The Assassination that Changed America

Much was expected from the presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. But because of the tragic assassination of America’s political leader, his success fell short. John F. Kennedy was the youngest president at forty-three years of age to be elected to office. He was also the youngest to die while in office. John F. Kennedy was only forty-six years old when he died. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963. John F. Kennedy wanted major changes to be made to U.S. foreign policy. A policy he wished to get rid of was one that helped communism. Kennedy had hoped to create a better world with the cooperation of the Soviet Union but sadly the Soviets refused to ever cooperate with Kennedy and the U.S. government. Kennedy had created many policies and made major political changes that still affect us to this day. Unfortunately, President Kennedy did not live to see how these policies helped change America. The assassination of John F. Kennedy had a major impact on the political direction of the United States of America.
There were major changes that President Kennedy wanted to make when it came to foreign policy. Kennedy wished to help third world areas. He provided these countries with the aid that they so desperately needed. He agreed with Vietnam and sent more military to oversee their country. It was well known that President Kennedy believed in helping and developing third world regions. Consequently, in 1961 Kennedy created the Peace Corps. This group sent volunteers to third world countries to help those who cannot help themselves. Kennedy wished to introduce democracy to these failing countries because at that time they did not have a successful way to govern their population of people. (JFK and Foreign Policy, PBS, The...

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...en though the primaries have always existed, Kennedy was the first one to use them like this to his advantage. No prior candidate had ever used primaries as strategically as Kennedy to ascertain the office of president.
During his campaign, Kennedy established the political use of a speech. These public addresses became known as tolerance speeches. This type of speech was based on non biased voting as he pleaded with the people to look past a candidate’s racial, ethnic, or religious background and to vote on the person who would best lead the country. Kennedy pioneered the political use of a speech to address broad concerns about a candidate’s diversity. Many others have used this tactic such as Barack Obama, asking the people not to consider his race and ethnicity. Once again, candidates benefitted from another one of Kennedy’s ideas, the tolerance speech.