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IN PERSON- The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Program Type:

Lectures

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Event Details

This program will be delivered via Zoom and will be streamed to our Kingsley Room. If you want to watch the program from home, register here.

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy stunned a nation and, short-circuited, perhaps, the potential of younger candidates seeking to occupy the Oval Office and change the course of the nation.  This presentation will review the course of America from 1945 to 1965.  It will showcase the drift towards centralized power coming off being the big winner of Man's greatest Industrialized, Total War, 1914-1945.  Such aspects as the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S.-Soviet relations, America's unchallengeable position as number one global power, which will begin to erode with the Second Indochina War.  Just what affect did this and the removal of Ngo Dinh Diem (assassinated, too, just several weeks before JFK) as President of South Vietnam, have on the decisive course of Executive Action taken in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Join us in remembrance of the 60th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and its impact in history.

Mark Albertson is the historical research editor for the Army Aviation magazine, and the historian for the Army Aviation Association of America. He has taught classes on military history at Norwalk Community College as well as the Lifetime Learners Institute. Albertson has authored several books on military history.

Like all Southbury Public Library programs, this event is free to attend and open to anyone regardless of town of residency. Registration is required. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Southbury Public Library. For more information about this program, please email Rebecca at rrandall@biblio.org or call the reference desk at 203-262-0626 ext 130.

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Accessibility

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