Camelot
JFK’s Attorney General who helped navigate a compromise to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
Soviet leader who initiated the building of the Berlin Wall.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Nixon’s secretary who allegedly erased significant portions of key incriminating White House conversations by accident.
Who is Rosemary Woods?
LBJ’s Secretary of Defense who supported the American war in Vietnam at first but later turned against it as victory proved supremely illusive.
Who is Robert McNamara?
Charismatic disciple of Elijah Muhammed the leader of the Nation of Islam in America, he advocated black separation from the “white devil.”
Who is Malcolm X?
Harvard intellectual and historian who was part of JFK’s brains trust.
Who is Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.?
Iranian leader restored to power by CIA intervention in 1953.
Who is Shah Pahlavi?
Outspoken supporter of black voting rights despite severe physical intimidation from the authorities in Ruleville, Mississippi.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
American military command in Vietnam who repeatedly asked for more troops to win the war.
Who is William Westmoreland?
Chairman of SNCC who oversaw the transition to exclusive black leadership within the organization.
Who is Stokeley Carmichael?
JFK’s secretary of state who would follow the White House’s lead on foreign policy.
Who is Dean Rusk?
North Korean leader who initiated the invasion of the South in June 1950.
Who is Kim Il-sung?
Folk singer who led the crowd in singing “We Shall Overcome” at the March on Washington.
Who is Joan Baez?
Former Henry Kissinger associate who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
Chicago Black Panther killed in a police shoot-out that looked more like a police shoot-to-kill raid in 1969.
Who is Fred Hampton?
White House foreign policy advisor during the Kennedy years.
Who is Walt Rostow?
South Vietnamese president who felt abandoned by the US when the Americans signed a peace treaty with the North with no guarantees for the South in January 1973.
Who is Nguyen Thieu?
Former Fisk University beauty queen who risked brutality by leading the April 1961 freedom rides.
Who is Diane Nash?
JFK’s personal military advisor on Vietnam.
Who is Maxwell Taylor?
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party in 1966, he was charged and convicted of inciting violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Who is Bobby Seale?
Chair of JFK’s Council of Economic Advisors who pushed for economic growth to solve the problem of persistent poverty.
Who is Walter Heller?
Democratically elected Guatemalan president who was ousted in 1954 by a CIA sponsored coup.
Who is Jacobo Arbenz?
Member of the South Vietnamese ruling family known as the “Dragonlady,” she controlled the black market currency operation.
Who is Madam Nhu?
LBJ’s national security advisor who proposed a “middle way” of modest military buildup in South Vietnam.
Who is McGeorge Bundy?
SNCC leader who said “violence is as American as cherry pie.”
Who is H. Rap Brown?