John F. Kennedy
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"
-Elected 35th President after Eisenhower's two terms
-Wins 1960 election, begins 1961 with Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson
-Defeats Richard Nixon
-Youngest President at 43
-First and only Catholic President
-Advocate of the Space Race
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"
-Elected 35th President after Eisenhower's two terms
-Wins 1960 election, begins 1961 with Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson
-Defeats Richard Nixon
-Youngest President at 43
-First and only Catholic President
-Advocate of the Space Race
The U-2 Incident - 1960
- USSR shoots down American spy plane known as a U-2 (Pilot Gary Powers taken prisoner)
- High altitude planes had flown over Russia taking pictures for years
- With introduction of Rocket missiles they were able to shoot one down
- Russians walk out of a Summit conference in Paris