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John F Kennedy inaugural address anniversary - in pictures

JFK Anniversary: Pres cand Jack Kennedy conferring head-to-head w his brot
1 July 1960: Presidential candidate John F Kennedy has a private chat with his brother and campaign manager, Robert, in a hotel suite Photograph: Hank Walker/Time & Life Pictures
JFK Anniversary: John F. Kennedy shaking hands during Presidential campaign
1 September 1960: John F Kennedy shakes hands with admirers during his presidential campaign Photograph: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life Pictures
JFK Anniversary: John F. Kennedy with brothers Robert and Edward
John F Kennedy with his brothers, Robert and Edward, in the early 1960s Photograph: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features
JFK Anniversary: Jacqueline Kennedy watching her husband during a debate
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis watches her husband, John, during a debate Photograph: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life Pictures
JFK Anniversary: John F. Kennedy speaking during a campaign tour
1 October 1960: Senator John F Kennedy speaks to a packed auditorium during a campaign tour Photograph: Ed Clark/Time & Life Pictures
JFK Anniversary: President-elect John F. Kennedy talking to newsmen
President-elect John F Kennedy addresses reporters the day before his inauguration Photograph: Ed Clark/Time & Life Pictures
JFK Anniversary: New President John F. Kennedy & wife walking to his Inauguration
20 January 1961: The newly elected president and his wife, Jacqueline, and others head to his inauguration Photograph: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life Pictures
JFK Anniversary: President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address
20 January 1961: President John F Kennedy delivers his inaugural address after taking the oath of office at the Capitol in Washington Photograph: AP
JFK Anniversary: John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address
President Kennedy gives his inaugural address, flanked by Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, Jacqueline Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Justice Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, John Sparkman, the Trumans and Sam Rayburn among others Photograph: Frank Scherschel/Time & Life Pictures
JFK Anniversary: Cover of LIFE magazine of Kennedy's Inauguration
Cover of Life magazine, published on 27 January 1961 Photograph: Leonard McCombe/Time & Life Pictures
JFK Anniversary: John F Kennedy With Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev
March 1961: John F Kennedy with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, Austria Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
JFK Anniversary: John F Kennedy holding a press conference on Laos
25 March 1961: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the United States, holds a press conference on Laos at the White House Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive
JFK Anniversary: John F. Kennedy answers a question at a press conference
14 April 1961: The president answers a question at a press conference in Washington, which took place three days before the failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba three months into Kennedy's presidency Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty
JFK Anniversary: John F. Kennedy walks with astronaut John Glenn
23 February 1962: Flanked by saluting soldiers, US President John F Kennedy walks with astronaut John Glenn (left) and Vice President (and later President) Lyndon Baines Johnson (centre) shortly after his arrival on Air Force One in Cape Canaveral, Florida Photograph: Michael Rougier/Time & Life Pictures
JFK Anniversary: Marilyn Monroe stands between Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy
19 May 1962: Marilyn Monroe speaks to Robert Kennedy (left) and John F Kennedy. The New York party followed a Democrats fundraiser at Madison Square Garden honouring the president's birthday, during which the Hollywood actress famously sang Happy Birthday Photograph: Cecil Stoughton/Time & Life Images
JFK Anniversary: John F. Kennedy smiles surrounded by fans after going for a swim
19 August 1962: The president is mobbed by hundreds of beachgoers after going for a swim in the ocean behind his brother-in-law's Santa Monica home. Many followed him into the water fully clothed. John F Kennedy was good natured about it, shaking hands with well-wishers Photograph: Bill Beebe/AP
JFK Anniversary: John F. Kennedy as he delivers a televised address to the nation
22 October 1962: Customers in the electronics department of an unidentified department store in California gather to watch President John F Kennedy deliver an address to the nation on the Cuban missile crisis Photograph: Ralph Crane/Time & Life Pictures/Getty
JFK Anniversary: John F.Kennedy Jr (R) dancing with his sister Caroline
25 November 1962: John F Kennedy Jr and his sister, Caroline, dance for their father in the Oval office of the White House Photograph: EPA
JFK Anniversary: John Kennedy arrives in Hyannis Port, Mass. puffing on a cigar May
11 May 1963: The US president lights a cigar on arrival at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts Photograph: Cecil Stoughton/AP
JFK Anniversary: John F. Kennedy addressing the crowd in front of Schoeneberg city hall
26 June 1963: The president addresses a crowd in the main square in front of Schöneberg city hall, where he proclaimed: "Ich bin ein Berliner", which means "I am a jelly roll". He should have said "Ich bin Berliner" – I am a Berliner Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
JFK Anniversary: John F Kennedy is almost lost among a crowd of well-wishers
28 June 1963: President Kennedy is almost lost in a sea of well-wishers during a visit to Cork in Ireland Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive
JFK Anniversary: President John F Kennedy rides in a motorcade with his wife Jacqueline
22 November 1963: John F Kennedy rides in a motorcade with his wife, Jacqueline (right), Nellie Connally (left) and her husband, the Texan governor John Connally, in Dallas, Texas. The US president was assassinated just moments later Photograph: AP
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