HIS 9 - Elective - Heroes and Villains: John F. Kennedy

Kennedy earned a place in history with his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis and support of the space race.

Friday, November 22, 1963 was the day John F. Kennedy was killed. For all generations, the assassination of this youthful and handsome American president remains a mystery. Why did it happen? Who did it? Piecing together the information and looking at the photographs and film from that terrible day cannot answer all the questions, but we can get closer to understanding the events-- and thus consider their historical impact.

Chapter 5 outlines crises in Cuba and other JFK Cold War challenges

The killing of holders of high office for a predetermined political or ideological purpose is a practice as old as power politics itself. Assassins tells the darkly sensational story of twenty centuries of political murder, from the Roman era to the shooting of President Kennedy in 1963