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8th November 1960 (50 years ago today) United States presidential election, 1960 (50 years ago today): In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon, becoming (at 43) the youngest man elected President.

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On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die…[more]