The document summarizes key events in the United States from the 1960s including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Warren Commission investigation, Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs including Medicare and Medicaid, the passage of civil rights legislation, Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign, and social turmoil in 1968 including the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy and riots at the Democratic National Convention.

1. The Cold War Continues…
The Kennedy & Johnson
Years

2. SSUSH23.a Describe the Warren Court and
the expansion of individual rights as seen
in the Miranda decision.
• Chief Justice Earl
Warren appointed to
head investigation
• Investigation
Committee produced
the “Warren Report”
• Warren Report says
that Oswald was the
lone shooter in the
assassination

3. What about the Zepruder Film?
• Assassination was
caught on film by
Abraham Zepruder.
• It was not used as
evidence in the
Warren Report.
• Gives key evidence
against the theory of a
single shooter.

4. SSUSH23.b Describe the political impact of the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy
including the impact on Civil Rights legislation.
• JFK was a “champion” of
the Civil Rights
Movement.
• Met with MLK, Jr.
• Got him out of jail
• Helped protect Freedom
Riders after bombs.
• Civil Rights were a
“moral issue”.
• In work on the Civil
Rights Act.
• Brother, Bobby, headed this.

5. So what happens when he is gone?
• LBJ picks up the fight for civil rights &
passes:
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• LBJ starts work on his
Great Society

6. SSUSH23.c
Explain Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
including the establishment of Medicare.

7. 23c – LBJ declares war on poverty
• America needs:
• Tax cuts for middle-
class.
• Continue JFK’s “New
Frontier”– no second
class citizens in the
USA.
• Train the jobless
• Educate the
uneducated
• Provide healthcare for
those in need
• Economic
Opportunity Act
1964
• Job Corps
(vocational training
for the young)
• VISTA (Vol. in
Service to America)
– peace corps for
rural America
• Head Start

8. 23c – LBJ’s Great Society
• 1964 speech, he called America a “Great
Society,” that still has to become better.
• “The challenge of the next half century is whether
we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich
and elevate our national life, and to advance the
quality of our American civilization…We have
the opportunity to move not only toward the rich
society and the powerful society, but upward to
the Great Society.”

9. The Great Society Program
• Goal: An end to poverty and racial injustice
• How to:
• Healthcare insurance
• Medicare – hospital help for elderly
• Medicaid – basic medical assistance for needy & disabled
• Education
• Aid schools in poorer communities
• Protecting the environment and consumer
• Clean water and air act
• New immigration policies (increased quotas)

10. Great Society Goal Achieved?
22.2% of Americans lived below
poverty line in 1960.
12.6% lived below in 1970.

11. Conservatism is coming….
• Extreme right, didn’t
move to middle
following nomination.
• “Better dead than red.”
• “In your heart, you
know he’s right.”
• LBJ response, “In your
gut, you know he’s
nuts.”

12. Barry Goldwater aims:
• Supported integration, but didn’t want to force
states to do what they didn’t want.
• 10th
amendment
• Social security contribution should be optional.
• Privatize TVA dams and sell for $$ (for gov’t)
• Give NATO military commanders permission to
use nuclear power when they wanted.

13. Extremism in the defense of liberty
is no vice. And moderation in the
pursuit of justice is no virtue.
- Barry Goldwater
Campaign videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaL1lrGftqs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DhkY6d9uqQ

14. • Goldwater ran against
LBJ in 1964
• Won 5 states
• Did he stand a chance?
• Nation still mourning JFK
• Economy was good
• Why significant?
• Conservatives are coming
together; modern
Republican party of today
formed now.

15. Other part of 23a – Miranda decision
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Confessions can only
be taken by police if
the suspect has been
informed of right to
counsel.
• Warren court truly
expanded civil rights.

16. SSUSH23.d Describe the social and political turmoil of
1968 to include the assassinations of Martin Luther King,
Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, & the events surrounding the
Democratic National Convention.
• Like his brother in ’63 and
MLK in ‘68, Bobby
Kennedy will be
assassinated on June 5,
1968.
• “We are a great country,
an unselfish country, a
compassionate country.”
• Why he was running

17. What happened after…
• Democratic National Convention in Aug. Chicago.
• Chose H. Humphrey over Eugene McCarthy (anit-war)
and violence erupted outside.
• Riots, violence against police, beatings – videoed!
• We need a return to normalcy!
• Through republican, Richard Nixon