Presents the life of Winston Churchill, his career, and his connection with the United States, a country he called “the Great Republic.” The section of the exhibition Cold War and Long Sunset contains a few items related to Kennedy and Churchill.

Presents works by cartoonist Herb Block, who chronicled the nation’s political history and caricatured twelve American presidents from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton. This exhibition includes a number of political cartoons related to John F. Kennedy and his Administration.

Items from eighteen presidents are featured in this online exhibition, including documents and images related to Kennedy's 1961 inauguration.

This exhibition presents documents and photographs from the highly secret internal record of Soviet Communism. It includes a section on the Cuban Missile Crisis that contains a letter from Nikita Khrushchev to Kennedy.

This exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark judicial case, which declared that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” This decision was pivotal to the struggle for racial desegregation in the United States. The exhibition contains a letter from John A. Morsell, Assistant to the NAACP Executive Secretary, to President Kennedy requesting the assistance of the federal government in the case of James Meredith.

The section of the exhibit "Civil Rights Era (1950–1963)" contains documents, photographs, and films from the Kennedy Administration related to the civil rights movement.

Unofficial transcript of the first presidential debate between Nixon and Kennedy.

Typescript with Frost's holograph script corrections in ink and Stewart Udall's holograph clarifications in pencil on the last page.

Search the Library's digital collections to find images related to John F. Kenendy.

This guide contains approximately 400 items relating to presidential inaugurations, including John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.

One of America’s most prominent first ladies, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was born on July 28, 1929. In 1952, she met the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and a year later the two were married.

In 1942, John F. Kennedy entered the United States Navy to join American forces fighting in World War II. Prior to his departure, playwright Clare Boothe Luce, a close friend of the Kennedy family, sent the young naval officer a good luck coin that once belonged to her mother. On September 29, 1942, Kennedy wrote to Luce thanking her for sharing such an important token with him.

On October 21, 1960, American viewers were riveted to their television sets for the broadcast of the fourth and final debate between Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy.

On June 24, 1961, the public learned of President John Kennedy‘s letter assigning Vice President Lyndon Johnson the high priority task of unifying the U.S. satellite programs. Twenty-two years later, on the same day, astronaut Sally Ride landed at Edwards Air Force Base aboard the 100-ton space shuttle Challenger, completing her voyage as the first American woman in space. These two events evidence the nation’s leap from an age of earth-bound methods of communication and travel into the space age.

On Friday, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas; he died shortly thereafter. The thirty-fifth president was forty-six years old and had served less than three years in office.

On November 24, 1963, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a Dallas police station. Broadcasting live from the scene, television cameras captured Oswald’s murder and shocked television viewers became unwitting witnesses to the crime.