Photos: 100th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's birth
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John F. Kennedy was born May 29, 1917. We'll never know if he would have been around to celebrate his 100th birthday, but we present these photos and some front pages — some happy, some sad.
John F. Kennedy
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Senator John F. Kennedy at the Sunday Evening Forum, sponsored by the Catalina Methodist Church in Tucson on Feb. 24, 1958. When asked if a man his age could be president, Kennedy, at the time age 42, responded, "I don't know about a 42-year-old man, but I think a 43-year-old man can." Tucson Citizen file photo
John F. Kennedy
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Senator John F. Kennedy laughs along with Rep. Stewart Udall, D-Ariz, foreground, during a Democratic luncheon in April 9, 1960, at Hiway House on Oracle Road in Tucson, Ariz. The banquet attracted 450 people at a whopping $10 a plate. The Tucson Citizen reported another 150 waited outside. Kennedy quipped about his Republican presidential challenger, Richard Nixon, "I have noticed a quality in him that I admire a great deal and that is his ability to get pleasure out of things that wouldn't please most people." Udall would become Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy Administration. Tucson Citizen file
John F. Kennedy
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Rep. Stewart Udall, left, with Sen. John F. Kennedy during an appearance at the Hiway House on Oracle Road in Tucson, Ariz. in April 9, 1960. Udall was the Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy Administration. Tucson Citizen file photo
John F. Kennedy
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In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, arrive at Love Field airport in Dallas, as a television camera, above, follows them. More than a dozen new documentary and information specials are among the crop of TV commemorations pegged to this half-century mark of a weekend when, as viewers will be reminded again and again, everything changed. (AP Photo/File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this June 3, 1961, file photo, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev walks with U.S. President John F. Kennedy at the residence of the U.S. ambassador in Vienna, Austria. The notion of a substantive sit-down between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump – the most gazed-upon figures of this moment in the planet's history –is a staggering prospect and a potential logistical nightmare if the two countries ever tried to make it happen. (AP Photo)
John F. Kennedy
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In this April 12, 1961, file photo, President John F. Kennedy answers a question during his ninth presidential news conference in Washington The conference dealt largely with space exploration and international affairs. (AP Photo/RMB)
John F. Kennedy
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Sen. John F. Kennedy stepped off his DC-3 campaign plane and was greeted by about 150 people and given a sombrero and "an undersized cowboy hat," according to the Tucson Citizen, at Tucson Municipal Airport in April 1960, during an appearance in Tucson, Ariz. Tucson Citizen file photo
John F. Kennedy
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In this July 25, 1960 file photo , Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) sits with wife, Jacqueline, who reads to their daughter Caroline, at Hyannis Port, Mass. (AP Photo)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Oct. 22, 1962 file photo, President John F. Kennedy makes a national television speech from Washington. He announced a naval blockade of Cuba until Soviet missiles are removed. (AP Photo)
John F. Kennedy
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This undated photo shows U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Washington. (AP Photo, File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Feb. 9, 1944, file photo, U.S. Navy Lt. John F. Kennedy smiles at the Stork Club in New York. (AP Photo/File)
John F. Kennedy
- James W. (Ike) Altgens/AP
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In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, seen through the foreground convertible's windshield, President John F. Kennedy's hand reaches toward his head within seconds of being fatally shot as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy holds his forearm as the motorcade proceeds along Elm Street past the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. Gov. John Connally was also shot. (AP Photo/James W. "Ike" Altgens)
John F. Kennedy
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In this file photo dated Jan. 20, 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address at Capitol Hill in Washington, after taking the oath of office. (AP Photo, File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Jan. 5, 1938 file photo, Joseph P. Kennedy, left, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, stands with his son, John F. Kennedy, in New York. The voice of a young John F. Kennedy can be heard on what Harvard University believes is the earliest known recording of the late president. The school says the recording was restored by a Harvard archivist from a 1937 aluminum disk recording made by Kennedy’s professor in a public speaking course.(AP Photo, File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Jan. 14, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy speaks in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington during his State of the Union report to a joint session of Congress with Vice President Lyndon Johnson sitting behind him. (AP Photo/File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963 file photo, mourners stand in a line which lasted through the night, to pay their respects to the slain President John F. Kennedy, in Washington, with the illuminated U.S. Capitol in the background. (AP Photo/File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963 file photo, Jacqueline Kennedy kisses the casket of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, lying in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, accompanied by their daughter Caroline, kneeling alongside. (AP Photo/Henry L. Griffin, File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Nov. 9, 1960 file photo, Caroline Kennedy gets a piggy-back ride from her father, Sen. John F. Kennedy, in Hyannis Port, Mass. It was the first chance in weeks Kennedy has had to relax with his daughter during his presidential campaign. (AP Photo)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Nov. 24, 1963 file photo, Jacqueline Kennedy walks down the Capitol steps with her daughter Caroline and son John Jr. after President John. F. Kennedy's casket was placed in the rotunda in Washington Nov. 24, 1963. (AP Photo, File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy slumps down in the back seat of the Presidential limousine as it speeds along Elm Street toward the Stemmons Freeway overpass after being fatally shot in Dallas. