JFK & LBJ

Questions on the assignment?

Have to leave a little early for a meeting. Student hour today: 1:15-2:15.

 For next time, the Marmor reading on Canvas

Factual error on Johnson, p. 217.  No, Nixon did not say he had a "secret plan" to end Vietnam.

1960 Campaign

• The shadow of FDR:
• Kennedy family's direct connection  
• Eleanor makes a spot.
• Hispanic outreach & Jackie Kennedy
• Black outreach and Harry Belafonte
• The Black vote was in play
• The JFK call to Coretta King

• The Cold War:  Civil Rights and domestic policy

Civil Rights

• The Rise of George Wallace
• Literally standing in the schoolhouse door

Poverty (Johnson 222)

• JFK in WV 
• IMPACT OF BOOKS: Michael Harrington, The Other America (Johnson 210)

Environment

• Another book: Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
• Radioactive snow and the 1963 Test-Ban Treaty

JFK Assassination

• Gun control and RFK assassination
• Conspiracy theories and the Cold War
• LBJ becomes president