Kennedy Assassination
An Analysis of Why Kennedy's Assassination is a Turning Point
The 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a turning point in American history. On a superficial level, it served as the eradication of post-War idealism, of American "purity" and patriotic zeal. Kennedy's death ushered in an era of social revolution throughout the 1960s and 1970s. On a deeper level, however, Kennedy's assassination and the events surrounding it pushed many Americans toward a more skeptical and cynical view of their government. If Eisenhower warned of the rise of the military-industrial complex (MIC) in his 1961 Farewell Address, Kennedy's death opened the door even more widely to the notion of government conspiracy and the power of the MIC (Jarecki, 2008, pp. 152-154). This paper will analyze the Kennedy assassination and show why it serves as a turning point in American history.
To say that President Kennedy's assassination was just another event is to...
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