Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (132 page)

Kennedy, John, Jr.,
522

Kennedy, Joseph P.,
435
,
439
,
492

Kennedy, Robert F.: assassinated,
449
,
693
,
708

as Attorney General,
459
,
476

and Bay of Pigs,
493

and civil rights,
469
–70,
473
–75,
477
–78,
692
–93

and Cuban missile crisis,
499
–507

and foreign affairs,
491
,
492
,
497

and Johnson,
634
,
691

and Martin Luther King, Jr.,
440
,
693

and Mafia,
521

and 1960 presidential campaign,
439

1968 presidential campaign,
683
,
685
,
691
–94,
696
,
702

and Operation Mongoose,
498
,
520

and Adlai Stevenson,
305

Kent State University,
745
–55

Kerner, Otto,
664

Kerouac, Jack,
409
,
410

Kerr, Clark,
69
n

Kerr, Robert,
230
–31

Keynes, John Maynard,
55
,
464

Keyserling, Leon,
177

Khe Sanh,
678
–79

Khmer Rouge,
767

Khrushchev, Nikita: and Bay of Pigs,
495

and Berlin wall,
497

and Cuban missile crisis,
499
–507

and Eisenhower,
302
,
303
,
421
,
423
,
424

and Hungary,
308
–9

and Kennedy,
421
n,
475
,
490
,
491
,
492
,
498
,
506
–7,
509
,
511
,
517
,
600

"Kitchen Debate" with Richard Nixon,
317

and "Secret Speech,"
304

and U–2 incident,
425
–27,
488

Kilgore, Harley,
120
,
227

Killian, James,
280
n

Kim II Sung,
208
,
209
–10,
219
,
236

King, B. B.,
372

King, Coretta Scott,
440

King, Ed,
553
,
554

King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr.: Albany Movement,
472
–73

assassinated,
449
,
650
,
685
,
688
,
689
,
690
,
691
,
693
,
694
,
701
,
708

background,
402

in Birmingham,
444
,
477
–80

and "Bloody Sunday,"
580
–81

and FBI,
475
–76

and Jesse Jackson,
760

and Johnson,
634

"Letter from Birmingham Jail,"
479

March on Washington,
444
,
482
,
485

and Meredith march,
655
–56

and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party,
555

Montgomery bus boycott,
401
–6

and 1960 presidential election,
440

and non-violence,
402
–3,
432
,
657

and "prayer pilgrimage,"
411

popularity,
654

in Selma,
579
–84

and Supreme Court,
566

and urban riots,
552

and Vietnam War,
614
,
617
,
661

and voting rights,
579
–80

and Watts riot,
588

King, Rev. Martin Luther, Sr.,
402
,
439
,
440

King, Mary,
645

Kinsey, Alfred,
35
,
355
–58

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
,
343
,
356
,
358

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
,
355
–56

Kirk, Alan,
209

Kirk, Grayson,
686
,
687

Kirk, Russell,
332

Kissinger, Henry: and Middle East,
784

on military preparedness,
422

and Nixon,
703
,
744
–45,
748
,
749
–51,
778

nuclear policy,
419

Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
,
419

and Pentagon Papers,
756
–57

and James Schlesinger,
779
–80

and Vietnam,
763
–64,
765
,
766
–69

Kleindienst, Richard,
775
,
779
n

Knights of Columbus,
182

Knowland, William,
268
,
273
,
280
,
299

Knowles, Dr. John,
575

Kopechne, Mary Jo,
758
–59

Korea,
113
,
758
.
See also
Korean War

Korean War,
99
,
167
,
286
,
322
n

casualties,
4
n,
207
–8,
216
,
595
,
596

cease-fire,
261

effects of,
235
–42,
273

Eisenhower and,
249
,
260
,
261
,
280
,
312

expenditures on,
64
,
236

and Indochina,
293

and integration,
151

and McCarthyism,
262

and 1952 presidential election,
255
,
256

and NSC–68,
178

and nuclear weapons,
122
,
223
–24

prisoners of war,
234

troop levels in,
288

Truman and,
97

and U.S. Army,
168
–69

and U.S. economy,
272

"Kraft Television Theater,"
349

Kristol, Irving,
651
–52

Kroc, Ray,
316

Krock, Arthur,
50

Ku Klux Klan,
396
–97,
404
–5,
469
,
553
,
583
–84,
658
,
668
,
698

Kuboyama, Aikichi,
276

Kubrick, Stanley,
347
,
445
,
699

Ky, Colonel Nguyen Cao,
612
,
683

La Follette, Robert, Jr.,,
196

La Guardia, Fiorello,
128
–29

Labor unions: and African-Americans,
40
,
382

communism in,
54
,
183
,
184
,
203

and conservatives,
59

Eisenhower and,
272

and government,
452

and Humphrey,
702

and Levittown,
72

and New Left,
623

and Nixon,
724
,
761

and Red Scare,
135

role of,
40
–55,
138
,
325
–26

success of,
321
–23

Truman and,
140

and Vietnam War,
629

weakening of,
538
,
564
,
739
–40

and women,
367
,
462

Lady Chatterley's Lover
(Lawrence, D. H.),
359
,
360

Laird, Melvin,
751
,
762

Landrum-Griffin Act,
326

Lansdale, Edward,
297

Lansing, Robert,
282

Laos,
292
,
601
,
678