John F Kennedy inaugural address anniversary - in pictures
1 July 1960: Presidential candidate John F Kennedy has a private chat with his brother and campaign manager, Robert, in a hotel suitePhotograph: Hank Walker/Time & Life Pictures1 September 1960: John F Kennedy shakes hands with admirers during his presidential campaignPhotograph: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life PicturesJohn F Kennedy with his brothers, Robert and Edward, in the early 1960sPhotograph: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis watches her husband, John, during a debatePhotograph: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life Pictures1 October 1960: Senator John F Kennedy speaks to a packed auditorium during a campaign tourPhotograph: Ed Clark/Time & Life PicturesPresident-elect John F Kennedy addresses reporters the day before his inaugurationPhotograph: Ed Clark/Time & Life Pictures20 January 1961: The newly elected president and his wife, Jacqueline, and others head to his inaugurationPhotograph: Paul Schutzer/Time & Life Pictures20 January 1961: President John F Kennedy delivers his inaugural address after taking the oath of office at the Capitol in WashingtonPhotograph: APPresident 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 othersPhotograph: Frank Scherschel/Time & Life PicturesCover of Life magazine, published on 27 January 1961Photograph: Leonard McCombe/Time & Life PicturesMarch 1961: John F Kennedy with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, AustriaPhotograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features25 March 1961: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the United States, holds a press conference on Laos at the White HousePhotograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive14 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 presidencyPhotograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty23 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, FloridaPhotograph: Michael Rougier/Time & Life Pictures19 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 BirthdayPhotograph: Cecil Stoughton/Time & Life Images19 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/AP22 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 crisisPhotograph: Ralph Crane/Time & Life Pictures/Getty25 November 1962: John F Kennedy Jr and his sister, Caroline, dance for their father in the Oval office of the White HousePhotograph: EPA11 May 1963: The US president lights a cigar on arrival at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts Photograph: Cecil Stoughton/AP26 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 Features28 June 1963: President Kennedy is almost lost in a sea of well-wishers during a visit to Cork in IrelandPhotograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive22 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 laterPhotograph: AP
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