CSPAN CLASSROOM: President John F. Kennedy - Life, Death, Legacy For the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963, C-SPAN Classroom has aggregated a number of video resources to help your students learn more about the day, his life, and the major events of his presidency. Students can learn about the life and accomplishments of President Kennedy in a short biographical vignette, as well as view historical newsreel footage of The Cuban Missile Crisis and President Kennedy’s 1961 Inaugural Speech. They may also view non-graphic footage of those events in Dallas, Texas 50 years ago, and hear reaction to President Kennedy’s assassination through historical analysis. VIDEO CLIPS: President John F. Kennedy Video Resource Page c-spanclassroom.org/Lesson/1296/President+John+F+Kennedy+Life+Death+Legacy.aspx On November 23rd and 24th, American History TV on C-SPAN3 will feature eyewitness accounts of the events surrounding that fall day in 1963. We’ll air footage of the Kennedy funeral and President Lyndon Johnson’s address to Congress, bring you ceremonies from Dealey Plaza in Dallas and the JFK Library in Boston, and take viewer phone calls. A schedule of AHTVs weekend programming can be found here: c-span.org/History/schedule_print.aspx?Network=AHTV&Offset=0
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:30:56 +0000
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