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Summary Of The President's Been Shot

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“The President’s Been Shot” By: James L. Swanson

The article “Troubles in the Land” is mainly focused on racial issues in America during the 1960’s. It mentions that President Truman desegregated the military yet there were still underlying problems for African Americans. They still didn’t have the freedoms that they deserved. It also mentions the boycotts that they participated in. The bus boycott was included in the third paragraph as well as Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. Myron Marty, the author of the article, recalled the protests that American Indians and Hispanic Americans took part in for the United Farm Workers. Cesar Chavez, as the leader, was head of many nationwide boycotts of farm products. The article goes …show more content…

Swanson is about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.In the book, it states different problems that happened during this time period. Some of these problems were not included in the article; such as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Towards the end of 1962 (October), our spy planes detected activity in Cuba involving the establishment of Russian Missile bases.The leader for Russia, Nikita Khrushchev, thought of President Kennedy as a young, weak leader for the United States. From October 16-38, 1962, America was on the verge of a nuclear war with Cuba. Another problem that needed to be solved during his presidency dealt with foreign affairs. During Kennedy’s first year in office, the Soviet Union started and finished the construction of the Berlin Wall. This started an uprising in Berlin. It kept the residents of the Soviet Sector from gaining freedom. With the wall separating them, they could no longer flee their homes in hopes of escaping communism. JFK spoke to over 300,000 people, including the families of those who had been shot by East German soldiers while attempting to escape, proclaiming that he stood with them. During his years as President, he dealt with many affairs. These two are just a fraction of how many he …show more content…

The outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis at first was not well. Our relationship with Cuba suffered greatly as we cut off all trade with them. It hasn’t been until recently that we reopened trade with them. Despite the fact that we have began to work with Cuba again, relations remain strained. With the Berlin Wall comes a resolution as well. In 1989, with Ronald Reagan as President, the Berlin Wall was finally torn down. Tensions were still high at that point but the Soviet Sector was finally free to go wherever they wanted. Out of the two, the Berlin Wall made the most progress. Since it has been torn down, the Soviet Sector has gained the freedoms that it was kept from for almost 26 years. The people that lived in that sector now have the ability to do what they want or go where they want to go. As for the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have just reopened trade. For years we were not on good relations and it’s not until now that we are actually working together in some ways. In my opinion I feel that the Berlin Wall and it’s victims have come along way, farther than our relations with Cuba

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