John F. Kennedy State of the Union Address to a Joint Session of the United States Congress (1963)

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John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 -- November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

After military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 and Motor Torpedo Boat PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43, the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first president to have been born in the 20th century. Kennedy is the only Catholic president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement and early stages of the Vietnam War.

1963 Timeline: January 10 - Kennedy meets with President-elect Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic. January 11 - Kennedy meets with Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz and AFL-CIO President George Meany. January 12 - Kennedy announces the appointment of David L. Lawrence as Chairman of the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing. Kennedy also appoints Phil N. Bornstein as Federal Housing Commissioner. January 14 - Kennedy delivers the annual State of the Union address to a Joint session of the United States Congress.
February 20 - In a letter to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, President Kennedy denies clemency to Victor Feguer, a convicted murderer.
March 15 - Victor Feguer is executed after Kennedy's February 20 denial of clemency. The execution marks the last federal execution until the execution of Timothy McVeigh on June 11, 2001. June 10 - Kennedy delivers the commencement address at American University in Washington, D.C. June 11 - Kennedy delivers a televised address on Civil Rights on his orders regarding the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door. June 26 - Kennedy visits West Berlin and delivers his now-famous Ich bin ein Berliner speech advocating representative democracy and capitalism as a replacement for communist regimes around the world.
August 28 - The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom occurs in Washington, D.C., culminating in the now-famous I Have A Dream speech by Martin Luther King. Estimates of the number of marchers range from 200,000 to 300,000.
September 20 - Address before the United Nations General Assembly (JFK's second) stating various specific recommendations to "move the world to a just and lasting peace". October 3 - President Kennedy visits Cleburne County, Arkansas to dedicate the Greers Ferry Dam. This is the last public appearance before he was shot in Dallas.

October 7: President Kennedy signs the Partial Test Ban Treaty, a major milestone in early nuclear disarmament, despite occurring in the Nuclear Age. October 7 - President Kennedy signs the Partial Test Ban Treaty, prohibiting all nuclear weapons testing providing an exception for underground nuclear testing only. October 8 - President Kennedy announces an agreement with the Soviet Union to open negotiations for the sale of American wheat. November 21 - On the final full day of the Kennedy administration, the President asks his economic advisers to prepare the War on Poverty for 1964. Less than two months after the President's assassination, President Johnson introduces the legislation in his first State of the Union address on January 8, 1964, and two of the major pieces of related legislation -- the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and the Social Security Act of 1965 -- are signed into law on August 20, 1964 and July 30, 1965, respectively. November 22 - Kennedy's administration abruptly ends after he is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested and charged with the murder. Oswald is shot and killed two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_presidency_of_John_F._Kennedy#1963

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