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This book explores life in America during that brief promising period in the early sixties when John F. Kennedy was the U.S. president. Kennedy's optimism and charm helped to give promise to the times. At the same time, Cold War frustrations in Cuba and Vietnam worried Americans, while the 1962 Missile Crisis narrowly avoided a nuclear disaster. Early in the decade, the Civil Rights movement gained momentum through student sit-ins and Freedom Rides. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a powerful spokesman for non-violent social change and gave his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington in 1963. The Civil Rights movement proved to be the seedbed for many other movements in the decade. The American family was also undergoing rapid change and Betty Friedan launched what became the Women's Movement in 1963. Culture, too, underwent transformation. The Beat authors Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsburg gained respectability, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan revived folk music, and Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol produced Pop Art. Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey began to promote psychedelic drugs. The Sixties was a decade of marked political, social, and cultural change. Since 1976 W.J. Rorabaugh has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of The Alcoholic republic (Oxford, 1979), The Craft Apprentice (Oxford, 1986), and Berkeley at War: The 1960s (Oxford, 1989). Professor Rorabaugh has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Newberry Library, the Huntington Library, and the John F. Kennedy Library. He has served on editorial boards for the Journal of Early Republic and theHistory of Education Quarterly.

A thrillingly provocative, modern-day David vs. Goliath battle set in the amphitheater of American politics, P.O.V. presents "Taking On The Kennedys," a sharply witty and brilliantly concise peek into the "brutal circus" of contemporary political warfare. In 1994, practicing physician Kevin Vigilante, a Rhode Island Republican who has never held office, challenged Democratic favorite son Patrick Kennedy for a U.S. House seat representing the fifth most Democratic District in the nation... and nearly won. With a record long on public service but short on political experience, Vigilante found himself front and center in a controversial game of distorted television imagery and sound-byte rhetoric, where even an idealistic candidate is forced to sling a little mud in order to stay in the race. With unrestricted access to the candidates as they plot strategies, court voters, attend fundraisers, debate and vie for media attention, filmmaker Joshua Seftel presents a hard-hitting deconstruction of political campaigns and powerful dynasties, featuring appearances by Caroline Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., and other powerhouse political figures.

John F. Kennedy Space Center - The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the NASA space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) at Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island in Florida, United States.

Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center - The Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center, more formally known as the Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, maintain and administer the Center and its site.

Kennedy Center Honors - The Kennedy Center Honors have been awarded annually, since 1978 by the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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John F Kennedy Medical Center - John F Kennedy Medical Center John F. Kennedy Space Center - The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the NASA space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) at Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - [Kennedy Center as seen from the Potomac River. The Lincoln Memorial] is partially visible on the right. Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center - The Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center, more formally known as the Trustees ...

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