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president as Secret Service agent Clinton Hill rides on the back of the car. (AP Photo/Ike Altgens, File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy greet people on their arrival at the Dallas Airport (Love Field). (AP Photo/HWB, File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, the limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy races toward the hospital seconds after he was shot in Dallas. Secret Service agent Clinton Hill is riding on the back of the car, Nellie Connally, wife of Texas Gov. John Connally, bends over her wounded husband, and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president. (AP Photo/Justin Newman, File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Monday, Nov. 25, 1963 file photo, 3-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father's casket in Washington, three days after the president was assassinated in Dallas. Widow Jacqueline Kennedy, center, and daughter Caroline Kennedy are accompanied by the late president's brothers Sen. Edward Kennedy, left, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. (AP Photo/File)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo/William J. Smith, File
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In this Oct. 29, 1962, file photo, President John F. Kennedy poses in the White House office with Gen. David Shoup, left, Marine Corps Commandant, and Adm. George Anderson, Chief of U.S. Naval Operations in Washington. The chiefs met with the president to review the situation in Cuba and operation of the U.S. naval blockade. As the U.S. and Russia reached the brink of nuclear war in 1962, Kennedy received top-secret intelligence from the CIA that a new warhead launcher was spotted in Cuba. (AP Photo/William J. Smith, File)
John F. Kennedy
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President Kennedy holds out a pencil towards son, 18-month-old John Jr., who takes a few steps in the Oval Office May, 1962. John Jr. had been walking for about two weeks. (AP Photo/White House, Robert Knudsen)
John F. Kennedy
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John F. Kennedy. (AP Photo/File)
John F. Kennedy
- Jack Sheaffer
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Riding from airport with John F. Kennedy during the Democratic Presidential candidate's 1960 visit to Tucson were City Democratic Chairman David Ginsburg, County Vice Chairman Joe Huerta, Mayor Don Hummel and County Democratic Chairman Frank Minarik. Photo from "Jack Sheaffer's Tucson 1945-1965." Copyright 1996 The Arizona Daily Star
John F. Kennedy
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John F. Kennedy visits Tucson, April 9, 1960 while campaigning for President. Photo by Jack Sheaffer Copyright 1996 The Arizona Daily Star
John F. Kennedy
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Presidential candidates Sen. John F. Kennedy, left, and Vice President Richard Nixon pose Sept. 26,1960, following their debate at a Chicago television studio. When Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush face each other for 90 televised minutes in Boston on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2000, it will be the 18th time the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees have met beginning with the debate between Kennedy and Nixon. (AP Photo)
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- Arizona Daily Star
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John F. Kennedy
- Tucson Citizen file photo
Senator John F. Kennedy at the Sunday Evening Forum, sponsored by the Catalina Methodist Church in Tucson on Feb. 24, 1958. When asked if a man his age could be president, Kennedy, at the time age 42, responded, "I don't know about a 42-year-old man, but I think a 43-year-old man can." Tucson Citizen file photo
John F. Kennedy
- Tucson Citizen file photo
Senator John F. Kennedy laughs along with Rep. Stewart Udall, D-Ariz, foreground, during a Democratic luncheon in April 9, 1960, at Hiway House on Oracle Road in Tucson, Ariz. The banquet attracted 450 people at a whopping $10 a plate. The Tucson Citizen reported another 150 waited outside. Kennedy quipped about his Republican presidential challenger, Richard Nixon, "I have noticed a quality in him that I admire a great deal and that is his ability to get pleasure out of things that wouldn't please most people." Udall would become Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy Administration. Tucson Citizen file
John F. Kennedy
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Rep. Stewart Udall, left, with Sen. John F. Kennedy during an appearance at the Hiway House on Oracle Road in Tucson, Ariz. in April 9, 1960. Udall was the Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy Administration. Tucson Citizen file photo
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo file
In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, arrive at Love Field airport in Dallas, as a television camera, above, follows them. More than a dozen new documentary and information specials are among the crop of TV commemorations pegged to this half-century mark of a weekend when, as viewers will be reminded again and again, everything changed. (AP Photo/File)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo
In this June 3, 1961, file photo, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev walks with U.S. President John F. Kennedy at the residence of the U.S. ambassador in Vienna, Austria. The notion of a substantive sit-down between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump – the most gazed-upon figures of this moment in the planet's history –is a staggering prospect and a potential logistical nightmare if the two countries ever tried to make it happen. (AP Photo)
John F. Kennedy
- RMB/AP
