Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row.
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John F. Kennedy
Standard Name: Kennedy, John F.
Used Form: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Aldous Huxley | Earlier that year, he was ruminating a long and complicated novel Sutherland, John. “Was Ma Hump to blame?”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-5. 32 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | AF
's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford
in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Flannery O'Connor | The title comes from Teilhard de Chardin
, who argued that the two poles of the material and the spiritual, of science and religion, are each moving and must move towards integration with the other... |
| politics | Patricia Highsmith | PH
's political opinions were riddled with contradictions. On some issues she was a reactionary, even a racist. Yet she took intensely to heart such incidents of individual or international violence as the shooting of... |
| Textual Production | Hannah Arendt | HA
collected in Crises of the Republic a series of essays on disturbing trends and events in 1960s America: the struggle for civil rights, the assassination of President Kennedy
, the war in Vietnam... |
| Travel | Sybille Bedford |
Timeline
26 September 1960: John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon took part...
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26 September 1960
John F. Kennedy
and Richard Nixon
took part in the first televised debate between candidates for the presidency of the United States.
October 1960: US Senator John F. Kennedy unveiled his plan...
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October 1960
US Senator John F. Kennedy
unveiled his plan for the Peace Corps
, an organization recruiting young Americans for temporary volunteer work in poor overseas countries.
January 1961: In the month of taking office, President...
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January 1961
In the month of taking office, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
set up a Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
(PCSW) to report on the position of women in the United States.
20 January 1961: US President John F. Kennedy (the youngest...
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20 January 1961
US President John F. Kennedy
(the youngest ever elected, and the first Roman Catholic) delivered his inspirational inaugural address.
20 February 1962: Astronaut John Glenn became the first American...
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20 February 1962
Astronaut John Glenn
became the first American to orbit the earth, circling the globe three times in his spacecraft Friendship Seven.
22 October 1962: US President John F. Kennedy disclosed on...
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22 October 1962
US President John F. Kennedy
disclosed on television the existence of what came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The USA had found Soviet missile bases in Cuba, and began a blockade...
10 June 1963: In a university commencement speech, US President...
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10 June 1963
In a university commencement speech, US President John F. Kennedy
(who had recently declared a unilateral end to American nuclear testing in the atmosphere) called for a re-examination of US-Soviet relations.
30 August 1963: Nearly a year after the Cuban missile crisis,...
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30 August 1963
Nearly a year after the Cuban missile crisis, a hot-line telephone was installed linking the Kremlin in Moscow (seat of the government of the USSR) and the White House in Washington, DC.
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
30 August 2011
22 November 1963: American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated...
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22 November 1963
American President John F. Kennedy
was assassinated at Dallas, Texas.
14 March 1964: Jack Ruby was convicted in Dallas, Texas,...
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14 March 1964
Jack Ruby
was convicted in Dallas, Texas, for shooting and killing Lee Harvey Oswald
on 24 November 1963, two days after Oswald was arrested for the murder of President John F. Kennedy
.
Texts
Kennedy, John F., and Ted Sorenson. Ask not what your country can do for you. Guardian News and Media, 2007.
Sorenson, Ted, and John F. Kennedy. “Foreword”. Ask not what your country can do for you, Guardian News and Media, 2007, pp. 5-6.