Jfk Inaugural Speech Outline

John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States of America. He ordered the Pay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, sent thousands of military “advisors” to Vietnam, was part of the Cuban Missile Crisis and he introduced his “New Frontier” social legislation.

John F. Kennedy was inaugurated into office on January 20, 1961. The day of the inauguration it was a cold and clear day, the capital was covered in snow from the previous night. The Inauguration began with a religious invocation and prayers. Then African-American opera singer Marian Anderson sang the Star Spangled Banner. Then Robert Frost recited his poem “The Gift Outright”. Then John F. Kennedy was administrated the oath of office by Cheif Justice Earl Warren. During JFK’s inauguration

speech he called for the people of America to "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" and for the people of the world to "ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man".

While John F.

Kennedy was president on May 25, 1961, standing upon Congress to deliver a special message on “ urgent national needs.” During this message he asked for an additional $7 billion to $9 billion for the space program over a course of five years, saying that “this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” He settled upon this goal as a way of focusing and mobilizing the nation’s lagging space efforts. After a year Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom were the first to American’s to travel into space. On February 20, 1962, John Glenn Jr was the first American to orbit the Earth. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 launched to land on the moon carrying Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin Aldrin Jr. It was John F. Kennedy’s dream to land the first man on the moon, his dream came true but he never got to see

it.

While John F. Kennedy was president he had a foreign policy challenge. An early problem in the foreign events arena occurred in April 1961, when Kennedy signed off on the plans to send 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban outlaws in an amphibious arrival at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. He planned to encourage an uprising that would overthrow the communist leader Fidel Castro, the mission failed, with almost all of the outlaw's taken prisoner or killed. In June 1961 JFK encountered with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna to talk about Berlin, which had been split in two after World War II between Allied and Soviet power. In August East German troops started building a wall where Berlin was divided at. ( Called the Berlin Wall) JFK sent an army fleet to encourage West Berliners to support the United States. In June of 1963, John F. Kennedy would read one his most popular addresses to West Berlin.

In October 1962, Kennedy met with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev again throughout the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Kennedy declared a naval blockade of Cuba after he found out that the Soviet Union was creating many nuclear and long-range missile places in Cuba might produce a threat to the United States. The tight deadlock lasted almost two weeks before Khrushchev agreed to disassemble Soviet missile sites in Cuba in replace for America’s promise not to capture the island and the withdraw of U.S. missiles from Turkey and additional sites nearby Soviet boundaries. John F. Kennedy won his most important foreign affairs triumph when Nikita Khrushchev accepted to join him and Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in the signing of a nuclear test ban treaty. Kennedy’s wish to control the expansion of communism led him to increase the United States participation in the problem in

Vietnam.

On November 12, 1963, John F. Kennedy conducted the first political preparations for the approaching election year. On November 21, 1963, John F. Kennedy and his wife left on Air Force One for the two-day five-city visit to Texas for the Campaign. JFK was conscious of that a dispute with the party leaders in Texas could risk his possibility of carrying the state in 1964, one of his goals was to guide Democrats together. He knew that there would be a small but blunt group of extremists that would be contributing to the political stress in Texas mainly in Dallas. The first stop of the two-day trip was San Antonio. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Governor John B. Connally, and Senator Ralph W. Yarborough all traveled with John F. Kennedy to Brooks Air Force Base for the commitment of the Aerospace Medical Health Center. After leaving San Antonio he went on to Houston where he delivered a Latin American citizens' group and talked at a testimonial dinner for Congressman Albert Thomas before stopping at Fort Worth for the day. John F. Kennedy the next morning gave a speech to thousands of people in front of the hotel that he and his wife stayed at overnight. After leaving Fort Worth John F. Kennedy and his wife got on a helicopter for a 13-minute flight to Dallas. Once they landed they walked over to the fence where a crowd of well-wishers had met at. The first lady was handed a bouquet of red roses. Once they got into the convertible the procession left the airport and drove on a ten-mile route that went through downtown on the way to the Trade Mart where John F. Kennedy was supposed to talk at a luncheon. But he never made it before he was shot in the neck and head. He was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. John F. Kennedy’s funeral was on November 25, 1963, and was buried in the Arlington National Cemetery.