John F. Kennedy, the youngest candidate ever elected to the presidency, proved a fitting representative of the youthful and energetic spirit of America during the early 1960s. Like Theodore Roosevelt before him, the young president enjoyed engaging in physical activity in his leisure time, and was often seen playing with his young children on the lawns outside the White House. Hoping to convey the merits of exercise and sports to an increasingly lethargic American public, President Kennedy created the President's Council on Physical Fitness. On February 13, 1963, White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger issued safety guidelines on behalf of the council for engaging in long hikes, and joked about his own questionable physical fitness in comparison with that of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the president's athletic younger brother.
On January 29, 1963, Robert Frost, one of the most popular and beloved American poets of the twentieth century, died at the age of eighty-eight. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times, Frost wrote...
On March 16, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of assassinated president John F. Kennedy, announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Robert Kennedy, a...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy rarely accompanied...
On January 2, 1960, John F. Kennedy officially announced his bid for the presidency when a reporter asked him if, as in 1956, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for vice president....
On October 22, 1962, in a nationally televised address, President John F. Kennedy disclosed that U.S. spy planes had discovered the placement of Soviet offensive missiles in Cuba. The president...
On May 31, 1961, French President Charles de Gaulle gave a state dinner at his presidential palace in honor of President John F. Kennedy and the first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy. The youthful...
On January 20, 1961, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the thirty-fifth president of the United States. Two months before, in one of the...
On June 3, 1961, President John F. Kennedy met Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Geneva for a summit meeting, the first to be held between the two superpowers since Khrushchev walked out of the...
John F. Kennedy, the youngest candidate ever elected to the presidency, proved a fitting representative of the youthful and energetic spirit of America during the early 1960s. Like Theodore...
At 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in an open-car motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. He was pronounced dead 30 minutes later....
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