hats. they had little asked pack for what they expected to be a permanent move, mostly because they had little else. segregationists when southern states convince them to travel to massachusetts on buses by promising the world. jobs, permanent housing, a new life, a meeting with president john f. kennedy. none of that happened. these people, women and men and children, were lured, lied to, and sent to massachusetts with nothing. kennedy wasn t there to greet them, but the cape cod naacp was, because they caught wind of the trick. the whole thing, if you can believe it, was on purpose. real people with real lives and real human needs were used as pawns and again concocted by white segregationist southern leaders who are angry about the push for racial integration. they were angry about the activism of the freedom riders in 1961, who aimed to integrate bus travel. they were so angry they punished innocent people on purpose, putting them on what they called reversed freedom
they had little else. segregationists in southern states convinced them to travel to massachusetts on buses by promising the world. jobs, permanent housing, and a new life, and a meeting with president john f. kennedy. none of that happened. these people, women and men and children, were lured, lied to, and sent to massachusetts, with nothing. kennedy wasn t there to greet them. but the cape cod naacp was because they caught wind of the trick. the whole thing, if you can believe it, it was on purpose. real people with real lives and real human needs were used as pawns in a game concocted by white segregationist southern leaders who were angry about the push for racial integration. they were angry about the activism of the freed riders in 1961 who aimed to integrate interstate bus travel, they were so angry that they punished innocent people on purpose putting them on what they called reverse freedom rides back up north. the ultimate accomplishment
while you were sleeping police kept an intruder from breaking into the kennedy compound. police arresting 53-year-old james lacroix after they found him in ted kennedy jr. s kitchen. he was looking for singer katie perry. kennedy wasn t there at the time. he was calling on his 16-year-old son who was on t the suspect answered the phone. he got in through an unlocked door. he was not armed. closing arguments are set to begin in the case of the boston marathon bombing. a friend of the boston marathon suspects are accused of hiding evidence from the investigators. they say he through out a backpack filled with fireworks that was in tsarnaev s dorm room. the bombing killed 3 people and
everything he stood for and confidence in government, that sort of died with jfk. the world changed after jfk s death. the country changed. we plunged a few months later deep into the war in vietnam that kennedy and specifically had taken steps no the to do. i think he would have found the way to negotiate just as he ended the berlin crisis, just as he ended the cuban missile crisis. and the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. i do not shrink from this responsibility. i welcome it. really faced down the russians at a time it wasn t so easy and it was a very, very dangerous point. thus far the most dangerous point in our history. the legacy in the space program
to try to calm the splits among texas democrats who were torn apart. white southerners did not like kennedy s basic principles, his call to end racial discrimination, the hate mail poured into the white house. a good many of people already hated him because he was a catholic, but kennedy wasn t deterred by hate mail or criticism. it hasn t been used in domestic politicking since the campaign in 1960. oh, she was thrilled to be going because she was going to help jack. it was, quote, help jack, unquote. kennedy was different. he became enamored with this young, attractive, able, articulate president of the