50th Anniversary of Kennedy Election as US President

On Muesday, 8th of November 1960, John F. Kennedy won the presidential elections in the US, defeating Richard M. Nixon. He was the first Catholic to do so and his victory was not overwhelming.

One finds a lot of information on JFK at the pages of the Presidential Library in Boston, MA, and at those of the museum dedicated to the Kennedy family in Berlin.

The German weekly Die Zeit offers this article by Susanne Kippenberger.

The Spanish daily El País had this article to commemorate the event.

The Boston Globe offers this article on the anniversary, the Boston Herald this one, as well as this one on a new exhibition at the JFK Hyannis Museum.