Youthful and full of energy, President John F. Kennedy represented those Americans seeking progressive social programs and improved interaction with other nations. Most of his administration's New Frontier programs, however, were barely underway when...

Excerpt from Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs Presented on May 25, 1961 On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy (1917–1963; served 1961–63) addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress and declared that the...

Born May 29, 1917Brookline, Massachusetts Died November 22, 1963Dallas, Texas Politician, thirty-fifth presidentof the United States John F. Kennedy Photo courtesy of the...

(born May 29, 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.—died November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas) 35th president of the United States (1961–63), who faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure such...

(b. May 29, 1917; d. November 22, 1963) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate; thirty-fifth president of the United States (1961–1963). Born less than two months after the United States entered World War I, John F. Kennedy...

(born May 29, 1917, Brookline, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas) 35th president of the U.S. (1961–63). The son of Joseph P. Kennedy, he graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and joined the navy the following year. He...

U.S. President 1917-1963 John F. Kennedy is often touted as a champion of space exploration and for good reason. It was he who challenged the United States to put the first man on the Moon. His motives were probably political, not visionary. The world...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. After Kennedy's military service as commander of the USS PT-109 during World War II...