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Since presidential inaugurations moved from March to January in 1937, none have stirred up as much weather drama as John F. Kennedy’s in 1961, when a surprise snowstorm the day before brought ...
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi met President John F. Kennedy as a college student after his inauguration in 1961.
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 ...
Less 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 ...
Fifty years ago, a metaphor became concrete. Beginning on Aug. 13, 1961, along West Berlin's 27-mile border, the Iron Curtain became tangible in a wall of precast slabs of concrete. It came down ...
News Would a bubble-top have saved Kennedy? More answers from the strange story of JFK’s Lincoln limo The Continental’s low-slung, angular lines and rear-hinged “suicide” doors were a bold ...
arts entertainment Pop Culture JFK assassination: 8 strange details about Kennedy’s 1961 Lincoln Continental limousine From its surprising price tag and oddball features to whispers of its role ...
President John F. Kennedy Inaugural 1961 Newsreel Report Video Issue 0 seconds of 36 minutes, 9 secondsVolume 50% ...
Appraisal: 1961-1963 Kennedy & Johnson-signed PhotosGUEST: I was the White House photographer for,# uh, John Kennedy. Started a job in inaugural day## of 1961 and, uh, stayed with him until Dallas ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 1961 (UPI) - President-elect John F. Kennedy was urged by a special task force today to push for a four-year $5,400,000,000 housing program and to create a new Cabinet ...