In this April 12, 1961, file photo, President John F. Kennedy answers a question during his ninth presidential news conference in Washington The conference dealt largely with space exploration and international affairs. (AP Photo/RMB)
John F. Kennedy
- Tucson Citizen file photo
Sen. John F. Kennedy stepped off his DC-3 campaign plane and was greeted by about 150 people and given a sombrero and "an undersized cowboy hat," according to the Tucson Citizen, at Tucson Municipal Airport in April 1960, during an appearance in Tucson, Ariz. Tucson Citizen file photo
John F. Kennedy
- James W. (Ike) Altgens/AP
In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, seen through the foreground convertible's windshield, President John F. Kennedy's hand reaches toward his head within seconds of being fatally shot as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy holds his forearm as the motorcade proceeds along Elm Street past the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. Gov. John Connally was also shot. (AP Photo/James W. "Ike" Altgens)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo/File
In this Jan. 5, 1938 file photo, Joseph P. Kennedy, left, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, stands with his son, John F. Kennedy, in New York. The voice of a young John F. Kennedy can be heard on what Harvard University believes is the earliest known recording of the late president. The school says the recording was restored by a Harvard archivist from a 1937 aluminum disk recording made by Kennedy’s professor in a public speaking course.(AP Photo, File)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo/File
In this Jan. 14, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy speaks in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington during his State of the Union report to a joint session of Congress with Vice President Lyndon Johnson sitting behind him. (AP Photo/File)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo/File
In this Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963 file photo, mourners stand in a line which lasted through the night, to pay their respects to the slain President John F. Kennedy, in Washington, with the illuminated U.S. Capitol in the background. (AP Photo/File)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo/Henry L. Griffin, File
In this Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963 file photo, Jacqueline Kennedy kisses the casket of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, lying in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, accompanied by their daughter Caroline, kneeling alongside. (AP Photo/Henry L. Griffin, File)
John F. Kennedy
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In this Nov. 9, 1960 file photo, Caroline Kennedy gets a piggy-back ride from her father, Sen. John F. Kennedy, in Hyannis Port, Mass. It was the first chance in weeks Kennedy has had to relax with his daughter during his presidential campaign. (AP Photo)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo, File
In this Nov. 24, 1963 file photo, Jacqueline Kennedy walks down the Capitol steps with her daughter Caroline and son John Jr. after President John. F. Kennedy's casket was placed in the rotunda in Washington Nov. 24, 1963. (AP Photo, File)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo/Ike Altgens, File
In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, President John F. Kennedy slumps down in the back seat of the Presidential limousine as it speeds along Elm Street toward the Stemmons Freeway overpass after being fatally shot in Dallas. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president as Secret Service agent Clinton Hill rides on the back of the car. (AP Photo/Ike Altgens, File)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo/Justin Newman, File
In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, the limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy races toward the hospital seconds after he was shot in Dallas. Secret Service agent Clinton Hill is riding on the back of the car, Nellie Connally, wife of Texas Gov. John Connally, bends over her wounded husband, and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president. (AP Photo/Justin Newman, File)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo/File
In this Monday, Nov. 25, 1963 file photo, 3-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father's casket in Washington, three days after the president was assassinated in Dallas. Widow Jacqueline Kennedy, center, and daughter Caroline Kennedy are accompanied by the late president's brothers Sen. Edward Kennedy, left, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. (AP Photo/File)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo/William J. Smith, File
In this Oct. 29, 1962, file photo, President John F. Kennedy poses in the White House office with Gen. David Shoup, left, Marine Corps Commandant, and Adm. George Anderson, Chief of U.S. Naval Operations in Washington. The chiefs met with the president to review the situation in Cuba and operation of the U.S. naval blockade. As the U.S. and Russia reached the brink of nuclear war in 1962, Kennedy received top-secret intelligence from the CIA that a new warhead launcher was spotted in Cuba. (AP Photo/William J. Smith, File)
John F. Kennedy
- AP Photo/White House, Robert Knudsen
President Kennedy holds out a pencil towards son, 18-month-old John Jr., who takes a few steps in the Oval Office May, 1962. John Jr. had been walking for about two weeks. (AP Photo/White House, Robert Knudsen)
John F. Kennedy
- Jack Sheaffer
Riding from airport with John F. Kennedy during the Democratic Presidential candidate's 1960 visit to Tucson were City Democratic Chairman David Ginsburg, County Vice Chairman Joe Huerta, Mayor Don Hummel and County Democratic Chairman Frank Minarik. Photo from "Jack Sheaffer's Tucson 1945-1965." Copyright 1996 The Arizona Daily Star
John F. Kennedy
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Presidential candidates Sen. John F. Kennedy, left, and Vice President Richard Nixon pose Sept. 26,1960, following their debate at a Chicago television studio. When Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush face each other for 90 televised minutes in Boston on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2000, it will be the 18th time the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees have met beginning with the debate between Kennedy and Nixon. (AP Photo)
