John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States of America and was assassinated part-way through his tenure, in 1963. JFK was the youngest President when elected in 1961 and he faced a number of foreign crises during his presidency, including Cuba with the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis and in Berlin. He also established the Peace Corp in 1961 and contributed to the nuclear test ban treaty. Close to home, Kennedy brought the United States economy out of recession through reforms, supported racial integration and worked toward civil rights legislation for African Americans, and signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 to abolish wage disparity based on sex. Celebrate John F. Kennedy by displaying photographic and stretched canvas prints of him as well as poster prints of vintage election posters and quotes attributed to him.
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