John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, a
Oval Office portrait, 1963
The Kennedy family in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, with JFK at top left in the white shirt, c. 1931
Kennedy on his navy patrol boat, the PT-109, 1943
Kennedy (standing, far right) and his crew on the deck of PT 109 in the Solomon Islands, 1943
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in 196
John F. Kennedy
…only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. His vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, assumed the presidency. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the assassination, but Jack Ruby shot and killed him two days later. The Federal Bureau of…
Johnson at age 7, wearing his trademark cowboy hat, at his childhood farmhouse near Stonewall, Texas, in 1915
Johnson as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Reserve in March 1942
Johnson's United States Senate portrait in the 1950s