circa 1960: Portrait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), the thirty-fifth President of the United States who served from 1961 to 1963, when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man to be elected president, and was also the first Roman Catholic. He established social and economic programs to aid the civil rights effort, and faced the Soviet Union in the Cuban missile crisis of the Bay of Pigs. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)