Television: the Wave of the Future

Television, movies, newspapers, text messages, magazines, these are all way that people use today’s current technology to get information to others as fast as possible and these are only a few ways. In our country, our government is a democratic one and has been that way since it was first established back in the 1700’s. John F Kennedy our 35th president ran for his presidency towards the beginning of a new era, an era where technology would become a main source of information in the life of the average American. Kennedy used this technology to get to the majority of the country by television, as a matter of fact “More than 70 million people (out of a nation of 179 million) watched that first debate”(Davey, 5). Kennedy won his election based on these debates on television he looked better compared to Nixon, who had just gotten out of the hospital and refused to wear makeup. Kennedy looked better and therefore many people felt he won the first debate compared to those who listened on the radio who thought Nixon had won. With all this information being so accessible in our world, comes other challenges. Kennedy’s two major obstacles that he had to overcome to become president was the fact that many felt he was to young for the job being 43 and Nixon 47 at the time and that his religion would affect his job because he was Roman Catholic.

Rumors, of Kennedy spread easily about his religious background and he finally had to resolve the issue in a speech at Greater Houston Ministerial Association in Houston to a group of people who were mainly protestant background and feared that, “ as a Catholic, his allegiance was first a Catholic, and second, a citizen of their country”(Winchell). In his speech Kennedy said that, “we have far more critical issues to face in the 1960 election: the spread of Communist influence, until it now festers 90 miles off the coast of Florida”. As he was talking about Cuba and the Communist spread there. The part that I felt was important in...