Intro

Hi there my name is Jarlath O'Reilly and my blog is about the life of John F. Kennedy and how he is remembered to this present day.

JFK A New Beginning

John F Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States of America. He was a member of the United States navy were he was a lieutenant. Some think he was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald and some say the America government what do you think?

Rival with the Commies

John Kennedy fought with the communists after World War II. The USSR and China were a powerful force and threatened America for world domination. This was the start of the Cold War. These two countrys' built nuclear weapons on a daily basis. Some experts say that there was enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world. The Cold Wars name comes from these two country's never fought. The T.V. programme "The Pacific" shows the only fighting in Vietnam when America controlled the South of Vietnam and the USSR controlled the North. The American soldiers lost to the North Vietnamese people through gorilla tactics (Coming out of trees and camouflaging in the trees), but still the Americans claim that they won the battle.

1960 Presidential Election

In September and October, Kennedy debated Republican candidate and Vice President Richard Nixon in the first televised U.S. presidential debates in U.S. history. Kennedy was from the Democratic party and Nixon from the Republican party. In the national popular vote Kennedy led Nixon by just two-tenths of one percent (49.7% to 49.5%), while in the Electoral College he won 303 votes to Nixon's 219 (269 were needed to win). Another 14 electors from Mississippi and Alabama refused to support Kennedy because of his support for the civilrights movement; they voted for Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. of Virginia.

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis began on October 14, 1962, when American, U-2 CIA spy planes took photographs of a Soviet intermediate-range ballistic missile site under construction in Cuba. The photos were shown to Kennedy on October 16, 1962. The United States would soon be posed with a serious nuclear threat. Kennedy faced a dialemma: if the U.S. attacked the sites, it might lead to nuclear war with the USSR., but if the U.S. did nothing, it would endure the threat of nuclear weapons being launched from close range. Many military officials and cabinet members pressed for an air assault on the missile sites, but Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine in which the U.S. Navy inspected all ships arriving in Cuba. He began negotiations with the Soviets and ordered the Soviets to remove all defensive material that was being built on Cuba. Without doing so, the Soviet and Cuban peoples would face naval quarantine. A week later, he and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev reached a basically cordial, lasting agreement. Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles subject to U.N. inspections if the U.S. publicly promised never to invade Cuba and quietly removed US missiles stationed in Turkey.

The Space Race

During the Cold War the USSR launched the first Satellite in space. The Americans believed if they can do this with a satellite they could do it with a bomb?

Kennedy Said-

"First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him back safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."

Kennedy later made a speech at Rice University on September 12, 1962, in which he said

"No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space."

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral is the Headquaters of NASA is situated. This is were the famous Space Crafts of Apollo 13 took off to aim for the stars. It is mostly everglades (swamp) which is full of Alligator invested waters.