Historian Alan Brinkley discussed the crises President Kennedy faced in 1961, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin Crisis, and the lessons he learned from those events. He is the ...

L ess than a week after he was inaugurated—on Jan. 25, 1961—President Kennedy stepped before a microphone in the State Department auditorium and spoke to reporters about a range of topics ...

January 20, 1961 President Kennedy 1961 Inauguration. Highlights were shown of the 1961 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy courtesy of the Senate Recording Studio.

1961 Kennedy Inauguration. N/A. Jan. 20, 2009 7:22 am "The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that fire ...

1961: John F. Kennedy. Man on the Moon: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to ...

A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful.

A master orator, JFK was not a high achiever in his first 100 days, a period marked by the bungled Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by U.S.-trained Cuban exiles ...

John F. Kennedy: Remarks at the White House Correspondents' Dinner - February 25, 1961 ...

The near-mythical legacy of President Kennedy can be attributed to several things. His wife Jackie's quest to ensure that "Camelot" would not be forgotten and the gone-too-soon element of lost ...