John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

Introduction

Few people like Kennedy throughout history have had a symbolic and representative so important. His figure serves as icon-laden values of an era, the sixties, probably overrated in terms of actual achievements and changes and transformations collected, but certainly exciting as the spirit of renewal, the momentum and the search new forms of political, social and cultural rights.

If in the sixties the confluence of two worlds, one that was just "the post-war-and one that begins to bloom-the globalization and post modernity in late twentieth century," Kennedy alone can represent the touchstone change and transformation process. His actions differ too much from some of his predecessors or introduce too radical ways of doing politics, but his figure, his charisma, his public image, his actions were understood by a society eager changes as the symbol of the arrival of new times. And his death, covered with a certain theatricality and repeated ad nauseam by a medium-television-whose ability to create characters and myths and begins to glimpse, contributes even more to enlarge the figure of the character, giving the company what she so eagerly demand and even needs (Roberts, 2009).

Discussion

Elected in 1960, Kennedy became the second youngest president of his country, after Theodore Roosevelt. He served as President from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. During his rule there was the Bay of Pigs, the missile crisis in Cuba, the construction of the Berlin Wall, the beginning of the space race, the consolidation of the Civil Rights Movement in America, and the first events of the Vietnam War (Carter, 2001).

As a Democratic candidate won the presidential election of 1960 the then Vice President Richard Nixon and his term lasted only about a thousand days. During that time took place several remarkable facts in the history of ...