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The Kennedy brothers: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The Kennedy family is one of the most established political families in the United States, having produced a president, three senators, three ambassadors, and multiple other representatives and politicians.
John F. Kennedy's tenure as the 35th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1961, and ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963. . Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts, took office following his narrow victory over Republican incumbent vice president Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential elect
Kennedy delivering his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University, 1962. In 1960, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, was elected the 35th president of the United States with Lyndon B. Johnson as his vice presidential running mate.
President Kennedy was the first president in more than 30 years to lie in state in the rotunda, the last being Taft in 1930, [80] and the first Democrat to lie in state at the Capitol. [81] Mrs. Kennedy's decision to have her husband buried at Arlington meant the two most recent presidents to lie in state in the Capitol would be buried at ...
President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jackie Kennedy greet well-wishers along the reception line after Air Force One landed at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, on Nov. 21, 1963.
Kennedy was nominated by the Democratic Party at the national convention on July 15, 1960, and he named Senator Lyndon B. Johnson as his vice-presidential running mate. On November 8, 1960, they defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon and United Nations Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. in the general election.
President John F. Kennedy: President Kennedy paused for a "celebration of freedom" on the historic day in 1961. The Massachusetts native spoke of assured liberty and harshly warned the global ...
It serves as a living memorial to its namesake, President John F. Kennedy. (Reporting by Jeff Mason in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Shri Navaratnam and ...