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The Most Memorable Experience Of The 20th Century

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When I asked Dr. William Vorbroker about his most memorable experience in the 20th century, he immediately stated that it was the day president Kennedy was shot. He said that he was a 24 years old undergraduate student in University of Chicago. He and his friends were studying in the library when his roommate came running and told them that the president has been shot. None of them has seen him with such a serious face so they all went to the lounge to listen to the radio. Many of the students were already gathered, avidly listening to the news. After it was announced on the radio that President Kennedy has died they all sat silently dazed and shocked. Later on, Vorbroker remembers calling his girlfriend. He said that they sat down outside …show more content…

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. He held office from January 1961 until his assassination November 1963. He served in United States Naval Reserve in World War II. After his military service he was in the United States House of Representatives by representing Massachusetts’s 11th congressional district as a Democrat. He then served in the United States Senate. In the 1960s Presidential Election he defeated the Republican candidate Richard Nixon. He was the youngest president, at the age of forty three, in the United States to have been elected. On April 1961, Kennedy sent one thousand four hundred Cuban exiles to the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. He wanted to start a rebellion that would overthrow the communist leader Fidel Castro. However, the mission did not succeed and most of the exiles were captured or killed (1). In 1962, the Kennedy admiration became aware of the construction of nuclear and long range missile sites in Cuba by the Soviet Union. It was believed that this would pose a threat to the United States, therefore, President Kennedy announced naval blockade of Cuba. After a series of negotiation Khrushchev agreed to stop the construction of nuclear and long range missile in Cuba. The United States, in return, was to remove its missiles from countries close to Soviet Union. President Kennedy was

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