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when his Navy airplane exploded on a secret mission against a German rocket-launching site
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At the age of 29, and immediately attracted attention
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John F. Kennedy became the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic to hold that office.
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The new president called on his fellow Americans to work together in the pursuit of progress and the elimination of poverty
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When Kennedy approved the plan to send 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles
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which aims to send Americans to the moon. The number of troops, equipment and military advisers in Vietnam.
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During the Cuban missile crisis
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He would deliver one of his most famous speeches in West Berlin in June 1963.
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in signing a nuclear test ban treaty.
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To this day, historians continue to rank him among the best-loved presidents in American history.