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.
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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
"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.""No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space."
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.
The Kennedy Space Centre is the Home off NASA Located on Merritt Island, Florida, the center is north-northwest of Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic Ocean, midway between Miami and Jacksonville. It is 34 miles (55 km) long and roughly 6 miles (10 km) wide, covering 219 square miles (570 km2). A total of 13,500 people worked at the center as of 2008.
Even though JFK's goal was to get man on the moon he had several attempts to get man on the moon but all failures. Many astronauts were killed in these attempts but still Kennedy plowed on and invested more money for better technology. It finally happened on the 17th of April, 1970 at 18:07:41 (7 years after Kennedy's Death).
The U.S Army rejected Kennedy due to back problems, but the U.S Navy accepted him. Kennedy came up the ranks to become Luitenant. Kennedy fought in World War II were he was give several medals such as the World War II Victory Medal. Kennedy's Unit was the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109. During his presidency, Kennedy privately admitted to friends that he didn't feel that he deserved the medals he had received, because the PT-109 incident had been the result of a botched military operation that had cost the lives of two members of his crew. When later asked by a reporter how he became a war hero, Kennedy joked "It was involuntary. They sank my boat."
John F. Kennedy International Airport is an international airport located in Queens County, New York in southeastern New York City about 12 miles from Lower Manhattan. It is the busiest inernational air passenger gateway to the United States. Over ninety airlines operate out of JFK. In 2009, the airport handled 45,912,430 passengers, making it the 12th busiest airport in the world. The airport was renamed after John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. It is one off only few airports named after famous people like George Best Belfast City Airport and Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, while on a political trip to Texas to smooth over factions in the Democratic Party between liberals Ralph Yarborough and Don Yarborough and conservative John Conally He was shot once in the upper back and was killed with a final shot to the head. He was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. Only 46, President Kennedy died younger than any U.S. president to date. Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository from which the shots were suspected to have been fired, was arrested on charges of the murder of a local police officer and was subsequently charged with the assassination of Kennedy. He denied shooting anyone.
