what changed after John F. Kennedy died?
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The Nation basically lost its innocence with JFK's assasination.  People began to feel that there were conspiresy's behind everything.  The press while it always had it's freedom had basically censored itself on things it did not feel were necessary to report, within a few years Investigative Reporting became popular and no subject was exempt.  The more that people found out the less faith they had in things they had always taken for granted.  Kennedy had planned to use bringing home our troops from Viet Nam as a positive for his 1964 re-election and planned to put off any civil rights legislation until after the '64 election.  However with his death in 1963 Civil Right's Legislation happened in 1964 and his Vice President Johnson was re-elected by the largest landslide in History to that point, he also escalated the war in Viet Nam instead of bring troops home and we went from having a few thousand troops in Viet Nam under Kennedy to having over a half a million troops there by the end of the decade.\n\nTo this day there are still theroy's of conspiresy surrounding his assasination and probably always will be.
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I would say mourning as that is the normal response to death. However, liberals have things so far out of whack now (i.e. no respect for the office of the president) that people will be split 50/50. I know that there will be some republicans who will celebrate when Clinton dies; however, Republicans tend to have a greater respect of the office of the president that for the most part therewill be mourning.
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Without a doubt it's JFK and his death
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Kennedy was President from January 20, 1961 until his assassination on November 22, 1963.
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 PM Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC). Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding in a presidential motorcade within Dealey Plaza. He was the fourth U.S. President to be assassinated, and the eighth to die while in office.\n\nAn official investigation by the Warren Commission was conducted over a 10-month period, and its report was published in September 1964, concluding that the assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza. A later official investigation by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was conducted from 1976 to 1979, and concluded that Oswald probably acted with at least one other person. The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation, and has spawned a number of Kennedy assassination theories.
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The %100 support JFK got from dead voters in Chicago. Sad part is I'm not kidding. It was a race probably as close as the Bush Gore race and Chicago dead turned out in great numbers to vote.
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Too many ways to list.  That was considered the end of innocence of America for our, now older, generation.\n\nSomething people forget or don't know, Kennedy was an absolute hit with America, and they loved him to no end and today, many programs and thinking came out of him, such as the Peace Corps.  However what most people forget is how much he was unpopular in Congress and could get very little legislation through.\n\nHe would never stand for colonization, and would find a way to combat it without firing a shot.  Keep that in mind when the day comes when our leaders will have to start facing their mistakes.
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It was the mob.  Look back at how many ties the whole Kennedy family had to the mob.  President Kennedy changed his mind about some issues.  The mob didn't like that.
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quote from John Lennon.  "yes JFK was a good president, but he died before he could let anyone down."  i liked that quote.
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He was charismatic, but he wasn't a great president.\n\nHis unplanned remarks to Nikita Khruschev, President of the Soviet Union, caused Khruschev to judge Kennedy to be weak.  Consequently, he installed nuclear missles in Cuba.  Kennedy reacted by blockading Cuba.  For several days in October 1963, the world was on the brink of a nuclear war.\n\nShortly after taking office, he allowed plans for an invasion of Cuba to proceed.  The invasion by Cuban refugees from Miami was a debacle that was a violation of international law and a humiliation to the United States.\n\nHe continued the program of sending military advisors to Viet Nam.  After his death, this was continued by President Lyndon Johnson and expanded into the Viet Nam war.  The Viet Nam war destroyed Johnson's presidency.\n\nTo his great credit, he was aggressive about furthering the Civil Rights movement by supporting activists with Federal authority in several high profile integration efforts.\n\nIf he had lived, almost surely he would have been elected to a second term.  He seemed to grow wiser while in office.  Would that wisdom have led him to become a great president?  Would the US have become bogged down in an unwinnable war in Viet Nam?  Would his philandering have brought him down?\n\nInteresting questions.\n\nWikipedia knows all.\n\nI was 10 when he was elected and 13 when he was assassinated.  I will never forget the optimism he brought to the country.  We believed he could lead us into the bright future.  I will never forget the terror of the Cuban Missle Crisis.  I will never forget the devastation I felt when he was assassinated.  The United States has not been the same since.  John Kennedy was the last president who _lead_ us.  Presidents after him have been followers without vision.\n\nIn 1989 (I was 39), I went to President Kennedy's grave in Arlington Cemetary.  Probably 15 or 20 people were there.  I was amazed that people were moved to silence, even those obviously born after his presidency.  I felt a great deal of reverence and had tears in my eyes.
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In 1960, Kennedy declared his intent to run for President of the United States. In the Democratic primary election, he faced challenges from Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, and Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic nominee in 1952 and 1956 who was not officially running but was a favorite write-in candidate. Kennedy won key primaries like Wisconsin and West Virginia. In the latter state, Kennedy made a visit to a coal mine, and talked to the mine workers to win their support, as most people in that conservative, mostly Protestant state were deeply suspicious about Kennedy being a Catholic. Kennedy emerged as a universally acceptable candidate for the party after that victory.\n\nKennedy is also the first and only Roman Catholic ever to become President, the first president to serve who was born in the 20th century, the last to die while still in office, the last Democrat from the North to be elected, and the last to be elected while serving in the U.S. Senate. Kennedy died the youngest of any U.S. president, at 46 years and 177 days, when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
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Kennedy was both a visionary and pragmatic.  He wished to extend Civil Rights protection to the black community.  Unfortunately, (white) America was not ready for these changes and fought bitterly against legislation that would assist blacks, especially in the south.  Realizing this, Kennedy did not push strongly for such changes, because he did not want to distance himself too much from white voters.  Accordingly, many of his ideas stalled and were not implemented later on in his presidency. \nYou should know that both the courts and the Lyndon Johnson administration finally did implement much of his ageenda.
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John F. Kennedy was a Democrat along with the rest of the Kennedy family dating back into the 1800's.  Joseph Kennedy Sr. served in the diplomatic corps and was Ambassador to Great Britain when World War II broke out.  John Kennedy ran for Congress after World War II in 1946 after serving in Congress he followed up as Senator, ran for the Presidential Nomination in 1956, lost to Adali Stevenson and was nominated in 1960 in which year he won election as President.  He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
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Listen to John F Kennedy !
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Hard to say. But presumably, Kennedy would have been more cautious than LBJ regarding Vietnam. I doubt he would have gone the route of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the subsequent massive escalation, but that's hard to prove. Without the massive escalation, no protests, no hippie-dippie idiots, etc.\n\nIt would have been very different.
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President Kennedy.\nI was alive but in grammar school. I remeber him being shot and they put it on he black and white over head tv's. Everyone was crying so I did too. I did not quite understand it but I heard all the hoopla about his death. The teachers were shocked.\nThey dismissed us early that day.\n\nI wish I had been older than 8. Because I would have remembered so much more. It was a sad sad day in history. And his death was horific, being shot in front of so many people, broad daylight, in front of his wife. No one deserved that.
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not sure. but my guess is how society changes in respect to it's opinions on politics- as in more or less liberal/conservative. or how politics and world events may affect a society in general.