CONTENTS
  

  American History PicturePack

Collection J:
Contemporary America, 1960
to the Present
  
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
  

PicturePack J01: The Kennedy Presidency ● Map, the United States in 1960 ● Kennedy brothers as Congressional investigators ● Family watches a debate between Kennedy and Nixon ● Eleanor Roosevelt support benefited Kennedy ● Map: electoral vote, 1960 election ● John F. Kennedy, youngest American president ● Thousands came to Kennedy's inaugural parade ● President John F. Kennedy in his rocking chair ● A street scene in the mining town of Lansford, PA ● Tenant farm in Johnson County, North Carolina ● Puerto Rican migrant workers on fruit farm ● Kennedy announces The Alliance for Progress ● Fidel Castro enters Havana, January 8, 1959 ● Castro descends from tank at Bay of Pigs, 1961 ● A Soviet missile base in Cuba ● Mercury-Atlas 6 rocket blasts off ● John Glenn in spacecraft, on first orbit of earth ● American & Vietnamese officers at Vietnamese base ● Marine Special Forces unit patrolls isolated area ● Randolph and Rustin among marchers in Washington ● Multitude of marchers around the reflecting pool ● Fatal shots hit President Kennedy, Nov. 22, 1963 ● Lee Harvey Oswald (1939-1963) 
  

PicturePack J02: Lyndon Johnson’s America and the Escalation of the Vietnam War ● Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in ● The Kennedy funeral party ● Casket bearing Kennedy's body taken from Capitol ● John F. Kennedy's coffin being lowered into grave ● Lyndon Johnson signing Civil Rights Act 1964 ● Lyndon B. Johnson campaigning in New England ● Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater (b. 1909) ● Governor George C. Wallace (b. 1919) ● Chief Justice administers oath of office to LBJ ● Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) ● The Feminine Mystique ● Construction on Rosebud Sioux Indian reservation ● A map of Vietnam ● Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara ● Undersecretary of state George Ball ● A U.S. B-52 takes off for Vietnam ● General William Westmoreland (b. 1914) ● Cavalry Division on search and destroy mission ● Sky troopers land at Song Rem from a helicopter ● Transport planes spray defoliation chemicals ● Operation Ranch Hand ● USAF HH-3 helicopter crewman fires into jungle ● Smoke over Saigon during the Tet offensive ● Pentagon protest against Vietnam War ● Marshals remove protester from march on Pentagon ● Folk singer Joan Baez (b. 1941) ● LBJ and Vietnam war opponent Sen. Wayne Morse ● LBJ announcing he would not run for presidency ● Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978)  
 

PicturePack J03: The Nixon Administration; Watergate ● Nixon's vice presidential candidate Spiro Agnew ● Map: Electoral and popular votes, 1968 election ● President Richard M. Nixon's inaugural address ● Henry Kissinger (b. 1923) ● Space program's success owed to Wernher von Braun ● Apollo/Saturn 204 suffers internal fire ● Saturn 204 fire slows moon program ● Armstrong and Aldrin on moon’s surface ● The American flag on the moon's surface ● Lunar module Eagle returns to Columbia ● Earth as it appears from space ● CH-47 helicopter lifting a 105 mm howitzer ● Air Force One arrives at Beijing, Feb. 1972 ● Nixon and party tour the Great Wall of China ● In Beijing, Nixon met with Chairman Mao Ze Dung ● Nixon's aircraft arrives in Moscow, May 22, 1972 ● Nixon meets with USSR Chairman Leonid Brezhnev ● Triumphant Nixon after SALT I meeting in Moscow ● Gloria Steinem (b. 1934) ● The Supreme Court building in Washington ● Kissinger en route to Paris negotiations ● Nixon announced the ceasefire on television ● The crisis that destroyed Nixon as president ● Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) ● Nixon's farewell to the White House staff  
 

PicturePack J04: Domestic & International Politics Under Ford and Carter ● Jerry and Betty Ford arrive at the White House ● Ex-governor Jerry Apodaca (b. 1930) ● Governor Raul H. Castro (b. 1916) ● James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, Jr ● President Carter with Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr ● Election of 1976 gave Carter a narrow victory ● A map of the Caribbean region ● Carter after signing of Panama Canal Treaty ● A map of Israel and neighboring states ● Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin ● Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980)    
 

PicturePack J05: Reagan & the First Bush Presidency: Republican Ascendancy ● Ronald Reagan (b. 1911) ● Hostages released upon Reagan's inauguration ● President Reagan signs the tax cut bill ● Bethlehem Steel's closed plant at Lackawanna, NY ● Japanese automated automobile plant ● Dedication of Vietnam War Memorial in Washington ● U.S. 82nd Airborne Division passes Granadians ● American military patrol on duty near Beirut ● Remains of Beirut Marine battalion barracks ● A woman cadet officer at the U.S. Naval Academy ● Sally Ride became one of first women astronauts ● Wilma Rudolph won 3 gold medals at 1960 olympics ● Ex-Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro (b. 1935) ● Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev ● A troubled S&L ● A graph showing the burgeoning national debt ● The Challenger exploded right after launch ● Governor Michael Dukakis ● 1988 Republican Presidential Candidates ● The U.S. invasion of Panama ● Soldiers in the Gulf War ● Gulf War prompted demonstrations ● A pro-Gulf War counter - demonstration, Jan. 1991 ● President Bush opens Madrid Peace Conference   
  

PicturePack J06: The New Millennium and Beyond ● Drugs: A woman injecting heroin ● Anti-crack graffiti on a New York City wall ● An AIDS poster ● Men & women in unemployment office 1992 ● A laptop computer ● Air travel ● Viking 2 view of Mars ● Voyager 1 view of Saturn's rings ● Ross Perot ● Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Clinton ● The health care debate ● The Rabin/ Arafat accords, 9/13/94 ● The "Contract With America." ● Chart, Republican shift 1994 ● Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) ● Chart, Senate shift 1994 ● Senator Robert Dole (R-KS) ● Chart, governors shift 1994 ● The Oklahoma City bombing