The month of November 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. To learn more, we welcome two UNCP faculty members for a conversation about the political climate of the time, and implications for the decades to follow. We discuss how these themes are taught in classrooms today, and what relevance and lessons the assassination and subsequent killing of Lee Harvey Oswald have for society. Drs. Marineau and Hudson, who met as students at the University of Texas at Austin, both came to UNC Pembroke and reconnected as faculty, sharing interest in twentieth century history and politics.

Dr. Josiah Marineau is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UNCP and faculty advisor and coach for the Model United Nations program. He specializes in Comparative Politics and International Relations with a focus on the South Caucasus as well as central and eastern Africa. In addition to ongoing fieldwork in Georgia, he has conducted fieldwork in Uganda, Malawi, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania. He has published in Studies in Comparative International Development, Conflict Management and Peace Science, and the Journal of Political Science Education, among others.

Dr. James Hudson has been teaching at UNCP in the Department of History since 2018, and is a specialist in modern Chinese history. His research interests focus on China’s urban modernization and the impact of western colonialism and imperialism in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His publications have provided new and valuable insight into the history of American businesses, missionary organizations, and diplomats during this period. His research skills, professional training, and time spent living and working in the People’s Republic of China has allowed him to provide students with expert analysis of China’s history, culture, and rapidly changing geo-political landscape in the 21st century.

Further Discovery

JFK Library

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy

Official government archives, including a link to the Warren Commission report

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk

On the recent biography discussed in the podcast: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/us/politics/jfk-assassination-witness-paul-landis.html

The JFK Museum, located in the building of the Texas School Book Depository

https://www.jfk.org/

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