1961-1963

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1961-1963

Brothers

the hidden history of the Kennedy years
2007
Examines the Kennedy administration, their determination to crack down on organized crime and Communism, and Robert Kennedy's quest for justice and vengeance in the aftermath of John Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

Maximum danger

Kennedy, the missiles, and the crisis of American confidence
2001

Let every nation know

John F. Kennedy in his own words
2006
A collection of speeches, debates, and press conferences spanning President John F. Kennedy's political career. Includes a CD with additional speeches.

Decade of disillusionment

the Kennedy-Johnson years
1975
Discusses the decade of the Sixties in America, the administrations of two Democratic Presidents, Kennedy and Johnson, and the war in Vietnam.

The week the world stood still

inside the secret Cuban Missile Crisis
2005
Reviews the Cuban missile crisis. Includes transcriptions of secretly recorded ExComm meetings that depict the tension and anger during the progression of the crisis. Documents the role of President John F. Kennedy in averting a nuclear conflict.

Of Kennedys and Kings

making sense of the sixties
1980
Reexamines the momentous decade that saw Kennedy's Presidency and the remarkable Civil Rights leadership of Martin Luther King.

Remembering America

a voice from the sixties
1988
A political tour of the 1960s with Goodwin's memoirs of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and Eugene McCarthy.

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