I have to make a speech...help plz?

Question

I have to make a speech on how JFK's assassination impacted the world and how from his death it changed the world. I need direct impact and global impact. plz help!!

Answer 1

Linden Johnson the Vice President under Kennedy became President and escalated the Vietnam War in 1965. The United States was going to withdraw from Vietnam under Kennedy, but under Johnson, Nixon and Ford the War continued until 1975. The assassination of Kennedy changed the course of American history in a very destructive and costly way because three million Vietnamese died during the War and 59,000 American Service Personnel lost their lives. Also, tens of thousand of wounded came home to a very difficult life. Thousands suffered from PTSD and a million families broke up as a result of the war. It cost 150,000,000.00 Billion Dollars. 2000 United States Aircraft were lost during the War. More tons of explosives were dropped on Vietnam then America dropped during the whole of WW11. This Vietnam War was a disaster on scale never dreamed of before the war actually started in 1965.

Answer 2

Be sure to include the fact that we got LBJ as president as a result. There are plenty of us who figure that was the reason for the assassination, but then, the Warren Commission said it was a lone gun man with no particular reason to do what he did, and we all believe that, don't we?

The war in Vietnam was more LBJ's war than anything else, so that's the first line of how it changed the world. And, given how many Americans were killed and/or maimed, both physically and mentally, and the huge increase in white powder drugs as those guys came home, was another ripple effect.

Also, until that time, the Baby Boomers had been living in the dream world some called Camelot -- handsome young president, pretty wife and sweet little kids, and our world was mostly a fine place to be. Suddenly, death and deceit and all sorts of horrible things were thrust before our eyes on the television. We never really got over it. Everyone I know who is old enough remembers exactly where they were and what they were doing when they got the news, a measure of the impact it had on our lives.

Answer 3

It's not as simple as just asking for the direct impact and global impact and voila! you have a speech... I want to answer your question properly, but school is not about having someone else give you the answer.
Start by asking someone how it affected them. Surely you have relatives who were alive for it? How do *you* feel about it?
Only a doormat would answer your question properly and write your speech for you. Yahoo answers wasn't designed to encourage doormatism.
What kinds of things do you think would have been affected? He was a president, who was perpetually followed by an entourage of body guards who were supposed to protect him. People thought the president was untouchable. They would never have conceived that something like that could happen. They were wrong, and that was horrible. How do you think that would change things? I know people here (Australia) who were personally affected. How could Australians be affected??
Your job is to work out how, and why.
People still talk about it, still raise questions. Why? Why the doubt?
All sorts of global markets changed, directly or indirectly afterwards. How could the market change becuase of the death of one man??
The best person to talk to would be your parents and grandparents. People who lived through it, people who can say how they felt and how their friends felt and how things were different afterward.
Interview people. Ask intelligent questions. Become interested in finding out why and how.
It'd be better than a book report.

Answer 4

Without giving you the answer to a graded answer, I will try to help you out. In having to give the speech not out of choice, you have impact for starters. JFK was and still is ingrained in our society both america and world. The early sixties were a turbulant time in history. You must know the crisis with cuba and the bay of pigs first to know what the man ( lest we forget Bobby ) did. He also fought and won many major fights for human rights in an era that abhored anything not of the same religion, color or creed. This is a hint of what the man was and still is in mind.

Answer 5

Look, it's better not to give speeches on things you don't know about. Tell your teacher that. Right, fat chance. That's the disadvantage in schools, they don't encourage independent thought.

What do you mean, "you have to make a speech" on this subject. Why?

The right way to make a speech is to get up there and start talking, but you can't do that with something that you don't know anything about, or don't believe in.

Answer 6

ye haf to be emphatetic to your speech.........put more intensity to it.