Kennedy

Question 1

Who was Peter, Paul and Mary?

Answer 1

A counterculture music group.

Question 2

What two books does the author believe gives the best explanation about the JFK assassination?

Answer 2

Final Disclosure, Case Closed

Question 3

What was the “missile-gap”?

Answer 3

A term used to describe the USSR’s supposed nuclear weapon superiority

Question 4

Who was Malcolm X and how did he become radicalized?

Answer 4

He was radicalized by reason of racial violence against him and his family.

Question 5

Who was Nikita Khrushchev?

Answer 5

leader of the USSR during the kitchen debate.

Question 6

Name three things that indicated America’s decline.

Answer 6

international terrorism, economic doldrums, OPEC.

Question 7

What is “NOW”?

Answer 7

The National Organization for Women

Question 8

Who was Marcus Garvey?

Answer 8

A black separatist leader who worked to establish close political and economic ties to Africa.

Question 9

Who were Sam Giancanna and John Roselli and what role did they have in history?

Answer 9

Mobsters. They were contracted to kill Castro.

Question 10

Who were the Smother’s Brothers?

Answer 10

A comedy group.

Question 11

Who was Judith Campbell?

Answer 11

Someone who had an affair with JFK and was also at the same time bedding Giancanna and Rosselli

Question 12

Who controlled Cuba before the Revolution?

Answer 12

Batista

Question 13

Who was Sargent Shriver?

Answer 13

husband of John’s sister Eunice, head of Peace Corps.

Question 14

Who was Che Guevara?

Answer 14

Castro’s Second in Command.

Question 15

In what year was Robert Kennedy assassinated?

Answer 15

1968

Question 16

How generally accurate are movies made by Hollywood showing historical events?

Answer 16

Not accurate.

Question 17

What were the weaknesses of the Feminine Mystique?

Answer 17

It only addressed the problems of White Middle Class women and ignored the fact that there wasn’t a majority of dissatisfaction with the system as it was.

Question 18

Why was Malcolm X assassinated?

Answer 18

Because he had become less radical.

Question 19

What gave Nixon problems in his presidential race with Kennedy?

Answer 19

His unhealthful looks.

Question 20

What were three results from the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs?

Answer 20

US prestige dissipated, Adlai Stevenson was misled by the White House into lying, Nikita Krushchev saw a chance to arm Cuba.

Question 21

Why was the Bay of Pigs such a disaster?

Answer 21

Because America didn’t plan well and didn’t offer the support to the invasion that they had promised.

Question 22

What did the Bay of Pigs fiasco cause Nikita Khrushchev to do?

Answer 22

Arm Cuba

Question 23

What were the immediate results of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington?

Answer 23

The Civil Rights Act of 64’

Question 24

Who shot JFK?

Answer 24

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 25

What was the book “Silent Spring” about?

Answer 25

The dangers of DDT

Question 26

Who was wounded in the Kennedy assassination?

Answer 26

John Connolly

Question 27

Who was Fidel Castro?

Answer 27

Dictator of Cuba

Question 28

What was Kennedy’s medical history and what was its effects?

Answer 28

Addison’s Disease, Etc. He had to take pills to stay alive and well.

Question 29

Who was Cassius Clay?

Answer 29

Mohammed Ali

Question 30

Who was Fulgencio Batista?

Answer 30

The pre revolution leader of Cuba.

Question 31

Who led the investigation into the murder of Kennedy?

Answer 31

Chief Justice Earl Warren

Question 32

What was the reason for and what was the result of, Howard Smith’s amendment to the 1964 Civil Rights bill?

Answer 32

to kill the bill. It resulted in a great benefit to the women’s rights movement.

Question 33

What is the irony for those women that have put their careers first over family?

Answer 33

It hasn’t been as satisfying as was expected.

Question 34

What was the Peace Corp?

Answer 34

A more positive approach to anticommunism

Question 35

Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald?

Answer 35

Jack Ruby

Question 36

What was the premise of Ralph Nader’s book, “Unsafe at Any Speed”?

Answer 36

That car companies placed more emphasis on profits than protection.

Question 37

What things helped Kennedy get elected?

Answer 37

The perceived American loss to the Soviets in technology and education, His dad’s money, etc.

Question 38

Why was the Warren Commission report criticized?

Answer 38

It had inconsistencies and errors in it.

Question 39

What were the effects of the book, “The Feminine Mystique”?

Answer 39

It revived the feminist moment in the USA

Question 40

What deal was made by the Soviets and the U.S. that ended the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 40

The Soviets would remove the missiles if the US wouldn’t invade Cuba. ( and remove missiles from turkey.)

Question 41

Who was the first man to step onto the moon and what year did it happen?

Answer 41

Neil Armstrong, 1969

Question 42

Why did Kennedy go to Texas at the time of his assassination?

Answer 42

He needed Texas for reelection.

Question 43

How did the Americans discover Soviet missiles in Cuba?

Answer 43

A spy plane discovered them

Question 44

What was Enovid?

Answer 44

The first Birth Control medication authorized by the FDA.

Question 45

In what year was the cigarette industry required to put a warning label on its packaging?

Answer 45

1964

Question 46

How did Kennedy convince Khrushchev to remove the missiles in Cuba?

Answer 46

By promising not to invade Cuba. ( And to remove missiles from turkey.)

Question 47

What two other successful coups had the United States government embarked on before the Bay of Pigs fiasco?

Answer 47

Iran, Guatemala

Question 48

What was “the Feminine Mystique”

Answer 48

A book that galvanized American feminism. (By Betty Friedan.)