time) [a] on 14 April.
Hace 3 días · John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961–63), who faced a number of foreign crises, especially the Cuban missile crisis, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress. He was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.
Hace 5 días · A successful effort in Vietnam—in Kennedy’s words, “the cornerstone of the free world in Southeast Asia”—would provide to both allies and adversaries evidence of U.S. determination to meet the challenge of communist expansion in the Third World.
