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The story of John Kennedy, the man who made us dream of the moon and then gave it to us

2022-12-16 19:08:16Histori SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The story of John Kennedy, the man who made us dream of the moon and then gave
A portrait of Jackie and JFK in the Yellow Room, 1959

On November 22, 1963, several shots ended the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States of America.

His 1,036 days as president changed the history of the United States of America and the world, including science. It made more than one generation of people dream.

Throughout his days as president, the US faced significant challenges, from the start of the space program, to the Cuban Missile Crisis that brought the world to the brink of World War III, to the great political battle against racism and poverty.

Kennedy was elected with an ambitious agenda: To take America to the next level, to the frontiers of unrealized hopes and dreams. Beyond this frontier are the unexplored areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, ignorance and prejudice.

1-In October 1962 , Kennedy and his Russian counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, faced the Cuban missile crisis that would risk bringing the world to the brink of a world war. After averting the danger, the two presidents established a secret correspondence in search of an agreement on nuclear disarmament. In October 1963, Kennedy traveled to Moscow to sign the treaty banning underground nuclear weapons testing, limiting risks to the environment.

June 2 - 26, 1963 John Kennedy  went on an official visit to West Berlin, where Rudolph Wilde Platz, in front of thousands of people, made one of his most famous speeches: "Two thousand years ago the greatest pride was to say 'I am a Roman citizen". Today in the free world, the greatest pride is to say "I am a Berliner". All people, wherever they are, are citizens of Berlin". These forcefully uttered words were the American response to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 that had divided Germany in two.

3- Even John Kennedy's two younger brothers, Robert and Eduard , entered the political career. Robert was his Minister of Justice, a position left to him to prosecute mobsters like trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa and pursue the integration of African Americans. In 1968, he ran to become the candidate of the Democratic Party. But an assassination cut short his career. Edward was elected to the Senate continuously from 1964 to 2008. A year later he died.

4- Many pages have been written about the clandestine relationship between Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedy brothers . On May 19, 1962, Marilyn surprised JFK by singing a sexy version of "Happy Birthday" in public. One of the assumptions about her death that happened a few months later is that the diva had sought to end her life because the President did not reciprocate her feelings.

May 5- 25, 1961, President John Kennedy announced during a joint session of the United States Congress that by the end of the decade, the US would send a man to the moon.

Kennedy's decision - the most ambitious and the most daring - was also born for political reasons. In general, Kennedy felt a lot of pressure because of the space race that existed between the US and Russia. 4 years after the launch of an artificial satellite in 1957, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly into space. It was April 12, 1961, and the United States was chasing a space adventure that was made by Alan Shepard on May 5, 1961, a short suborbital flight that was just a futile attempt to outwit the Soviets. After consulting with Vice President Johnson and NASA Administrator James Vebb, Kennedy decided that a trip to the moon would be technologically difficult. And therefore, Kennedy's idea to fly to the moon was always seen as a Cold War policy. The decision was weighed long before it became public. And when it was approved, it turned into a huge effort financially, technologically and humanly. Kennedy's goal was achieved on July 20, 1969, 164 before the President's promise expired.

6-Edgar Hoover served as director of the FBI  from 1935 to 1972. Despite conflicts with Bob Kennedy, he held the role during the years of JFK's presidency.

Some historians suspect that by taking advantage of his power, Hoover had amassed many confidential files on President Kennedy and his family. In these files it was also about other extra-marital relationships of Kennedy with famous actresses such as Marilyn Monroe and Angie Dickinson.

August 7-28, 1963 , 250,000 Americans joined a peaceful march on Washington instigated by leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, where Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech.

The protesters demanded a bill from the government that would end the segregation of whites and blacks, and demanded better wages for workers. Kennedy, who initially opposed the march on grounds of public order, ended up supporting the cause. And eventually he met Luther King and other leaders. But he did not manage to see the fruits of his labor in time. The Civil Rights Act was passed in June 1964, seven months after his death.

November 8- 22, 1964, John and Jaqueline Kennedy make an official visit to Dallas, Texas, where, accompanied by Governor John Connally and his wife, they board a limousine for the presidential tour. This was JFK's last trip, while greeting the crowd, several bullets hit him in the head, causing a wound that later led to his death.

9- In 1991 , 30 years after the Dallas events, the director Oliver Stone released the film "JFK-an open case", where through the investigation of the prosecutor Jim Garrison, he brings the official theses related to the murder.

According to the official report, the one who shot was Lee Harvey Oswald, a mentally ill person, and he did it without anyone's help. Oswald never actually confessed to the murder and was killed two days after his arrest, thus taking with him many unanswered questions.

According to Stone's thesis, it was a secret service conspiracy with the cooperation of the mafia and military leaders who supported the war in Vietnam.

10- The last official commission to deal with the Kennedy assassination was created in 1992. Its final report reads: "Long before 1978, President Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and four members of the Warren Commission exposed in some way, albeit unofficially, skepticism about the basic conclusions of the Commission".

Although other official investigations confirmed its conclusions, the Warren Commission has been accused of destroying documents and evidence useful to the investigation.


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