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 An
Overview of John F. Kennedy's Administration
At 43, John F. Kennedy
was the youngest man ever elected President, and,
at 46, the youngest ever to die in office. As
President, Kennedy won world respect as the
leader of the Free World. On the home front, the
U.S. enjoyed its greatest prosperity in history. |
 John
Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Chronology of His Life and
Career Born into a politically
active family, John was initially slated to
become a writer or a teacher, but the death of
his brother Joseph in World War II led him into
the "family business." |
 Cuban Missile Crisis
In the fall of 1962, the United
States and the Soviet Union came dangerously
close to war after it was learned that Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev had begun deploying
medium and intermediate range ballistic missiles
in Cuba. |
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