1961-1963
1 Term (2 years, 10 months)
Democratic
1960 Election
Opponent:
Richard Nixon
Inaugural Address
(Audio)
Cold War
Vienna Summit
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Address on Cuban Arms Buildup
(Audio)
Alliance for Progress
Apollo Program
Rice University Speech
(Video)
Kinzua Dam
Peace Corps
(Announcement - Audio)
McNamara Taylor Commission
World Peace Speech
(Audio)
West Berlin Speech
(Video)
New Frontier
Status of Women
Equal Pay Act
of 1963
Jobs and Freedom March
Kennedy Assassination
Civil Rights Act
of 1964
Warren Commission
Assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
• Kennedy's portrait appears on the
US half-dollar coin
.
• Kennedy was chosen TIME Magazine's Person of the Year in
1961
.
• Kennedy was the only President to have won
Pulitzer Prize
in 1957.
• Kennedy did not accept a salary for being President.
•
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Born May 29, 1917
Brookline, Massachusetts
Died November 22, 1963
Dallas, Texas
College:
Harvard
Spouse:
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy
Vice President
Secretary of State
Secretary of Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Postmaster General
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of HEW
Lyndon B. Johnson
- 1961-1963
Dean Rusk - 1961-1963
C. Douglas Dillon - 1961-1963
Robert McNamara - 1961-1963
Robert F. Kennedy - 1961-1963
J. Edward Day - 1961-1963
John A. Gronouski - 1963
Stewart Udall - 1961-1963
Orville Freeman - 1961-1963
Luther H. Hodges - 1961-1963
Arthur Goldberg - 1961-1962
W. Willard Wirtz - 1962-1963
Abraham A. Ribicoff - 1961-1962
Anthony J. Celebrezze - 1962-1963