Kennedy, John F.

On March 29, 1962, President Arturo Frondizi of Argentina was overthrown in a military coup. The overthrow of a democratic government was a major setback for the Kennedy administration’s Alliance for Progress in Latin America, and given the close economic relationship between th…

John F. Kennedy is remembered as the first president who fully embraced the arts and artists. Robert Frost’s inaugural poem for Kennedy heralded the President’s creation of a “golden age of poetry and power,” which historians recognize as has having come to fruition. Yet Kennedy…

Speak the word “Camelot” in casual conversation, and it is no accident that one is equally as likely to conjure images of the 35th president as Arthur's legendary kingdom. Brilliantly and purposefully concocted by John F. Kennedy's widow Jacqueline Kennedy, Camelot became insepa…

The research problem was to take a major political event in American history—the John F. Kennedy assassination—explore major media coverage of the event, and then examine media construction of social issues. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy has two official version…

A study of President John F. Kennedy's policy toward the Middle East illustrates the agency and unexpected power wielded by so-called “third world” countries during the Cold War era. In spite of careful planning in Washington, Middle East leaders often manipulated and directed K…

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 has been one of the great controversies of the last four decades. A variety of conspiracy theories have been offered to explain the tragedy, from multiple assassins in Dealey Plaza (the site of the killing in Da…

The literature on U.S.-Israel relations sometimes glides past the Kennedy period—treating it as a mere place-marker between Suez and the Six Day War, between the martial frostiness of Dwight Eisenhower and the Texan warmth of Lyndon Johnson. But the increasingly complete documen…

This work analyzes the Middle Eastern policies of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. American relations with Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia comprise the main subjects of this history, which is based on research in United States and Israeli archives, analy…

This thesis explores an integral part of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Turkey's involvement. Turkey's involvement in this incident has thus far been untouched by historians. Turkey was in the center of the crisis; however, many policies were enacted without Turkey's knowledge. This …

This dissertation demonstrates a previously undocumented aspect of John F. Kennedy's Cold War strategy. At the start of his administration Kennedy launched a personal policy initiative to court African nationalist leaders. This policy was designed as a strategy to improve U.S.-A…

This dissertation explains why the Franco-American relationship fell apart between 1958 and 1963, from Charles de Gaulle's return to power to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. These five years mark the height of the Cold War as the two Berlin crises and the Cuban Missile cri…

John F. Kennedy died on 22 November 1963, the victim of an assassin's bullet. He had been president just over three years and at the time of his premature death was gearing up for his reelection campaign. A short-lived détente between the United States and the Soviet Union emerg…