Massachusetts was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States. In about 15 minutes we hear president kennedys inaugural address. First we see the inaugural ceremonies and oath of office. Members of the house of representatives were proceeded by kenneth r. Harding, Deputy Sergeant at arms in charge of the mace. This is an indication that it really was cold. Representative joseph w. Martin, former speaker and minority leader and presently representative from massachusetts. Senator edward dirkson, minority leader, senator Mike Mansfield majority leader lead the members , of the United States senate. Former president truman escorted by senator clinton anderson. More members of the United States senate. Former senator from rhode island, Theodore Francis green. Robert kennedy, who was to be the next attorney general. Ted kennedy, another brother of the president to be. Members of the United States Supreme Court arrive on the stands. Mrs. Eisenhower and mrs. Nixon, followed by mrs. Jo
Another reason. Thank you very much. Thank you. On january 20, 1961, senator john f. Kennedy, democrat from massachusetts was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States. In about 15 minutes we hear president kennedys inaugural address. First we see the inaugural ceremonies and oath of office. Members of the house of representatives were proceeded by kenneth r. Harding, Deputy Sergeant at arms in charge of the mace. This is an indication that it really was cold. Representative joseph w. Martin, former speaker and minority leader and presently representative from massachusetts. Senator edward dirkson, minority leader, senator Mike Mansfield majority leader lead the members of the United States senate. Former president truman escorted by senator clinton anderson. More members of the United States senate. Former senator from rhode island, Theodore Francis green. Robert kennedy, who was to be the next attorney general. Ted kennedy, another brother of the president to be. Members of
Another reason. Thank you very much. Thank you. On january 20, 1961, senator john f. Kennedy, democrat from massachusetts was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States. In about 15 minutes we hear president kennedys inaugural address. First we see the inaugural ceremonies and oath of office. Members of the house of representatives were proceeded by kenneth r. Harding, Deputy Sergeant at arms in charge of the mace. This is an indication that it really was cold. Representative joseph w. Martin, former speaker and minority leader and presently representative from massachusetts. Senator edward dirkson, minority leader, senator Mike Mansfield majority leader lead the members of the United States senate. Former president truman escorted by senator clinton anderson. More members of the United States senate. Former senator from rhode island, Theodore Francis green. Robert kennedy, who was to be the next attorney general. Ted kennedy, another brother of the president to be. Members of
This topic were what do people say to you, is it a little bit weird to be discussing and i said yes i guess it is but i find it fascinating and i think that its a significant assassination certainly affected not only American History that World History and i give a few examples in my introduction about the fact that after all its face it, world war i began because of an assassination and of course we had the fall of the Roman Republic because of an assassination and we have our country itself divided when Abraham Lincoln was of course murdered in 1865 and we are still reverberating from the events around john f. Kennedy in 1963 but its a lot more than looking at Abraham Lincoln and john f. Kennedy. Assassination has been a common theme in history but also in American History and i devoted a chapter to each president who faced a direct assassination attempt both those who were assassinated into those who were wounded and were also president ial candidates which i havent seen anybody els
Prof. Feinman he is the first president we know what that had any problems with assassination threats. There were three cases. There was the case of a young man who punched him in the nose in 1833. It is our first example. Then we have booth, the father of the lincoln assassin, who writes a threatening letter to jackson in 1835. His handwriting has been authenticated. This is three years before john looks booth is born. John wilkes booth is born. It makes you wonder if it is genetic. Brian there were a lot of duels back in those days. Andrew jackson have been involved. Do you have any idea . How many . Six times. He was a meteor figure, a person who made people furious. He had a contentious time in office. That is what may be caused in his second term that we would have the situation of people threatening his life. In this case, it was only on paper. Then there is Richard Lawrence who actually came to the capital after a funeral. Jackson was there. Actually went ahead and had two pisto