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The 1,000 Days of John F. Kennedy

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

The first of two documentary programmes about the Kennedy Presidency concentrates on some
Issues of foreign policy: the fiasco of the 1961 armed Invasion at the Bay of Pigs, the development of the American Involvement In South East Asia - first In Laos and then Vietnam, and the Cuba missile crisis.
What lessons were learnt by Kennedy before his assassination 20 years ago this month?
Contributors Include GEORGE BALL , MCGEORGE BUNDY, WILLIAM BUNDY, J. K. GALBRAITH ,
PAUL NITZE , GENE ROSTOW. DEAN RUSK, ARTHUR SCHLCSINCER and THEODORE SORENSEN. Presented by y Edmund Ions,
Reader In Politics, university of York.
Producer
ANTHONY MnurRiepp
(Repeated: Fri 11.0 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
George Ball
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J. K. Galbraith
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Paul Nitze
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Gene Rostow.
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Arthur Schlcsincer
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Theodore Sorensen.
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Anthony Mnurriepp
Source: Radio Times

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