{"id":1527,"date":"2010-11-08T00:23:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2010-11-06T20:24:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T17:24:19","slug":"8th-november-1960-50-years-today-united-states-presidential-election-1960-50-years-today-close-race-john-kennedy-elected-richard-nixon-43-youngest-man-elected-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/8th-november-1960-50-years-today-united-states-presidential-election-1960-50-years-today-close-race-john-kennedy-elected-richard-nixon-43-youngest-man-elected-president\/","title":{"rendered":"8th November 1960 (50 years ago today) United States presidential election, 1960 (50 years ago today): In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon, becoming (at 43) the youngest man elected President."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin&#8217;s bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die&#8230;[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about\/presidents\/johnfkennedy\">more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin&#8217;s bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die&#8230;[more]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-oD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}