John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States on January 20, 1961. AP/File President John F. Kennedy gives his inaugural address at the Capitol in Washington after taking ...

Seated in plane, John F. Kennedy, the President-elect, is reading draft of speech on Jan. 18, 1961 which he will use at his inauguration, as his plane carried him from New York City to Washington ...

Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy told a joint session of Congress that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a ...

JFK's 'Moon Speech' Still Resonates 50 Years Later. News. By Mike Wall published 12 September 2012 ... Kennedy had first aired that ambitious goal in May 1961, ...

On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy delivered his first State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. It was just the second such speech delivered by a newly elected ...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi met President John F. Kennedy as a college student ... attended JFK’s inauguration in 1961. ... sunlit cold” watching Kennedy deliver a now-iconic speech.

This clip provides an archival recording of President John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address.

President John F Kennedy gives his inaugural address at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 20, 1961, after he took oath of office. Listening in front row of inaugural seats, from left, are, Vice ...

On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy advised U.S. families to build bomb shelters to protect themselves from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.