HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 15 Outline of Last Lecture I The Cold War Begins a Truman and the Soviets b The Division of Europe c A Global Presence II The Korean War a The UN Responds to Communist Aggression b Seeking to Liberate North Korea c Truman and Liberalism d The 1948 Election III Cold War Politics a Election b The Second Red Scare Outline of Current Lecture I JFK s Young Years a Childhood b Young Adulthood II Getting into Politics III The Presidency These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute a JFK s Image b Death IV Girlfriends of the President Current Lecture John F Kennedy I JFK s Young Years a Childhood Born in 1917 to an extremely rich family o Mother Rose Kennedy father Joe Kennedy A part of World War II generation Father dealt in liquor acted in movies and had a lot of business deals o Also US ambassador to England o Believed in appeasement sided with Neville Chamberlin more than Churchill o Dominant family member ultimate father figure and womanizer JFK probably got this from him b Young Adulthood Attended Choate Preparatory school o Graduated in the middle lower part of his class o All students of the school were raised to go to Harvard but JFK ended up going to Princeton In consequence he got sick and took a year off of school After the year off he switched to Harvard o Played football for the school and injured his back affecting him for the rest of his life Went to England with his father and got info for his first book While England Slept o This ended up being his senior thesis at Harvard Participated in WWII as naval intelligence o Had an affair with Inga Arvad a suspected spy for Germany JFK kept getting reassigned by the army to try to stop their relationship II Getting into Politics Goes into congress as war hero o Anti communist o In house 1947 1953 o Supported fighting the cold war as an activist Ran against Harry Cabot Lodge for US senator and won o Bobby Kennedy younger brother helped with JFK s campaigning Liberal Democrats Harry S Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt didn t like JFK for his middle ground views Married 24 year old Jacqueline Bouvier when he was 36 o She was debutant of the year o Married her to look better in politics Would appear as a playboy or gay if he were a bachelor candidate Still had playboy reputation and continued to date other women Won 1960 presidency against Nixon III The Presidency a JFK s image At inauguration invited Robert Frost to read poem o Frost was considered an intellectual and JFK wanted to appear as so o This was considered a high point of the presidency position Dedicated to fighting communism and cold war as an activist Viewed as a very stereotypical presidential family and were portrayed as so in the public such as on the cover of Lifetime magazine o Beautiful wife and 2 children b Death After JFK died Jackie uses the story of Camelot to compare to the president with JFK being King Author and Jackie being Genevieve o Called the times perfect and the family perfect though in reality there were faults in both the Camelot stories and the presidency JFK appeared healthy and in royalty during his life but in reality JFK was unhealthy o Had Addison s disease STDs and traces of drugs at his death marijuana procaine o JFK s family wanted the autopsy done in Maryland by a specific doctor because they didn t want the secrets of his health to be released to the public IV Girlfriends of the President No one knew about all of his girlfriends until 1975 through a reinvestigation of the assassination List includes Angie Dickenson Kim Novak Jayne Mansfield Marilyn Monroe Mary Penchot Meyer Judith Campbell Exner Ellen Rometsch Pamela Turner o All blonde and gorgeous though Jackie Kennedy is not blonde Marilyn Monroe o May 29 1962 sang Happy Birthday to Kennedy in the White House o Continued to call the White House trying to get a hold of JFK even though JFK wanted to break it off Bobby Kennedy also breaks it off with her around the same time making her go crazy o Monroe died of suicide in the form of a drug overdose No pills or signs of drug injections in her autopsy Ended up she died from a suppository of Nembutal