JFK: Cuba, Camelot and the Cold War (TRIH ep 393, part 2)
1961 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook survey John F. Kennedy’s life, politics and foreign policy to explain possible motives behind his assassination. They profile Kennedy the man — his charm, health problems, private life and family background, notably his father Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. — and his political rise through the 1960 primaries and narrow election victory over Richard Nixon.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1961
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)